Archive for the ‘Website Hosting’ Category
Email Set Up Services
23December 2009
E-mail has become a very important part of industry change. It is in fact one of the most predominant forms of interaction within any organization. Therefore it is extremely important that an e-mail client be set up in a way that provides uniformity for all of the personnel within the business. Setting up an e-mail client with different rules for different users can in fact defeat the very purpose of using a single e-mail client. It must also be customized depending on your specific requirements.
Once your website has its own hosting space it should have access to e-mail accounts which contain your domain name. For example you should be able to establish e-mail addresses like sales@yourcompany.com or support@yourcompany.com. Using your domain name for your e-mail accounts adds to the legitimacy of your business. While it is possible to use e-mail services that are supplied by your Internet service provider or even a free e-mail service such as hotmail or Gmail, choosing those options tends to put you in a particular category, one which does not reflect the legitimacy that your company offers. In order to make this as easy as possible Max Distro LLC offers e-mail set up services. For anyone who is less familiar with Outlook, Thunderbird, or whichever e-mail client that your company chooses to use this can be very helpful.
There are quite a few different e-mail set up services are available today. There is a simple setup that allows the company to get up and running quickly. It is a very basic service yet effective. Some companies may choose to use e-mail campaigns that are custom designed specifically for their industry or a niche product promotion. This works well with an event invitation set up. Event invitations can be customized to your brand and e-mailed to all of your recipients.
It is also possible to create surveys within your e-mail client. This way, rather than requiring a customer to visit your website it is possible for them to provide feedback information via e-mail. One of the benefits of survey creation through e-mail is that it is easily accessible by mobile devices. Since many browsers which are built into mobile devices are limited, being able to respond to the survey rather than having to actually visit website can prove to be very convenient.
Setting up an e-mail campaign is another way to add a direct marketing technique to your existing advertising tools. In fact as you may have noticed e-mail marketing has snowballed tremendously within the last 10 years. While forms of e-mail marketing can be very annoying, those that are invited by your prospective or existing clients are far less bothersome and less likely to end up in the spam folder. While most unsolicited e-mails are seen as a nuisance, receiving an announcement of a sale, promotion, or other event that is related to a product that we have either purchased or shown interest in can be very inviting. If you are not currently conducting e-mail campaigns to market your products now is a good time to do so. Feel free to contact us at support@maxdistro.com regarding e-mail set up.
Website Hosting Considerations
19December 2009
Every website owner at one time or another will come to a point where he has to decide upon a hosting service. One of the first sings that you might want to do before choosing who your web-hosting provider is to become fully aware of what your hosting requirements are. For someone starting out with a relatively small website, the main concern should be that they get a decent amount of disk space. There are hosts that can start any where from five dollars a month and up and for a beginner this can often be sufficient. On the other hand for a company who wishes to establish a significant web presence is important to choose a web hosting service that offers more than just a certain amount of disk space.
It’s a good idea to know approximately what your space and bandwidth requirements will be. Even though with a new website it might be a little difficult to predict these factors, consulting with your developer should help you to make a rough determination. A lot of web hosting providers offer a fairly generous amount of disk space anywhere from 1 GB to 3 GB in their standard packages. But if you are planning to operate a website which acts as some sort of download resource then your requirements for disk space may be far greater than this amount. Another consideration you want to make is how much your website is expected to be seen as far as traffic. This should help you to make an estimate of your bandwidth requirements.
It is absolutely imperative that your website stays live. For this reason the industry standard for uptime, or the percentage of time in which your website can be reliably accessed, is 99. 5%. At Max Distro LLC we are proud to continue to offer our guarantee of 99.9% uptime.
You should definitely be certain that the company that you plan to choose as your web-hosting provider is licensed and is currently running a corporate office in order to ensure its legitimacy in the industry. A lot of people say that a very good web hosting company would have established themselves within the industry for a minimum of five years. At the same time they are able to remain dynamic and flexible.
Fast servers are another concern when it comes to choosing a website hosting provider. On the average web visitors wait roughly 30 seconds before a web page loads. If your website takes more than 30 seconds to load there’s a good chance you will lose a lot of your visitors and consequently sales.
Last but not least keep in mind that the old adage “you get what you pay for” still holds true. While it is possible to find inexpensive or even free website hosting, rest assured that hiring a professional leaves far less to risk. Can you afford to take unnecessary chances with your business?