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A shared server works for a good deal of people, but when your website continues to grow and you simply need more bandwidth, software, or ram you need to look at investing in a Dedicated Server. A dedicated server not only gives you more control, bandwidth, software options, and ram it also gives you the security you need to ensure that your website is as secure as possible for both you and your website users. A dedicated server makes more sense for those that are going places and simply need more from their website.

Much of the problem with shared servers is that you are limited in your storage space as well as your bandwidth, which can turn visitors off from using your website and purchasing your products or services. You may also find with a shared server that there is a lot of down time because the server simply is not big enough for all of its users, especially if many of the hosted sites are high traffic and growing rapidly. This rush of activity often causes bottle necking which doesn’t allow your website to be as effective as possible.

E-commerce websites often have a difficult time utilizing a shared server, and a dedicated server can make all the difference. With a dedicated server you have a lot more options as far as software and even hardware solutions so that your Internet business functions a lot more smoothly. A dedicated server allows you to set up your own control panel and really micro-manage your website if that is what you want to do.

Dedicated servers just allow more options for those that have websites that are growing and businesses that are rapidly expanding. If you aren’t sure if you can pull it all off on your own when you switch to a dedicated server, you aren’t alone. Along with a dedicated server is managed hosting, which is a service provided by those that also offer dedicated servers. A managed hosting system is one that helps you oversee all of the technical aspects of a dedicated server in the way of hardware, software, your control panel, and more.

If you are not happy with the level of service you receive from your current web server in the way of transfer times, bandwidth, ram, and software options you may want to look into a dedicated server. A dedicated server costs a bit more, but the service you get in exchange is definitely worth it.

When I designed my first website, I was so proud of it. I had spent many long nights over a period of months designing it. All of my friends and family told me how professional it was, and how very impressed they were. I swear I went to my site several times a day just to look at it and soak in the glory of what a wonderful job I had done. It was definitely “my baby.”

Then reality set in. I had asked a simple question in a web design group, and two senior members proceeded to tear my site to shreds. With no holds barred and in great detail, they explained that it looked like a homepage, not a business site.

I hated them both. I told a friend how terrible they were, and who did they think they were anyway! I truly thought they were rude individuals who didn’t have a clue what they were talking about, because hadn’t everyone else told me how great my site was?

It would be nearly a week before I calmed down enough to take another look at my site. Suddenly when looking at my site through their experienced eyes, I saw a completely different site! One by one I worked through every single recommendation.

Often I would spend days researching a recommendation they had made. These two individuals spent countless hours answering my questions and teaching me step by step how to make the corrections to these common web page mistakes. Stubbornly I held onto a few things until the last, such as my giant buttons and tons of centered text.

Then finally, I was through the list of corrections. I was sure I had fixed each and every item on the list. I was ready for my pat on the back. C’mon, tell me how wonderful I am! Tell me this is the best looking site you have ever seen anywhere on the planet!

They ripped me to shreds again, more gentle this time, but still to shreds.

One said, what happened to all of the CSS we discussed? You have a total disaster in your code! The other blatantly explained that I was far better than I was showing through the sloppy work in my code. “You are better than this, or I wouldn’t be so hard on you. Go back to work.”

I turned off the computer and yelled, “GAWD I HATE THEM!”. My friend smirked and gave a knowing grin that once again I was going through another learning phase. He also knew that in a few days, I would turn the computer back on and go back to work.

This process repeated itself many times, and my learning curve was very steep. When I look back at each new site I created, each a little better than the next, I realized how very far I had come. Following are some common web page mistakes that many of us have made as new designers.

Domains are hot again. After the bubble burst in the 90’s, no one ever thought that anyone would pay a 5 years salary for a domain name again. Think again. iFly.com was recently sold for $65.000. Thats not a wild sum, but it’s not a wild domain either. I did read somewhere that creditcards.com was sold for $2.750.000 last year. Someone did a pretty good investment there. I browsed ebay and found that ss.com was up for bidding, and the tag was around $55.000.

So why do people spend a redicoulus amount of paper on something as silly as the right to use a certain address on the internet? Think of it as real estate. Buy and sell later. Another reason is that the clever SEO crowd discovered that anchor text is one of the strongest SEO tool availible. That means if someone link to my site with the text “widgets” in the anchor tag, search engines will associate my site with “widgets” and give the site higher rankings on that particular search phrase. So this means that if I own “widgets.com”, chances are that many people will link me up with the domain name, and since that contains my main keyword, half the SEO is already made.

I have found a professional affordable alternative where the customers are not treated like a number. They offer a wide range of hosting packages that are made to suit your particular needs based on Unix servers with a custom built interface for speed and reliability.
Their hosting plans come with Addon domains, so you can host multiple websites! Every account also includes an easy-to-use Control Panel that allows you to easily manage your account via a point-and-click interface from Cpanel (cpanel.net)