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XXX Domain Name Hosting

.xxx Domain Name Introduction

.xxx domain name (known as "dot triple-X") is pretty new in the industry and just approved by the ICANN on March 18, 2011. It's intended as a voluntary option for pornographic sites on the Internet. The .xxx domain name registry operator is based in Florida.

However, it's not so easy to register .xxx domain name like other ltd domains. You have to approve you're owner/webmaster of an existing adult website and the fee is pretty high! When it's initially offered, you have to pay £79.99/yr for single domain registration.

Best .xxx Domain Name Hosting

So you got the .xxx domain name already, but where to host it? It's not a technical problem but more about an legal issue because adult site is not supported by many hosting providers. If you're looking for .xxx domain hosting support. We highly suggest check out hostgator and Arvixe.

Hostgator is one of the first hosting provider who announced to support adult site officially. By serving millions of global clients, it's safe to stay with hostgator service because they're professional in dealing with such content! You don't have to pay extra in order to host your adult website with hostgator, it's just a simple support with every hostgator hosting plans. Just sign up their service at http://www.Hostgator.com and add your domain to hosting account then you're on the happy journey to your adult site success!

Hostgator adult hosting plan features:

Free domain registration
Unlimited disk space /data transfer
Long experience in hosting adult website
Powerful hosting servers

Like to have more options other than hostgator? Arvixe is perfect place to check out. Arvixe setup very powerful hosting servers with premium network bandwidth to deal with common adult website issues such as ddos attack and high traffic loads etc. Arvixe has been doing great effort in order to serve your adult website well. Your choice of windows or linux platform for your .xxx site! Just go to http://www.Arvixe.com for further details about their hosting support!

Arvixe adult hosting service core features:

Free domain name for life
Affordable hosting plans
Choice of windows & Linux servers
Up to 60 days money back guarantee!

Arvixe is trying to satisfy every client for any website requirement based their powerful network and server hardware setup. In order to support adult website, arvixe configured extra security protection and more strict rules to deal with high http requests and attacks. Even by doing so, arvixe did not go up the plan costs but keep everything the same as regular. In this way, we can enjoy the most promotional offer to host adult site with arvixe!

More about .xxx domain hosting

Not every hosting company be able to support .xxx domain name or any adult related materials to avoid complaints and attacks. To host your .xxx adult site safely you must find a reliable and affordable service provider. Instead going to the west Europe, US is perfect place for any side comparison. Arvixe and Hostgator is by far our top recommendations for safe and reliable adult website hosting providers. You get affordable hosting plans plus knowlegeable tech support that's always around the clock!

More about .xxx domain name

There's a long history before .xxx domain got approved by ICANN. Below is a list of the change points of .xxx domain application

In early 2000, ICM registry submit the .xxx LTD domain registration request, however, it's opposed by lots of social communities and rejected by ICANN.
In 2008, ICANN rejected the .xxx application again. Meanwhile, another top level domain .kids was also rejected.
In June 2010, ICM registry negociated with ICANN and made big effort to get approved for .xxx domain registrarion. This negociation is very close to the final approvement.
Finally, the .xxx domain registration is approved in 2011 and opened for public registration by several popular domain registrar including UK2.net and 123-reg.co.uk. It's strange that they're both UK based registrars.

However, as the updates of google algorithm affected a lot to adult industry, .xxx domain got huge impact because of this. In order to recover the traffic and popularity of .xxx domain name, the ICM registry even developed a new adult content search engine called "search.xxx". You have to be 18+ in order to use the search.

Godaddy is Sold out to KKR and Silver Lake

The Hosting Industry always gives us surprise. GoDaddy Group Inc — The world's largest Domain registrar and web hosting provider agreed to be bought by a private equity consortium led by KKR and Silver Lake for $2.25 billion, including debt, people close to the situation said on Jul 1, 2011. This is the largest business transaction after bluehost acquired by EIG.

Godaddy Overview — Since founding the company in 1997, their founder and CEO Parsons has seen GoDaddy grow into the world's largest Web hosting provider, serving more than 9.3 million global customers and managing more than 48 million domain names. GoDaddy has over 3,000 employees, with roughly 500 dedicated to product development. If you like to know more about their founder, you can refer to this Godaddy CEO article.

KKR Overview — The name might be new to many people since they have not attended any web hosting related business. KKR began operations on May 1, 1976 as a private equity firm specializing in leveraged buyouts. At that time, the notion of a buyout was not well understood. KKR actually stands for three of their founders' names, Kholberg, Kravis and Roberts

Silver Lake Overview — Founded in 1999, Silver Lake is a global private investment firm with approximately $14 billion in assets under management. With offices in Menlo Park, New York, London, San Francisco, Hong Kong and Tokyo, Silver Lake employs over 90 investment professionals across its strategies.

How will Godaddy adress their existing business?

Their founder Parsons, who is currently chief executive officer, will become executive chairman of Go Daddy, while current President and Chief Operating Officer Warren Adelman will move into the role of CEO. As you see, their founder will stay in the new group. I'm sure he will still play a main role in hosting business but just downgraded from CEO to CEC :p

What would be the change in future godaddy business?

Well, as you see, it's over billion money deal. I believe their new owner will invest more to improve their service/products in order to be more profitable. From what Parsons explained, their business growth has been slowed in recent years, so godaddy actually left a big chanllenge to their new owner. In the next 2 or more years, I believe their service level will be promoted and attract more people to sign up.

How do we think about the web hosting industry?

The sell and purchase is actually very common in the commercial society, however there're still many people don't like such transaction especially when it's happened to the industry leader — the most well know brand. In my opinion, we should not only focus on what the owner is but what kind of service the company could offer. Basically, it's not my or your company so why should we pay so much attention to their actual business? As long as the owner think it's good deal, then it is. He can actually earn more by doing so. It's still business.

Hostgator India Secret Revealed

Being the industry leader for many years, Hostgator launched their first oversea branch in India and they will start a completely new business which is purposely for Indian clients. It's surprise to see hostgator do business in this way. Let's see how it looks like.

Why hostgator launches india hosting?

I have to say, India has one of the most advanced IT structure. If you search around the internet you can find many IT professions are Indian people. I belive hostgator is currently serving a big amount indian clients and there's still strong requests in that country. That's why their website domain is ended with ".in" which is for india only. The strong point we can learn from is their datacenter is even located in India to support the best connection.

What's offered by hostgator.in?

The service plans are the same as hostgator.com site except no windows hosting. Since the price is calculated in India Rupee, I'm not sure how much it is in USD. Regardless of the price, you get the same hosting features such as cpanel hosting control panel, Plesk sitebuilder wizard, Up to date php and mysql versions etc. So basically their India services are following the US official site.

The only difference with hostgator.in is they can offer 7 days free trial service! but you have to be existing hostgator clients in order to claim this offer. They do this for business promotion and earn the big market from local India.

Is there any coupon code for hostgator.in hosting plan?

You will be disappointed to learn that any existing hostgator coupon on hostgator.com won't be working on the india site. Since it's a completely new site, people will have to start over to use their india service. However, just like the way hostgator did in the past years, they will offer promo codes with no doubt. Just keep an eye on their site.

Hostgator.com vs Hostgator.in

So do you like the old hostgator or the india one? What's their difference?

I think most people would still prefer to hostgator.com at the moment since we have been used to their system, support and more. The .in site still needs some time to approve itself.

Unlike the .com official site, hostgator.in used standard cpanel+whmcs system which is introduced by most linux hosting companies. Not sure if hostgator got sufficient experience with this system but since there're many talents work there. I think they can still manage everything properly.

Another difference is about their hosting plans. While you can sign up windows hosting from old hostgator site, it's not available yet to hostgator.in site. This service might be too new to offer on both sites. Hostgator has been standard linux hosting service since from their start, windows hosting won't be introduced to hostgator.in unless it's approved really working perfectly.

The india site is completely IN datacenter powered. They announced to offer unlimited for disk space/data transfer etc like their .com site, however they definitely need to pay more since bandwidth is very expensive in that district. Most local hosting providers be not able to offer such features. If they can keep up with the great offer and powering with decent tech support, they will earn big success again.

How do we think about hostgator india?

Will .in conquer .com? Absolutely no, since they both are owned by the same company and hostgator.in is just a branch of .com site, there's no really worthy comparison between them. However, hostgator.in is only targeted to Indian customers so there's no much expandability unless people would like to do business in India. Although there're over one billion people in India, most are not IT based which is for sure. So there would be a long time to approve if hostgator.in will get successful business.

Go to http://www.hostgator.com for hostgator US
Go to http://www.hostgator.in for hostgator India

Sitecloud is Closed

Sitecloud hosting is closed after one month's migration to greengeeks! Now all existing sitecloud customer will have to use the traditional hosting services from it's partner site greengeeks.com. If you're still looking for services from sitecloud.com you will be redirected to greengeeks right away. In this article I'd like to discuss how will their business proceed in the industry and what kind of effect it brings.

How is Sitecloud doing in the past?

I have to say, they're with no doubt the best before the tech bottleneck. With only $4.95/mon you get all cloud hosting advantages while you have to pay several times more from other providers.

Honest is the most outstanding service from sitecloud, they really provide you unlimited stuff while it's just slogan to get customers for other hosting companies. However I think this might be the reason why sitecloud got closed so quickly, there must be many people trying to abuse the system and use up the resources. But from what's expressed from sitecloud newsletter, their team is definitely incapable of handling such issues and finally has no choice but to close the service. But it's nice they admit there's technical problem that couldn't be handled at the moment. They most important thing is they can provide alternative hosting solution with same price.

What kind of effect sitecloud brought to hosting industry?

Fall down from the Top rated cloud hosting provider, sitecloud brought huge effect to the industry. Firstly it approves cloud hosting is not quite suitable for shared plans since it might be abused and if the hosting provider is trying to make it running properly then it's very costly.

Secondly, we learned a hosting company must prepare a lot in order to offer cloud service, the haredware and network is quite important for this technology, if you announced to offer something unlimited but you don't have that many resource, then your business will finally got shut down.

Will shared cloud hosting plan be offered in future?

Cloud hosting is new but with no doubt the future of the industry and it's already applied by many hosting companies. But seems there's long way to go in order to offer qualifying shared cloud hosting. The environment is quite expensive for itself, so a shared cloud hosting plan is almost not profitable at the moment, that's why VPS or dedicated hosting are the main offers.

But since it's a new technology with bright future, I believe it will be developped maturely and shared cloud hosting will be finally available for most hosting providers.

What we learned from this hosting bomb event?

Sitecloud is a good example to all other hosting companies, they should have learned how to start a new service not just by following up the technologies but should consider more about some potential issues like sitecloud have encountered. So basically sitecloud gives a good leason to all hosting companies who're going to offer this kind of service.

Will greengeeks become stronger in use of sitecloud?

Absolutely yes. By operating sitecloud system, their team have learned a bit more on how to manage a successful business and secure environment. I'm sure they have got some valuable experience which is not touched by many other competitors, this will contribute a lot to their business in future. Since sitecloud and greengeeks are always growing up at the same time, they learned each other and their customer will finally benefit from their experience.

So greengeeks will get more experience on how to manage their system and design a more profitable hosting structure in future. With the valuable experience on sitecloud.com, I believe the greengeeks team will open the cloud hosting service again in near future.

Visit http://www.greengeeks.com and check hosting details now!

WebHost4Life In China

Why Webhost4life Again?

You might be suprised why we talk about webhost4life again since it has been approved bad nowadays. But please be patient, we're going to introduce the OLD webhost4life team in this article and let you know what they're doing now. I'm sure you'll be interested in.

What're the old webhost4life team doing?

Are they migrated to new platform along with their business? No, they got into a new hosting business named webweb which is showing in the left pic. Surprised me, they're serving over 20,000 clients now in China and still growing rapidly among other competitors. After a quick test, they're managing a completely new hosting platform which is a big improvement comparing to their old system.

Why webhost4life team operates Business in China?

Simple, because 90% of their support people are Chinese! If you're old webhost4life customer you might know that they provide Chinese Language support if needed, their ticket & Live chat support are 100% Chinese based. Before their business sold to endurance, they managed 3 support centers on the globe, one in USA, one in Hongkong and one in China Mainland.

Their Live chat support are completely operated by China mainland staff and ticket is managed in Hongkong, the US department is mainly for sales and phone support. China is a hot place for many global companies and most of them are trying to start business there, since the old webhost4life team is Chinese based, China is the best choice for their new business market with the valuable experience in this industry.

Why They don't continue with US Hosting?

You might ask why not the old webhost4life team open a new business directly in US but transfer to China. Well, there does have some kind of restrictions if they want to continue US business. The most important point is they have contract with EIG not to touch the US market within 3 years. It's important for EIG to keep the old webhost4life business. However, webhost4life team keeps all data center service to power their new business. What more is they actually expanded, they have HongKong data center service while we're writing. Because of this, it's pretty clear they'll go back USA after 3 years and develop new business.

Are old webhost4life team ready to go back US?

Definitely yes, their US data centers are still running to offer outstanding services to Chinese clients and they're preparing the English based systems for future business again in USA. They have many years' experience in US market and will help with their success greatly. But you might be curious how does their new system look like. Ok, Here's a screenshot of their new hosting control panel which is programmed in Chinese:

Their website address is www.webweb.com and it's completely Chinese based. Unlike their old website, the webweb.com is optimized perfectly by SEO team. From either the website structure or hosting control panel settings, you would feel it's more professional than old ones.

Why this article?

Like many other people, I liked the old webhost4life team and will do business with them again if it's possible. they're honest and friendly to customer. They always patient to listen to your complaints and fix problem directly on live support. It's quite rare in the industry. We have very close relationship with them before and worked with them for a long time, that's why we know so many about this company side by side. you can contact me directly if you would like to know more about the old webhost4life team.

Sitecloud Merge to Greengeeks

Sitecloud has been rated as the best cloud hosting service provider among the fierce competition. Sitecloud is also our most recommended hosting for cloud hosting technologies. But things are changed dramatically today! Sitecloud is announced to close services and migrate everything to their old system – Greengeeks.

Why sitecloud migration?

The simple reason we got from sitecloud's newsletter is because of "Cloud could not be done as efficiently as we had hoped". Their cpanel based cloud hosting infrastructure is not able to support the larger and larger client sign ups. And because of the lack of technologies they have no better way to manage this system. The final decision from sitecloud is to migrate everything to a platform they are very familiar with – Greengeeks.

How is it Explained in Sitecloud Newsletter?

Here's the newsletter raw content sent by sitecloud CEO – Trey Gardner

"Dear kerry,

This is Trey Gardner, CEO of SiteCloud.com and GreenGeeks.com with important information about SiteCloud.com.

From inception SiteCloud was intended to be a cPanel cloud web hosting provider which would allow larger clients "bursting" capabilities which would be supported by a cloud infrastructure environment. At that time we believed we had a technology expert, who would be able to manage the technical aspects of our Cloud hosting service goals.

Ultimately we learned that once we had started to grow larger that the technical management of our cPanel – Cloud could not be done as efficiently as we had hoped. Last January we moved our hosting services back to a platform we are very familiar with, shared and VPS hosting, and our service standards improved dramatically for everyone.

SiteCloud's support has always been done using GreenGeeks.com staff. GreenGeeks.com was started back in 2007 and we support over 25,000 domains on that service. Since both brands now do the same types of hosting services it no longer makes sense to run each company as individual entities which are supported by the same staff.

Beginning Friday April 8th we will be redirecting all of our SiteCloud visitors over to GreenGeeks. We are migrating all of our customers to the GreenGeeks infrastructure, and no longer taking on new clients under the SiteCloud brand name.

We greatly appreciate your participation in the SiteCloud affiliate program. Moving forward all of your SiteCloud tracking links will continue to work for the remainder of April 2011 and will record sales which are made at GreenGeeks but which first come through your SiteCloud affiliate tracking link.

On May 1st the SiteCloud affiliate tracking links will no longer track sales at GreenGeeks, so if you would like to continue to refer business to us, and we hope that you do, we would like to invite you to become an affiliate of GreenGeeks.com and continue to work with us through the GreenGeeks brand.

I greatly appreciate your working with us and I hope that we may continue to work together through GreenGeeks into the future.

Thank You and have a great rest of the week,

Trey Gardner
CEO – GreenGeeks & SiteCloud"

How do we think about the migration?

There would be two thoughts about the sitecloud migration:

A, it's definitely good choice to serve the existing clients on quality service level. If sitecloud continue with a unstable system but never report the problem anywhere, it must be dangerous to all people and their business. dishonesty will finally destroy their business and sitecloud will be disappeared in short time. So what sitecloud doing is correct for God's safe.

B. Bad news to the industry. Some time ago I found sitecloud removed their shared hosting plan and only VPS server plans available on their website. It's already bad for people who want to try out cloud hosting with an affordable price. Now, sitecloud even dropped all services on this site and move everything to another system, it will surely announce a hot discussion about the cloud computing on various forums.

Is Greengeeks Reliable Web Hosting Provider?

Yes, greengeeks has been doing good, they're the best green hosting company who follow the green rules strictly. We can learn this from their reputance on the internet. Their ceo Trey Gardner is one of the most responsible people who cares about their clients. I think by operating two web hosting brands, greengeeks definitely learned a lot about how to serve people in correct way. Their business will definitely grow better and better.

Learn more greengeeks on this greengeeks review
Visit www.greengeeks.com and check hosting details >>

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