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Top 5 Shared Hosting Comparison

Maloney Graham — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 10:03:04 +0000

It’s important to choose the best hosting plan and hosting service provider. More importantly, choosing the right type of web hosting service will maximize benefits and save costs. Unfortunately, the illness of contemporary times is that a vast majority of webmasters fail to seek enough information on hosting package suits, features and metrics.

This article sheds light on the best web hosting providers and throws an insight into various factors to be considered when choosing a hosting provider.

Before we get our acts together, let’s first understand the meaning of shared hosting.

Read on.

Shared Hosting

Shared hosting is a type of web hosting in which multiple websites utilize the resources of a single server. It’s the most economical type of hosting. To manage your sites, you can use the built-in Control Panel.

Truth be told, for websites with huge traffic, shared hosting isn’t recommended.
When searching for a reliable web hosting, honor the following factors:

• Bandwidth & Storage

Evaluate your bandwidth and storage requirements. If you are just starting up, you are likely to have budget constraints. It makes a lot of sense to go with that plan which is well within your budget.

• Uptime

Uptime is a good performance metric. It signifies the amount of time a shared hosting provider keeps the servers running and operational. Uptime should be at-least 99.9%.

• Costs

Technically, there are two types of costs involved – hosting costs and renewal costs. Many dedicated and shared hosting providers lure adult webmasters with discounted prices. But here’s a caveat – Renewal prices are exorbitant. Do not fall into this trap.

• Technical Support

Round the clock support is expected of shared hosting providers. Multi-channel (phone, live chat and email) support is desirable.

• Upgrade Options

As mentioned in one of the above paragraphs, shared hosting isn’t ideal for adult tube sites that receive huge traffic. If your adult tube site receives less than 1000 visitors per day, then shared hosting is ideal. It’s better to go for dedicated hosting if your website receives significant and precious traffic.

Let’s now acquaint ourselves with the features of top shared hosting providers:

Ehost

This shared hosting provider guarantees an uptime of 99.98% along with an impressive response time of 499ms. While there are many hosting plans, I recommend its 36 month plan. You can avail its services for just $2.75 per month.

It’s a well-known fact that adult domains cost around $15 per year. When you opt for this hosting provider, you will get an adult domain for free. And yes, there’s a 45-day money back scheme.

You can use the free website builder. It is user intuitive.

iPage

iPage is yet another top shared hosting provider. iPage guarantees 99.97% uptime and the response time stands at 384ms. In all honesty, this is often recommended for beginners. There is a bundle of benefits. For instance, you can host multiple domains and websites. You can take advantage of benefits such as scalable bandwidth and unlimited storage.

There’s an option to upgrade to VPS or dedicated hosting. Apart from single click WordPress installation, there’s a site builder.

Here’s another noteworthy feature – iPage offers $200 marketing credits. They can be used in popular search engine networks.

InMotion

Compared to Ehost and iPage, InMotion is a bit costly. This top shared hosting costs you $4.19 per month and rightly so, as it guarantees 99.99% uptime. It is developer friendly. Right from supporting different types of databases such as MySQL, Ruby, PHP, PostgreSQL, etc., to allowing SSH access to dedicated and shared accounts, InMotion has many provisions to help you grow your adult business.

What excites me is the fact that there’s a 90-day money back guarantee. Domain name registration is free and data back-ups are also free. Many shared hosting providers charge a fortune for automatic data backup.

Let’s now look at Bluehost and Web Hosting Hub

Have any doubts or queries? Shoot them in the comments. I shall reply in a day or two. My best wishes are with you and your adult business. Cheers!

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Why You Shouldn't Use Wix for Your Adult Website

Maloney Graham — Tue, 31 Jul 2018 12:51:54 +0000

Being the CEO of a responsible turnkey solutions company, many client often ask me this question – How to start an adult site? It’s appalling that even experienced business analysts who are into adult consulting fail to provide genuine answers to this question.

Adult web masters are not interested in hiring web and API developers to get their adult site built. I agree, the conventional and age-old approach of designing, configuring, building and launching websites is not financially feasible. More importantly, it’s an extremely time-consuming process.

But choosing wrong site builders such as Wix is detrimental. Wix has some amazing themed templates. Every month, web masters need to pay a price. To a few webmasters, Wix is affordable. To others, it isn’t. You should know why not to use Wix for your adult website.

Adult websites built by using DIY (Do It Yourself) site builders such as Wix attract little traffic.

Let’s understand the reasons. Read on.

Search Engine Optimization

There are more than 5 million adult websites on the web. If you use DIY site builders, your adult tube site becomes a needle in a haystack.

Wix has a terrible URL hierarchy. Website page names aren’t legible. More importantly, they aren’t search engine friendly and search engine readable.

To chase bigger glories on the web, you should meticulously handle on-page SEO and off-page SEO. Without having access to website code, it’s impossible to continuously monitor your adult website for potential SEO issues.

Website builders such as Wix hide code from web masters. Wix provides ridiculously laughable recommendations such as employing 301 re-directs to enhance findability on Google. This is one of those recommendation with loads of insignificance and zero merit.

DIY website builders like Wix use visual editors. There’s a lot of unnecessary code. There’s a lot of redundant and abundant HTML code which is potentially detrimental to adult SEO.

Let me emphasize again - If you do NOT have complete control of your website, you cannot build SEO friendly adult websites.

Flash

Wix websites use Flash technology. Flash is obsolete. It’s dead and right from amateurs to professionals, nobody is trying to revive this not-so adult content friendly technology. Flash is good for animations and games. But it’s a terrible choice for adult websites.

Flash doesn’t let adult webmasters create crawl-able content. Adult SEO is incomplete, sketchy and patchy without crawl-able content.

Templates

No doubt, templates are amazing and eye-catchy. But your website will be restricted to the templates that Wix offers. There’s a big lot of ignorant and naïve adult webmasters using the same templates. As a result, there’s a strong resemblance.

Let me tell you – Wix has more than 90 million users. Unsurprisingly, all the 90 million users use the same designer-made templates provided by Wix.

Audiences are likely to be bored. There’s no difference. There’s no innovation in site design.

It’s easy to choose a template from a group of templates. This approach may work for blogs. It may work for jewelry business. It may work for an online fashion portal. Definitely, it doesn’t work for adult tube sites.

Limited Pages

Wix websites often contain limited number of pages. This can be attributed to the fact that Wix offers only one web page for the lowest plan. This is a bad practice in many ways.

For all intents and purposes, a website should contain more than a single web page. Authoritative adult tube sites contain more than a thousand web pages.

As a matter of fact, higher the number of web pages, the better the internet traffic is. Website content is a function of the number of web pages. People love content – be it images, text, videos etc. Google loves content. Search engines love content. You are limiting your earning potential by limiting your content.

Hosting

Wix hosts your content. This is a pain point. When you have a WordPress site or a Silverstripe blog, there are a bundle of web hosting companies wanting your money to host your content.

Of course, not every web hosting company is good. Some are good. Some are bad. Some are exceptionally great. Some are adult content friendly. Some aren’t.

When you build your Wix website, you cannot opt for third party web hosting services. This is a major limitation with almost all DIY site builders.

This major limitation brings me to the next point. It’s not possible even remotely to transfer / migrate your data from Wix to other platforms.

This isn’t a sustainable strategy in the long run. So, what’s the solution? Adult CMS

User Experience

Great user experience can multiply your sales in no time. Bad user experience can dismiss your adult tube site into oblivion. Adult tube sites should be built on standard prototypes. User flows should be established. CTAs (Call to Action) should be incorporated.

Site architecture should be horizontally scalable. Sales funnel should be scientific. Otherwise, user experience will be terrible. Bad user experience will result in poor customer engagement.

To be upfront, Wix websites are lazy bones. User experience is bad if not terrible.

Security

Wix hosts several thousands of websites on the same server. This can be a huge problem. Picture this scenario for a minute. If someone were to hack the server, every single website hosted on the server will be compromised. The very thought of hard-earned money going down the drain sends shudders.

In essence, there are many drawbacks with Wix. Is there a way around? Yes!
Get yourself the best adult CMS (Content Management System). Make no mistake – Adult CMS and DIY website builders are like chalk and cheese. They are different in many ways.

Adult site CMS tools let you create adult content friendly sites. You can monitor your site code. In other words, you have complete control of your site code. As a result, on-page SEO can be improved. Off-page SEO can be taken to the next best level, all thanks to built-in SEO features.

There are no restrictions or limit on the number of web pages. You can host your adult content on third party servers. As a matter of fact, you can migrate your content from adult hosting platform to another.

Payments are facilitated through adult merchant friendly payment gateways such as CCBill, Epoch, etc. More importantly, transactions are secure.

You can either go with a shared hosting plan or a dedicated hosting plan. It’s left to your discretion. Adult CMS platforms have custom made templates which are far better than pre-made templates. Audiences are intelligent than they appear. They very well know the difference a pre-made template and custom-made template.

Adult site CMS tools do not have redundant code. There are hardly any bad HTML elements. In conclusion, adult CMS tools are recommended.

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