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by Bill Mcnulty, Bil

With all the financial turmoil and the money concerns experienced by almost all people in all steps of life, it is natural that people should put limits on their expenses. This affects businesses among others. Even businessmen still have to work on a budget, including their expenses related to web hosting.

Being businessmen themselves, web hosting companies have realized and recognized this truth. That is why web hosting services are relatively cheaper since there are a lot of budget web hosting companies nowadays. These web hosting providers need to stay competitive and keep up with the competition. To attract more customers, they have lowered their prices for their services. No wonder that this is just a marketing strategy, don't start pondering about their profit and loss as no businessman will prefer to make loss or give lower quality service to make profit. These are against the business etiquettes so they always make sure to remain in profit zone by calculating various factors.

Low cost web hosting packages are affluently available in the market but that doesn't also give an impression that they all provide the same service. They differ from each other in many respects. As a businessman, you should only get the best for your business. There should be things that you should consider before making an investment in a low cost internet web hosting service. To ensure your website remain up for 99.9% of the time and it is free from virus attacks you will have to host it with the most reliable web hosting firm in the industry.

What is reliability? How can you rely on a web hosting provider?

You are going to handover your business's web presence to someone else who will keep your website up by keeping it safe and live for maximum hours of the day.

Most people tend to view hard disk space and bandwidth as primary factors when considering which affordable web hosting service to buy. Of course, they are important factors but people sometimes fail to measure how reliable a service is before they make an investment. So, how does one measure a service's reliability?

First, the web hosting service is reliable if it makes the website available to the users of the Internet for 24 hours, 7 days a week barring network problems that are otherwise uncontrollable by the hosting provider. As a businessman, you cannot afford to have downtimes on your website because you can lose potential customers that way. Frequent downtimes can discourage people from visiting your website because you are unavailable when they need you. At that rate, your potential customers will turn to other websites instead of yours' because they are more available.

How can you gauge the availability rate of a website hosting service provider? Simple, you do so by checking the availability percentage that the discount web hosting service you have in mind guarantees you. It should be within the range of 99.8-99.9 percent, and nothing lower than that. It is only through these rates that you are guaranteed 24 hours service for the whole week, and whole year.

Another indication of a reliable service is the excellent access and download rates that is afforded to your website. The website should be easily accessed, and the pages should load fast so that your customers do not get discouraged by waiting too long for page loading. The best way to test this is to visit the pages being hosted by the web host that you have in mind and find out how fast they can be accessed and how fast the pages are loaded.

Whatever the package, the ad media also plays a great role in
determining the success of the product or service awareness.

What may be its advantages over other proven medium like the best-
selling TV ads?

Advantages

1. Low Cost

Eventhough the Internet ad might be viewed as "classy" or far-
reaching, as compared to other medium, this is far cheaper than most.
Internet Ad Packages are offered for as low as $29.99 for a one-month
run-time period.

2. Capture market

Should your product / service aim to cater to the younger generation
or the corporate-oriented ones, Internet ad would be best since they
would always be "hooked-up" into the net surfing sites that might
have a link to your very own. Result, a great number of "hits" on
your site!

2. Hassle free

All you would ever really need is a PC (and some knowledge and
bright ideas in forming your site) wherein you could open your site,
search for the best Internet Ad package, and check / update the
status of your ad. You may actually never have to leave your home to
advertise!

3. Updated ads

Unlike the TV ads that need to be updated on a regular basis,
Internet ads may run for quite some time without the need for change.
If so, change in the site is very minimal and may be done easily at
home.

Disadvantages

1. Scope
Limited market may be captured if one would solely use the Internet
Ad for advertising. Although most people now are into the use of
technology, i.e. surfing the Internet, still, majority of the average
consumers still relies on the old form of advertising as a means of
gathering information about certain products / service.

2. Additional cost

If one would enlist the help of another professional or
establishment to produce the site for their product or service, this
would entail additional costs on the part of the entrepreneur.

Given the stated list of advantages and disadvantages about low-
coast Internet Ad, an entrepreneur may now weigh in its applicability
to his / her product or service.

The aim of Internet ad is to offer the widest range or "Maximum
Exposure" of the brand at the least possible cost. Now, does that not
sound good or what?

Baba Jani
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