Friday 22 February 2013

Top 10 Web Hosting Companies in India

What is Web Hosting?
Web hosting is a place where you can store your WebPages to the internet by the help of web servers. i.e., web server provides space to Web Hosting for the internet connectivity by the clients.

Why I Need Web Hosting?
Every web page needs some place to host the source file. Web-hosting service offers to host the web pages to the hosting servers by the help of File Transfer Protocol. Using FTP, client can Edit, Upload, Download or Delete the webpage from the web-server. If you own a website then hosting is essential for you to showcase your WebPages containing the product / service for yours to the users.
Major factors to be considered while choosing a hosting company are price, support, and uptime.

From my experience I had listed here with some good web hosting companies located in India that you could depend on.
  1. HioxIndia
  2. Bigrock
  3. Hostgator India
  4. Hosting Raja
  5. eWebguru
  6. ZNet Live
  7. Net4India
  8. HostCats
  9. Netlynx
  10. Manashosting
The following table shows the domain price list of .com and .in from the providers listed.


Basic web hosting plans:-


1. HioxIndia:-


HIOX INDIA is one of the top web hosting and domain name registration company in India with 8 years of experience. It offers a wide range of specialized services based on the latest technologies including Linux, Windows, Oracle, Cloud hosting and more. It has customers from India, United States, Canada, Sri Lanka, Singapore, United Kingdom, China and more countries. While comparing other hosting companies, it is the only one company offers the cheapest prices for web hosting or Domain name from India with free server support. 

Website: www.hioxindia.com


2. Bigrock



Bigrock is one of the Domain Registration and Web hosting company offers web services including domain registration, domain search and domain hosting. It offers Linux, Windows, Word Press, CMS, Ecommerce hostings and more with 24x7 server supports. 

Website: www.bigrock.com


3. Hostgator India


HostGator India is a leading provider of web hosting, reseller hosting, vps hosting, and dedicated servers. The over five million domains hosted by HostGator and its Operations in India are handled under an Indian registered Private Limited company namely Glow touch Technologies.

Website: www.hostgator.com


4. Hosting Raja


Hosting Raja is the top Domain name registration and web hosting company in India and is the only Hosting company in India provides supports in regional languages. It provides high-speed, responsive, fully-featured domains and hosting at an affordable price.

Website: www.hostingraja.in


5. eWebguru


eWebguru is a Web hosting company of India, providing web space and domain registration services. It offering services in Linux Hosting, Windows Hosting and Domain name registration services to the customers.

Website: www.ewebguru.com


6. ZNet Live

ZNet Live is a leading provider of web services like Domains Registration, Web Hosting, Business Email, Websites and Business Apps from 2002. It offers Web Hosting, Reseller Hosting India, VPS Dedicated Hosting India to customers with 24x7 server support. 

Website: www.znetlive.com


7. Net4India

Net4India is a Domain Registration and Web hosting company in India. It offers Web Hosting, Ecommerce Hosting, Java Hosting, Linux Hosting, Windows Hosting to clients with 24x7x365 support.

Website: www.net4.in


8. HostCats

Host Cats is a leading domain name Registration India company that can handle all of your domain name requirements. It offers unlimited web space, bandwidth, databases, and sub domain with web host plans in Windows, Linux, VPS and Blog Hosting at cheap price.

Website: www.hostcats.com


9. Netlynx

Netlynx is a Domain Name Registration and Web hosting company from India. It offers a basic web hosting, reseller web hosting, dedicated server hosting on linux and windows 2003 servers with server support. 

Website: www.netlynx.com


10. Manashosting

Manashosting is a leading Web Hosting company in India. It offers windows, linux hosting and Domain Name Registration to the users with server support. 

Website: www.manashosting.com




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Thursday 7 February 2013

How to promote a picture / image website?


Why to promote a website?
The primary goal of promotion is to get more visitors and better search engine ranking for your website.  Google indexes websites based on their content quality.  
Benefits of Website Promotion:
By promoting websites using quality white hat techniques,
  • Improves your search rankings.
  • Improves your traffic stats.
  • Improves your customer relationship.
  • Improves your online business identity.
  • Improves your sales.

 How to promote Image Website?

Steps involved in Picture Website promotion:
There are two methods involved in promoting a website.
  • On page optimization &
  • Link Building


1. On Page optimization:
  • Optimizing your image website is a little bit different from that of normal webpage optimization.
While optimizing a picture based site, you should be very careful with the following factors,

1.1 Image File Name:- 
Words in your picture file name are important for search engines for identifying the contents. 
For example, the photo which represents a bird flying was originally named as “DC-221217. JPG”. The image name “DC-221217. JPG” doesn’t contain proper information about the content. It should be named as “Flying-bird.JPG” for easy identification.
  • Don’t use space,  or any special characters other than hyphen(-) and underscores(_) to the file name. 

1.2 The ALT Text and the Image Title:-
The ALT-text or the alternate text is used when the picture is unable to load in the web page. 

Syntax:  
<img alt="Your Image ALT Text" Title=”Image Tiltle” src="image source link"/>
                           
Example:
<img alt="Green Color Apple" Title=”Green Color Apple” src="http://www.yourdomain.com/photos/Green-Color-Apple.jpg"/>

1.3 Image File Size 
Optimizing pictures using photo editor tools like Adobe Photoshop, may help in speed loading for your website. It becomes essential for you to keep all your web optimized photos for better search results and indexing.

1.4 Image Format:-
Primary formats for a web page images are PNG, JPEG, and GIF. Usually, people go with JPEG formats. It can easily be optimized for the minimum required size. 

How to promote Picture Website through Link Building Concept?

2. Link Building Techniques for Image Sites:
Link Building is the processes of improving the popularity of a website by submitting your links to directories, bookmarks, classifieds, social networks etc.,. This improves the rank and backlinks for your website. 
Listed below the main 2 techniques for promoting a picture website other than the basic submission.

2.1 Submitting to Image Sharing Sites:- 
The best way to spread your pictures in a web, is to upload and share it in best photo sharing websites like Flicker, photo bucket, photo.net and more with your copyright.

Eg:


2.2 Concentration of Social Network Sharing Sites:-
Linking your images in Social network sharing sites like Facebook, twitter, pintrest etc., is an easy way to spread your pictures in the web.