Advantages of Having your Own Website

Why is it so important for your business to have a website? Have you noticed how most business cards and promotional materials have an additional line in their contact information? Yes, those website addresses that we frequently see on business cards, advertisements, and promotional materials.

More and more businesses are now seeing the advantages of being online. Having a website gives your company a new venue for reaching thousands of people, a place where they can learn about your company, your products and services, and get in touch with you, anytime, from anywhere around the globe. So what rewards does having a website offer?

Having a website increases awareness of products and services. Web presence allows you to advertise to millions of prospective clients around the world. Many businesses experience a deluge of inquiries and orders after putting up websites, and you can, too. Being online means you are seen by a larger audience and your chances for sales multiply dramatically.

Cost advantage. Net businesses are extremely aware of how they can profit by being on the Internet; they can advertise their products and services without the huge costs, and delays of printing, publishing and distribution. The market is a global one, which adds greater value to the costs outlaid for promotion and marketing; compared to the limits of offline. E- commerce facilities can be incorporated into the website, transforming 2D screen visuals into user reactive models, for example, consumers can order their products and services online, greatly reducing administration expenses. Reduction of telephone calls to potential customers; follow ups by email; newsletters digitally made, promoted by email or downloadable from the website, with reduction of distribution costs; less promotional material sent out, printed and wasted; extended trading hours without a human presence; are just a few ways to cut costs.

Accessible. A website means you have a place your customers can reach for after-sales support. Your site may provide answers to frequently asked questions, as well as detailed information about your products and services. Alternatively, your site may give a list of e-mail addresses to write to for specific queries, which you can easily and quickly attend to from your own computer terminal.

Security. With a website, it is better to do any business transaction through a secure website that cannot be accessed by hackers. You can also become Paypal or AlertPay verified, this way, buyers will feel comfortable doing business with authentic merchants.

Also, with a website, you can have the opportunity to be found in search engines like Google. This opens up a whole new range of customers! We are not saying you will get to the top of Google for a search like “holiday home”, but you may get to the top for a search like “holiday home sauventerre france”.

There are a lot of advantages of having a website, and we should grab this advantages. Today, online presence is important, to be globally competitive, and to advertise your products or services worldwide. Don’t be left behind by only using offline advertisements, review the advantages mentioned on this article and start increasing market share, grow revenues, and achieve your business goals.

BNS Hosting Offers Personalized Service

Visiting forums, it is common to see numerous threads asking for reviews on the largest web hosting companies. Obviously this is because the companies with the most exposure/highest rankings are going to get all the attention. For this reason, It is common for people new to web hosting to sign-up with the so called top web hosting companies because those are the ones they see/hear about first – you know them HostGator, Yahoo, HostMonster, DreamHost, etc.

So why would anyone want to signup with a startup web host over the large established web hosts?

There is ONE thing that a startup web host can offer that a large web hosting company can’t. That is a personalized service. What’s so important about having a personalized service, anyway? A new web hosting company is going to value every one of their customers far more than a large hosting company. You are one of maybe 50 clients compared to a large web hosting company that has 200,000 customers. To the large host, you are just another number/statistic that they don’t care about. The smaller startup host NEEDS your business so they are more likely to jump through hoops to provide you with everything you need. A smaller web host is also more likely to go the extra yard for you. In fact, some startups will do pretty much everything for you – from transferring your website to manually installing certain software that you may need for your website. One other advantage, which is not always true, is that a smaller web host is usually more organized. They get only a few support tickets a day compared to the hundreds of new tickets a popular host gets every day. Add 10 support technicians into the equation and you got plenty of room for error and lost tickets. With a large hosting company, you would be lucky to get them to install an Apache module that takes 30 seconds to setup. This is because they know that if you go somewhere else, there will be 100 new people signing up right behind you to take your place.

I’m not saying that you should forget about the large hosting companies, because they do have their advantages:

- A large host can usually offer its service for a lower price than the smaller company
- They will have around the clock technical support
- They can offer more disk space and bandwidth
- Established hosts are more stable because they have already been in the business for X amount of years. They know how to run their hosting company successfully.

There is one more disadvantage of a large host that is brought up a lot on all the web forums I visit. I often see a lot of complaints that a customer’s website was shut down for exceeding the CPU limit set on the hosts shared accounts. A large host is more likely to boot clients who use a higher than average amount of CPU resource. In order to make the most money off a server, a web host needs to cram as many accounts on it as possible. The host is able to cram more accounts on a server when everyone is using very little CPU and RAM.

A smaller web hosting company is less likely to give you the boot because their servers aren’t filled up to begin with. They tend to give heavy usage websites more lee-way because there is extra space or resource to spare. Now this doesn’t mean they will scoot you bye forever. Eventually when they fill up that server, they will have to start putting limits on accounts or else the server will crash every 15 minutes.

So which is better? Large or Small?

While the larger host can offer more resources for a much lower price, the small web host is usually more willing to go out of the way to help you. It is hard to say which is better because it really depends on your needs and experience. If you have a bunch of websites and know the ins and outs of website development, than you will likely find a large web host suitable. However, if you are new and need guidance, than the small host is probably the best option for you. Its worth the extra money to make sure your new website is flawless.

Computer Stores, Better if Online

We live in a very busy world. People are always up and about doing something no matter what time of day it is. Work has become a very big part of our lives and we would often take our work everywhere with us if we could. There seems to be no answer to the question if we work to live or we live to work. To keep up with our busy lifestyle, things are often served to us in a fast way. We can get instant foods, buy at fast food restaurants, and handle different transactions and visit different places at the same time through the marvelous world of the internet.

Online Shopping Store is very popular among most Internet users. Almost 85 percent of web users in the United States shop online. Korea, with 99 percent, is one of the most popular countries where Internet users shop online. Internet shopping is easy, fast and convenient because users can shop from the privacy of their homes and computers. While online shopping is easy, there are also some precautions you should take as well.

Nowadays, it has become more practical to shop online when you need to upgrade or buy supplies for your computers. Visiting online stores is indeed a lot more convenient than going from one computer store to another. The good news is, now you don’t even have to leave the office or your home to find the items and services that you need. Any time of the day or night, you can just log on and find bargains, supplies and services for your computer at several online shops.

Using an online store is usually easy, depending on the content and layout of the website. Arranged categories mean that it’s simple to find the exact item you need by price, product or brand name. A lot of good websites even have search boxes where you can just type in the name or brand of the product you’re looking for. When your item appears, you can take your time reviewing the item’s specs and price. There is no salesman to bother you at all!

Online Computer Shopping

Recent statistics have shown that some of the most popular products sold online are computers. This should come as no surprise as there are a multitude of computer users out there, all looking for the latest products on computers and software. In fact, online computer shopping was one of the very first branches of online shopping to develop and these products are still just as popular today as they were at the beginning. Finding the lowest price is quite an easy thing to accomplish as there are a lot of websites advertising such products, no matter if you are looking to purchase top-quality computers or any other additional equipment.

When searching for the right computer to buy, we tend to go to computer stores and see what are the best specifications that a computer brand can offer. We do canvassing on all the brands and comparing each brands with the price and specifications. But once a customer enter a computer store, people will try to make the customer purchase the computer, and sometimes that kind of attitude makes the customer become upset, especially if he/she only wants to see the specs and prices to make a comparison. If you are one of these potential customer that gets upset when looking on computer products, you shoud consider visiting online computer stores.

Online computer stores provides different products with different brands and provide reviews on those products that provide valuable insights about the product and are often very useful for the consumers. These reviews are useful for comparing different products listed on the site. Some online stores provide or link to supplemental product information, such as instructions, safety procedures, demonstrations, or manufacturer specifications. Some provide background information, advice, or how-to guides designed to help consumers decide which product to buy. Online stores describe products for sale with text, photos, and multimedia files, whereas in a retail store, the actual product and the manufacturer’s packaging will be available for direct inspection (which might involve a test drive, fitting, or other experimentation).

Online computer shopping is a true pleasure when we consider the incredible diversity of products and the great prices offered. The products include wireless routers, Internet phones, office software (Microsoft Office Professional and Home Edition), operating systems (Windows XP and Vista) not to mention forward-looking printers and web cams. After a single visit at one of these virtual stores, you can leave perfectly satisfied, finding all the computer accessories and equipment you needed and certainly return for some more!

Philippine Web Developer Listing

BNS Hosting is joining a tender to provide up to 2000 websites a year, in this regard, we are looking for web developers to join our central database so we can farm out the web development work. If we win the tender, we will need a lot of web developers for this project.

Benefits of Listing in Philippine Web Developers

Get referrals from us for companies looking for web developers in their area. If your name is on our list, we will refer you to them.

Get notified of offers and promotions that are targeted for web developers like free training and events like web developer competitions.

Get to join exciting web developer opportunities like Microsoft’s Bizspark project.

To get listed in Philippine Web Developers Listing, you need to send us an email at team[@]bnshosting.net with the following information:

In the subject area put Philippine Web Developer Listing Submission. And in the body of the email please indicate, your first name, last name, middle name, contact hand phone, street address with the format city, state, country, zip code. Also include the web development software used and reference works.

Being listed in our Philippine Web Developer Directory means a bigger chance of being referred to our clients who need your services. Indicating your specialties will also give us an idea on your forte. This is a great way to for a web designer or web developer to establish presence in the internet. This is also a great way to showcase your portfolios since this is one of the factors that we look into before we refer you to our clients.

Portfolio Samples

A good web designer or design company will have an online presence. Ask to see the designer’s portfolio and links to some of their current web site designs. Beware of designers that are offering web design or graphic design services with no online presence. Take the time to navigate the designer’s web site and some of their client’s sites to get a feel for their skills and also to make sure all links, navigational features, etc. function properly. Often unskilled web designer’s sites will have dead links, misspelled words and other errors.

References

Most reputable web designers and companies will post client testimonials on their web site. These are a good indication that the designer is experienced and that past clients have been satisfied with their work. Beware of a long list of testimonials with no client information such as company name or a link to the web site. Most web designers will link their client’s testimonials to their sites so you can verify that they are in fact a happy customer.

If the designer’s testimonials aren’t readily available ask, and verify them. Call or email the references and ask how their experience was with the designer and if they were satisfied with the work. This may seem like a lot of work but having a web site professionally designed is a financial investment and an important one to your business. It’s wise to do your homework before jumping into anything.

Contact Information

Now this might seem like common sense but check the designer’s web site for clear contact information such as a physical address and telephone number. A designer displaying only their email address and website address as contact information is not very credible and you should request and confirm the designers contact information prior to paying for or putting a deposit down on your design services.

Email us now to be listed at our Philippine Web Developers Directory Listing or visit BNS Hosting for more details.

Philippine Web Hosting: the Closer the Server the Faster the Response Times

Let me first tackle some facts about web hosting. Web hosting providers are companies that provides businesses and individuals the opportunity to have their own websites on the Internet. The Web hosting service has a large server or multiple servers that allow them space on the web, and they rent this space to clients who use it to park their domain names on the World Wide Web so that Internet surfers can access them. Anyone can use a web hosting service if he or she can pay the monthly fee and have a domain name. The domain name provides the URL that people will type into their Internet web browser to be directed to your site. You will have to pay to register your domain name, although some web hosting services may offer free domain name registration as part of a promotion to give you incentive to use their service.

But before choosing a Philippine web hosting provider, one should realize that it has several advantages that most people may not be aware of at the outset. Obviously, if a company is intending to target a Philippine audience, it would most probably look for a Philippine web host having servers located in the Philippines to get best site responses as well as best search engine rankings on Philippines search results. So, being closer to the server will enable one to experience better response timings.

Many small to medium businesses does not have a site to showcase their business, one hindrance to this is the fee for hosting services. We can admit that hosting services for some Philippine web hosting providers costs high. This is because the data center is based here in the Philippines and maintenance is high and the cost of bandwidth is more expensive than that of US counterparts who sell bandwidths at less than half the Philippine Internet Service prices. Nevertheless, being close to the server gets better response times and even though this only amounts to milliseconds, it is of importance to a number of webmasters.

Depending on which city or location that the business or individual is located in, the company or individual can select the Philippine web hosting server according to its proximity to their own location and, thus get the maximum mileage out of their websites. To find a decent web host one may make use of hosting directories that contain names and addresses of Philippine web hosts and, this is a recommended strategy due to the fact that such sites aggregate a great deal of information pertaining to the Philippine hosting industry as well as its participants.

Another important advantage to using Philippine web hosting is SERP or search engine results page which is the page that a search engine returns displaying results of its search. Most leading search engines will normally show four kinds of listings on their SERPs. These are listings indexed by the search engine spider, listings indexed into the search engine’s directory by humans, listings that are to be listed and finally, and most importantly, Philippine search results.

Sharepoint Hosted Solution at BNS Hosting

Many small to medium companies are starting to see the advantages of hosted applications like Microsoft’s Windows Sharepoint Services. SharePoint Services is a tool to enhance collaboration in the workplace. In order to have the technology work for your business, you need to foster an environment that promotes collaboration. Without this environment, no technology tool will ever work. Business owners today need to make sure that the lines of communication inside their business are flowing in both directions.

What does Sharepoint Services offer?

• Document Libraries are repositories for your team to work together on documents, spreadsheets, presentations and whatever else you need to work on. Inside the document libraries you can secure your information and set rights on what people can do or see, control document versions plus so much more.

• Shared calendars are available inside Windows SharePoint Services where you can post corporate events, important dates, meetings or whatever calendar information you need to post. With the calendar and many other features inside SharePoint you can also view this information inside your Microsoft Outlook application on your desktop.

• Has anyone on your staff missed an important meeting? With SharePoint you can put announcements right on your main page, so that everyone can see what is happening in your business. New product launches, important information or any other announcement that you may have in the past, broadcasted out via email to your entire team.

• Have online feeds sent right to your SharePoint site. SharePoint can link into any RSS feed service. This is great if you want to show items such as road reports, weather conditions, stock prices and any other information you need to see when released. SharePoint will become the portal for your small business to get the information you need.

• Another powerful tool inside SharePoint Services is the ability to control workflow process. Does your business suffer from workflow challenges? How does your business suffer when your team skips steps in the process? What if you had a tool that would increase productivity and results by managing workflow? Would your business prosper?

The most important tip to a successful implementation of Windows SharePoint is to keep it simple. SharePoint needs to slowly introduced to your team, include them in the implementation and planning of your site, promote buy-in from all departments in your business. When the entire team is involved, your rollout and adoption of SharePoint Services will be a success.

Another advantage that companies must consider is the financial investment on this hosted solution.

- Low cost-of-ownership and cost predictability
- Intermediate deployment
- Scale up or down as needed, with no risk
- Anytime, anywhere access to information
- Business class collaboration
- Secure and reliable performance for the highest productivity

BNS Hosting is offering Sharepoint services, and one of its client, BPAP or Business Processing Association Philippines has acquired this service. The company now uses Microsoft Small Business Server with its Sharepoint and Microsoft Exchange to push email to their members.

For more inquiries, you can email team[@]bnshosting.net, or you may call (63)23302871, or just visit our site www.bnshosting.net to have an online chat with one of our hosted solutions expert.

Shared Web Hosting?

Shared web site hosting is the ability to serve and house files for a web site on a server. Shared web site hosting is gaining popularity as individuals and small web site owners look for more affordable ways to host their websites online. This article will discuss the pros and cons of shared web site hosting.

A shared web site hosting service permits people to share the hosting cost of having a faster online connection for serving web site files. Shared web site hosting permits people to host all their web sites and web files on a very powerful web server at a reduced monthly cost.

The best shared web site hosting companies actually guarantee uptime and fast connectivity. Shared web site hosting is beneficial for small scale e-commerce operations and is also a great place for people new to web servers to start without some of the more advanced technical knowledge. Included with the best shared web site hosting is always multiple domains, multiple email addresses and usually a number of one click software installs.

What makes shared web site hosting so attractive is that it is very inexpensive. Usually there is just a low monthly fee and more often than not shared web hosting offers more than just a basic web hosting service.