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A slow Internet connection can be caused by a number of reasons. And now we will list some of the most common reasons for slow Internet connection.

1. The traffic of targeted website
The issue would be easily at their end if you are visiting a particular site or service. Once the bandwidth or the website you are visiting is insufficient or the load is too high, the web pages on that website will load slowly. When people are at home (off work or school) or during weekends, your Internet will be even slower if you try visiting these web sites.

In this case, it is best to visit the site after a while, or, visit another site that provides similar information.

2. The location of targeted website
The location of the web site you are visiting can also determine the speed of your Internet connection. Accessing a web site that is in a different part of the world will be slower than accessing a web site that is hosted closer to you.

3. ISP Network maintenance
The maintenance on network or equipment of your Internet Service Provider (ISP) will also slow down your Internet. Sometimes you even cannot access the web pages you want during the maintenance.

4. The quality of the phone line you are using
Most of the connections made between networks are done over phone lines, therefore the stability of your phone line can also determine your Internet speed. The better the phone lines are, the better your Internet connection will be.

The above are cases that out of your control, while the following are some issues possibly at your end and you can try to boost the Internet speed with corresponding operation.

5. Too many programs starting up at boot up time
When you boot up your PC, not only necessary driver software but also a lot of applications will be enabled. Too many unnecessary startup programs will lead to sluggish machine startup. Besides, the computer resource and memories will also be consumed faster.

You can go to the start menu and disable some unnecessary startup programs.

6. Performing lots of things on the Internet
You probably find that the Internet turns slow when you are doing more than two or three things on the Internet. The situation will be even worse if one of the operations is video, game or other type of files downloading.

Do not run so many applications at a time, the heavy load will make your Internet slow, slow and slow.

7. Computer worms
Virus including computer worms will result in slow Internet connection and software infection.
Remember to keep your antivirus and security software up to dat to avoid virus infection. And be wary of opening attachments or clicking on links in e-mails from people you don’t know.

8. Insufficient system resource
One of the reasons for slow Internet is that you’ve run too many applications or plug-ins in the backend. Install only necessary applications and remove those unused ones, reduce the server load and improve Internet speed.

9. High CPU usage
High CPU usage will lead to slow Internet loading too.

10. Problems with your own network configuration or equipment
Sometimes slow Internet connection may be caused by improper network configuration (such as cache setting, virtual dialup setting of EnterNet 300 on Windows System and so on) or your computer equipment (Maybe your PC is too old to run fast).

As far as the former is concerned, you can modify the settings and it is OK. While when it comes to the later situation, well, you will probably have to buy a new one to instead of your old PC.

11. Computer running nonstop
Sometimes the Internet suddenly becomes slow during your usage, while there seems nothing wrong with the targeted website, the ISP or your network. In fact, everything is OK except that your computer has run for such a long time that he wants a break. Try rebooting it and see whether that is OK.

If you have any other reason for the slow Internet, please share it with us in the comment. We’d love to hear what you think.

Tags: Computer worms, High CPU usage, Insufficient system resource, Internet connection, ISP Network maintenance, phone line, traffic

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Internet has penetrated all aspects of the world we live in with the development of web technology. And as the backbone of the web world, website becomes increasingly popular: governments publicize their policies with websites, businesses adopt website as their online promotion tools, and persons use websites to show their minds and stories.

How can we design an excellent web site? Successful websites have their own features, while they also have something in common.

1. Positioning: Positioning indicates the orientation of your website, which is also the essential of your website.

Do not always expect a large portal. Website positioning should base on the reality and market demand. For example, HostEase is a web hosting website whose positioning is providing easy hosting products to the users.

2. Stability: The Stability is the prerequisite to a great website and one of the keys to search engine optimization.

Select a reliable web host for your website and no not operate website maintenance frequently. You will leave and never come back if you fail in accessing a website for several times, and so do your website visitors.

3. Keywords: During the search engine optimization, you’ll center the work on keywords. We know that the right keywords can drive more traffic. And what are the right keywords for your website or posts? It is your job to figure it out and attract more traffic for your website.

4. Links: It is the quality rather than the quantity that matters when it comes to the links on your website.
Try to look for high-quality websites that receive high Page Rank and more indexes to exchange links. If you exchange links with those who have once been “punished” by the search engines, your website will also be

5. Loading speed: The loading speed is something basic for a website.
No one likes to waste his time on a website that is always “loading”, and no one can ensure that a website that takes long to load is a great website. So, you should also improve your website’s loading speed.

6. Web design: A successful website should have not only quality content but also great layout and design.
The layout of your website structure should be easy to navigate and aesthetic. If it is difficult for people to find what they are looking for, or they feel uncomfortable about your layout, they won’t stick around long.

Tags: keywords, links, loading speed, Positioning, Stability, web design, Website

“Oops. Something went wrong.”

No matter how hard you work to make sure every link on your website goes to a specific web page, there’s always a chance that a link clicked will be unavailable and become the famous 404 Error: Page Not Found page.

The 404 Not Found page can be one of the most hated screens on the Internet. Visitors type a URL in the address bar or click a link on your website, wait with the hope that they can find what they need on your website. Disappointingly, what appears on the screen says “404 ERROR NOT FOUND”.

Visitors could not find the information they need, feel disappointed and hover their cursors on the “x” button on the upper right corner of the browser. They are ready to leave your site. If that comes true, you’ll lose them.

But wait! Why don’t you prevent the visitors’ leave with a message more useful than “Not Found”? Unless you have already written custom error messages, the standard message will be in plain text which leaves visitors feeling a bit lost.

So as not to lose those visitors, you should at least custom the error message and provide useful information for visitors.

To custom a friendly 404 Error Page, you should include the following information on your custom 404 Error page:

1. Error message which is shorter but sweeter.
Design your own error message and make them appear on your 404 page. Words such as “Sorry File Not Found” or “You searched something that doesn’t exist” would be much better than “404 Error Page Not Found”.

Also tell the visitors that you’ve been notified of the error and it will be rectified shortly.

2. Links or information that may be helpful for the visitors
Create a link list with some text. List some related articles on your website based on the visitors’ previous browsing. Visitors can click any of the links as they wish and reach another web page of your site.

3. A search box
If you have a site search, add it to your 404 page and let the visitors search what they were looking for.

4. Your contact information
You can display an email address or a comment form on the error page so that visitors can contact you.

5. A link to the sitemap (if you have one)

6. Make your website logo appear on the error page is also a good idea.

Some open source systems do not offer Error Page customization, which is harmful to search engine optimization. If the content management system you are using provide Error Page customization feature, you can have a try and create a custom error page of your own.

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1. Why should my web site need to be optimized?

Over 70% of the Internet users are seeking goods and services to purchase, and the main seeking tool on the web is search engine. Usually users only scan the first few pages of the search result and make a decision. If you want to see your goods or service being used by more people, you’d better optimized your website and try to make it appear on the first page, or at least the first two or three pages of the search result. That’s the reason your web site need to be optimized.

2. What is the SEO effect about xxx.xxx.com?

We can make a simple SEO evaluation mainly through the following aspects: 1) Whether the navigations and links of a website present in the form of HTML. 2) Whether the website adopts static URLs 3) Whether does the keyword optimized well, which includes the title, keywords setup, keyword density control and so on. 4) Is the structure of the website reasonable? Does the website utilize a few simple SEO tips?

3. How to check the competitiveness of a keyword?

1) Times the word has been searched (The more times is, the popular the word will be) 2) Whether the keyword is a commercial one? (Words that have something to do with business is more competitive than normal words) 3) The keyword indexing by search engines (It is difficult to optimize a keyword that has been indexed a lot by the search engines)

4. Will domain name affect a lot?

When it comes to SEO, it is said that a website with top level domains (TLD) such as .edu or .gov have advantages over top level domains like .com, .org, .net and so on. For newly-build sites there may be some difference as far as TLD is concerned, while for a fully-grown website, there’s little difference. Domain names with keyword included will be helpful to search ranking, such as the word “host” of www.hostease.com.

5. What is the most important factor of SEO?

The assessment on the relativity and professionalness of website content will be the mainstream of search engine development. Therefore, search engine optimization should focus on keywords research, keyword positioning, website content edit and distribution.

6. How often do the search engines update?

How long will my optimization take effect? Search engines update their web pages database daily and rank the websites for a keyword every two or three days. Generally, the search results of a given keyword won’t change largely except the search engine adopts another algorithm. While for a given web site, there’s chance for its search ranking to drop dramatically if the website is punished by the search engine. And usually it will take three to six months for your search engine optimization to have effect. However the time also depends on whether you work hard.

7. Why Google do not index my website?

Normally, websites with no illegal information will all be indexed by search engines. If your website hasn’t been indexed by a search engine, here’s a good chance that there’s something wrong with your website (such as illegal information or incorrect HTML format included). You can check your log files for possible reasons. Note: It will take several days or even weeks for new web pages to be taken into account.

8. Is there any way to raise my PageRank in a short term?

You can improve your PR quickly by SEO cheat, which is not recommended, for the effect bring by SEO cheat are temporary. If your website is found cheating during SEO, your website will be blocked and you will lose the money you put in.

9. My web site has been inaccessible for two days.

Will it affect the ranking in the search engines? Make your web site available as soon as possible. The search engine robot or crawler will consider websites which keep inaccessible for a long time as invalid websites, and gradually clean out the indexed data of such websites.

10. Is there any technical requirement to practice SEO?

You don’t have to write the website applications, but at least you must understand a little simple html language.

11. What about the future of  SEO?

SEO will be the essential of online marketing in the future. Currently, SEO is heavily in heavy demand among larger websites such as B2B business or B2C E-commerce sites.

Tags: Domain Name, key word, PageRank, search engine, SEO

Recently, some customers ask if they can use their former nameservers instead of changing the nameservers to HostEase’s. Here I’ll give some explanation on it.

It’s known that a domain name will be managed by at least two nameservers (ex> ns1.hostease.com & ns2.hostease.com) after being registered. Usually, these two nameservers belong to the domain registrar where you register your domain name. For example, if you registered a domain name at Godaddy.com, your default ns will be Godaddy’s. Once you heard that HostEase’s web hosting is good and reliable, you plan to purchase HostEase’s web hosting. After paying for the order you have placed, the new account information will be sent to you. And you will see one sentence as followed: If you are using an existing domain with your new hosting account, you will need to update the nameservers to point to the nameservers listed below.

Nameserver 1: ns1.hostease.com (174.37.94.191)
Nameserver 2: ns2.hostease.com (67.228.202.115)

Why? Some people may be a little puzzled. Well, in fact, you can use your former ns, but sometimes it may bring some inconvenience to you. For example, if you purchase basic hosting package from HostEase.com and you will enjoy unlimited addon domain feature. But you will find that it’s not possible for you to add a domain in your cPanel if you don’t change your ns to HostEase’s. And also if you plan to add a subdomain, you have to add a A record in you domain control panel. Every time you should make corresponding domain record in you former domain control panel after operating in Domains of your cPanel. But if you have changed your ns to HostEase’s, it will help you add corresponding domain record when you add a subdomain or change the MX record and etc…. I believe you have already understood why you should use HostEase’s ns when using its hosting.

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Web hosting users will find it is inconvenient when they want to extend some feature but have to contact their web host providers. It will take a long time to get things up and running. What’s worse, some providers even cannot offer their customers the extra features they want.
But with a cPanel system, everything is in hand. By operating on the control panel, you can get all that you want without contacting the web host provider. It is said that if there’s some feature cPanel cannot offer, probably it’s something not suitable on a virtual host at all.
cPanel is the most powerful and easy-to-use web-based control panel of the world. As the industry leader, it turns standalone servers into a fully automated point-and-click hosting platform. Tedious tasks are replaced by web interfaces and API-based calls.

With cPanel you can manage all aspects of your web host including:
1.  Email files – you can add or delete email accounts, change password, reply emails automatically, forward emails,       filtering spamming, and the like
2.  Webmails – cPanel provides web mailbox, which means you can send and receive emails through web interface of your browser.
iii.Domain management – you can host multiple domains and set Subdomains with cPanel
3. FTP management – you can add or delete FTP accounts, set file permissions and user level, manage FTP process with cPanel
vFile manager – add, delete, edit or manage directories and files via web-based file manager
4.  Usage statistic – indicate the resource usage of the account
5.  Backup management – you can generate, download and manage accounts backup and database backup with cPanel
6. Database management – you can create, delete and manage databases and db users. Besides, cPanel also provides a phpMyAdmin db management tool.
7. Traffic statistic tool – cPanel offers a website traffic statistic feature in graph form, original log file management and error log feature.
8.   Prepacked programs – common blogging systems, forum, shopping cart and some other programs
9. Other features – password-protected login, URL redirect, custom error pages, cron jobs, hotlink protection and so on

Aside from those mentioned above, cPanel also includes a user-friendly web based interface (GUI) and multiple level of administration including asmin, reseller, end user and email-based account. These multiple levels provide security, ease of use and flexibility for everyone from the server administrator to the email account user.

Besides, the interfaces are available in several languages. Lots of users benefit from the flexibility of cPanel. With cPanel, web site owners will no longer worry about their operations in the backend.

Tags: backup management, Cpanel, domain management, prepacked programs, traffic statistic tool, webmail

Without doubt the most important aspect of any hosting plan is support. That is, the major consideration in choosing a web hosting service is to find a web hosting providers that offers excellent customer service and support. You want to know that whether you can get urgent help when you have a problem. No matter how much experience you have with maintaining websites, from time to time something will go wrong. At this point it’s very important to have access to a good support team. Most of the time a good support team will be able to resolve your issue in less than 30 minutes. But if you choose a web host with poor support you could be waiting up to 24 hours for a response. For those who own personal websites, this might not be a problem. But if you run an online business, it’s vital that your website is up and running again as soon as possible.

Once you have narrowed down your search to a couple of web hosts it’s always a good idea to get a feeling for their support by asking some questions. This will give you a good indication as to how reliable their support is. So you should always search for a web hosting provider that offers 24 hours a day, 7 days a week technical support with highly experience technicians, so that any web hosting problems will be resolved within a reasonable amount of time. You may also want to test how responsive is their customer support by sending few inquiry emails to the web hosting provider. In general, any response in less than 24 hours is considered acceptable. It is a sign of poor customer support if they take more than one day to response.

What’s more, a web hosting provider with excellent support should also provide multiple support channels, such as 24/7/365 email support, live chat, online knowledgebase, ticket and telephone.We are proud that Hostease.com provides 24/7/365 customer suppot.How long has the web hosting provider been in business and what number of customers they currently have are also good indications of the quality of their hosting products as well as the stability of the company. Even though cost of the web hosting service is also important but it should not be your major consideration. Because the price of a web hosting service has been declining over the years due to competition, as a result, the price of most of the web hosting services offering quality hosting features is very affordable.

In addition, it is more important to ensure the web hosting service that you choose is able to meet your website hosting requirements, ensure your website is always accessible with satisfying speed, provide scalability to grow and expand your website as well as offer excellent customer supports.

All in all, the web hosting provider should attach great importance to their customer support and make customer satisfactory to the best of their abilities. Good support, good hosting.

Tags: 24hours, Customter support, hostease