Turbo Tech Talk

Web hosting companies all over the internet are dropping their prices and increasing their services. This is what most of them do but a few went against the odds. These few chose to sell lifetime web hosting. Now what is lifetime web hosting? It is still web hosting but you only get to pay once - no monthly bills - that’s why it’s called lifetime. You pay just once and you get web hosting for life. So what are the pros and cons of lifetime web hosting?

The major PRO of lifetime web hosting is the cost. Though the initial one-time fee is fairly high - ranging from $49.95 to $500, it still is cheaper when you look at it on the long-run. After all, lifetime web hosting means long-term so we have to compute it that way.

Assuming, we pay $1.00 monthly for 50MB of regular web hosting, 12 months would be $12.00 and 5 years would be $60.00. 10 years would be $120.00 - you compute the rest. With this, you would easily see how much it becomes as each month passes by. 50MB lifetime web hosting with the same specs (or even better) would cost you only $49.95 - no matter how many years your site is hosted. Furthermore, the overhead cost of maintaining your website is greatly reduced so you get to focus your finances on other important matters such as website promotion, and product/service development. One more thing is that you don’t have to remove your website from the internet if you can no longer afford the web hosting - it’s there for life!

On the other hand, critics would say that lifetime web hosting is dangerous because it is “overselling.” I did a quick computation based on present-day dedicated server rates and checked if lifetime web hosting is indeed feasible and I found out that a company selling lifetime web hosting would be able to maintain the site for as much as 40 years! And still earn a good income out of it. Now that’s not lifetime is it? Well, true. However, 40 years for $49.95? I still think it’s a good deal. What do you think?

As I see it, the only CON I see is the initial one-time fee which is fairly high as compared to the $1 monthly on regular web hosting. But then again, we have to think long-term.

OK, now you’re interested and thinking of moving your website to a lifetime web host provider but wait. You surely don’t want to make it wrong. So, what do you look for in a lifetime web hosting plan? Basically, you should look for:

1. Easy upgrading of your account
2. Upgrade should also be paid on a lifetime basis
3. Must support whatever features a regular web hosting has
4. Affordable one-time fee
5. Good technical support
6. 30-day money-back guarantee

And here are a couple of tips:

1. Do not go for the huge plan immediately, take a low plan at first. Anyway, you can upgrade anytime in the future if you need more space.

2. Try contacting the lifetime web hosting provider first and ask them whatever concerns you have before getting a lifetime web hosting plan from them.

That’s all I can say. Lifetime web hosting - like regular web hosting has its good and bad sides so it’s really upto you to weigh them and see for yourself.

About the author:
Mike Lopez is a PHP Programmer, Website Developer and a science enthusiast. He also owns a web hosting business - Sydel Web Hosting - http://www.sydel.net/

I myself am dealing with very issue. So then maybe someone can tell me what or where I should be doing or going next in the pursuit of gain customers.
I mean you put up  a pretty decent site and setting a price structure. Which your constantly re-structuring to keep up with your competition. You may do PPC or just buy huge amounts of traffic of a traffic broker. You join some forums and start participating in them You even start selling your products on eBay at out all places. just to try to make sales; but the sales still aren’t rolling in on a constant basics or not at all. You may even start submitting your site to some popular directories as well as every month submitting your site to all the major search engines.Now your not page one you are in the top ten pages; because at least you have got pretty decent keywords and utilized them throughout your homepage.
When you done with all the site and keyword analyzing.  You added good products to what you are currently offering. What next?

Now you see that many hosts have taken the route of dropping their prices to the point of it being insane like a unlimited hosting plans for a buck are so. Or selling shoutcast servers for like a dime a slot.

Would you follow suit or keep on the same path (trying to maintain your reputation) you have been on but that has not proven to be an overall success in securing you any new customers?

I was once told that I was not suppose to be using any of my own money to keep my business going. Now how can you keep any business going if you don’t invest into it yourself? What if your monthly income from your business isn’t enough to pay for that that is need to keep you afloat through the hard times?

What still amazes me is that people constantly want more but don’t want to spend the money to pay for it. I have seen broadcasters spend up to $300 on a shoutcast plan and then want to complain when their streams do down because their server failed.

You offer them the same plan they currently have with their host but they still feel that even though your prices are way below what they are currently paying. They feel that your quality of plan wont be any better than what they have currently.Even when you have visual proof that month after month you have a 100 to 99% uptime.

Can you keep asking your customers to help out by giving them incentives to help find you customers. Nothing comes of it. So when does it become too much to asking?
I have tried to have my company added to some of the most popular hosting and shoutcast directories but you find yourself either still waiting to be reviewed or new included at all. Even when your fellow web hosts swear by this particular directory and basically say that if your not reviewed your basically a nobody.
If you invested years not months and money on top of money and more time than you rather state openly; trying to be a success online. All you see all of these newcomers with their motto ’sell super cheap and you will have a mass of customers”

What is the driving force or what do you to keep going forward for what looks like a dead end path to nowhere?

I would like to know.

If anyone is interested in web and/or shoutcast Hosting

Please click my link here.

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Until the next time…

Happy Hosting!

Hi Again!

Sorry that i have not been able to post for a few days. I have been so consumed with try to revamp my hosting site and try to bring in more new customers.

I’ve basically had to re-price all my shoutcast and hosting services. Why? because my current pricing for my products and service where not netting me the type of income range that I was expecting.

New products like Wordpress Revolution and Web 2.0 web templates I added to my product line and I added new keywords and I hope maybe with some prayers; I will see an increase in my traffic to my site Turbo Host USA

Having joined Twitter and some other social networking sites. Something I would never have considered before. i still don’t fully understand how it all works but I’m willing to give anything a try right now.

This has been some thing that I have incorporated into my business routine for the simple fact that. If you want to be successful in any business you have to be able to take your business the next level by re-inventing and allow your business to be flexible enough to make changes to allow for maximum income growth. This may include product line changes or adding additional products to reach certain niche markets. If you have control over pricing over your products/services that you sell then you may have to play with pricing until to find the prices that bring you the best overall outcome.

Whenever I get contacted by a prospective customer. i usually hear…

‘Well xyz host is killing you with their prices! can you match this…’

Then i get some link to some site and I look at the “so-called” deal and then I have to go back and tell the person that I could never sell my servers for that low of a price. (usually its for under $5 price tag for something like a 200 listener plan at 64kbps)
I really think that its a true insult to this business that there are hosts that are actually promoting these types of deals. Our company, Turbo Host USA does have a reputation to uphold and selling hosting at those crazy prices would not help keep it up. Our prices are low don’t get me wrong but they are still within a reasonable range.
I allway tell potentail customers that if you are coming to me after seeing a so called “deal” then why didnt you go ahead and by it?

Many times we are lead to believe that because the prices is low the service cant be any good. Well sometimes this is true and sometimes this isnt.

Thing that you need to do before you purchase ANY type of hosting is…

1.  Yes. Do contact their support department, not their sales department. You will find out more than you need to know about the server your planning on purchasing from the person who does the tech support rather than the sales person. Tech support works with the server on a daily bases and well be able to answert more of your questions rather than the salesperson who’s only job is to get you to buy their product/service their company is offering.

2.  Run an ip address check on their domain. You can at least know where the server is located that you choose to purchase. Now many US located hosts are now turning to buying their servers from datacenters outside of the country. Because they are practically offer so much bandwidth and a lower cost than in the states. Remember most of Europe is already on fiber optic lines. They barely have a need for such a thing as dial-up service. We on there other hand, well you know that most of the US is not. Now you can find some good deals but because of this fact some European hosts are having many types of server issues. which can make them less reliable than US servers.

Another thing is many hosts now have more than one server so if you see that they are using a datacenter in the US and the UK. You may need to specify which server you want to use for your specific hosting needs.

3. Find out how much bandwidth does the potential server you plan on purchasing has beforehand. I don’t know how many time people have contacted me with horror stories of them buying a server and finding out that they don’t have enough bandwidth to do what they need to. Because they didnt realize the difference between Megabytes - MB and Gigabytes - GB or Terabytes - TB. Worst yet found out they where being hosted on a VPS (Virtual Private Server) rather than a dedicated server with its own bandwidth.

4.  Know what you need and buy accordingly. In the area of shoutcast hosting, so many people buy way more than what they actually use. So if you are just starting out and you only have maybe up to 10 to 15 listeners at any giving time. Why would you purchase a 200 listener plan and not know when or if you will even have 200 listeners on a regular basis? Start small and build it as you go along.

5.  If you do place an order with a host and they don’t have automatic account setup that mean you have to wait until they physically setup your order and if they are in another time zone; you are just stuck untill they do. Try and find a host that offers automatic setup no matter what time zone you are in. “Pay and Play” is our slogan. No one wants to be waiting hours to start broadcasting their streams.
6. Lastly, try to find a host that will give you a money back guarantee. 30 days iMHO is long enough to see if the host is the right fit for your hosting needs or not. Test out their support system Please read the TOS agreement and if you can live with their requirements. Then by all means place your order.

Now if you see a deal that makes no real sense to you, then follow your mind. Better yet ask around beofre you buy. Chances are that someone has or is currently hosting with the host that you are considering purchasing your server from. Most of all your gut instincts can help you avoid wasting your time and/ or money. Thus saving you the headache to having to repeat the search for hosting again.

Until next time. Happy Hosting!

I was recently approached by a member of a forum I belong to. This person stated that they would test our servers in order to give me a review of our services. Now they made a point of stating that they been through every host in the forum and they would at need a month or two for evaluate our services. If we measure up they may keep the account with us. All for either a positive or negative review. I dont know if this person thought that I was in the business of giving away FREE accounts or what. But i replied that they could open and pay for an account and they would have a 30 day period to see if they like our service. I should not really have to say this but I am because it is so easy to get caught up in this types of offers. You should never allow any potential customer access to your servers without acquiring some sort of payment up front. It shows that the customer is serious about their intentions and it less likely that they would risk abusing their account because you can always withhold their !st month’’s payment for any abuse they might cause. Normally; no one ever needs no more than 30 days to evaluate your hosting. (now if you know that your having server issues with your datacenter. I urge you never to offer any long term type of guarantee until you are able to change servers or fix whatever issues that you may be having.) Anything longer than 30 days then you really would want them as your customer first. Why would you want to be providing support and also your time for any longer than 30 days without having something on the books reflecting a payment?

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I just wanted to have a place to actually say what its like everyday to be working the field of a Shoutcast Service Provider. No some of you will say “Who Cares” but for somebody else it can very well be ideal to hear about the everyday struggles of trying to find the very best products for your customers. Making your prices not only low enough for folks to afford but also enough where you don’t have to go and apply for welfare! Today i relished my shoutcast ad on eBay. But I spend a total of two hours to come up with some plans that I am sure that will be affordable to everyone as well as keep me in the black. I decided only to make one 128Kbps server plan. Why because everywhere you look there is somebody offering some plan they come with at some price that they thought might bring them a flood of sales. Most cases than a few; that when the sale is over most of the time so are they! Why? Well I will talk more about that in the future posts to come.

Everyone knows you need to register your site with the major search engines  to get any web traffic, but what about after that? Let’’s face it, it’’s getting  harder and harder to put up a page, register it with some search engines and get any significant traffic. There’’s just too much competition out there. There are  five proven tactics I'’ve used and seen used to build a good traffic base: Run periodic contests. If you sell products/services from your Web  site, give away a sample in a monthly drawing. You can register your contest  with various contest sites like www.sweepstakesonline.com and a dozen or so  others. This is a great way to pull traffic to your site and feature your  products in a non-pressured way. If you don'’t sell anything or can'’t afford to  give away a sample, find other sites that do and offer them the exposure of  being promoted on your site in exchange for a prize donation. An associate of  mine is the master of Web contests. Alanna Webb of www.lovestories.com features  a different prize every day! She gets hundreds of entries/day and attributes  much of her traffic (over 1 million impressions/month) to her contests.

There are dozens of ways to build traffic, but over the last few years, I'’ve  seen the best results from these relatively cost-free methods.

marnie@pwgroup.comAuthor’’s URL: http://www.MarniePehrson.com Marnie  Pehrson, a mother of 6, has been highlighting truth and talent for 15 years.  Whether it’’s writing a novel that spotlights individuals who'’ve made a  difference in the world or helping a talented entrepreneur create a platform for  his life’’s work, Marnie underscores truth and talent in innovative and  compelling ways. She is the creator of www.IdeaMarketers.com and helps experts  promote their products and services online. For more information on her various  projects and books, visit http://www.pwgroup.com.