How much traffic would your site have to get in order to justify paying for a dedicated server?
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If your site is completely html based then even a million-plus hits probably won't justify getting a dedicated server. However, if you use php with mysql (or windows/asp/sql server etc) and your site is facing 100,000+ traffic and you sell products, and you want complete control of your site (in terms of the os/kernels etc) then getting a dedicated server makes sense.\n\nKeep in mind that maintaining your own server can be a lot of work if you don't know what you are doing.
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Be careful of where you get your traffic with Adsense. The quality of traffic can impact your adsense, and if you get any of these 10,000 traffic for $20 types of traffic, you can jeopardize your account.\n\nIn terms of earning money on Adsense, your mileage varies. Adsense is more than just traffic numbers. One website with the 10,000 uniques a day can earn $50 a month while another may earn $5,000. It is not easy to predict how much you will earn from Adsense. The only way you can learn about how your site will perform with Adsense is through trying it.\n\nThe amount you can earn will depend on the \n\n1. Responsiveness of audience to the ads = Users looking to book a travel to Spain comes to your site about tourist destinations in Spain is a site that will do well with Adsense as users are more likely to click on an ad about hotels in Spain. However, if you are a gaming website where the main purpose of the user is to play games on your site, then Adsense will not perform as well.\n\n2. Ad format = some types of ads do better than others depending on your content and layout. In our case, large rectangles in the middle of the content is the best, while leaderboards do not generate as much as income. Skys are the worst for us. Experiment and measure the results via channels and see which formats work best for you.\n\n3. Ad placement - check Google's heat map as they have tested where the best placements are https://www.google.com/support/adsense/bin/answer.py?answer=17954&ctx=en:search&query=adsense+heat+map&topic=0&type=f \n\n4. Ad colors - sometimes ads blended into the content works wonders, but sometimes ads that contrast your site colors work best\n\n5. Number of ad units on a page = we are allowed maximum of 3 ads + 1 ad links + 1 search box on a page. Maximize the allowed number based on the resulting look of your page (you don't want an overkill of ads). Users going to your page and reading your content may ignore the banner or rectangle at the top of the page, but may click on the ad at the bottom of the article\n\n6. Smartpricing - the big unknown in Adsense. No one knows how this actually works\n\nExperiment with the factors above (except smartpricing, which you can't control), and see which combination works best. Remember though that not all sites do well with Adsense - even if you get gazillions of traffic but your visitors are not interested in looking for ways to spend their money, they won't be interested in your ads and won't click.\n\nI suggest you read the following articles:\n\nGoogle Adsense: How Small Business Entrepreneurs can Earn from Online Advertising http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol123/adsense.htm \nEarning Revenues from Contextual Advertising http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol139/contextual.htm \n8 Tips for Maximizing Contextual Advertising Revenues http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol146/contextual.htm \nContextual Advertising: Why Are You Earning Only Pennies? http://www.powerhomebiz.com/022006/adsense.htm
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try www.frihost.com\n\nit's absolutely brilliant with 250 mb hosting space and 10GB traffic space per month but the catch is u will have to be an active user at their forum
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http://www.p4host.com/webhosting.php\nI have used this site for a couple of years and as part of hosting your site with them their package comes with several ecommerce programs.  Plus they offer very reasonable and scaling solution depending on how many sales (transitions) you expect.  Here are the different carts you can install. \nI think the starting hosting package starts at 24 dollar a year!\nosCommerce \nAgora Cart \nCube Cart\nYou can also install several different PHP sites and then customize them.
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Hello,\n\nYou can try http://www.dreamhost.com , a respectable company and has a good support, uptime with over 700 servers. They give you 20GB Space and 1 Terrabyte of Bandwidth, and a free domain for a good price ($119/year), and with the promo code HOT75 you get $75 off to any yearly and monthly plans you purchase. They have everything you need.\n\nWhich means, with that promo code, you get $119 - $75 = $44/year\nand $44 / 12 months is only $3.67 a month for that great deal!
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I recommend that you try search engine marketing(SEM).  Like on Yahoo and Google.  That's the best way to get traffic to a site and it's completely measurable so you'll know exactly how much you are paying for traffic.\n\nIt's much more efficient than distributing flyers and wondering if that actually did anything.  You only pay for customers that click on your link and if you make your copy very specific about what kind of site you are, then visitors won't click on it unless they want to come visit you.\n\nHere's a quick example...\n\nIf you spend 5 hrs putting fliers out, that's 300 minutes.  If you did 10 fliers a minute, that would only be at most 3000 fliers right?  Now, if you get a conversion rate of 1%, that's basically only 30 referrals that you will get.  Even if you get 10% which I think is totally high, that's only going to be 300 referrals to your site for 5 hours of work.\n\nWith SEM, you can pay as low as $0.05 for a referral... the same 300 referrals would only cost $15.  This assumes people search on the phrase or words you want to bid on... but when they do, they will definitely be the exact kind of customer you want.  It's much better to pay $15 than kill yourself passing out flyers for 5 hours.
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Hi,\n\nI have a friend that just found a web hosting company that supplies unmetered bandwidth (without restrictions).  He's been saying a lot of nice things about midPhase since he transferred from his last host.  You can find them at http://www.midphaseoffers.com/ for more information.  \n\nIf I remember right, I think he said he had a shared hosting plan with them with unmetered bandwidth, support for unlimited domains, a lot of disk space (for your videos) and a nice 30-day guarantee.  \n\nThe site above should also provide you with a comparison for midPhase shared, VPS, and dedicated hosting plans.  I hope this helps.\n\nGood luck,\n\n\nPhantomT
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Look at what other providers can supply.  Are you going to hve guaranteed server up time?  What about back-ups of the data should a server go down or the data is lost?  If you are offering a special service for weddings you have to make sure it is perfect - this is a special day for people and if you mess it up you will not get much business.  Get it right and you will get lots.  Price in itself isn't normally an issue, it's value for money.  If you provide excellent quality and services, you can charge more.\n\nHope that helps
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You're not going to get rich, but yes, it's possible.  I make about $40 a month off my site, but ti's easy to spend more promoting your site than you make.  If you can drive traffic without  having to advertise (the most difficult part) then yes, it's certainly worth it.
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Getting traffic, especially with your type of website, is not that easy. The key is to analyze your customers and know how they purchase your type of products. Hospital equipment is not something one buys on a whim; it requires a lot of planning and even decision making/approval from several people in your target customers' hospitals.\n\nHere are some ideas:\n\n1. Make every visit count. Getting visitors is one thing; getting visitors who are interested in your product is another. Analyze your website from a visitor's point and view and see whether it is something that will make them buy. Many online marketers think about getting traffic, forgeting the conversion aspect of it all. If they are not buying, ask yourself why and what can make them buy your products.\n\n2. Make it easy for users to recommend your site. Viral marketing is very important -- and easy to tap on the Web. But give your users the tools. Get a Recommend this Site script from websites such as cgiscripts.com and similar directories of scripts. Some even go as far as giving incentives to those who recommend the site to their friends. \n\n3. Rank well in the search engines (organic search results, not the pay per click). SEs can be a big source of traffic. The key is to create the best content in your niche. If you have good content, other websites will gladly link to you and offer your site as a resource to their audience. Check the on-page factors and be sure to get linked from authority sites in your topic area.\n\n4. Send out press releases. While outfits charge as much as $650 per release, there are free press release submission places on the Web. Press releases allow you to (a) attract media attention; (b) get more back links to your website without sending each website an email request; and (c) get more visibility especially if your press release gets in Google News or Yahoo News. \n\n5. Do direct mail. There are many products that are best marketed offline, and I think this is one of them. Rent mailing lists of hospital administrators and property custodians and send them a mailing about your business, making sure to direct them to your website.\n\n6. Review your PPC strategies. PPC can be very expensive, and you need to track and measure the performance of your keywords. How are your competitors bidding? For some products that require longer term thinking before purchase (unlike products that can be bought on a whim), you may want to bid high on the main keyword (e.g. "hospital equipment") so you generate high top of mind awareness, and bid lower for your secondary keywords.\n\nI have included below some articles that may help you
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Kicky's wrong...\n\nI personally recommend ATSPACE.COM. It is FREE and the host allows up to 50MB of webspace and NO ADS! The others mentioned here have ads plastered all over your site...\n\nATSPACE.COM\nhttp://www.atspace.com\n\nHere are two sites I've created on this host:\nhttp://tim8w.atspace.com\nhttp://tricountytitans.atspace.com
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Always depends. Using a traffic analyzer will reveal this. I am not aware whether there are statistics on average web stay per user
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It is the amount of data that they will allow to be transmitted from your account each month.\n\nHow much you will need depends on how large the files are that you are hosting and how often they will be accessed by users.\n\nIt is normally more economic to have too much rather than too little, because if you exceed your bandwidth allowance many hosts will either just suspend your account for the remainder of the month or will charge you for each extra Mb used - sometimes at quite high rates!
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Adsense, https://www.google.com/adsense/?sourceid=aso&subid=ww-en-ha-adsense&medium=sem but you need to get A LOT of hits in order to make any money on it.  I have yet to recoup server costs.  Keep your day job is the name of the game.
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Host it with an ISP. You can find a reasonably good webhost starting $60 per year.
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Well, it really depends on what sort of thin clients you are getting, or if you're getting more of a wise client.  Yes, thin clients are typically more limited, but this is desireable from an IT Professional standpoint.  What it translates to is that the end-users will be able to cause less trouble and still do what he/she needs for the purpose of the jobs.\n\nIf you have a powerful-enough server, that isn't over-burdened by too many clients, you should have fairly fast performance, depending on what exactly you are doing.  The machines shouldn't have much of a hard drive at all, and really only need a decent graphics card, and minimal RAM and processor speed.\n\nIn actuality, thin clients ARE NOT more expensive that PC bundles for several reasons.  First of all, you need very minimal system specs for these thin clients.  Secondly, upgrades are usually done on the server end, so your business really only needs to upgrade one machine.  The IT department saves lots of money by more easily deploying updates and maintainence from a central unit.  Also, depending on how your setup is, they can purchase far less software licenses, because it is only the servers that need the license.  This means that (MS Office for example) the software cost drops from $300 * 50 machines to just simply $300.  Of course, there is the cost of the server software, but if you have enough clients, the savings over time is quite lare.
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If you want a server at your company see if you can afford one. I think Sun Microsystem makes servers.