Internet Marketing, Web Technologies & News – Best Web Ezy

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Recently one of my sites have been down for more than 24 hours.  During these 24 hours I basically receive no income at all from the site and its related affiliate stores.  This makes me realise how important it is to have a reliable web host.  And you probably won’t notice, but Best Web Ezy has been switched to iPowerWeb since yesterday.  So far I found iPowerWeb is very reliable, and their support staff are friendly and helpful.  (Believe me, I have met unfriendly and unhelpful support staff from the previous host, and hence I won’t regret to leave them.)

I have compiled a list of 10 web hosts with affiliate programs.  Apart from choosing the best web host for yourself, you can now earn lucrative commission by introducing your clients and friends to sign up!

1. Just Host

Affiliate Commission: $60

Monthly Fee: $3.95 / month <- Current Special!
Specs: Unlimited space, traffic, email, domain, database
Freebies: site builder, domain, $25 Google Adwords credit, $25 Yahoo ad credit, $25 Miva ad credit,e-commerce shopping carts

2. InMotion Hosting

Affiliate Commission $50 (1-2 sales) or $100 (3+ sales)

Monthly Fee: from $3 / month
Specs: host up to 16 sites, unlimited parked domains, unlimited space, traffic, spam safe email, up to 200 MySQL databases, FTP, Max Speed Zone Enabled, data backup, site builder
Freebies: domain name or transfer

3. Web Hosting Pad

Affiliate Commission: $75
Monthly Fee: $2.99 / month <- Current Special!
Specs: Unlimited space, traffic, domains, database, emails, FTP
Freebies: Site builder, $25 Google Adwords credit, $25 Yahoo ad credit, $50 Miva credit, domain name, anti-virus, anti-spam, domain privacy protection

4. Start Logic

Affiliate Commission $100

Monthly Fee: from $3.95 / month
Specs: Unlimited space, traffic, emails, domains, 25 databases
Freebies: No setup fee, site builder, domain, $50 Google Adwords credit, $25 Yahoo credit, marketing guides

5. HostGator

Affiliate Commission $50 – $125

Monthly Fee: $4.95 / month
Specs: Unlimited space, traffic, sub-domains, FTP, Database, emails
Freebies: Site builder, $25 Google Adwords credit

6. IX Web Hosting

Affiliate Commission: up to $150 (payout rate $360 or above)

Monthly Fee: From $3.95 / month
Specs: Unlimited space, traffic, domains, sub-domains, FTP, Database, emails
Freebies: up to 3 free domain names, up to $150 ad coupons

7. GoDaddy

Affiliate Commission: $105 for hosting & 20% on other products (Commission Junction, cheque or direct deposit only)

Monthly Fee: from $4.25 / month
Specs: 10GB Space, 300GB Transfer, 100 emails, 10 MySQL databases, 50 email forwards
Freebies: software, GoDaddy Hosting Connection, $20 Google Adwords credit, $25 MS adCenter credit, $50 Facebook ad credit

8. Yahoo! Web Hosting

Affiliate Commission: from $60 (web hosting) or 20% of transaction (domains) (Commission Junction, cheque or direct deposit only)

Monthly Fee: from $7.46 / month
Specs: Unlimited space, traffic, 1000 emails (unlimited storage),
Freebies: domain name, site design tools, photo, audio and video galleries, antivirus, $100 Yahoo ad credit, $50 Google Adwords credit, 30% off Yahoo Local Enhanced Listings, trial of GOT Campaigner, marketing guides, tracking, track ranking

9. IPowerWeb

Affiliate Commission: $100 (Min payout $100, make one sale and you would be able to receive funds)

Monthly Fee: $5.95 / month
Specs: Unlimited space, traffic, domain hosting, 2500 emails, 25 database
Freebies: domain name, form mail script, $25 Yahoo ad credit, $50 Google Adwords credit, RatePoint 60-day membership, Carbonite Online Backup, SubmitNet, spam filter

10. LunarPages

Affiliate Commission: $65 ($5 2nd tier commissions), tailored landing pags at 150 referrals/month, rate negotiable if 80+ applications per month.

Monthly Fee: from $4.95 / month
Specs: Unlimited space, traffic, databases, add-on domains, sub-domains, parked domains
Freebies: free domain name, free setup, Apache 2, script support, full registered versions of WinSettings and Photo TurboBackup by FileStream, Logo Creator Entertainment and Sports Editions, 60 days free at RatePoint, 15 DNS level Gafana spam, virus protection, and email management accounts, $100 LinkWorth free advertising credits and $20 in Bidvertiser clicks, DeepTrawl website error checker, plus 3 months of VisitorVille web stats! – valued at over $700 – Absolutely FREE!

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Best Web Ezy’s New Home
I have just moved this blog into the new hosting environment.  As I mentioned before, I am moving this blog to a US based hosting because I figured out that most of the audiences are from the US.  And I want to keep my AU based server for the Australasia clients.  Therefore recently, I have migrated to Cirtex Hosting.

So far, no complaints.  All goes well.  Uptime is good, technical support is fast in responding to my emails.  If you are looking for a web host, I would suggest you to use Cirtex Hosting.

Best Web Ezy’s New Skin
As you probably have noticed, I have changed the theme of this blog again.  This time, it is an SEO friendly theme.  I am planning to keep using this theme for a long time.  There are a few bits and pieces to be fixed, but generally, I am happy with this.

I chose this skin because it is not the usual John Chow style theme, which you might have noticed a lot of similar themes around.  They look like copycats of John Chow.  And the color is fresh.  It is the 2-column style that I always like to work with.  I am still tweaking it a bit as I plan to put a few products of my own here.  Talking about that, please look out for my upcoming publication.  I am sure (I hope) it would be a good reference for webmasters.

Best Web Ezy’s New Backbone
Last but not least, Wordpress 2.5.1.  I was always lazy to upgrade the blog but I thought I should use this chance to upgrade as well.  I think this is the best version so far.  The admin interface is so different now, but it is so much easier to work with.

I had a bit of problem migrating the database across.  There was an encoding problem.  Apparently the previous version of Wordpress was using Latin 1 Swedin as encoding method for the MySQL database.  When I got it imported into the new version, there are strange words all over the place.

After a bit of search on the internet (well, where else) I have found the solution:

1. Export the database into a .sql file
2. Change the encoding from Latin1 to utf8
3. Import into the new database with utf8 as default encoding
4. Edit the wp-config file by commenting out the encoding line
5. Upgrade the Wordpress version to 2.5.1

And that’s done.  Nice and easy.

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