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Best Webmatrix Hosting unveiled

webmatrix hosting

Webmatrix has been there quite a long time for web developing solutions. For modern time's website deployment, webmatrix has brought us revolutional progress for both experienced web developers and start users. If you're new to this product, I would be more than happy to introduce it with my personal experience. If you're looking for webmatrix hosting support, I would like to tell more about the quality service providers.

Webmatrix Introduction and Advantages

WebMatrix is a free web development tool from Microsoft that includes everything you need for website development. Start from open source web applications, built-in web templates or just start writing code yourself. It’s all-inclusive, simple and best of all free. This is what's explained for Webmatrix on Microsoft official website. The purpose of this tool is to make web development simple and quick because it has included most of the existing open source web applications and a built in web server for production envionment testing. No matter if you want to create a website from scratch or edit your existing website, webmatrix will manage all stuff perfectly and publish to your hosting space in no-hassle way.

Webmatrix Features list

  • Small size and easy to setup
  • Easy to deploy new site or edit your existing websites
  • IIS 7.5 Express built in web server (Be able to Monitor incoming HTTP requests)
  • SEO report and clear guidance for website optimization
  • asp.net, PHP, Mysql, SQL Server support
  • and more!

Webmatrix official page: http://www.microsoft.com/web/webmatrix

Best Webmatrix Hosting Choice

As we see from above writing, webmatrix is only a web development solution on local computer. What we need is to publish the final projects to hosting space. Depends if you need Asp.net or PHP support, you either need a quality asp.net hosting or php mysql hosting to get your website hosted. There're several good choice with such support, simple check out the Asp.net hosting page and php mysql hosting page. If you have additional questions, feel free to post your comments or contact us directly for further communication.

Based our 6+ years experience in web hosting industry, arvixe is our top recommendation for quality and fast webmatrix hosting choice. Arvixe is 100% compatible with asp.net and php scripting with lots of leading hosting features like free domain name, unlimited space and remote IIS access etc.

Visit arvixe for leading webmatrix hosting plan http://www.arvixe.com

Webmatrix vs Visual Studio, which is better choice?

While webmatrix is very hot to developers, the traditional and powerful name "Visual Studio" is also can't be ignored and its actually trusted by more MS developers. So how is visual studio comparing to webmatrix? Which one should I use when I want to create a new website? Here is a basic comarison betweent the two softwares.

Visual Studio. Traditional and powerful software for website and applications development. It's powerful IDE designed with drag and drop functions to reduce your code writing. With side by side Asp.net support and coding languages, you can accomplete any kind secure projects.

Webmatrix. The big lightspot with webmatrix would be their free and open source impletment. While the microsoft has been always focused on their own technologies and products development, the release of webmatrix absolutely brings another bright future to the company because they start to introduce open source ideas.

Comparing to Visual studio that is designed for asp.net only, you get more options from webmatrix because you can take advantages of php/mysql. However that doesn't mean the webmatrix is perfect because it has only code view but no design view interface. That means if you're completely new to coding you will find it hard to be familiar with this product too.

So basically, webmatrix is a light weight solution for web developing. Especially ideal choice for start users who would like to put up a website quickly because you can take advantages of many open source applications. For professional Asp.net development, Visual Studio is absolutely the best choice.

webmatrix hosting

Hostclear and Supergreen Merged to justhost

hostclear and supergreenhosting merged into justhost

Hostclear and Supergreenhosting already merged into Justhost. It's occured in October so I'm sure many of you have noticed the change because it's officially announced on their website home page. For new account sign up & customer support, it'll be redirected to justhost site directly. The website is not yet shutdown might be because they would like to propagate all search traffic to new domain name for SEO purpose. Please don't be surprised when you find it can't be browsed some day.

Why do they merge?

It would be an interesting question. There're over half hundred hosting brands under the EIG web hosting company (Did I mention this from older posting? Well,  if not, please keep in mind hostclear and supergreenhosting are actual eig members!), how could it happen to only the above names? From our research we only find a single possibility that is the three webhosts are all pure cpanel hosting based services, however the justhost is absolutely most popular in the comparison. It will reduce time and problems by merging the other two hosts' data into justhost's system.

Relationship between Hostclear and Supergreenhosting

Maybe you thought they're independent web hosting companies before because there's no real similar points on the website. But if you have heard about the company "Just development It" you would know Hostclear, Supergreenhosting and justhost are all sister companies of the Justdevelopment group. Hostclear and Supergreenhosting were sold to EIG earlier than justhost. Now they're merged, I have to say it's some kind of great news to the group because there's no scatter among the sister brands.

What kind of changes being occured from justhost?

Absolutely, there will be many more support requests from justhost help center. Also, if you try to register with justhost website you will find the process already changed. Before we got the justhost 50$ discount coupon code, we introduced another method to get the same promotional price on this page. However it's removed now and it will only pop up the ordering status. Maybe the removed the trick simply because they are dealing with lots of new signups that're redirected from hostclear and supergreen websites? Everything is possible!

Anyhow, you don't loose anything with this change no matter which service brand you are dealing with because those linux professionals are quite outstanding from EIG. You can feel safe to prolong your business with those guys.

How do we think about such business event?

I have to say, don't be surprised for any change with EIG system. Since the EIG group are promoting their own hosting control panel software "Vdeck", it's reasonable they merge the cpanel service together for better management because more and more new hosting brands are being or will be sold to this group. I believe finally there will be only two types of hosting service under EIG — Cpanel hosting and Vdeck hosting, any other inhouse developed control panel system will be dropped into history.

At the meanwhile, it's possible to see there's some price increasing on justhost site because they get more and more business from such merging.


Premium Bandwidth Hosting Secret revealed

premium bandwidth hosting

What's premium bandwidth?

If you search around some web hosting service sites about networking, you will notice a phrase called "premium bandwidth" is mentioned specially to approve their abilities. So what does that exactly mean?

There's a good explanation from webhostingtalk — Premium bandwidth generally refers to partnerships the host has made with high quality bandwidth providers/carriers. These providers are measured in "Tiers" with the highest quality being "Tier 1". The real Tier 1 carrier owns and operates their own global physical network and has free "peer" relationships with other Tier 1 networks.

Best premium bandwidth hosting provider?

If you doubt about the actual service you're receiving, it's quite easy to check out. Every hosting provider has a "networking" page on their official site, you just check their bandwidth provider names and search them out from google. What if they're operating their own datacenters? Generally speaking, a hosting provider who announced to have their own datacenter is always talking about they occupy lots of space from datacenter providers. Unless it's a huge hosting company, there's little possibility they get their own datacenter setup since it's money-costing business. As long as you know their datacenter names you will be able to check out the badwidth specification.

Premium bandwidth definition by hosting provider

When we say "Premium Bandwidth" mostly it doesn't mean any specific IP transit providers. Every quality web hosting providers have partnership with several datacenters/bandwidth providers. When they talk about premium bandwidth they're simply saying your website is being served via their best connectivities. It also mean that your website visitors reach their network through multiple carriers. They are guaranteed the shortest possible path to your website.

Who's offerring guaranteed premium bandwidth hosting?

For 100% guaranteed premium bandwidth hosting service, you should look at the dedicated or cloud hosting which is from datacenter service providers directly such as softlayer, rackspace etc. Because those big companies always have multiple datacenters setup in the country or oversea. Of course, the price is some kind expensive comparing to regular hosting services, but you indeed get what you pay.

Is it not possible to get premium bandwidth with shared hosting? Not really, Some quality shared hosting providers are offering such service too such as hostgator, inmotion, arvixe etc. Most of the time we might think what we really need for our website instead of looking for something that's really not so important.


Google Search Grammar Guidance

Google search grammar

Search engine is playing an important role in today's life style. We use search engine to get almost everything we need. Sometimes we don't know what to do if there's sudden electricity off or network down because we can't get on web for shopping or any kind communication. Since the search engine almost occupied our daily life, do you know how to get the accurate search result in short time? Here I would like to introduce some useful search engine grammar and hope they will be helpful to your internet surfing.

Google and Yahoo are two of the most popular search engines in the world and they're actually doing different work while doing the search stuff. Yahoo will only index page title and meta descriptions which is called "The searchable subject index". However, things are completely different from google, google uses something called "full-text search" which will index out everything via google spider. The grammars below will be mainly focus on google and most of which will work on other search engiens too.

intitle: Search you specified title only
Ex. intitle:barackobama

inurl: Search keyword that's included in website url. It's quite helpful if you're looking for some tutorials or documentations
Ex. inurl:help

intext: Only search the content page regardless the page title or url structures
Ex. intext:"yahoo.com"

inanchor: Search the anchor text hyperlinks only. What's anchor text? that means you specify a keywords and link to a specific web page, the hyperlinked keywords is called anchor text. For example "web hosting" is anchor text.
Ex. inanchor:"tompeters"

site: The most popular grammar used by webmasters. It's used to list out web pages under a site or number of domains for some specific domain extensions.
Ex. site:website.com
      site:gov
   site:edu

link: List out all pages that link back to a specific url. the results from yahoo explorer is accurate while it's not from google.
Ex. link:http://www.google.com

cache: If your website is changed frequently, this grammar is useful to get screenshot of some older versions.
Ex. cache:www.yahoo.com

filetype: Search the specific file extensions. Quite useful for downloading purpose such as PowerPoint(PPT), PDF documents etc.
Ex. linuxlearningfiletype:pdf
      "leadingeconomicindicators"filetype:ppt

related: Search related website/page of you specified pages. For example if you search related:google.com you will get many other search engine names such as HotBot,Yahoo!, ask etc.
Ex. related:www.yahoo.com
      related:www.cnn.com

info: Show out almost every pages that have link to a specific url including google cache.
Ex. info:www.oreilly.com

phonebook: Used for telephone number looking up, both number to group and group to numbers.
Ex. phonebook:JohnDoeCA
  phonebook:(510)555-1212

There're more grammars not in the list but not used so frequently in our daily life. If we can use above search grammar efficiently we'll save lots of time in getting what we expected on internet.


Black Friday Hosting Promo 2011

Black friday 2011 is there! Are you ready to claim up to 50% discount web hosting special offer? Hurry up now and save your money at this special time!

But please wait few minutes to read over the below stuff and learn what's exactly being offered so you don't mess up! I just received several email newsletters from web hosting providers for their 2011 black friday promotions. you guess what? I never thought the offer could be so great that's hard to believe. Anyone who like to save big money for hosting services should action now because it's limited offer!

Arvixe black friday special

arvixe black friday 2011

The biggest discount in arvixe hosting history! sign up today and get 50% discount with arvixe advantages! If you missed this great offer you might have to wait another year or it might never return! Special offer valid for 48 hours.

Ipage black friday special

ipage black friday 2011

Ipage black friday is here! hurry up and claim $2.95/mo service. While you're enjoy your turkey, don't forget ipage also gives you black friday surprise. Action now and don't miss the great chance.

Fatcow black friday special

fatcow black friday special 2011

As always, the fatcow is giving out 65% discount for hosting sign up that comes with unlimited domain hosting and unlimited space plus a free domain name registration. Enjoy the cow today!

Hostgator black friday special

hostgator black friday 2011

The hostgator black friday promotion will begin just after midnight, Friday, November 25th, 2011 Central Standard Time (-6 GMT). The special offer will run until 11:59PM CST Friday, November 25th, 2011. Special details as following

  • Shared hosting: As low as $4.95 Now only: $2.48/month (pre-paid)
  • Reseller Hosting: As low as $24.95 Now Only: $12.48/month (pre-paid)
  • VPS Hosting: As low as $19.95 Now Only: $9.98/month (First Month)
  • Dedicated Servers: As low as $174 Now Only $87/month (First Month)

Dreamhost black friday special

dreamhost black friday 2011

Dreamhost black frieday promotion will simply give you domain registration plus hosting service with only $9.24/yr! that means you save totoa of 92% comparing to regular price. It's obviously one of the biggest discount in web hosting.

Siteground black friday special

siteground black friday 2011

The siteground black friday promotion is similar to dreamhost. Free domain name plus web hosting registration for only $9.95/yr! If you liked this company and waiting for this big offer, it's time to action now because it's limited offer. only one day!


Yahoo Site Explorer Closed

Yahoo site explorer closed

From Yahoo official blog press release, one of their great tool "Yahoo Site Explorer" already completely closed. From November 21, 2011, this product got it's life cycle and related API will be shutdown too. The Yahoo site explorer is merged into "Bing Webmaster Tools" which is co-operation result between Microsoft and Yahoo.

What kind of effect to us?

To learn about the effect, we need to know what actually good of yahoo site explorer is. Absolutely, every webmaster should be familar with this tool because it's always accurate for website backlinks checking. Comparing to other similar tools, yahoo site explorer is quick and easy to use. The best of the best is this service is completely free! As it's merged into Bing webmaster tools, webmasters won't be able to check site links so conveniently.

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How about Bing Webmaster Tools?

The Bing Webmaster Tools is some kind powerful and almost every functions designed there, however the site backlink checking tool is not so great than yahoo site explorer. The biggest difference is the bing product be able to check back links for your own website only, that means you have to be the website master in order to check such info, however you can do it freely from yahoo site explorer for any website. While this great tool closed and no better solution developed, webmasters (especially SEO workers) will lose the chance to learn about competition websites' backlinks and hard to check their optimization progress.

Yahoo site explorer screenshots:

yahoo site explorer

yahoo site explorer closed

yahoo site explorer closed

How do we think about yahoo?

To be honest, I personally do not have much confidence to yahoo by reviewing it's history. More and more excellent products being deleted or dropped like Delicious, MyBlogblog, Flikr etc. Now it's the turn for site explorer. I can't imagine how yahoo look likes in few years later. If they continue to manage their services, who will trust them?

Yahoo Site Explorer, a great tool that had brought great help to thousands webmasters, thanks to it's great service in the past years. At the mean time, we hope there will be such great products from the Microsoft Bing Webmater Tools.