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More and more stuff are going to open source because of the fast growing of internet business, the open source services actually saved us lots of time for online project development. If you search around the internet you will find almost everything can be done via some existing open source softwares. So how will this affect microsoft and their most popular product windows? Will windows go open source too? if not, how will microsoft deal with the competition?

Some Most Popular Open Sourced Softwares

The most famous open source project would be Linux — the biggest competitor of microsoft windows. Till present, over one hundred linux brands have been developed on the planet and millions of developers are still working on it. Although linux system is not popularly accepted like windows for personal computer, it's absolutely the most popular enterprise solution because you can fully customize it according to your actual conditions.

Some other popular non-system level open source softwares for example: Joomla, Drupal, Moodle, WordPress and many other cms projects. If you would like to know more, you can refer to open source project community site Sourceforge.net and almost every open source project can be found there.

Windows based open source Softwares

As talking about windows based open source software, it's quite few comparing to linux ones. The windows open source projects are mainly referring to some popular cms such as Dotnetnuke, asp.net starterkits, Umbraco etc.

The most well known system level open source windows software might be websitepanel(dotnetpanel) — the best open source windows hosting control panel. This software is not open sourced from the begining, as all information collected from internet, microsoft is the hidden sponsor of the DotNetPanel project. The open source over dotnetpanel means to get more installation on windows servers and earn the business market. Till today, dotnetpanel is being offered by some major windows hosting providers like arvixe and eukhost etc. It's also the default installation for windows VPS server from most server providers.

Will microsoft go open source?

There's no signal showing microsoft will go open source in any way because of their large business over the world. The ms products are actually affecting our daily lives, any change from microsoft policy will receive huge response. Because microsoft is managing a large team with millions of developers, all products are results of their hard working, it's absolutely reseaonable for microsoft to charge people in order to support the long term new products development.

In our opinion, the dotnetpanel going open source would be the biggest news for windows open source projects. Why? you should note web hosting is currently the largest internet business and more and more people are get involved. Before dotnetpanel opensourced, you have to pay a lot in order to manage a windows server, but everything got changed after this software is free to get for everyone. You no longer need to pay a lot of money in order to setup a professional windows hosting environment. The result is more people will go with windows and microsoft will be the final beneficiary. During the business windows and other microsoft products are being promoted.

Best dotnetpanel hosting provider

Arvixe is absolutely the best choice for dotnetpanel hosting support. No matter if you would like to use shared, vps or dedicated windows hosting plan you can get dotnetpanel completely free and everything is pre-configured properly. Shared hosting starts with only $5/mo you get unlimited disk space and multiple domain hosting opportunities, you won't find anywhere else for such great offer with this price.

Find out more on http://www.arvixe.com site

Everyone knows it's not so easy to put up a successful website, you have to do a lot of daily works such as website update, link building and other SEO practice. The website content update would be the most time consuming task because most of the time people will feel hard to write original stuff with high quality, especially when you're not interested in the topic but just for job purpose. Because of such bottle necks, some smart programmers developed some auto blogging softwares to handle everything. In this posting I would like to introduce some of the most popular softwares for automatic article posting and some basic rules about how to promote a website.

Popular auto blogging Softwares

When the topic comes to blog, most techs used for website content update are referring to blog because of the easy integration and management. The wordpress is the NO.1 software that are being used for this purpose because almost every auto blogging software is compatible with it. Here're some of the TOP rated wordpress plugins used for auto blogging:

WP-Robot –- It must be the most popular autoblog plugin that's developed for wordpress specially. At the same time it also would be the most complex one among similar plugins. Based on more than 20 modules, once it's configured properly it will grab materials from various websites and re-compose then post to the specific categories. The disadvantage with this software is you have to read a lot of documentation in order to make it working perfectly.

Autoblogged WP Plugin — This wordpress plugin is to grab web content based on RSS feed, no matter what kind of website it is, as long as rss available for the targeted website, the software will be able to crawl.

WPematico & WP-o-matic  — They're two different softwares but doing the same work, the difference is wpematico be able to caching images from source website or upload to your server while wp-o-matic can not handle it.

WPMixer — This plugin will not only grab the website article content but also the user comments, if you want to see some activity on your website, this plugin is ideal choice.

Should you auto blogging?

No matter how professional the software is, it's still doing the same thing — steal contents from other people's websites. So if you're copying materials from copyrighted websites you can easily cause copyright issue and get reported. The auto blogging techniques are mainly used by people who're managing a group of websites for google adsense purpose. They don't care if some of the websites will be reported because they have many! But the final result for such website is to be banned by search engine. So if you're going to promote a website for long term purpose, never try such methods!

How to create a successful blog website?

Since it's blog website, it's based on your preference, because you like blogging, because you like writing on internet and share to people. So before you start a website, think twice about what you're going to do and make a plan about what you will need to do. Please keep in mind most successful websites are based on the webmasters' long term continuing hard working, if you're going to promote a successful website, you should be ready for any potential hardness.

There're thousands of web hosting providers on the globe and the number is increasing everyday. If you're new to this industry and would like to sign some service plan for website hosting purpose you would be confused which one to deal with. Although there're many quality service companies and many online tips about how to search the right service provider, In this article I would like to introduce the world's Top 10 Largest Web Hosting

Standards of the largest web hosting

This should be an interesting topic because there's no much existing information. When talking about the largest, it's referring to the company business size, number of hosted websites, number of working staff as well as their general reputation on the web. Another important point is the list we're going to give out is mainly for shared hosting, other features such as domain registration/datacenter service are not included.

TOP 10 Largest Web Hosting List

Here is the 10 list generated by our comparison and rating: Godaddy, 1and1, Hostgator, Bluehost, Hostmonster, EIG, UK2, Dreamhost, Xinnet, Hichina

Top 10 Largest Web Hosting Introduction

Godaddy  — This name is absolutely qualify for LARGE in any terms, either from domain registration or domain hosting, godaddy is always the number one. Being the largest domain registrar on the planet, godaddy is serving more than 10 million US clients and millions of other world wide clients.

1and1 — 1&1 is another big web hosting company on the planet who can offer cheap and various hosting plans as well as domain registration. This is also one of the oldest companies in the industry.

Hostgator — Hostgator is relatively new comparing to other webhosts in the list but it's definitely one of the fastest growing service because of their super stable server and customer support. Hostgator is also the largest reseller hosting provider.

Bluehost — Bluehost and hostgator are always recognized as to of the industry leaders, over 20,000 new sales per month is the strong aproof of their ability.

Hostmonster — The partner company of bluehost and managed by the same founder, the number of hosted websites and clients are same level of bluehost.

EIG — Hard to describe this company as it's not a directly hosting brand but managing over half hundred other web hosting brands! their business growing is mainly based on acquisition over other existing hosting service. Some popular hosting brands such as iPage, iPower, fatcow and justhost etc are all managed by EIG company. You can read this EIG hosting to learn more.

UK2 — UK2 business is mainly in Europe for domain registration and hosting. Their business growth is much the same as EIG. The famous hosting company Midphase got merged into their business if you still think they're independent hosting.

Dreamhost — Dreamhost is famous for it's affordable and stable web hosting plan since from their business start. People love it also because of their big discount on holidays. Dreamhost also manage another hosting brand called thinkhost.

Hichina — The largest hosting provider and domain registrar in China. It's also the oldest web hosting provider in that area. Based on lots of local requirements and huge impact, Hichina is managing over half web hosting business of China.

Xinnet — Part of alibaba group and the second largest web hosting provider in China. Actually, xinnet and hichina are growing neck by neck because they're mostly trusted by Chinese people since very few China hosting providers be able to setup their own datacenters.

Should We Go these Hosting Provider?

Well, I can only say everything depends. Yes, you can trust all of services above because of their huge business on the planet. Although the above companies currently listed in top 10, you should also note they all have many competitors and they're growing super fast, it's hard to say if there will be any change of the list in next year. The web hosting industry is full of chanlege.

Sometimes a smaller company could also serve you well or even better because they are caring about their business growing very much in order to get better reputation. For example, www.Arvixe.com and Inmotion hosting are not in top 10 or even top 20 largest hosting list but they're still loved by millions clients for excellent services.

SSD is primary consideration for more and more webmasters when looking for server hosting. What kind of advantages come with this product and what kind of role it's playing in web hosting industry? Ok, let's go ahead to check out and see if we have the chance to take it's advantages.

SSD and HDD Overview

Solid state drive(SSD) also known as a solid-state disk is data storage device that used to store persistent data. In terms of function SSD's serve the same purpose as your typical hard disk drive (HDD). SSD is famous for it's fast speed distinguished from traditional hard disk drive(HDDs). Further details about ssd on wikipedia.

HDD vs SSD

Since both types disks are in same terms of functions, which is better to apply for your hosting server? I believe many people even not heard of SSD for various reasons. Here're the main comparison between the two products, I believe you will get a basic idea about SSD.

Pricing — Although price for both type disks are decreased a lot comparing to earlier days, SSD is still several times expensive than HDD.

Power consuming — Technically, SSDs should consume less power because they do not have any rotating magnetic platters in them. The traditional hard disk drives being mechanical, take in more current to keep the parts inside moving.

Reliability — A flash based SSD is actually a hundred times faster than HDD. From user experience, SSD be able to sustain about 40 years of constant, non-stop, writing before they would start failing! Even the best HDD could not get such great records.

To make the comparison more clear, here's a table list

Do you need SSD?

If you're going to purchase a new compputer or hosting server, you might need to learn about the following check points:

First, why do you want an SSD? Do you just want to improve your server performance or increase your storage space? The answer will help you make the right decision. If you’re looking for extra storage, you may choose traditional hard disk drive directly to save your budget. If your goal is to accelerate performance, SSD is absolutely the best choice comparing to HDD.

Second, there are numerous types of SSDs, so you need to figure out which one is the best for your particular machine. To do this, check out this Kingston Technology guideline that will walk you through the painless process.

Third, check how much you would like to pay for this server. If you have limited budget and looking for decent server specs, you might go with HDD directly. The bad SSD product will give you pains.

Which web hosting provider offers SSD?

As you see from above comparison, SSD is not affordable for regular use purpose. With SSD comes increased I/O performance – which is good for heavy traffic websites such as forum, ecommerce and social community websites etc. Till present, multiple major web hosting providers have upgraded the system OS drive to SSD from hosting servers, No price change but much better performance.

Hosting providers like Inmotion and Arvixe have upgraded all their server setups with SSD for guaranteed performance. Not only for shared server, VPS and reseller are also configured for SSD by default. At the meanwhile, it can be optional choice on dedicated server setup too.

Check out Arvixe SSD web hosting plans www.Arvixe.com

Overview of SEO

SEO is now hot topic on the whole internet because of the fast growing e-business, everybody want to make money on this virtual market. Indeed, ecommerce is more and more popular on the globe and a quality website is the first step to sale your products online. However most people still prefer to search the potential products through search engine. So you must do a lot of work in order to rank your website high.

What efforts you should make to rank high from search engine?

Since from the begining of SEO there're two popular description: whitehat seo and blackhat seo.

What's blackhat seo? Long words in short, it means to spamming everywhere with your website keywords and increase your website backlinks greatly in short time. By doing that your website can be ranked high in short time but search engine will also remove the rank quickly via each update.

On the other hand, whitehat seo is focusing on website quality and increase the popularity/rank gradually, the weak point is the long time work comparing to blackhat but your website will get a stable rank from search engine thus you no need to worry about any search engine update.

How does search engine determine if your website is valuable to people?

In order to always rank high on search engine you must ensure your website quality and never stop promoting it. So how will google determine your website quality?

In fact, the search engine including google is more and more smart. Just think about what's liked by real people in the industry and ask yourself questions as following:

• Can you trust the information provided on the website?
• Do you think the article is written by industry professional or part time job worker?
• Are there too many similar content on your website but just with different keywords?
• Can you post your credit card information on this website?
• Are there any incorrect spellings or fraud information?
• Do you write something based on real users interest and needs or just want to rank high on search engine?
• Do you offer original posting, information, news or related analysis?
• Is your page valuable comparing to other websites on search results?
• How much quality control in your article posting?
• Does your article posting include both positive and negative aspects?
• Is your website authoritative comparing to those who have the same template?
• Are your web contents composed in short time or raise up gradually?
• Did you pay attention to each small aspects of your article or just by quick writing?
• Can you trust the information irrelated to the website topic?
• Will you recognize the websit as authoritative when browsing related websites?
• Do you have a complete and clear introduction about your website?
• Is there any acute analysis to the topic but not just something to attract eye-balls?
• Do you wish to save the page to bookmark and recommend to other people?
• Are there too many unexpected advertising in your article?
• Do you think your article is too short to be helpful?

As you see, original and useful information are most important aspects for a quality website. You must try to provide more useful information to people in order to to liked by search engine. When you post something on your website, you should always think above questions and revise it as more acurate as possible.