Conserving Bandwidth
Bandwidth is used up every time someone visits your website. Unlike disk space, bandwidth is often renewed every month. A lot of times bandwidth can get used up pretty quickly. In this post we will talk a little bit about how to conserve your monthly bandwidth allotment. Every time someone visits your website certain elements they view will take away a certain amount of bandwidth. Images and...
Read MoreWhat is Disk Space?
A lot of clients often wonder what is the disk space? Well disk space is the what’s set aside on the server to host your website. A website is made up of files and folders. Each file and folder takes up space, and the space it takes up is basically determined by the words, images, and code that is put together to make up your website. So for example if your web page is an html web page,...
Read MoreWhere should I host my blog?
Optimally, you would have a business blog on its own domain on a separate server so that when you blog and link to your business projects they would count for maximum search engine optimization value. (There is evidence that Google gives higher value to a link from a website on a different server than a link from another site on the same server.) If incoming links aren’t of great importance...
Read MoreWhat Blogging Platform Should I Use?
There are several blog scripts available for use, including: Blogger – Free to use, can have a blog on their site (blogspot.com) or publish the content to your own hosting account. WordPress – Free to use, can have a blog on their site (wordpress.com) or grab the open source script (wordpress.org.) for use on your own hosting account. Typepad – Paid service (typepad.com) There are...
Read MoreWhat Makes a Blog Different From a Regular Website?
Assuming that a ‘regular website’ is referring to a static HTML site, it is the database driven content that really sets it apart. There are many websites that have been built using a similar script/database (known as a Content Management System or CMS) and these sites have a lot in common with the blog since a blog script is essentially a CMS. The lines between blogs and other types of...
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