As you surely have known, we launched our Premium Hosting service in November 2008 - offering 3 UNIX and 3 Windows plans with the latest technological standards for both UNIX and Windows, all brand new IBM Xseries Blade Server, and fast premium support.

These Premium Hosting has become a hit not long after it was launched. However, there have been some asking, “why can’t you decrease the price? We are not ready to take that price”. As the answer and request to the question, we have two solutions, promo and our new Premium Hosting Lite.

What is Premium Hosting Lite?
Premium Hosting Lite is a “baby” version of Premium Hosting or, smaller but sufficient resources Premium Hosting plans. Premium Hosting Lite consists of two plans, which is one for each platform (UNIX and Windows) - Advance Lite and Business Lite.

These two plans are the babies form of Premium Advance (UNIX) and Premium Business (Windows) that provide you with sufficient resources you can use for your  website needs. You get the same exact features, the same IBM Xseries Blade Server, and the same  quick fix premium support.

All features in Advance and Business Lite include ASP 3.0 , Microsoft SQL 2005, MySQL 5, PHP 5, PERL 5, and AJAX support. For resources, Premium Lite allows one domain hosted, 2 subdomains, 400 MB storage, 50 GB bandwidth, 1 MySQL database, 1 MS-SQL database (for Windows), and 15 sub-ftp accounts, you can start up a wonderful website of your own with reliable performance.

With Premium Lite, users can start their website with all the features in Premium Hosting and sufficient resources. And when their website grows more and more, upgrade to the “adult” Premium Hosting is always an option when they need much bigger resources.

More on Premium Hosting Lite Grand Launching…

Not only launching the Lite Premium plans, we also give out discount up to 50% to first 500 customers within  seven days. How does it work? See below!

During your first year, there will be incremental discount applied to your 2nd to 12th month hosting. It ranges from 10% in the 2nd month, 15% in the 3rd month, to continuously incremental 5% discount for the next each months. The discount rate reaches up to 50% in your 10th, 11th, and 12th  month.

So what are you waiting for? This offer will not last long as only first 500 customers will receive this benefit. Sign up now before the 7 days period runs out!

See more at http://www.hostdepartment.com/premiumhosting_lite/

Talking about the use of No Follow tag in your site, that is actually one of PageRank sculpting strategies, which is an effort to try changing on how the page rank flow within a website with various methods - one of which is adding No Follow tag.

Unfortunately, even though you add no follow tag to the links, sometimes it is still not effective and it can still leak page rank. And this means you should do PageRank Sculpting properly, more than just adding No Follow tag.

More about Page Rank Sculpting

Maybe some of you are still confused on how PageRank Sculpting works, I was too. Let’s have a look on how it goes. For example, your website page rank in Google is 6.

If later this website links to 3 other pages inside the website, it will share equal amounts of its PageRank to the destinations pages or links. So, each page will get 2 of its 6 PageRank points. However, if you do PageRank sculpting with No Follow tags, the result will be different.

PageRank Sculpting uses nofollow tags on the links to control where the PageRank value flows within a site. So if two of the links above had nofollow tags added, then the other page would get bigger points than when it was shared for three links.

With this strategy, you can manage the PageRank of your certain web pages in your website by controlling the PageRank flow.

This PageRank Sculpting idea will enable you to decide on what to do with your Page Rank wisely.

For more info on Page Rank Sculpting, visit here

~Gabrielle~

In link building, blogs and articles are two of the most important strategies in building link back to your website. You write your blogs and articles, and then you submit them to article submission sites with back links to your original website. However, now the question is, when you blog or write, which one do you prioritize, quality or quantity?

Quality

For me, this is significant to prioritize. And I know some other bloggers and writers also say the same, that it is important to maintain quality in your blog or article content. Some people say, “No need to blog and write everyday. As long as you can maintain quality, few a week have been quite enough.” I believe it is definitely true. What’s writing everyday if you just write anything without quality?

I’ve experienced that it is sometimes hard to find a new fresh and interesting topic everyday to write. I am sure that although you cannot make it everyday and just make few in one week, it is still helping you in gaining traffic as long as you write with good quality content.

Quantity

As some people are sure it is better to maintain quality more than quantity, some others are sure that it is significant to write or blog everyday and submit everyday. They are still sure that the more you have for blogs and articles, the more back links you get to your website, which means the more traffic you drive to your site.

This is not a wrong idea. You can and should write everyday if you are sure that you can still maintain the quality of your blogs and articles. If you are able to do that, then I will tell you that both quality and quantity are important.

What’s Actually My Point?

From all these, I will conclude that the most important in writing and blogging is quality. However, when you can combine both quality and quantity in your articles and blogs, it is always a better idea.

~Gabrielle~

Twitter has become a more and more popular social networking site for a company or organization. Many businesses now use twitter to provide updates and drive more traffic to their website. They create their Twitter acount and start their strategies. But how can you possibly gain traffic from Twitter?

Gain Your Followers

Before you can gain traffic to your site with Twitter, you should gain your followers first. There are following and follower in twitter. Following is when you follow people and then you can see their updates everytime they update the 140 character update box.

Followers are those following you in Twitter and seeing your updates everytime you provide updates with what’s going on with your company or organization. The more followers you get, the more people will see what’s going on with you and when they are curious, they will visit your website.

You can get followers by first inviting your own friends to follow you. Besides, you can follow people first, like those with the same similar nature as your organization or industry, or your friends. When you follow them, they’ll have a look at your profile and if they are interested, they’ll follow you back.

Provide Updates Regularly

This is the next step you should do to drive more traffic to your website with Twitter. In the update box, never forget to provide updates about what you’d like others to know so that your followers or other users visiting your profile.

Provide any updates about anything new in your company or organization. It can be new products, new services, new events, new promotion, or anything. Just ensure that your Twitter account is updated routinely with interesting stuffs because this is how you will attract people to visit your site.

When you have done these two steps properly, I am sure that traffic will flow like water to your website from Twitter. So, do your best and have fun twittering now.

~Gabrielle~

Control Panel is the most important tool in web hosting service. Earlier, I wrote about how H-SPHERE defeats all Control Panels with its complete features. However, I realize that still many users look for CPanel. They say that CPanel is more suitable for them to use. What do they look for in CPanel?

Simpler User Interface (User Friendly)
This is the first that people look for in Cpanel, user friendly interface. People say that Cpanel has very easy to use features that make web hosting service worth its price. You get to use friendly web based interface that is suitable for beginners to professionals. You don’t have to worry about complicated Control Panel. Even that you still begin to learn about web hosting, you can manage your web hosting account without any hassle (hassle-free).

Fantastico Scripts
Fantastico is the other feature that users must want so much when they use CPanel, Fantastico. This feature offers you numerous ready to use scripts that you can install within minutes, with few clicks of your mouse only. The scripts are various - blog, forum, content management, etc. There is no worry for complicated installations. Even, the blindest person in web hosting can install fantastico scripts easily. In H-SPHERE, you will find the scripts in EasyApps, different name but the same feature.

With these two helpful abilities that CPanel offers to web hosting users, who will not look for them. Everybody looks for simplicity, everybody looks for no hassle, and everybody looks for easiness. The only minus that CPanel has might be only that it can only offer UNIX web hosting plans and still not available for Windows. However, being simple and easy to use are still a good offer.

~Gabrielle~

As it has been mentioned for so many uncountable times, SEO is something you can’t miss when you have a website. Every website owners must maximize their SEO strategy to succeed in online world. Unfortunately some still do not really care too much about this issue.

Some others put their own efforts to succeed their SEO strategies. And some others are sure that SEO is  too deep and complicated to do by their own. They prefer to either hire their own SEO consultant or use an SEO company service. But what’s the importance of using a third party SEO service?

The Difference when You Use an SEO Service Provider

Using an SEO service provider or SEO company or SEO consultant, they will ensure to keep updated with the latest trends in search engine industry. They will optimize your web pages or your campaign with the right strategies so you won’t lose rankings. This is an everlasting process that has no ending. It is a full time occupation that will always need their focus to work on.

Besides, with an SEO service provider, your site will be submitted wisely. There will be reports on ranking to show you site position in various search engine. If you have bad ranking or even no ranking at all, an SEO company will know how to adjust and resubmit your website. This submission is not just a blind submission. Instead, they will submit manually without automated softwares as many top search engines don’t like automated submission.

Even better, using an SEO service provider, you will have not only detailed ranking reports but also  web site traffic reporting to keep you updated with your website traffic. This helps you to see the traffic you receive and where they come from. It is really important for your website growth and profit measurement.

Additionally, they let you know the whole process during the entire process. This means they will explain the steps to you with the proper understandable terms. They will not only work for you to reach the success of your website SEO but also make you understand on how you get there.

And now, whether to use an SEO company/consultant or not is fully your own decision. You can either use any of them or do it yourself.

I know that most web hosting companies nowadays offer discount and discount, or coupon and coupon for subscribing their web hosting packages. That is a good idea to help clients to get what they need at an even more affordable price.

However, sometimes I am sure you all must question, “Why is it always like that? Is there no other idea for promo to offer to me?”. And to answer your confusion, here I am to inform you that we have a new offer excluding the discount coupons, special for our glorious 4^th of July.

Four Different Coupons

Different than before when we just gave you one coupon to use in our hosting plans, we now offer you four different coupons! Yes, four, just as you read. Four coupons with various of discounts up to 40%.

The first of many is our all brand new Premium Hosting; supported with the all new Blade server, latest technological standards for both UNIX and Windows, plus quick fix customer support that you can get now with 40% lifetime discount off the total price with our coupon “FREEDOM09″

Not only Premium Hosting, we also offer coupons for No Limit plans with various discounts - 10% off for No Limit Website with coupon “ID4″, 25% off for No Limit Developer plans with “UNCLESAM09″, and 30% off for No Limit E-Commerce with “EAGLE09″

Is It just All That?

Well, if it is only that, then what is our difference with others? YOU get more from us. When you subscribe any of our shared hosting plans with one year or more than a year subscribtion, you’ll get 10% cashback for the domain registration fee you purchase.

When you buy our hosting plans for at least a year, you’ll get a free domain of your own. After a free domain you get, you can earn hassle free 10% cashback from the 2nd to 5th domain you register with us, directly transferred to your Credit Card or PayPal account.

Even better, it includes six most wanted domain TLDs such as .com, org, us, info, biz, and net. After you have signed up for a hosting account and purchase a domain, just send an e-mail request to product@hostdepartment.com within the first 2 weeks of your hosting sign up date and we’ll cashback 10% from your domain registration fee.

Still think we are the same like others? It is now time for you to prove we are not.

~Gabrielle~

Terms of Services, as I keep restating, are very important for you to pay attention to. They are the connection between internet businesses and you when you choose to use their services and  they are also the rules how they are gonna use your information.

Unfortunately, we all know we don’t really bother to read carefully and thoroughly the whole sentences in the Terms of Services, which might put us into difficulty with the service provider in further future. That is why Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) now tries to provide a way to solve the issue.

What is Electronic Frontier Foundation and Its Project?

EFF is an international non-profit advocacy and legal organization in the United States with the  purpose of being dedicated to preserving the right to freedom of speech, protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, in the context of digital rights.

But what do they have to do with this TOS stuff? Well, for your information, they now provide you with  a tracker for updates of what’s happening in some organizations or companies’ TOS, either there is a change or not.

TOSBack (Terms of Service Tracker)

What is it? TOSBack is a tracker who keeps an eye on tens of website policies. Whenever there are changes in any of their policies, you will get the update in here so you will know when the time is to check out the policies.

With this new tool, you will not be left behind in getting the updates of TOS of the websites you join. This tracker will help you to know anything new with their TOS. So, get yourselves updated with what you’ve joined!

~Gabrielle~

I know that you must have been waiting to see our performance fact for May 2009 uptime. That’s why I am here to deliver the report. And as usual, there will be complete details about both of our web hosting clusters, the new cluster of Premium Hosting and our old cluster of web hosting.

Premium Hosting

Once again, our Premium Hosting shows its quality with the proof of its outstanding performance record. Last May, our Premium Hosting performed a great uptime of 99.991% on average all over the internet.

There was only 0.009% critical time reported for the regular scheduled maintenance, which means we reached over the standard as a web hosting service and even went beyond above the hope.

Old Cluster Web Hosting

Our web hosting service in the old cluster showed a number of 99.988% in May 2009 for their performance record, which is 99.99% when rounded up, meaning that we achieved our uptime guarantee.

All of our services except our POP service reached out 99.989% uptime in average, meaning that we just had around 0.011% critical time resulted from our regular scheduled maintenance.

Only our POP service that reached a little less in uptime, around 99.978% and had 0.022% critical time. However, we’ll continually improve our performance to be better and better again the next months.

See you around again soon for June Uptime record. Thanks for reading.

regards,

Gabrielle

Search engine is the savior for internet browsers. We use it to find anything we need in the internet - information, pictures, anything you need. If you are a real internet browser, you won’t be able to live without search engine.

And as everybody knows, Google is the king of search engines. When you are looking for something in the internet, people would rather say to you “google it” than “msn it or yahoo it”. However, have you heard that people are questioning if there’s gonna be another search engine to compete Google?

What’s New?

When people are now questioning if there will be a new search engine to compete google, Microsoft is going to update Live Search into Bing. They say it will bring you a better searching experience, including the ability to provide instant answers and a simpler but more colorful interface.

But with those new tools, I guess we all will say, Google has provided us with those. So, what do we actually really need in a perfect and complete search engine?

Perfect and Complete Search Engine

As far as I have experienced and concluded, a great search engine should be:

→ Complete: this means you can find everything you need here, any information or any picture.

→ Updated: this means when there are any new information or new websites, they will be indexed quickly.

→ Quick: this means results are given quickly and fast.

→ Relevant: this means it gives relevant results based on the keywords we type.

When a search engine is able to do all these, they are perfect for me.