What is Enterprise Web Hosting?

April 6th, 2009

High-end hosting for serious business implementations. Usually a managed hosting offering, enterprise hosting tends to focus on scalablility and uptime, as well as supplemental hosted business applications.

What are Web Hosted Services?

April 6th, 2009

Web hosted services is a broad term, hosted services can  mean any number of things. Typically it refers to service providers offering applications like email, collaboration, customer relationship management and other business tools.

What are some tools for managing your Tweets?

April 7th, 2009

Tools for Managing Your Tweets

Managing your tweets can be a challenge. When I started using Twitter, I was unimpressed with the lack of tools and capability from Twitter’s site.

Most of us like to use an application like Microsoft Word, which is self-contained with all the right tools. Twitter is just the reverse. Twitter’s strength lies in utilizing all of the external tools and applications, each with their unique approach to enhancing your Twitter experience.

The first tool I’ll share with you is TweetDeck. This application allows you to view all of your friends’ tweets in a columned interface.

The neat thing about TweetDeck is that you can group your friends into themed columns. Looking at just one column of “all” of your friends tweets can be overwhelming. I like to create one column (or group) for search-related tweets, one for friends, and one for my favorite sport of cycling.

You can also perform a search of all public tweets for a given keyword or keywords, and save that search as its own column. That’s useful both for reputation management and for discovering users with similar interests as yours.

TweetDeck also provides a one-stop shop to help you craft your tweets, shorten your tweets to fit the 140-character allotment, and even translate tweets from another language.

Another notable tool to consider is twhirl, which has similar functionality, but at this point is not as versatile.

If you use an iPhone or have a smart phone that lets you surf the Internet, you’re in luck. Several tools will help you follow your tweets while you’re on the road. There are even widgets (Mac OS), sidebars (Windows OS) and other kinds of tools you can use. For a list of all of these tools go to the Twitter applications page.

How do you find people and companies on Twitter?

April 7th, 2009

Finding People and Companies on Twitter

The first place to start searching for people is Twitter Search. This allows you to find people you might want to follow, search by topic, or find a company.

Another useful site is Who Should I Follow? A good resource for more tools and tips is TopRank’s marketing blog post on “12 Ways to Find Brands and Companies on Twitter.” Lee Odden cover tools like WeFollow, Twellow, Twibs and provides more tips for finding people to follow.

What is Ruby on Rails Website Hosting?

May 3rd, 2009

Some web hosting providers specialize in hosting web applications such as the Ruby on Rails application development framework. If y0u want to develop applications based on the framework, you’ll have to find a web host that supports your particular web application.

What is product sourcing?

May 3rd, 2009

Product sourcing businesses connect retailers with the distributors of products they might want to sell. Particularly relevant to the e-commerce space, where site operators might not have the means to store and ship products.

What is online photo hosting?

May 3rd, 2009

Digital photographs are an extremely popular form of content among individual Internet users, and there are many services devoted to storing and displaying them, including free, and more complex paid-for services. Some of the most popular online photo storage companies are www.shutterfly.com, www.kodakgallery.com, www.youtube.com, etc.

What are online payment gateways?

May 3rd, 2009

An online payment gateway is a service that enables online merchants to process credit card transactions through an authorized processor. The web service encrypts transmissions so sensitive (i.e., credit card) data can be transferred.

What is online storage?

May 3rd, 2009

Web hosting is itself a complex way of offering online storage. Some web hosting service providers have designed simplified web hosting offerings, providing website visitors and small businesses with space to store files online.

What is Reseller Web Hosting?

April 30th, 2009

Reseller web hosting allows web hosting customers to become web hosts themselves by reselling the services of a web hosting provider that allows resale abilities. Web Hosting Resellers could function, for individual domains, under any combination of these listed types of hosting, depending on who they are affiliated with as a provider. Resellers’ accounts may vary tremendously in size: they may have their own virtual dedicated server to a collocated server. Many resellers provide a nearly identical service to their provider’s shared hosting plan and provide the technical support themselves. Are you a website designer, advertisement agency or other type of IT support entity that would like to resell web hosting services without the hassle of managing, billing and supporting all the necessary items that a website owner might require? If so, please contact RGB Web Hosting to tell us alittle more about yourself and what we can do to help.

What is Free Web Hosting Services?

April 30th, 2009

Free web hosting is offered by different companies with limited services, sometimes advertisement-supported web hosting, and is often limited when compared to paid hosting.  GeoCities used to be the most popular free web hosting company during the height of the “dot.com” days. Yahoo later purchased the huge subscriber base of GeoCities and after “careful consideration” have decided they were losing money by offering FREE WEB HOSTING. Just like anything else in life, if it’s too good to be true, then it probably is not and free web hosting is no different with respect that you get exactly what you pay for with regards to “free web hosting” service. Actually, a better concept is cheap or affordable web hosting. For example, $12.95/month is pretty inexpensive for a top tier full service web hosting firm. To review what’s typically included in cheap web hosting, please visit www.rgbwebhosting.com

What are online backups?

April 30th, 2009

Online backups are usually a safety measure for small business or home users, an online backup will often invovle a software application that can be used to periodically create an online copy of a computer’s contents. We recommend Mozy as a capable provider of online backup solutions.

What is Offshore Web Hosting Services?

April 30th, 2009

Offshore web hosting usually refers to web hosting provider with their servers located outside the jurisdiction of the US or Europe, which may not be subject to certain taxes or laws. Offshore web hosting providers offer their web hosting customers the opportunity to operate websites outside the more traditional geographic constraints. As a result, anonymous offshore web hosting is very popular for gambling website and certain pornographic websites with illicit content of more hardcore material. The country of Belize is very popular for Offshore Web Hosting in addition to Singapore, Hong Kong, Malysia, India and China.

What are Web Hosting Migration Services?

April 30th, 2009

Often times a web hosting customer needs advanced web hosting assistance to move a website from one web hosting provider to a different web hosting provider. However, you will not get this type of personalized web hosting support from most large, conglomerate web hosting  companies such as 1&1, Yahoo Web Hosting, Verio, etc.  

RGB Web Hosting, is among the Dallas Business Journal’s top list of best web hosting companies in the Dallas/Ft. Worth Metroplex and offers Web Hosting Migration Services, if needed, for any new web hosting customers seeking assistance to move their website to our web hosting servers.