Shared Hosting vs VPS vs Dedicated Hosting – which one should you choose for your website?

Every website needs web hosting to be online and the type of web hosting you choose is what determines if your website will stay online without any issues.  There are 3 main factors in play when choosing what type of web hosting, or server, is right for your website: 1) The first and most important factor to consider is TRAFFIC!  How much traffic you are getting and how much traffic you are expecting to get based on your website's traffic... Continue reading
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Are Alexa Site Rankings Accurate?

If you keep checking your website's Alexa Ranking you might be wondering if they are accurate.  Your traffic statistics are improving, but then at the same time your Alexa Rank is getting lower.  And then when your traffic statistics shows you are getting less activity, suddenly your Alexa Rank is a lot better.  Sometimes, you might get high traffic with a high Alexa Rank.  You might wonder perhaps Alexa's data is just not in real time.  The real reasons you... Continue reading
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Best web hosting control panel? cPanel

Different web hosting companies may offer different control panels to help you manage your files, database, create personal email accounts, make backups, and check on your traffic statistics.  While they all may do the same functions, how they do it are not the same.  Our preference is cPanel web hosting control panels, and it is what we offer with our web hosting packages too.  It is easy to use, with all the features you need.  Moreover, you can create a

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How to protect your unwatermarked photos and still offer automatic downloads after purchase

You might have heard that you can't really protect your unwatermarked, original photos online on your website and still offer automatic digital downloads after a customer purchases it.  The truth is that is a myth.  Photographers - you can protect your originals.  Writers you can protect your full-version e-books.  ...There are a lot of uses for this!  Just make sure you do it the right way.  What you don't want to do is store your photos/files on the file system... Continue reading
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How to choose a domain name for your website

To get found on Google and other top search engines, you need your very own domain name.  So how to choose one?  Here are some pointers:

1) Choose a domain name that has your business name in it, or an abbreviation of your business name.  For example, if your business name has "palo alto" in it, you could abbreviate that as "pa" - making it even easier to type in too, shorter.  It is a good idea to get both

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How to choose between creating a blog or website?

A blog and website are 2 different things.  Both are on the internet, both searchable and indexable on Google and Yahoo.  Both post your content.  So the difference between a blog and a website?  A blog is like a public online diary, publishing a chronology of posts.  A website consists of pages, apps, perhaps an online store, photo gallery - anything you want, and in any particular order you want.  Or rather, not really an order.  There's a navigation menu... Continue reading
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WordPress blog vs UltimateWB Articles App – Diary vs Online Magazine

Ultimate Web Builder (full  version) comes with both an integrated WordPress blog and a custom Articles App - so why both, what's the difference?  The WordPress blog should be used as a blog - kind of like an online diary, describing what's in the news, what's on your mind, etc.  The UltimateWB Articles App can be used more like an online magazine, sectioned into categories, with the ability to allow article submissions by other members or optionally also website visitors. 

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Raise Money for your Nonprofit Organization!

Posted on May 6, 2013 by admin
We are happy to announce a new fundraising program we are launching for nonprofit organizations - Raise money for your nonprofit organization with UltimateWB!  Choose a coupon code and we'll donate 20% for 2 months for anyone using it when they purchase UltimateWB software.
To get started, just contact us with your nonprofit organization info and the coupon code you want to use.  We will confirm the coupon code and the dates for your nonprofit fundraiser with UltimateWB. Read more
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What are pretty or clean URLs? They are good and UltimateWB has them!

If you're shopping around for a website builder, chances are you came across the term pretty URLs, or clean URLs.  If you're wondering what makes a url pretty or clean, here's the scoop. First things first, it's good to know that pretty/clean urls are good and you want them for your website!  A url is pretty or clean when it is in easily readable format for people.  So, the url consists of mostly words, with backslashes "/" to denote categories... Continue reading
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WordPress website hacked? How to fix it…!

If your website isn't displaying the way it should - for example the page header doesn't display - and your WordPress blog prints out an error instead of displaying your awesome blog posts - and you haven't changed anything -  it means your website has been hacked.   Chances are it is from your WordPress blog or its third party plugins you are using.  Perhaps from a backdoor, like when in 2011 three popular WordPress plugins (AddThis, WPtouch, and W3 Total

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