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Web Hosting Payment Gateway

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Payment Gateway Introduction

Before we introduce the most popular payment gateway used by web hosting companyes, we need to understand what payment gateway is. Payment gateway is a type of service which is used to handle online payment. as long as you would like to sell or purchase something online you will need payment gateway to receive money.

Popular web hosting payment gateways

Web hosting has no difference like many online business so the payment gateways solutions are more or less the same, Here I'll list out some most popular names and compare which is used more for both security and convenience.

  • Paypal — Paypal is absolutely the most popular payment gateway solution for online business. It's easy to get and easy to integrate with your website shopping cart. The most important is you can withdraw money if you find a doubted transaction, this definitely protects both the seller and their clients. Till present paypal has been serving in most countries and districts in the world, it's the leading online payment service which is liked by most people. The only disadvantage with paypal is the high transaction fee.
  • 2Checkout — It's another online payment solution for your shopping cart, it's working in various ways and compatible with many credit cards such as Visa, America Express, Master Card etc. It also claims to deliver turn-key payment services. If you're going to accept credit card payment from shopping cart, 2Checkout is perfect solution. The disadvantage with this gateway is the complex for setup.
  • Powerpay — This payment solution allows you to choose what kind of service you will like to integrate on website and the fee will be different, thus if you're running a small business you don't have to sign up for the large term service in order to save money. The only disadvantage is the monthly fee with this service.

Of course there're many other online payment gateways such as autherize.net, moneyorder, worldpay. Depends you technologies and budget you can integrate any of them to your shopping cart. But as long as you like to accept credit card payment you will always need a merchant account to accept payment.

Which payment gateway liked most by people?

Of course, paypal is most popular one according to user experience over the world. Since it's purposely to protect shopper's money, you never worry the payment goes wrong because you can always get it back. Also because of the easy to integrate solution, paypal is not only used by web hosting or other large business operators but also used by 100% personal ecommerce sites. For opensourced ecommerce CMS, paypal is default option for online transaction.

Any other payment gateway gaining popularity?

Yes there is, Alipay is the most competitive one in the world. Alipay is developed by a Chinese company — Alibaba, it's currently mostly used in China. But since China is the largest market, more and more international companies are doing business over there so a good Chinese payment solution is needed. Alipay is by far the most popular one and integrated with 100% Chinese ecommerce websites. For web hosting companies who like to get Chinese customers they may also consider to add this gateway.

Which web hosting company offers Alipay gateway?

By far, only two large web hosting companies have integrated this gateway solution — Godaddy and Ixwebhosting.

Godaddy is standing as the largest domain registrar in the world and serving a large amount Chinese Clients, it's normal for them to add Alipay to their website, If you check godaddy official site, alipay is listed there clearly to approve they're caring about their business in China.

Visit http://www.Godaddy.com for details >>

Ixwebhosting is also loved by Chinese customer for IP issues, several biggest websites in China are currently hosted on Ixwebhosting server. The best of the best with Ixwbehosting service is they could offer merchant account service which is not available with other web hosting.  So if you're looking for perfect ecommerce solution, ixwebhosting is highly recommended.

Visit http://www.ixwebhosting.com for details >>

Hostgator Windows Hosting Reviewed

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Hostgator Windows Plan Introduction

Being the industry rule maker, hostgator is powering multi million websites by offering outstanding linux hosting service for over 8 years. In order to support more website requirements, they launched windows hosting plans based windows server 2008 platform with pretty standard plesk support.

Hostgator Windows Hosting Features

There're total of two types of windows hosting plans available with hostgator – Personal plan and Enterprise plan. Except for the extra 4 websites support via enterprise plan, there's no other difference comparing to personal plan. For quick view, here's a list of the hostgator windows hosting general offers

  • Host 1 ~ 5 domains
  • Unlimited space & Bandwidth
  • Unlimited database and Emails
  • Plesk sitebuilder wizard
  • Plesk hosting control panel
  • Windows 2008 with .Net 4.0 support
  • Smartermail web mail access
  • Free instant account set up
  • 45 days money back guarantee!

As you see, the hostgator windows hosting provides support for all server 2008 technologies and some of the best offer in the industry. Similar to their linux plans, there's no free domain name for windows hosting service, thus you have to register seperately. But after 3 years, there's still no upgrade for their service while the world is full of server 2012. Hostgator keeps everything on 2008 platform such as .net support and sql server etc.

Hostgator Windows Hosting Plan Spotlights

The hostgator windows hosting service is configured with leading industry standards and offered via standard plesk management panel. The best of the best with hostgator windows hosting plan is they offered smartermail which is by far the best windows webmail software. Plus the Plesk sitebuilder wizard, hostgator windows hosting is instant outstanding among most other competitors. If you search more on the web, you will find vew few providers could give out such offers.

To reduce potential problems, hostgator created their windows server via latest hardware productions with windows server 2008 R2. DELL server with Intel i7 and 32GB RAM is default template for all servers setup, not every hosting company would like to offer such server specs.

hostgator windows hostingVisit http://www.Hostgator.com for windows hosting plans

What would be the weakness of hostgator windows hosting?

Newness is absolutely the biggest disadvantage since they never offered this service before, Hostgator definitely needs to learn more by following actual user's experience and feedbacks. Although they launched so attractive hosting offers, no people have used this service yet so there must be a long journey to go for hostgator team.

Another disadvantage is they offered very few number of domain hosting (only one domain in personal plan) and the price is relatively high comparing to the most popular windows hosting providers. it implies their less abilities to handle multiple domains hosting in some degrees. They just make the offer in safe purpose.

Since everything is new from hostgator, you might encounter some unexpected issues in using their windows hosting service such as script compatibility, third party components etc. Don't be surprised if you got some errors on your website, just contact their support and they will help with quick fix.

How do We Think About?

Since it's a new service from this company, I think they might just keep everything up to date. Especially for the hosting control panel part, plesk is rated top for most user experience. Since the cpanel Inc has offered Enkompass free, HG might consider to switch to enkompass hosting like their leadership in cpanel hosting. But FREE stuff always generate bugs quickly, While plesk is confirmed through many years' deployment, it's best to go.

Anyhow, hostgator windows hosting will require the time to approve if they're doing well or not. At the time being it's worth of a try since they could offer so attractive hosting features. For hostgator's leadership in the industry, their windows hosting can be also trusted.

But since after merged into endurance, there's no more updates of their service. Especially the crucial server system, there's no upgrade choice. Not sure why their people would like to stay on old platform. If they can upgrade to new server system, there'll be more business success for sure.

Visit http://www.hostgator.com and check hostgator windows hosting details >>

Web Hosting Affiliate Guides

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Affiliate Program Overview

Web Hosting affiliate is a program launched by hosting companies and encourage people to promote their service. In return, the hosting providers will give their affiliates a certain commission. Most of the time people also call it reseller program.

Why web hosting affiliate program?

Affiliate program is absolutely helpful with web hosting service promotion and advertisement. Because the program is profitable to their affiliates, there're many communities and personal websites focusing on this topic. The most common phenomenon is when you search for some hosting related keywords, thoese affiliate websites always get higher rank on search engine such as google, yahoo. If you search more on the web you would see what a big role the affiliate program plays in hosting industry.

In web hosting company end, they with no doubt would like to gain some popularity and increase the sales, the affiliate websites are good places because most of the time people will try to get some suggestions on such website. If you write high quality articles with trusted reviews and recommendation, it will introduce a large ammount sign ups to those hosting providers. With commission return, you will be encouraged to write more professional and high quality articles with your experience through those providers.

How to start a successful web hosting affiliate campaign?

There're two parts included in this program – the hosting provider and the affiliates. In order to start a successful affiliate program they both will have to provide honest and reliable services for the basic start.

  • For web hosting provider, they have to offer both reliable hosting services and affiliate services, reliable hosting is the key to the success and if you could then offer a profitable and honest affiliate program, you're most close to success.
  • For affiliates part, you have to learn the hosting and most of the time you have to sign up with them directly to get actual experience for your future article posts. When you determine to promote a service, be sure to be as honest as possible instead of commission earning. Your website visitors are treature of your future success, if you can't keep you customer but just try to post some untrustable words, it will definitely be dead journey.
  • With above two points, you wil also need to communicate among the hosting provider and your website visitors because you have to learn what people really need and update your website with latest experience/promotions etc. A successful program is always interacted with end users.

What're some well-formed and reliable affiliate websites?

On the web, two types of hosting review sites are most important — community forums and personal blogs. Community forums are managed by several people or even a company. Personal blogs is another type website with this topic, mostly the blog owners are actual customers of the hosting they're trying to promote, they can be trusted more in some degree because they always write articles based on their own experience. So far the following forums/blogs are trustable and very popular on the internet.

Forums: webhostingtalk.com, hostingdiscussion.com, webmasterforum.com
Blogs: webhostpark.com, webhostinggeeks.org

We're also trying to be the most reliable one in the community. our website www.webhostpark.com is opened for real user experience posting and rating, we have been in this industry over 5 years and know the business quite well, you're welcomed to communicate with me directly if you have any doubt or concern for your web hosting choice.

Which web hosting affiliate program can be trusted?

Since the affiliate program is offered by almost every web hosting provider, which one can be trusted and which is scam? Of course it's quite importan to choose the right provider before you try to promote their service, a reliable and profitable program will reduce business loss as well as earning your life. Here're few tips you can follow about how to choose the right affiliate program:

1. Learn the company history carefully — by doing so you can find out how long their service have been setup in the industry and how people think about them, if a company has long history there must be many readable materials to determine if they're worthy of trying.

2. Get updated with the industry news — this is quite important to learn who's going on with those service providers. Especially recent years there're many acquisition and merging events, although the company has been sold to another one but they still keep the official site the same as before but the service level might be dropped back a lot, in such case you will get a big pain if you still trying to promote them, you and your website will be considered as scam by people.

3. Get interacted with communities — community forums are the best place to get latest customer feedbacks and learn how people think about the service you're trying to promote, it will also be helpful to clear people's doubt and introduce your host company.

The above tips are basic rules you should follow before you try to promote some hosting services, since the affiliate program is also your business, you really should evaluate the service properly or else it will bring disaster to your website.

Zyma Hosting Review, Low Cost but Good

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Looking for the lowest price web hosting plan in UK? Or are you looking for the lowest price web hosting plan in the world? Right, you get the right place, in this article I would like to introduce a quality web hosting with the lowest price in the world – Zyma!

Who is Zyma?

Zyma is an UK based web hosting company which is set up in 2010. By offerring the lowest price web hosting plan, their number of clients is growing every day. Currently they're serving thousands of customers over 25 countries in the world.

Zyma Web Hosting Features

The Zyma learned from the industry leaders and only offers one linux based hosting plan with various hosting features. For quick view, here's a list of their hosting general offers

  • Unlimited space /bandwidth
  • Unlimited websites /emails accounts
  • Unlimited database, Free website transfer
  • cpanel control panel with SSH Access

As you see, every hosting features are so attractive to people to go with. The most important is you get all of above with only £4.95/yr! I believe there's no other hosting providers could offer such great features with such low price in the industry.

Update: Zyma has increased their price to £1.79/mo as estimated. The promotional price above no longer exists with their service.

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Is Zyma good web hosting provider?

Zyma is quite new but growing fastly among the competition. Since they offer unbelievable cheap hosting plan, a question is prompt up: Is zyma a quality web hosting? Well, I have no experience with their hosting service but only few email communication with their Director, if you search on the web with keywords "zyma good" or "zyma sucks" you don't get too many results. From my communication with their director, they seem to be responsive to customer concerns. But there's one thing for sure, they're trying to provide quality hosting service to people and gain popularity in the competition.

Their price simply approves they're trying to attract customer eye-balls, I believe their price will rise up as long as they got strong enough to compete with the industry leaders. So basically zyma is a reliable and quality hosting at the moment. We're not sure how it will be in the next few years but at leat they could be counted as quality service provider at the time being.

What's the weakness of Zyma?

Newness is absolutely the biggest disadvantage with zyma, although they don't get negative comments yet on the internet but also only few positive feedbacks available. They definitely need more business marketing in order to get more customers and profitable in the business.

Also, if you're ready to use zyma for your website hosting, please remember to backup your site often because they don't offer free backup in their system. If you need such service, you need to pay £19.95/yr which is unreasonable for nowaday's hosting service.

Who should use Zyma?

For safety purpose, zyma is only recommended for personal websites such as blog or project testing. Because of their newness, we can't guarantee anything more since there's no much feedbacks about this service yet. if you're going to learn about webhosting or write personal blog, zyma is a good choice.

Cheap is the biggest lightspot, if you have not enough budget but want to put website online urgently, zyma is the perfect solution. With almost zero price hosting plan, you get every features in cpanel, zyma is absolutely worthy of a try.

Visit http://www.zyma.com for cheap hosting details!

Who to choose for quality and cheap hosting service? iPage will be the best choice if you need decent service with nice support. iPage hosting comes with leading hosting offers plus free domain registration as well as over $450 credits. However, you get all of the advantages for only $1.99/mo!

Go to http://www.ipage.com and view promo!

Web Hosting Secret Link Revealed

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Web Hosting Secret Link Overview

Web hosting secret link is also called "discount link" or promotion link, it's some kind of tricky game between web hosting provider and customers. Normally you can get some discount by sign up via their "secret link". If it can be handled properly, it will introduce a large business to hosting companies.

Best Web Hosting with Secret Link Provided

Who? Justhost and Ixwebhosting are absolutely the most successful examples. Justhost grows from nothing to web hosting top 10 within less than two years and ixwebhosting has been well known for many years in the industry. Let's find out how they handle their secret link.

Justhost — Before got to know their secret link, you might have been search some justhost coupon code in order to save money with justhost hosting. They actually have provided a 20% discount as default if you have read their website carefully. At the bottom navigation of justhost site there's a "(secret link)" option, click on it and a 20% discount notice page will be displayed. Although they hided the link at the moment, the link is still working as before.

Visit http://www.JustHost.com and enjoy justhost secret link now!

Justhost core features:

  • Free domain name
  • Unlimited website support
  • Unlimited email accounts
  • Unlimited mysql database
  • Any time money back guarantee

Ixwebhosting — It's almost the copy of justhost, the secret link location and page content is exactly the same, the only difference with ixwebhosting is less discount provided at the moment. Previously it's also 20% discount rate, however they downgraded the rate to 10% this year.

Visit http://www.ixWebhosting.com for ixwebhosting secret link now!

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Ix web hosting features

  • 7 Days free trial
  • Up to 15 free dedicated ips
  • Windows /linux support
  • Host unlimited websites

iPage – iPage already provided very affordable hosting plan for only $1.99/mo. But their people actually hided a restricted area for huge saving.But unlike any other secret promo, you have to enter a coupon code to activate this offer. The final price after discount is offered at $1/mo. But please keep in mind you can only sign up for 12 months and no option for longer contract.

Claim iPage $1/mo offer! http://www.iPage.com

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Why Secret Link Provided?

Absolutely, it's about to get potential customers if they could find this link luckily. For example when you really want to purchase their service but not happy with the product price and suddently you find some link for a certain discount, what else could be better than that? Although the hosting provider will lose some money by using secret link, more customers can be attracted and finally the company will be profitable more.

How to Launch Successful Secret Link Promo?

So will a secret link lead to successful hosting? Definitely no.  If you can't offer qualifying hosting services, people will not sign up, no matter how much discount you can offer. In order to make a successful secret link campaign, you must have following prepared at least

  • Reliable service — Reliability is the most concerned when people purchase something, this includes server performance, customer support and customer feedbacks etc.
  • Affordable hosting plan — Although you can offer some discount, if you have set the price pretty high as default and even more expensive after the discount, who would like to proceed with your service? You should always compare in the industry and make a profitable hosting plan for both you and your clients.
  • Leading Hosting features — Based on reliable service and affordable price, you should offer some competitive hosting features which will lead your service outstanding among the competition. Within your company abilities you should always try to offer more to clients, because every competitors doing so and you might be dropped back shortly.

The above are just some basic requirements to running a successful secret link business, you have to do more in order to get a successful business campaign since everything is not so easy as abc.

Enkompass Web Hosting

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Just a while ago, the cpanel Inc released their windows hosting control panel – Enkompass. Due to the popularity of cpanel control panel, this new product announced hot discussion on the internet and many people or groups are ready to try it out. So is Enkompass good? What's actually included with this release?

How does the Enkompass look like?

Since the enkompass is developed by Cpanel group, they still use the cpanel theme for user friendly purpose. The functions, navigation etc are much the same like you have experienced in cpanel control panel. As you see on the right picture, you might think it's just cpanel at the first look.

The purpose of enkompass is to offer windows hosting providers the best control panel solution with powerful management over all services with the least effort.

What's actually included from Enkompass?

As enkompass is developed for windows hosting specially, it fully integrated with windows server technologies side by side, the most new feature with this product is it's working with Windows Active Directory. With Enkompass you can complete the following tasks.

  • Multiple Servers Management – Enkompass is designed to be used in a distributed server environment. This means that one or more Enkompass server(s) will be able to manage many web servers across a Windows domain, allowing for easy automation and maintenance of a set of servers — up to an entire data center.
  • Database Management – With Enkompass you can manage both Mysql and Sql server database creation, backup and restoration. Latest Mysql and SQL server are supported for default.
  • Email management – The best of the best is Enkompass integrated the management of Smartermail — the leader of windows mail server. Except for Smartermail, you also have the option to use mailEnable which is optional choice according to your experience.
  • Reseller Management – Enkompass is developed based on Active Directory, user information and reseller privileges are safely stored with scalability in mind. The reseller structure includes multi-level reselling; in other words, resellers can sell to resellers.

What's Good of Enkompass?

The user friendly design is absolutely the best of this product. With the same interface of cpanel, you don't have to learn everything from scratch and you'll be able to manage the hosting product professionally. Enkompass is designed with the latest technologies based on the group's 10-year-experience in cpanel development. So the security would be enhanced comparing to other hosting control panels.

The goal of enkompass is to earn the windows hosting marketing and replace the most control panel products by offering leading solutions and support.

What's the disadvantage of Enkompass?

Like most new softwares, Enkompass is not verified yet by the industry. that means no much experience can be found about how to optimize the product for best use. Because of this, enkompass is not introduced to most windows hosting providers yet. There would be a long journey to go if enkompass like to be as famous as cpanel.

Enkompass works with windows active directory, means it's not choice for single server purpose. Based it's complex structure and setup procedures, webmasters will not take the efforts in using this software. Also, more and more hosting companies are using cloud system for best performance and uptime, the enkompass has to be improved a lot to work with this service.

Best Enkompass Hosting Provider?

After reading above explanation, most web hosting providers have not introduced enkompass to their hosting plans yet for it's newness. Because of the new (new born and new technology) and use of AD, enkompass might not be affordable for personal use purpose. From enkompass release newsletter, it's only good for dedicated server, that means you have to pay a lot in order to try out this product.

UPDATE: Enkompass already offered for free and cPanel inc stopped further development to it.

What to Use Beside Enkompass?

Since enkompass is not affordable for personal use and not introduced to most hosting companies yet, the best existing choice would be Dotnetpanel (WebsitePanel) which is an open sourced producted and always get improved by a large communites. So before enkompass get approved by a number of hosting companies, dotnetpanel is definitely the best choice.

Who's the best dotnetpanel (websitepanel) hosting provider? With our years' hosting experience and user feedbacks, Arvixe.com is the top one we recommend to our clients. By hosting your website with arvixe windows plan you get following hosting features

  • Free Domain name registration and multiple domains hosting
  • Free SQL Server database and Mysql support
  • 24 x 7 professional US support
  • Up to 60 days money back guarantee and 99% uptime guaranee!

Beside WSP, Plesk is by far the best paid control panel software with it's reliability and secure design. For very a long time, plesk is considered the windows hosting standard offer. If you need plesk support for your windows server, hostgator is absolutely the best choice today. Hostgator windows hosting fully utilize the windows server 2008 R2 advantages with leading performance.

Visit http://www.HostGator.com for windows hosting features