Before you can install WrodPress on your server first you have to make sure that your web hosting plan supports PHP and MySQL, two essential elements needed in order for your WordPress powered web site to function. If you are not sure if your web hosting plan offers this support you can simply call your web hosing provider to find out or you can try to upload a PHP file to your server to see if it works. We have described in on of our articles how you can check if PHP is supported and even check the latest version of PHP on your server.

 

Installing WordPress with Fantastico Installer.

Many web hosting providers offer you to install WordPress through Fantasctico scripts, along with variety of other blogger platforms, content management systems and need little web design gadgets. The benefit of Installing WordPress or other applications via Fantascito is that it is very quick and literally you can have your website up and running withing 15 minutes.

Installing Wordpress without Fantastico Installer.

While some web hosting providers do not offer Fantastico installer, they still may offer you a script to install WordPress. Again installation should be quick and easy. Both through Fantasctico and script installation you will be guided step by step to set up necessary elements like database and database administrator.

If your web hosting provider does not offer neither Fantastico or other script to install your WordPress, but supports PHP and MySQL, you can download and install WordPress by yourself. At www.wordpress.org you can find the latest version of WordPress together with installation instruction. This installation requires you to set up a MySQL database that your WordPress will use to store the data. Also this database should already exist on your server when installing WordPress.

Is it possible to run multiple WordPress sites on one server?

Not only it is possible but many web masters do have multiple installation of WordPress on their server. You can also consider installing so called Multiple User platform of WordPress. But if you plan to run your website let say in two different languages, multiple installation would be your best choice.

 

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When registering domains, many web hosting providers offer you an option to keep your private contact information from being displayed on the sites like WHOIS. This option is called Domain Privacy. Below is the example of how you information would appear on WHOIS with and without Domain Privacy.

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Every time some one uses submission form provided by the search engines to submit a site, a thank you note comes up and a statement that it may take more than few weeks for your website to be listed with that particular search engine. If this is the only method you use to promote your website it is very likely to take more than few weeks for your site to appear in the search engines.

If you would like your website to be listed in the major search engines like Google, Yahoo or MSN, it is much better if they discover your website on their own. One way they can find your website is to have and incoming high quality link from another website to your own website. High quality does not necessarily mean high rank, it simply means a link to your website on the website that is being frequently indexed by search engines. You can achieve in several different ways:

Find a blog that is closely related to the content of your website. If you can post comments on that blog, take this opportunity, but do not post senseless and unrelated comments, otherwise your comments may be deleted.

Many people have reported that their sites got indexed if they have shared the content of their website on the sites like www.digg.com and www.bluedot.us. These two sites are highly trafficked sites, and on top of being indexed frequently by the search engines may send your way many visitors.

Finally use on line article distribution websites. Many web-masters are  constantly looking for a good quality content to include in their website or a newsletter. When submitting an article remember to include a link back to your website. This can be done by either inserting the link in the content of your article or in the reference space provided just for that purpose. You should read the terms of service first, since some of the sites will not allow you to have a link in the first paragraph of your article and you may be limited to a certain number of links your article can contain.

Web-masters that have used above methods to promote their website report that their websites were indexed by the search engines as quickly as 48 hours from the time they submitted articles and content to other high trafficked web-sites.

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Every time some one uses submission form provided by the search engines to submit a site, a thank you note comes up and a statement that it may take more than few weeks for your website to be listed with that particular search engine. If this is the only method you use to promote your website it is very likely to take more than few weeks for your site to appear in the search engines.

If you would like your website to be listed in the major search engines like Google, Yahoo or MSN, it is much better if they discover your website on their own. One way they can find your website is to have and incoming high quality link from another website to your own website. High quality does not necessarily mean high rank, it simply means a link to your website on the website that is being frequently indexed by search engines. You can achieve in several different ways:

Find a blog that is closely related to the content of your website. If you can post comments on that blog, take this opportunity, but do not post senseless and unrelated comments, otherwise your comments may be deleted.

Many people have reported that their sites got indexed if they have shared the content of their website on the sites like www.digg.com and www.bluedot.us. These two sites are highly trafficked sites, and on top of being indexed frequently by the search engines may send your way many visitors.

Finally use on line article distribution websites. Many web-masters are  constantly looking for a good quality content to include in their website or a newsletter. When submitting an article remember to include a link back to your website. This can be done by either inserting the link in the content of your article or in the reference space provided just for that purpose. You should read the terms of service first, since some of the sites will not allow you to have a link in the first paragraph of your article and you may be limited to a certain number of links your article can contain.

Web-masters that have used above methods to promote their website report that their websites were indexed by the search engines as quickly as 48 hours from the time they submitted articles and content to other high trafficked web-sites.

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In exchange for your offer we will post a link back to your website for 180 days as long as your website does not feature pornography or promotes any illegal activities.

We currently have no plans to remove reviews (and links) from our website. But as our website grows, we will post only most current reviews and therefore older reviews either will be deleted or will be archived as long as our web hosting space permits it.

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The world of the Internet and specifically of web hosting industry is such that you do not need to live near by your hosting provider in order to use their services. In fact you do not really need to be in the same country where the hosting providers is based. You will find that most of the web hosting providers offer services worldwide.

But if you live in Chicago, for example, and it would give you a peace of mind to use a locally based provider, AN Hosting may be just right provider for you.

What to expect from AN Hosting.

AN Hosting is relatively new web hosting provider, it has been in business only since 2001. Over the period of last 5 years AN Hosting has grown into a worldwide web hosting provider, with thousands of customers in well over one hundred countries.

At the time of writing this article AN Hosting was offering an all inclusive web hosting plan at relatively low price of $6.95 a month. The web hosting plan included:

• 49,000 MB of disk space
• 999,000 MB of bandwidth
• Host 10 Domains on 1 Account
• Free Domain for Life!
• 30 day money back guarantee
• 24/7 phone/e-mail support

Things to consider before choosing AN Hosting.

If you are looking for a web hosting provider that would bill you on month to month basis, AN Hosting is not for you. While offering a low price and a 30 day money back guarantee, you need to pay in advance for the entire term of service.

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Difference between Sub-domains, Parked Domains and Add-On Domains

Whenever you purchase a web-hosting plan, you may be allowed to have certain number of Sub-Domains, Parked Domains and Add-On Domains in your account. This number differs from one hosting provider to another, but generally speaking most of the providers offer you certain number of each and some even allow you to have unlimited number of domains and sub domains.

So what is the difference?

The difference lies in the way you access your websites.

Sub-domains.
When you create a sub-domain for your website you will be asked to point that sub-domain to a particular directory on your website. Let say that your website’s URL is http://www.mysite.com and you installed a Bulletin Board application in a directory “forum”, then the full URL to that directory will be www.mysite.com/forum. Now you can create a sub domain named “forum” which will point to the URL http://www.mysite.com/forum. Internet users will be able to access your website by using either  http://forum.mysite.com or http://www.mysite.com/forum.

Parked Domains.
Parked domains allow you to point two or more different domains to the same web page. Let us presume that you have following domains http://www.mysite.com, http://www.my-site.biz, http://www.my-other-site.com. If these domains are parked domains and pointing to the same web page, no matter what address an Internet user will type in their browser, he will arrive to the same web page.

Add-On Domains.
With add on domains you have an option of operating several different domains independent of each other. I showed in the above example domains http://www.mysite.com, http://www.my-site.biz, http://www.my-other-site.com. Will point Internet user to three different websites if these domains are designated as Add-On Domains.

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