Dynamic vs Static Websites

Will the customer frequently manage the website?

Will the customer abandon the website after hosting?

Dynamic website are good if frequent managed and updated websites whilst static websites are good for website that are abandoned immediately after design and hosting.

Dynamic website are dangerous if abandoned  since PHP scripts become obsolete over long period if not updated. When PHP scripts stay too long without updates, hackers, crackers and bad guys will hijack your website since most bugs in the scripts will have be known by those bad guys and uses the bugs to temper with your website.

Dynamic website are normally created from wordpress, joomla, drupal, expression engine and ezpublish and much more.

Specifically we master very well wordpress system for web design and authoring. Other mastered system are joomla, drupal and ezpublish. We also design websites of purely html nature. Customers are advised when and why to choose from the  one of the systems mentioned above.

If we discover that a customer need a website to just give static information to the website visitors and they are not ready to frequently manage the website, we then advise to go for static websites like those designed from manual html, dream weaver, websitex5, coffee cup, webpage maker, and other html editors.

DNS Propagation – Why Domains Take Too Long?

Why Does DNS Propagation Take Too Long?

The DNS propagation takes too long  because some ISP servers and computers remember the the (old caches) setting for a long period of time. How? your computer, as well as the servers of your Internet Service Provider  only update the records for the long interval of time. They assume that the records are the same as the last time it checked.

Before we learn about  DNS propagation, let first learn a little bit about how DNS works. When you setup a website with a web hosting company, they always create a Master DNS record in their Domain Name Servers. When the change of the nameservers take place, the domain registrar (the company you paid for the honor of owning your domain name) will points the domain to webhosting provider DNS server because they host the master authority of domain.

If the website is queried from outside, the query command first go to the registration database to find out the DNS authority of the website. Then they visit webhosting DNS servers to find out what is the IP Address for the domain name in question, and from there the public audience can now access the website.

In order to speed up the rate at which their customers can view the internet, each Internet Server Provider caches the DNS records to their servers. They make their own copy of the master records and read them locally instead of reading them from the remote server. By this approach it  speeds up website accessibility by (1) speeding up the duration browser uses to call the domain name  (2) Reduce the amount of traffics on the web and therefore making the website load more faster

The negative part of the caching process is that different ISP update the caches differently; some instantly to 24 hrs, 36hrs and even others go to 72hrs. The rate of updating the cache between current to 72hrs is what we call DNS propagation. When the process is complete everyone will now see your website. Because the caching updating differ between ISP servers, the propagation duration is therefore said to vary between 24hrs to 72hrs for DNS and IP addresses to completely propagate to all ISP and hence become usable.

Check your website if it is propagating in some ISP abroad

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How to Clear Caches

C:Documents and SettingsUser>ipconfig /flushdns

Windows IP Configuration

Successfully flushed the DNS Resolver Cache.

C:Documents and SettingsUser>nslookup cssites.com
Server:  ns1.mindspring.com
Address:  207.69.188.185

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:    cssites.com
Address:  208.113.181.173

C:Documents and SettingsUser>nslookup 208.113.181.173
Server:  ns1.mindspring.com
Address:  207.69.188.185

Name:    apache2-ugly.drpepper.dreamhost.com
Address:  208.113.181.173

Recommended Website to Check your DNS

DNSstuff.com

(Generate full DNS report; DNS status, warning and errors with detailed information)

What’s my DNS? (Will show you a list of common name servers around the world, and tell you whether or not certain records related to your website have propagated to them)

intoDNS (will provide a complete list of your DNS records if available. If records are not yet available DNS propagation has not yet been completed fully)

Pingdom  (Check DNS errors and warnings with additional information)

propagatedyet.com (Check domain DNS propagation against its IP Address)

Checkdnspropagation.com (Check domain propagation and if all parameters agree to each other)

100+ Brands, Celebrities, and Famous Websites Using WordPress

  1. Alanis Morissette
  2. Ariana Grande
  3. Bata
  4. BBC America
  5. Beyonce
  6. Blackberry
  7. Blondie
  8. Bloomberg Professional
  9. Boing Boing
  10. Boingo
  11. CNN Blogs
  12. Coca-Cola France
  13. cPanel Blog
  14. Dave Matthews Band
  15. Digg Blog
  16. Dole
  17. Ebay
  18. Eddie Bauer
  19. Enterprise Magazine
  20. Evernote
  21. ExpressJet Blog
  22. Facebook Newsroom
  23. Flickr
  24. Forbes
  25. Fortune
  26. General Motors
  27. Google Ventures
  28. Harvard Business Review
  29. Harvard Gazette Onine
  30. Hootsuite
  31. IGN
  32. Inside BlackBerry
  33. James Bond 007
  34. Jason Mraz
  35. Jay Z
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Facts and Why Unlimited Web Hosting?

Introduction

There have been lies spreading around talking negatively about Unlimited Web Hosting Services. This article is written to make clarification, define, give conceptual examples and reasons for Unlimited Web Hosting.

It is true that some fraudulent web hosting companies  are using this plan to attract more sales while offering poor server-side services. I my self in the past tried some companies offering this services and end up getting less than 95% up-time server against 99% recommended.

But this does not imply to all companies. If you do your own research you will discover many companies offering these services at the same time maintaining their 99.9% of uptime server plus many other quality services available in other standard shared server packages/plans

The best way to know if the company is reliable is to look for customer review either online or the current or ex customers for that company. Most of them will give you the information.

If you rely on allegations posted by competing companies about the service, expect always to get the biased opinions and feedback and in many cases the NEGATIVE ones

What is Unlimited Web Hosting Plan?

This is a shared hosting plan with the following attributes

  1. Unlimited Disk space
  2. Unlimited Bandwidth
  3. Unlimited Email Accounts
  4. Unlimited Databases
  5. Unlimited Database space
  6. Unlimited Addon, parked or sub domains
  7. Unlimited ftp accounts
  8. etc

Other Unlimited Services Packages

Unlimited web hosting is concept exists which is similar to other applied concepts as follows:

Scenario #1: Unlimited Food Serving (Buffet Service)

All are aware that you can enter to luxuriant hotel and pay for unlimited meals service known as buffet service.

When a customer pays the meal, he/she will serve himself or herself unlimited food he/she can eat alone and at one session.

This concept is used basing on the fact that the stomach that take the food is limited and it cannot consume all the food expect to the standard know quantity. The main purpose hear is to remove limits and unnecessary restrictions to the client while eating.

Scenario #2: Unlimited Cruise and Travel

This is a concept where a customer can pay a set amount of fee to travel anywhere in the world at any time with he/her family until death.

Again here the time a client has for travel is limited, likewise the number of family members is limited

Again the concept here is to remove unwanted/unnecessary limitations and restrictions to the customer and his family while traveling for holiday or rest.

Back to Unlimited Web Hosting

Contrary to the negativity of the other parties about this concept, unlimited hosting has been invented for the same reason of removing unnecessary restrictions and limitations to the clients.

This plan keep in mind that the customer demand in terms of web content quantity in the server hard disk is limited and usage of bandwidth by website visitors is also limited.

Basing on the same customer convenience this plan remove unnecessary limitations and restrictions to the customer related to resource usage etc.

No one will meter your usage like:

  1. Disk space
  2. Bandwidth
  3. Emails
  4. Databases
  5. Database space
  6. Addon, parked or sub domains
  7. ftp accounts
  8. etc

Fair Usage Policy

This policy is in use not only for Unlimited Web Hosting but for all shared hosting. The policy intent to harmonies the usage of the content in the server so that your problem cannot affect others.

We put some restrictions via Fair Usage Policy in the following parameters in order to maintain quality services and avoid website attack and service abuse. This type of policy if not implemented the service will have no meaning since it is vulnerable for web security and abuse.

  1. CPU usage
  2. Physical Memory usage
  3. Virtual Memory usage
  4. I/O usage
  5. Entry processes allowed
  6. Number of processes allowed
  7. Email send per hour
  8. Disk Usage Increase Rate (just monitoring)
  9. Bandwidth Usage Increase Rate (just monitoring)

The parameters above if monitored well can diagnose the fare usage of the service or abuse and sometime attack.

However, the experience of implementing this plan has shown that in every 100 users only one or 2 users are affected by this policy in a month. This means that the service is useful to many website owners than what other are spreading lies about the plan

Server Abuse

For abuse we mean some time the account owner can convert the account usage to be an online storage where a lot of DVD and software are stored contrary to the purpose of the account. You can host DVD or software if and only if the contents are part of the website design and host.

Another abuse comes from poor coded script that is overusing unnecessarily the server resources. It is an obligation of the webmaster (website owner or its employee) to make sure that all scripts are ethically coded and operate as intended to be.

If the script is over using these resources, other users in the same server will be experiencing the same problems. To protect them we have no option but to suspend temporarily the account causing the problem until the problem is solved by the webmaster.

Server attack

If the account is under attack, the parameters above will read abnormal, in many cases will shoot up.

Example if you website traffic was 10,000 visits per day and from nowhere the next day it reads 100,000, this must be an attack from fake bots traffic generators

Likewise if the emails sent exceed let say 150 per hour, then this is probably spamming from within or from hackers. For web owners with mailing list services, you can set your engine to send email not more than 150 per hour

Conclusion

The unlimited plan intended to remove limits for ordinary website owners who are experiencing website growth in terms of content hosted and website traffics. The service is not intended for online storage, email services like those offered by gmail, yahoo, AOL and others.

Unlimited plan is hosted under shared hosting and therefore all shared hosting restrictions and terms must be adhered for the fair use of the service.

VPS Hosting in Tanzania

We are pleased to inform that we are now offering VPS web hosting to take your business into the next level of online presence and be sure to enrich more leads and customers.

What is VPS Hosting?

It is abbreviated as VPS and its long form is “Virtual Private Server. This is a virtual machine sold as a full dedicated service by the Internet hosting company. A VPS runs its own copy of an operating system, and customers may have superuser-level access to that operating system instance, so they can install almost any software that runs on that OS as if it is an independent machine.

VPS VS Dedicated Hosting?

VPS differ from dedicated servers because instead of running one hosting account on one machine/computer/server, it run one hosting account in a shared machine/computer/server. The sharing of the server causes the resources cost to be nearly as low as those of web hosting in shared servers

VPS VS Shared Hosting?

VPS differ from shared hosting because instead of sharing resources on one server like shared hosting, VPS shared one server but with personalized resources and software. 

The personalized resources and software in VPS gives the business owner an opportunity to focus more on core business branding and marketing instead of worrying g about server problems caused by the failure, infections and attack of other websites in the server.

Why VPS?

It now obvious that VPS is as cheap as shared hosting at the same time offering the same advantages as dedicated hosting which in turn are very expensive

Our VPS Hosting Prices

We offer several VPS Hosting Plans as shown in the link VPS Hosting Fees

Recommended VPS For Online Customers

Due to the fact that we do not offer online VPS registration, we therefore, highly recommend interserver.net

They offer 20X faster storage than standard SATA disk drives.

Customers get Linux and or Windows Cloud VPS hosting with flexible plans?

ALL PLAN COME WITH

  • 100’s of apps on your cloud VPS
  • Easy to use control panel
  • Only deploy the software you need
  • Cloud VPS made easy
  • Affordable plans
  • No additional control panel expenses

Get it here: Cloud VPS Hosting

Web Management (Webmaster) in Tanzania

Search Engine Optimization - SEOAbout Website Management

We can save your time, frustration, and money by offering robust web management catering today technologies and online presence demands. The problem with many website owners is that; they do not plan to manage their websites so as to make them alive and active to search engine crawling. The biggest marketing mistake on the Internet is sites that had never been updated or maintained. For this situation don’t either blame visitors for not coming to you website or search engines like Google and Yahoo for not indexing your pages because both visitors and search engines bots though that your website is dead. Even me, I could thought the same.

The major cause is generally lack of appropriate human and technological resources. Not everyone can afford a full time qualified webmaster and pay lamb sum of money including insurance benefits etc.

Whether you are a small, or a larger company, let Webmaster Tanzania be your webmaster. The fee is far less than 10% a full time webmaster. This means that you can save more than 90% of a normal webmaster salary and benefits.

From continual web pages contents updating and management to search engine submissions, Webmaster Tanzania can take care of every detail. Let our staff stay on top of your site and your site primary keywords will stay on the first page of major search engines result pages like Google.

Please see the website management plans to choose and fallout the form to initiate your website success move.

See just how affordable a full time Webmaster from us is!

You don’t have to pay benefits like pension, workman’s compensation and you don’t need to worry about backup when your Webmaster needs a vacation. We’ve got the staff to cover you.

Note that on our advance payment system is encompassed with discounts for you to choose

Webmaster Obligations:

  • To submit to the customer’s contact person a management report as mention in the selected service plan above
  • To advice the customer on any website changes needed to achieve web presence goals and objectives

Online Marketing (SEO)

Introduction for SEO

Wrong SEO consultant go for quick cheap black-hat SEO for quick results and this will ruin your online marketing reputation. We do a genuine SEO for lasting results.

Our approach is white hat SEO to make your most relevant searched terms rank in the first page of Google thus ensuring long term availability and no penalties.

We do website promotion and search engine optimization, internet marketing services for your website through all possible means and make sure that it is ranked higher in Google and Yahoo engines plus other major ones for optimal website traffics. The services included: Search Engines Optimization, Link submission, Pay Per Click Advertising, Directory Listing Campaigns etc. and assuring you to get in touch with the targeted customers.

To benefit from our experiences, skills and ability to market your website, send us a message through our contact form above.

Why web promotion and search engines optimization?

Web promotion and search engine optimization is a must if the purpose of web establishment, was for the sole purpose of attracting more customers to buy your products or services. A website by itself can not promote your products, unless massive and strategic promotion campaigns are designed, well planned and implemented, is when your website will start bringing massive customers to buy your products. Webstar Five Hosting can help you to promote the website on top of first page of Google. Please send us an email or call us for details

What are the things to consider before doing web promotion?

Ask yourself the following questions

  1. Do you own a tourism company?
  2. Do you own a hotel?
  3. Are you an online marketer?
  4. Are you a blogger
  5. Do you own a business that needs to catch customers through the internet?

These questions and many more need to be answered before one decide to promote his/her website

These facts are not arguable:

  • Marketing is the heart of any business,
  • Being the heart it is the life.
  • No businesses can compete without proper marketing programs
  • No businesses will survive without marketing programs

The recent survey shows that, successful companies used more than 50% of their earning to do marketing. That means, if a company is earning 400bn, 200bn go back to do marketing.

Internet Marketing is the branch of the whole marketing component which deploys and takes advantage of internet and IT technologies to reach the public with the message.

What does our SEO Consultant do to promote your website?

  1. Website audit/analysis to check SE compliance for your website design/development
  2. Website SEO Friendly Re-design (harmonizing webpage content, keyword density, page load etc)
  3. Keyword research and analysis
  4. Submission to major search engines, directories and social bookmarking site
  5. Social network sites membership registration and submission
  6. Pay Per Click Advertising, with leading directory like Google and facebook
  7. Email Marketing and Newsletter advertising
  8. Article Submission