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Hawkhost vs Froghost, is Hawkhost better?

Hawkhost vs Froghost

Hawkhost might be well known to everybody who liked the litespeed, however are you aware of another web hosting brand "Froghost"? Pretty cure name right? How is froghost comparing to hawkhost? If you are new to this hosting service, I would like to share my personal opinions about the two webhosts and check if it's good deal.

Hawkhost Introduction

Founded in 2004, Hawkhost is a reputable name from hosting industry for stable and fast server speed. Hawkhost is one of the earliest hosting providers with litespeed support with very affordable price. With hawkhost you have choice to sign up monthly, quarterly and yearly. Unlike all other web hosts who set a low price for yearly or multiple years registration upfront and charge high on monthly contract, you get same rate price for any period of hosting choice!

Froghost Introduction

The froghost is actually a division of Hawkhost Inc if you've read their "about us" page. While it's announced to offer web hosting service since 2009, their name is not so popular yet on the web. But it's interesting to know their boss Tony is animal friendly.

Hawkhost vs Froghost

Although they're sister companies, they're running in different business ways. Here're few comparisons about their main difference.

  • Hosting Plans The Froghost has only shared hosting service while Hawkhost prepared totoal of 3 hosting solutions (Shared, VPS and reseller hosting). In some degrees the FrogHost is offering very similar features as Hostgator shared hosting. 3 hosting plans with all unlimited space and bandwidth, the starter plan support only one domain while the second and third offer unlimited domains but different in SSL.
  • Hosting Features The Froghost is advertised to be "Unlimited Hosting" where we can get unlimited disk space/data transfer like many popular names. However such feature is limited via hawkhost. Although the froghost is offering unlimited service, the number of hosted domain is limited for starter plan (Only a single domain support). The hosted domain names are unlimited via Hawkhost.
  • Hosting Price Here would be the biggest difference from the two names. While we can get what we need for only $3.29/mo from hawkhost basic plan, we need to pay $6.95/mo for single domain support hosting from froghost. The monthly price will go up to $8.95/mo if we pay monthly. Also, there's no hosting coupon available from froghost service.

Table list comparison between hawkhost and froghost

Hosting Brand Hawkhost Froghost
Starter Price $3.29/mo $6.95/mo
Supported Domains Unlimited 1
Add-on Domains Unlimited No
Static IPs $3/mo No
Server Specs 8 CPU, 12GB and 15,000RPM SAS hard drives in a RAID10 array Dual Quad Xeon 5520, 12 GB of DDR system RAM, 4x300GB SAS 15,000 RPM Raid-10
Disk space/bandwidth 3GB/45GB Unlimited
Webserver Software Litespeed litespeed

What's froghost best for?

Being a shared hosting, the froghost be able to offer everything available from other web hosting services and we can take the litespeed advantages from this service. However, if you have to pay two times more for this service, I think no much people will be interested because many more attractive offers available on internet. People might sign up before knowing the hawkhost. If we know they both before registration, I'm sure most people would go with hawkhost with no doubt.

So basically, froghost has no advantage comparing to it's sister brand hawkhost. The same server specifications, the same management system and support team, who would like to pay more for the service?

Visit hawkhost for affordable hosting plans http://www.Hawkhost.com

Inmotion Fast Web Hosting Reviewed

Inmotion Fast Web Hosting

No matter if you're running an online business or doing SEO job, the website response speed is always one of the most important consideration. Faster speed means more potential orders on your website while slow response means business loss. However, it's quite hard to find a fast and affordable web hosting plan. Unless you get a vps or dedicated server, most shared hosting plans will be approved not worthy the paying. Based on my last few weeks testing, I would like to share my personal experience with Inmotion.

Is Inmotion fast web hosting service?

Absolutely yes! And I have to say the Inmotion hosting server speed is NO.1 from all shared web hosting services in my list. To check the actual loading speed, you can visit http://www.besthostingcoupon.com website which is currently hosted on Inmotion shared hosting server. Here're few things I tested

a. FTP – FTP is always the first service to deal with before our website goes online. When I download backups from old account, it took me 10 minutes with about 20kb/s. Before I issue the uploading to Inmotion I didn't wish more because it might be my local ISP problems(which is said by the old provider). However things are completely different when the task began. I couldn't tell which file being uploaded because the list is changed every second! The total uploading process took about 4 minutes which has broken my record for file uploading!

b. Database – My website database is not big size so I used the traditional phpmyadmin to import the backup file. The restoration took about 10 seconds on 500KB mysql backup.

c. Website – Finally I can start to browse the website on new server. You guess what? 2 seconds, only 2 seconds to load the home page completely!

Based the operation on my website and several weeks continuing testing. I can proudly tell Inmotion shared hosting is rated NO.1 in my fast web hosting list.

inmotion hosting fast server

How does Inmotion hosting assure the fast speed?

Here're few methods used by Inmotion hosting team to ensure the fast and stable hosting server

  • Servers housed in multiple Category A, PCI compliant data centers. These include several controlled access points.
  • N+2 or N+1 power systems with multiple battery and diesel power sources in case of public utility failure.
  • BGP4 network to prevent downtime in case of loss of hardware.
  • N+1 Configurations on all servers using RAID 5.
  • 24x7x365 System Administrators on hand.

Inmotion Hosting utilize datacenters on both east and west coasts with max speed zone enabled. Means no matter where you're located you can always receive the best speed! Moreover, inmotion group co-operates with lots of popular global datacenters to

To learn all the inmotion efforts in makeing fast server, please check out this page from inmotionhosting http://www.inmotionhosting.com/fast-web-hosting.html

How to choose the fast web hosting plan?

Every service is advertised to be fast in order to get more business. However, it's quite hard to choose the real fast web hosting plan because we always pay more attention to their service price. Indeed, the price trick does attract many people especially web hosting start users, because better price means less potential risk to escape in case service failure.

To choose the real fast and reliable web hosting service, always remember the popular saying "you get what you pay". Just think about the 2 or 3 bucks per month, how muc we can expect from the service? The Inmotion hosting plan is relative more expensive comparing to many other companies, however you won't be regreted in paying the extra because you get several times more value with the money! Except for the little expensive service plan, the inmotion hosting features never failed to compete with other service plans. The difference is you get better performance and uptime from Inmotion! Better performance means better business opportunity for you!

 

inmotion special price

 

Serious Security Leak Events of 2011

2011 security leak events

2012 is coming! However the year 2011 is not passed safely because there're several major events occured to internet security. While the security stuff was most concerned by some huge groups, it's now being considered by more and more people. In this article I would like to post some security leaks that brought people huge effects.

Sonny -One of their paid service PSN(PlayStation Network) was hacked in April, this led over 77 million clients' private info leak to internet. This includes user names, addresses, credit card numbers etc. However, the Sonny group only responded after 3 weeks later and the repari work continued over 5 weeks. The hack caused $170 millions loss for Sonny. (This event is mentioned from our previous post "Top 7 Tech fails of 2011")

The Second event happend in South Korea where "surf in real name" is deployed by their government. In later July, many of their popular websites were attacked. This attack caused users' private data leak for over 35 million people. Very after this security attack, the Korea government decided to give up the "real name" policy gradually.

The last name is for China. Just last week, several of famous Chinese websites are being attacked and caused over 50 million's users' data leak to internet. Some of the popular website names in this event:

CSDN.net -This website is announced to be the largest programmer center in China and over 90% programmers have registered on it. On 12-21-2011, one of it's database backup uploaded to public internet for downloading. This database backup included over 6 million's user registration. The bad thing is all data is in clear text but not encrypted!

Renren.com -It's called the Chinese "Facebook" and by far the most popular social network website in Civial China. Almost the same time of CSDN attack issue, this website leaked over 10 million's user data.

Dangdang.com -One of the most popular online shopping websites in China. On 12-28-2011, their 12 million user database was hacked and being sold on blackmarket.

Other popular websites such as xiaonet.com, duowan.com etc were all attacked and caused user info leak.

hacker

From the current report, it seems such event is still processed and no stop! Anyone there who like to register or purchase something online will have to think twice about the potential security risk. Decrease of online sales is expected in that area.

What should the websites' owners do?

As reading above, the website management team have to be responsible for such security leak. The user data leak will direct to potential privacy illegally used and cause legal obligation to victims. It's unimaginable what kind of problems it will bring to people. For website owners, they must try their best to protect such infomation and sign the compensation agreement to users in case problem occurs.

How do deal with such problem from end user?

Since the internet is made by people then everything is possible. We should keep our private data securely. Unless it's a MUST we should not post our real info to the public web. Also, make a strong and complex password for your website logins and always change it often. In a word, think twice before you connect to internet and open your eyes while sleep(just kiding).

HTML5 Introduction and Tutorials

html5 introduction and tutorials

Recently, HTML5 is discussed hotly on various web forums and blogs. Every web developer is trying to be html5 professional and seeking for online tutorials. Indeed, being the next generation of word wide web standard, html5 is becoming more and more popular. In this article posting I will introduce some useful learning resources and good html5 website samples

What's HTML5 and what's good of it?

HTML5 is a language for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web, and is the fifth revision of the HTML standard (created in 1990 and standardized as HTML4 as of 1997). Till present, html5 is still under development. HTML5 will be the new standard for HTML, XHTML, and the HTML DOM.

Some of the most interesting new features in HTML5:

  • The canvas element for drawing
  • The video and audio elements for media playback
  • Better support for local offline storage
  • New content specific elements, like article, footer, header, nav, section
  • New form controls, like calendar, date, time, email, url, search

Nice tutorials for HTML learning:
http://www.w3schools.com/html5/default.asp
http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html

What would be the weak points of html5? Because the HTML5 is still in development progress, it's not yet widely supported by client end browsers (Internet Explorer for example). People have to install some plugins or extensions to show up the html5 website properly.

Some nice websites with html5 code behind:

html5 website example

official site: http://nilecode.com

html5 website example

official site: http://www.metesdtn.it

Who's the leader for html5 project developing? Apple of course! Their popular products iPhone and iPad are mainly html5 based system. I'm sure many of you have experienced with it's great performance.

css3

While we're talking about html5, CSS3 can never be ignored because it's also the new generation of CSS working for html5. Like HTML5, CSS3 isn’t supported by all browsers yet, but it is gaining popularity. CSS3 lets you add effects to the page without using Javascript or other plugins. If we need to take all the html5 advantages, it's quite necessary to know about CSS3.

CSS3 tutorials:

Does html5 need support from hosting server?

No, html5 is working the same as older version. As long as you have html5 website designed you just need upload it to hosting space and it will be working. As explained in the first piece, the main problem is browser end support because it's still under development project.

Xmas Web Hosting Promotion

I would like to express my sincere congratulations and say happy X-mas to everybody at the very beginning of 11/24/2012. Hope you and your familiers are doing good. Let's give the coming holidays a big hug and make a bright 2012! At the meanwhile, don't forget web hosting promotion is also coming while we're enjoy the happy times. In any case you need web hosting service and save money in the holiday, I would be more than happy to post some great news here. You choose which one to go!

iPage xmas promotion

iPage Xmas Promotion: The ipage web hosting will give us $2.95/mo service which is 63% discount with their original price. if you have monitored ipage for some time and have been waiting for this special promo, it's time to action now.

Netfirms xmas promotion

Netfirms Xmas Promotion: Netfirms is absolutely giving us a big bomb in this holiday! It only costs us $1 for one year hosting which comes with unlimited disk space and bandwidth plus unlimited domain names hosting! If you have missed the last promotion campaign from netfirms website, catch up with it this time and put your website onlin!

bluehost 3 months free promotion

Bluehost Xmas Promotion: If you thought the bluehost service is the name of expensive. You should refresh your mind this time. Their people is so nice to give everyone $1 for 3 months hosting specials! If you have liked bluehost but scared by their price, don't give up this great opportunity.

dreamhost xmas promotion

Dreamhost Xmas Promotion: Dreamhost is coming! With $9.24 price you get a full year's hosting service plus a free domain name registration! This price also comes with unlimited space and data transfer for your account. The dreamhost service is well known for it's reliability and fast. It's 100% worthy of purchasing with this great price.

godaddy xmas promotion

Godaddy Xmas Promotion: The world's largest domain provider Godaddy is giving you the first Xmas gift! by registering any service/product from godaddy website will give you 31% discount using coupon code "gdz1229r". Godaddy is offering discount at times but this one is obviously the biggest one in year 2011. Hurry and claim the specials because it will end shortly!

Google Panda Update 2011

Google panda

Are you aware your website is being affected because of google panda update? Our website is! For every webmaster who's concerned about search engine and doing SEO job would feel great pressure with such update. Why? Because the organic traffic to your website is decreased distinctly. Especially when you're running an ecommerce website, less traffic on the website means less sales and less money. Below is my experience on personal website and quotes from other SEO experts.

How does google panda works?

By reading the google documents and other webmasters' posting, the google panda be introduced simply because the tons of poor quality websites. You can't imagine there're over 350,000,000 world wide websites and the number is increasing every per second. The google panda is to judge whether a website is GOOD or BAD by analysing it's general statistics. If the panda considers your website has no actual help to people then google might downgrade or completely remove the ranking. On the other hand, for branded names which got high traffic and quality, the panda will not affect any.

Is it possible to escape google panda update?

Unfortunately no. In some degrees, the panda updates made the searh engine clean and provide people with what they really needed in SERP. So what kind of websites are being affected by google panda? Here's the categories from seo experts

  • E-commerce sites with poor product pages
  • Thin affiliate sites
  • Sites designed to host "Ad-sense" (Advertising)
  • Article sites with low quality or duplicated content
  • Price comparison sites with thin content
  • Travel sites with poor or duplicated reviews
  • Websites with poor usability and branding

So as we see, if we want to avoid the panda effect. We need to have a clear plan from the very beginning of our website setup. Basically, following rules are always useful to any website.

  • Create unique, high quality content to add value to your site!
  • Redesing your website structure and guide people to navigate easily.
  • Build trust for your website and be active to make it known to everybody!
  • Diversify your traffic sources – find your community and engage!

How does SEO expert say about google panda?

It's suggested to know about difference between Optimizing and Promoting. Optimizing is to make as effective, perfect, or useful as possible while Promoting is to help or encourage to exist or flourish. You must promote and get the word out but you cannot spam. Always do the white hat SEO and avoid black hat SEO technologies, the google system is more and more smart and easy to find what's going on with your website. You should follow the google seo starter guide but don't try to conquer it.

Useful articles about google panda