Are you running out of gift idea for this holiday season or any other special occasions? A gift card for web hosting can be one of the most special and useful gift for your friend.

Purchasing a Dreamhost Gift Card is convenient and easy. Select any dollar amount up to USD $119.40, the price of a one-year Shared Server hosting plan.

Features of shared hosting plan:
-Unlimited disk storage
-Unlimited bandwidth
-Unlimited domain hosted
-Unlimited Full Shell / SSH / FTP / SFTP Users
-Unlimited E-Mail Accounts (POP/IMAP/Webmail)
-The One-Click Installer allows you to quickly install and upgrade some of the most popular applications, including WordPress, photo galleries, eCommerce, calendars and much more. Even your least tech- savvy friend can create a website effortlessly.
-100% uptime guarantee.

Once you purchase the Gift Card, DreamHost will send you a link to the Gift Card ID. The ID code will allow the recipient to redeem the gift’s value during the sign-up process on Dreamhost.com or through the web panel’s Gift Card tab.

Dreamhost has been in the web hosting business for 14 years. You don’t have to worry about the credibility of this gift.

There is no expiry date to the gift card. Your friend can keep it for as long as he like and create a website anytime.

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If you are looking for a shared hosting plan or dedicated server hosting, you might be wondering whether to go for Linux Hosting or Windows Hosting. Both Linux and Windows servers have their own pros and cons and in order to select one of these, you will have to carefully analyze the features they provide.

Let’s look at a comparison of both Windows Hosting and Linux Hosting; this comparison will give you an idea of what to go for, based on your requirements.

Database Support
Database Support is one of the first things that come to mind when you are looking for a hosting server. Linux supports MySql which is open source and almost all of the hosting providers provide MySql support. Windows supports not only MySql but also Ms Sql Server and Access databases. While MySql is generally made available without any additional charges, some hosting providers charge extra for Ms Sql databases.

Programming Language and Framework Support
A number of programming languages and frameworks are available for developing your website. Some of the popular ones are PHP, Asp.net (C# and VB.net), Python, Perl and Ruby on Rails. Linux supports all the languages except ASP.net (C# and VB.net). Though support for the Mono.net Framework is available for Linux, hosting providers generally do not include this in their servers. If you are more familiar with PHP, you can go for either Linux or Windows hosting or if you are more familiar with ASP.net, go for Windows Hosting.

Price
Most hosting companies provide Linux Hosting at a cheaper rate than Window Hosting, especially in case of dedicated servers or VPS hosting.

WordPress and other CMS
WordPress is the most popular blogging engine. Both Windows and Linux servers support WordPress and there are also other content management systems like Dot Net CMS that are available. WordPress configuration in Linux is comparatively easier when considering factors like URL rewriting.

URL Rewriting for SEO
Most Linux Hosting providers support URL Rewriting with extension-less URLs. In Windows one needs to have root access to install custom ISAPI filters but the later versions of the ASP.Net Framework support in built URL rewriting using the integrated pipeline mode of IIS.

Speed
Speed is something which the webmaster should be concerned about, especially if the website gets lots of traffic. There is a preconceived notion that Linux Hosting is faster than Windows Hosting but in reality it depends on the type of application that is running and the efficiency of the programmer. There is no thumb rule with regards to choosing a hosting type based on speed.

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Myhosting is a Canadian owned and operated webhost that is in business since 1997. Their portfolio of products and services are created with customer in mind and they place their customers at the top priority. Myhosting is a one-stop shop for your website needs as their array products and services include shared hosting, vps hosting, reseller hosting, web design and search engine optimization (seo).

Reasons to use MyHosting:

• In business since 1997
• 30-day Money Back Guarantee
• Owner operated and profitable
• 24/7 North American Support
• Strong Partner Relationships
• Satisfied Customers
• One-stop Shopping
• 100% Uptime Guaranteed

Customer support

myhosting.com offers 24/7 in-house telephone, chat and email support to all hosting customers.
This is what they promise: under 1 hour e-mail response and under 2 minute’s phone response.

Ease of use
Myhosting is suitable for even the least experienced webmaster as the auto-installers for WordPress, Joomla allow you to create a blog within a few clicks. Web design is easy for anyone without html knowledge as the free drag and drop website builder is included in every plan. You can conveniently upgrade your shared hosting account to VPS hosting if your site grows over time.

Data security

myhosting.com deploys and maintains the latest in web server technology. All web sites are hosted on Dell web servers running Dual Quad Core Processors with 16 GB RAM and backended with NetApp Storage arrays. Speed, reliability and performance define myhosting.com’s web server technology.

myhosting.com is well-aware of the importance of your data and that is why their Data Center implements security measures including card access, 24-hour security guards and continuous camera surveillance inside and outside the building. myhosting.com provides customers an unparalleled level of security via virus protection, enterprise class firewalls with a layered architecture, real-time security alerting using intrusion detection scanners, and 24 hour monitoring from our Certified Information Systems Security Professionals. They care about the security of your websites inside- out.

MyHosting.com is of course accredited by the Better Business Bureau which is a stamp of its reliability and trust worthiness. You can be assured that your data are placed in good hands. Myhosting may not be top in web hosting in terms of their price and features but it can be a great choice if you are looking for Canadian web hosting.

Basic Linux Hosting Plan

Features:
Unlimited space
Unlimited bandwidth
Unlimited domain hosting
Includes $25 Google AdwordsVoucher
Free ecommerce add-on. eCommerce web hosting options offer the tools you need to get your business online and get started selling your products online.
Free Web-based site builder
$4.84 per month

Visit http://www.myhosting.com for more details.

Some of the best coupon codes offered by MyHosting:

Coupon Code: 50OFFSHARED – Unlimited Shared Hosting 50% OFF! – FREE Domain Included!

DEALDISCOUNT: Basic Hosting – $3.95 Instead $7.95

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The main difference between a blog hosted using wordpress.com and wordpress.org is that you need to install the software on your own server or with a 3rd party web host if you are using wordpress.org. WordPress.org provides free open source blogging software that can be downloaded. Like what most people do, I started out blogging using wordpress.com before moving to self-hosting a WordPress blog. To run a blog using software from wordpress.org, you need a web host. Reliable and advertisement free web hosting are generally not free. Hosting your own WordPress software can be fun and rewarding but you have more responsibilities. If you mismanage your web server, you can lose your entire blog. It is your job to do regular backups so as to safeguard your blog. Managing a blog is a long- term commitment as you need to update your blog regularly with new content in order to improve your page ranking on search engine.

WordPress.org Benefits

• Ability to upload themes that are available free.

• Ability to upload plugins that automate various tasks of blogging that you can ever think of.

• Tutorials on creating and managing a wordpress blog are easily available.

• Complete control to change code if you have the technical knowledge

WordPress.org Cons

• You need a good web host, which generally costs a few bucks per month.

• Requires more technical knowledge to set up and run

• You’re responsible for stopping spam

• You have to handle backups

• You must upgrade the software when a new version is available.

• If you get a huge spike in traffic, your site will probably go down unless you have a strong hosting setup.

Buy web hosting plan

A shared hosting plan is sufficient for hosting a WordPress blog. You can go for monthly or yearly web hosting plan. Web hosting can be cheaper if you use a discount coupon code available here. Most web hosts provide wordpress installation in just a few clicks as they offer tools (e.g. Fantastico) to automatically install WordPress for you. Some web host provides free domain name if you sign up for one year web hosting plan. You only need to choose a domain name that you prefer and that is keyword- rich. You can also choose to keep your domain name and hosting separate.

As part of this tutorial, I will show you how to install a wordpress software on a Bluehost account.

On the control panel, go to simple scripts. Select to install wordpress on the directory you desire. A copy of wordpress software will then automatically be installed.

Export from WordPress.com

1. In the old blog, go to Tools → Export and download the XML (WXR) file to your computer.

Import to blog created using WordPress.org

2. In the new blog, go to Tools → Import → WordPress and upload the file you downloaded in step 1. Make sure that you choose the option to Download and import file attachments. All posts, pages, comments, custom fields, categories, and tags will be imported into your new WordPress.org site.

If you are willing to spend some time working on it, self- hosting a wordpress blog is not complicated at all.

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I have great news for those who are looking for free but premium shared web hosting. Jumpline is offering two years of free hosting. You only need to pay a $25 activation fee in order to entitle for this free hosting.

This is web hosting plan with the following features:
• 10 GB Storage Space
• 100 GB Monthly Data Transfer
• 100 POP Email Accounts
• 10 Sub-Domains
• 10 FTP Accounts
• Can be setup to use either Parallels® Plesk Panel 9.2 or cPanel 11
• 140+ Applications with easy one-click installation- WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, MySQL, OsCommerce
• No SSH
• Daily backup. Your data is safeguarded although you are using virtually free hosting.
• 99.9% Server Uptime (World Class Datacenter)

Click Here to Visit Jumpline

About Jumpline
Founded in 1997, Jumpline is a well established, privately owned web hosting company headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. It is home to over 100,000 business and personal websites.

The usual price of this 24 months web hosting plan is $142.80. However, you are only paying $25 for this two years plan if you take up this offer now. I don’t know how long this offer will last. I advise you to sign up now.

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I would like to make a comparison between Dreamhost and Bluehost based on my personal experience of using them for my websites. I signed up for Dreamhost at price of less than $10 for first year of web hosting plan during the Independence Day promotion. However, I transferred to Bluehost after hosting my websites for one year at Dreamhost because the web hosting fee is high upon renewal.

Control panel
Dreamhost provides their in-house control panel while Bluehost is using CPanel. However, Dreamhost provides the function to import CPanel into your web hosting account. I would say control panel of both Dreamhost and Bluehost are user- friendly and you would be able to use them effortlessly in a short time frame.

Customer Support
I have to say that customer support of both Bluehost and Dreamhost are superb and fast. Their customer service officers are very patient in solving the problems of even the least experienced webmaster like me.

Price
The hosting fee of Dreamhost is $8.95 per month while Bluehost costs $6.95 per month. Lower price is the main reason why I moved from Dreamhost to Bluehost. In order to maintain a profitable online business, I need to keep my costs low. However, I am fully satisfied with the service of Dreamhost. I may move back to Dreamhost should I need a virtual private server in future. After moving from one web host to another, I found that it is not a difficult task at all especially with the assistance from web hosting companies.

Visit www.bluehost.com to find out more!

One plan vs multiple types of web hosting

Bluehost only concentrates on providing one and only kind of web hosting plan to the customers. On the other hand, Dreamhost provides shared web hosting, VPS hosting and dedicated hosting. I would say Dreamhost is more convenient if you need to upgrade from shared hosting.

Green Hosting
Dreamhost is a green host that helps you to reduce your carbon footprint on this lovely Earth. Many web hosts are using the green concept as a selling point. However, Bluehost is not one of them.

Period of money back guarantee
The money back guarantee period of Bluehost and Dreamhost are 30 days and 97 days respectively. 30 days money back guarantee seems to be an industry standard in web hosting business. However, Dreamhost brings this standard to a higher level. Furthermore, a Dreamhost tries to gain a competitive edge by offering both two weeks free trial and 97 days money back guarantee.

Website Builder
Dreamhost does not provide a website builder like what Bluehost does. However, this will not be an issue to you if you are building your website using content management system such as WordPress.

Choosing a suitable web host can be a tough choice for most people. By focusing on the features you need and price you are willing to pay, you will be able to shortlist a couple of web hosting companies. From there, follow your feeling and choose one of them. Finally, create your websites and make use of the money back guarantee if you really need to.

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Below, I will list some of the factors that you should consider before choosing a web host.

Billing methods. Do they provide Paypal as a payment method? Paypal is a safer way of making online payments as you do not have to reveal your credit card number to the merchant.

Are they in business for many years? You want a reliable webhost for the home of your website. It will be a nightmare if you find the website that you took time to build disappears from Internet.

How many kinds of web hosting solution do they provide? Some provide all three basic types of web hosting solution, namely shared web hosting, virtual private server and dedicated server. However, there are quite a few web hosting companies that provide only shared hosting plan. You may want to start from shared hosting while you have limited budget but upgrade to VPS in future without switching from one webhost to another. In that case, this is a factor you must consider as you want to avoid the hassle of moving your website from one webhost to another.

The kind of customer support they provide. I personally favor webhost that provide live chatting support as I can get immediate response to my problem instead of waiting for a e-mail reply that might take days.

Billing option. Do you want to be billed monthly or pay for the cost of one year web hosting upfront? Of course, the price will be cheaper if you sign up for a longer duration of plan upfront.

The reputation of web host. You should read reviews of the web hosts before signing up. However, reviews on the Internet might not be true as they might be paid reviews or competitor’s misrepresentation. Furthermore, you are more likely to read about complaints than praises as unhappy customers are more likely to voice out their dissatisfaction.

Is free trial available? By testing out the service of web hosting, you can better decide which web hosting company to choose. Dreamhost provides two weeks free trial.

Period of money back guarantee. There are 30 days, 97 days and even anytime money back guarantee. With such claims, you can buy web hosting without worries.

Free website builder. With drag and drop website builder, a beginner without any html knowledge can also build a professional website in a short time frame.

I suggest you not to take a long time to make the decision before choosing a web host. You will lose more money if you keep procrastinating the creation of your website if you monetize your website.

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Virtual Private Servers are computer servers that, while appearing to be separate physical machines are, in fact, simulated via special virtualization software. These simulations, known as “virtual machines”, take better advantage of physical hardware servers, as multiple customers can have their own “server space” without the need of separate hardware. Client hosting on virtual private servers, known as VPS hosting, differs from shared hosting in one very important manner, namely each customer’s virtual machine is completely separate from those of other customers. In a shared hosting environment, websites from all hosting customers share the same operating system, web server software, and other various resources. Every customer suffers should one of these share resources fail. Even another customer’s rogue application can cause websites from other customers to suffer. For someone with a casual blog or test website this may not be an issue. For enterprise-level deployments, this is unacceptable.

VPS hosting is extremely flexible. Hosting on a virtual private server allows customers to completely customize their server as if it was a real physical computer. Customers are free to select how much memory, hard disk space, and bandwidth they require. They are free to use whatever operating system and web server software they wish, rather than being forced to use the same setup as customers do with traditional shared server hosting.

One should choose VPS hosting when they want the reliability and freedom of a physical server but at a shared server price. For the utmost in reliability at an affordable price, choose your Virtual Private Server Hosting needs below.

Virtual Private Server(VPS) Hosting
$39.95/ month 25 GB Raid 10 storage 500 GB bandwidth 512 MB memory 30 days money back guarantee FREE cPanel/WHM FREE Billing System Fully Managed FREE Marketing Credits ($50 value) 24/7 support- Support Agents located across the United States and Canada. Sign up at Greengeeks	-From $29.95 per month - 20 GB storage - 1000 GB data transfer -PERL Support, MySQL 5 -$50 in FREE Google AdWords Credit -Up to $50 in FREE Yahoo! Search Marketing Credit Sign up at Start Logic
-40 GB diskspace - 500 GB monthly premium transfer - Individual custom firewall -2 dedicated IP addresses - Monthly, Semi- annual or Annual billing available - 90 Days Money Back Guarantee -From $39.95 per month Sign up at Inmotion Hosting	-45 GB disk space -2000 GB monthly bandwidth - Unlimited hostable domains -DDoS Protection -2 IP addresses included -From $44.95 per month Sign up at Hostican
Linux Virtuozzo Plan - 5 Gb disk space - 200 GB bandwidth - 1 dedicated IP address - 100% uptime guarantee - $17 per month Sign up at Ultra Hosting	- 10 GB Hard Disk Space -500 GB traffic per month - Unlimited MySQL database -90 days money back guarantee -$29 per month - 1&1 is accepting Paypal Sign up at 1 & 1
-Free domain name 512MB Memory 20GB Disk Space 1000 GB Bandwidth 1 IP Address -Linux VPS plan from $49.95 per month - Windows VPS plan from $64.95 per month Sign up at Lunarpages	- 10 GB storage - 500 GB data transfer - Allow unlimited hosted domains - Complete root access - From $29.95 per month Sign up at IX Web Hosting

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By using discount coupon code, you can get quality web hosting service of reputable companies at a much lower price. In the table below, I have listed some of the best discount coupon code that will maximize your savings.

How to use coupon code?
You will find a field for coupon code in the checkout process, often clearly labeled, “Enter coupon or promo code here.” Simply copy and paste or enter the coupon code provided here, apply it and you should see your savings itemized in the order total before you finalize your order.

How to use the discount link?
By clicking on the discount link, you will automatically be taken to the discount page.

Web Hosting Company	Coupon Code/ Discount Link	Discount Details
Fatcow	Click Here To Activate 55% Discount Link!	55% off Fatcow Web Hosting Plan - Only $3.67 per month - Unlimited Disk Space -Unlimited Bandwidth	Use Discount Link
Hostgator	HTGR994OFF	Coupon code can be used at signup to give a discount of $9.94 off the package price. Coupon codes will not apply to domain names or any service which is not a hosting account. -Hatchling Plan starting at $3.96/ month offers single domain name hosting, unlimited space and bandwidth. -45 Day Money Back Guarantee	Use Coupon Code
JHSL20	JHSL20	20% off JustHost Web Hosting Plan - From $3.95 per month - Unlimited Disk Space -Unlimited Bandwidth	Use Coupon Code
Hostican	wkh30-12	$30 off 12 months Shared Hosting (Base-Host) Plan - From $5.56 per month - Unlimited Disk Space -Unlimited Bandwidth	Use this Coupon
	less30-3	$30 off VPS- Rage -$44.95 per month -45 GB disk space - 2000 GB monthly bandwidth	Use this Coupon
	less50-1	$50 off Basic Dedicated Server NS01 -$199.95 per month - 3000 GB monthly bandwidth -250 GB SATA2 Hard Drive -1024 MB DDR2 667MHz Memory	Use this Coupon
Omnis Network	20percent	20% off Web Hosting Purchase - From $5.95 per month - Unlimited Disk Space -Unlimited Bandwidth	Use this Coupon
Heart Internet	WKHTHX	10% off shared hosting annual packages. -From £2.49 per month - Unlimited Disk Space -Unlimited Bandwidth	Use this Coupon
Lunarpages	hostplace50	$50 off 12,24,36,48,60 months Basic Hosting Plan/ Personal Website Hosting - From $4.95 per month - Unlimited Disk Space -Unlimited Bandwidth	Use this Coupon
	hostplacededicated	$50 off 3,6,12,24 months Dedicated Servers -$99 per month - 80 GB disk space - 1000 GB bandwidth	Use this Coupon
	hostplacevps	$35 off 6,12,24 months Virtual Private Server (VPS) Plans -From $49.95 per month -20 GB diskspace -1000 GB bandwidth	Use this Coupon
	25offhosting	$25 off 12,24 months Business, Windows, and Quicksite Hosting	Use this Coupon
	2freemonths	2 free months added to 24 months Business, Windows, and Quicksite Hosting	Use this Coupon
	Win3	3 free months on 12,24 months Windows Hosting - From $9.95 per month -Up to 5000 MB disk space - Bandwidth of 400 GB/ month	Use this Coupon
	30offquicksite	$30 off 12,24 months Quicksite Hosting	Use this Coupon
Dreamhost	WKH50	$50 Off One, Two, Three, Five, Ten Years Web Hosting Plan -From $5.78 per month -Free 2 weeks trial - Unlimited Disk Space -Unlimited Bandwidth	Use this Coupon
Greengeeks	WebKnowHows	$30 off Greengeeks Web Hosting Plan -From $6.95 per month -Free domain name for life - Unlimited Disk Space -Unlimited Bandwidth	Use this Coupon
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A blog that is created using publishing platform at WordPress.org is more powerful than a free blog on WordPress.com as the countless plugins that are developed for WordPress.org extend its functionality. Such plugins that can do almost anything you can imagine are only applicable to privately-hosted blogs and web sites using the WordPress.org software. Plugins are not permitted on WordPress.com for various security reasons.

If you want to privately host your WordPress.org blog, the first thing is to look for a web host that meets the requirements of WordPress.org software.

To run WordPress, your web host just needs a couple of things:
-  PHP version 4.3 or greater
- MySQL version 4.0 or greater

Most web hosts meet such requirements. However, to make things easier, you should use a web hosting company that provides WordPress one-click installation or free installation.

The web hosts listed below provide easy installation for WordPress.org:

Web Host	Price from	Key Features	Sign Up
Web Hosting Pad	$1.99	Unlimited Hosting Space, Unlimited Bandwidth, Host Unlimited Domains, Free Site Builder, Free $100 worth Advertising Credit
Mochahost	$2.63	Unlimited Disk Space, Unlimited Monthly Traffic, Free $100 worth Advertising Credit, Site Builder
Just Host	$3.95	Unlimited Storage Space, Unlimited Bandwidth, Free Domain Name for life, $75 Free Advertising Credit, Recommended on Wordpress, Free Site Builder
Super Green Hosting	$3.95	Green Hosting, Unlimited Storage Space, Unlimited Bandwidth, Free Domain Name for life, Free $75 Advertising Credit, Free Site Builder
Powweb	$4.88	Unlimited Disk Space, Unlimited Bandwidth, Professional Website Builder, Free $50 Google Adwords Credit, Free $25 Yahoo Sponsored Search Credit
Omnis Network	$5.95	Free Domain Name, 30 Day Money Back Guarantee, 99.9% Uptime Guarantee, Unlimited Disk Space, Unlimited Data Transfer per/month, Unlimited Hosted Domains, Free Site Builder
Bluehost	$6.95	Unlimited Hosting Space, Unlimited File Transfer, Host Unlimited Domains, Free Domain Forever, Free Site Builder, Recommended on Wordpress
GreenGeeks	$6.95	Green Hosting, Unlimited Web Storage, unlimited data transfer, Free Website Builder, Free Domain for Life. Instant & Free Setup
Hostmonster	$6.95	Unlimited Hosting Space, Unlimited Bandwidth, Free Domain Forever, Free Site Builder, Free $25 Yahoo Ad Credit, Free $50 Google Adwords Credit
Dreamhost	$8.95	Free trial, Unlimited Storage Space, Unlimited bandwidth, Free Domain Name with WHOIS Privacy, Up to $75 Free Google Adwords, Recommended on Wordpress

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