GlowHost Employee Divulges Insider Information

The other day I was reading through the normal 500-1000 emails that I get every day (no joke), and came across one that I have never seen the likes of before.GlowHost Insider

This email came from one of my team members, and he said he had a review of GlowHost, but he did not know where or how to post it.

When I heard this, I immediately assumed that a customer had taken the time to review GlowHost, and I suggested to this team member that he contact this customer to thank them for taking the time to review us, and to also ask the customer if they wouldn’t mind posting their review on an appropriate site where members of the general public could read it. You see, our customers often send in some sort of testimonial at our helpdesk or via email, but that means only our team can see them. Sure, that makes us warm and fuzzy inside, but….

Reviews out on the Internet where the general public can see them helps to bring us new customers, so this seemed like the normal approach for dealing with the situation. The question I was asking myself was, “He already knows what to do with customer reviews, so why he was asking me?”

I asked him the same question and he said, “Matt, this is a review of GlowHost, by me,” and “it’s kind of a review, but kind of not.” Needless to say, it took me by surprise because I have never had a review of the company from a staff member’s perspective, and I have to say, just the thought of reading it made me a little nervous…
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Introducing Incapsula: Website Protection & Acceleration

The two major concerns you have as a website owner are keeping the website safe and running, and providing the best possible user experience for your visitors.
But you also know that dealing with security and performance issues can take a lot of your time and efforts, and as web-attacks become more and more sophisticated, you might not always win the battle.

A new solution offered for free by GlowHost solves these exact issues for our hosted websites. We’re glad to announce that we have partnered with Incapsula, a cloud-based website protection and acceleration service. Incapsula provides Enterprise-grade website security for the biggest websites in the world, including banks, government institutions, trading companies and some of the biggest eCommerce websites.

A new integration into GlowHost control panel, allows you to activate Incapsula on your sites with a simple click, without configuring anything or making any changes to your website. Simply click the Incapsula icon on your control panel, sign up and activate Incapsula’s Free plan for your sites.

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What kind of sites use unlimited hosting?

As promised in my last blog post, I said we would get into the types of web sites that generally make up the majority of which that are hosted on a server that offers unlimited web hosting packages.

Why is this important? Performance.

At GlowHost we are unique in the fact that we offer both traditional (disk space and bandwidth limited) shared hosting packages alongside our unlimited hosting packages. This is often a source of great confusion for many new web hosting customers, so lets look at how the type of server that you choose can directly impact the performance of your web site.
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Whats the best type of hosting package at GlowHost?

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This is a common question we get asked all the time here at GlowHost.

Let me start off by saying, Unlimited Hosting plans are NOT the best…at least if we are talking about performance. If we are talking about price, then it could be argued that unlimited has a fair shot at the title of “best hosting.”

“Well, how could it be?” one might ask. People often think to themselves, “I see a low-price package with unlimited disk space and unlimited domains, what could possibly be better? After all, those other shared web hosting packages cost more, and have limitations on disk space and bandwidth.”

Lets pretend that you wanted to buy a value meal at your favorite burger joint. You were looking at the menu and saw that they sold value meals for what appeared to be very similar burgers, fries, and a cola, yet they offered these meal deals at 2 different prices.  The sign says: “Special! $2.99 for a burger, fries and cola.”  You look at the menu again and see another special which costs $4.99, but you notice that the more expensive meal looks a little smaller, in fact, it is only a quarter-pound of “all beef goodness” when the $2.99 burger is the clear winner with the half-pound gut-buster.

After repeatedly shopping at the same burger joint for some period of time, you decide to splurge a little bit and try the more expensive burger. “Wow! This is yummy!” you think to yourself, “I wonder what is different?” So you ask the cashier for their nutritional information card (because that’s what we all do when we eat fast food). After inspecting the ingredients, you realize that the $2.99 gut buster is made with “Meat Product” which by law is only required to be 45% REAL meat.

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How to Increase Website Traffic by Creating Sticky Content

Increase Website TrafficSince we’re in the business of supplying high-quality shared web hosting, cloud virtual dedicated server hosting, and dedicated server solutions, it’s no surprise that the GlowHost team gets a lot of queries from customers who need extra help in growing their website. In our last blog post, we talked about search engine optimization (SEO) and attracting visitors to your website. But how can you make these visitors come back regularly? How can you turn a one-time visitor into a long-term prospect for revenue?

The ultimate online goal for any small to medium-sized business must be to build a community of potential customers that takes an active interest in the products and services you offer. Your visitors demand more than just a catalogue of products; it is your responsibility to use your web hosting service to its full capabilities, implementing a range of interactive content that keeps customers coming back.

Web hosting plans from GlowHost include a number of different features to help you create “sticky” content, affordably and quickly. We’ve designed every one of our hosting solutions with flexibility in mind, and whether you are an expert developer or a complete novice, GlowHost web hosting services can launch your online community and keep your visitors satisfied over the coming years.

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Does SEO Work? The Truth About Search Engine Optimization

SEO HostingFor anybody who uses a web hosting plan, attracting visitors to your website is probably among the most important of your day-to-day tasks. Whether you are running the online branch of your business, trying to attract visitors to your sponsored blog, or simply looking to maximize the number of people who read your written content, capturing the attention of Internet users is a difficult, but vital task.

One of the most common places to begin is the world of search engine optimization, or SEO. The theory is simple: optimize the pages of your website to achieve a high ranking position on major search engines such as Google, and your visitor numbers will skyrocket. But in practice, great SEO is only part of the picture, and just one aspect of achieving the traffic you are looking for.

GlowHost has tailored every one of our web hosting services to make it easier for you to attract visitors with SEO and – more importantly –keep them coming back for more high-quality content. To help you make the most of your shared hosting, cloud virtual dedicated server hosting (VDS), or dedicated server hosting plan, we offer a range of web hosting features for SEO and attracting more traffic.

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Three Things You Can Do to Make More Money from Reseller Web Hosting

Whether you are a freelance web designer offering web hosting to your customers as a value-added service, or you are simply hoping to generate extra income selling web hosting services, one thing is fairly certain: when it comes to reseller hosting, your goal is to make money. The problem is that every other reseller has the same goal. Without an existing reputation or a large marketing budget, how can you hope to achieve success as a web host?

We’ve put together a list of three useful reseller hosting tips, each of which will help guarantee more interest in your hosting services, more sales and – most importantly – higher profits.

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Six Surprising Facts That Might Change How You Use Social Media

GlowHost Social MediaFrom the smallest startup to the largest International corporations, GlowHost is seeing an incredible amount of organizations looking to social media as an important tool for their business. More and more people are not only running campaigns across several social media outlets, but they are also searching for new and inventive ways to integrate social media into web hosting accounts.

With such popularity, it is strange to think that a little over ten years ago, social media wasn’t even conceptualized. The leading websites that make up 22% of the USA’s time spent online – Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter – are not even ten years old. This relative infancy means that social media should still be rigorously examined, user trends should be carefully monitored, and nobody should start promoting their business through social media without knowing all the facts.

GlowHost has collected some of the most fascinating facts surrounding social media, giving our shared web hosting, cloud virtual dedicated server hosting (VDS), and dedicated server hosting customers the head-start they need to see their social media presences flourish.

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The Top 5 Service Features To Look For In A Web Hosting Provider

GlowHost Top 5 Hosting Service FeaturesWhen you are looking to start using a web hosting service, there are many technical features that you should be considering in order to make an informed decision. With hosting covering a very wide range of products from shared web hosting to hosting ‘in the cloud,’ finding the right hosting solution for your business can be, at times, overwhelming.

There are, however, a number of other factors that should play a key part in your decision making process. In addition to the hardware hosting solution itself, it’s important that you understand the other features of your chosen web host. Often, the best value for your money and return on investment (ROI) comes as a result of service-related features, including customer support, service level agreements, and additional services included in your overall package.

GlowHost goes beyond offering the hosting plan that you want. Our goal is to give you the complete service package that you need, delivered with care and quality at all times. Whether you decide to order a shared web hosting, virtual private server hosting (VPS), dedicated server hosting or cloud hosting solution, GlowHost offers a number of value-added services to make setting up and running your server easier and more cost effective than ever.

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How To Choose The Best Website Hosting For Your Needs

GlowHost Best Website HostingEvery business or individual is completely different, and no two web hosting customers are the same. While you may be content to offer an online product catalog with merchant functionality, others may aim to launch their own streaming video service, regular podcasts or even a live streaming radio station!

In theory, each of these things can be achieved using any type of web hosting service, provided that the available system resources are sufficient for the technical demands of your software. Whether you choose shared hosting, virtual private server (VPS) hosting, a dedicated server hosting solution or even cloud hosting, you will be able to get these kinds of exciting services up and running with the right expertise.

At GlowHost, we have taken things further. In addition to our generous resource allowances across all services that make streaming content a possibility, we have developed a number of hosting services including FFMpeg hosting, podcast hosting, vBulletin hosting, and SHOUTcast hosting plans. These solutions, customized to suit the unique needs of different customers, make achieving your goals easier than ever.

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