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Oh it was a panic situation for me just some minutes back. I got a mail from someone who was looking for Google AdWords Coupon. I have sent the related links and then after some minutes he responded that the links to my posts returned a 404 Error. I immediately checked that and find that all my posts returned a 404 Error. I thought everything was gone as it remind me a similar situation happened last month with PowWeb Web Hosting.

But this situation was even worse as I thought someone gained access to my HostGator account. Because the error pages contained Google AdSense ads and HostGator’s affiliate link. But then their support team told me that it is HostGator’s default error pages.

I contacted the HostGator Support team via Live Chat. I wait less than one minute and got the attention of a HostGator’s Support member. I explained the situation to him and within minutes the site is up again. It was a problem with the .htaccess file. They didn’t gave me the time to take a screen shot of the same before that the problem was resolved. Thumbs Up to HostGator Support!

Here is the Transcript of my chat with HostGator Support Team

HostGator Live Chat Transcript

info: Please wait for a HostGator operator to respond.
info: Welcome to HostGator Live Chat! You are now chatting with ‘William B’
William B: Welcome to HostGator, how may I assist you?
Mahesh: hi
Mahesh: am in a big trouble
Mahesh: check out my domain
Mahesh: http://www.minterest.com/
Mahesh: and click a post
Mahesh: it returns a 404 error
William B: Please wait while I check.
William B: I do see the error 404.  I am looking into this issue.
Mahesh: please be fast
Mahesh: something serious out there
Mahesh: i think someone has access to it
Mahesh: i see affiliate links
Mahesh: in error pages
Mahesh: those are not mine
William B: I am still looking into this issue Mahesh.
Mahesh: ok
William B: That is a standard error 404 page of hostgator.com.  
William B: http://www.minterest.com/2007/10/22/list-of-over-250-dofollow-blogs/ does not exist in the filemanager.
Mahesh: Oh ok
Mahesh: hey
Mahesh: no
Mahesh: it was available before
Mahesh: check this page
Mahesh: http://www.minterest.com/2007/08/17/free-google-adwords-promo-code/
Mahesh: i have visited that some 30 mins. back
Mahesh: and then I send that url to someone else
Mahesh: just before sometime
Mahesh: he told me that its retuning a 404 error
Mahesh: it was working correctly 30 mins back
Mahesh: u cant see that file manager
Mahesh: as its a blog
Mahesh: and am using WordPress
Mahesh: I guess its because fo some data base problem
Mahesh: please check it
William B: May I have the wordpress login information?
Mahesh: login is XXXXXX
Mahesh: password is XXXXXX
Mahesh: oh
Mahesh: yes
Mahesh: i can login to wordpress
Mahesh: so its not because of database i think
Mahesh: i had a similar situation earlier
Mahesh: at that time i deleted the database
Mahesh: but then the wordpress was not available
Mahesh: this case is strange
William B: One moment please.
William B: The issue is now repaired.  The issue was located in the .htaccess file.
Mahesh: Wow
Mahesh: which .htaccess file caused the problem?
William B: The .htaccess file was blank and caused the pages not to load.
Mahesh: which .htaccess file?
Mahesh: i mean the location
Mahesh: of that file
William B: The /public_html/.htaccess was blank and so was causing the issue.  We added this code to fix the issue.
William B: # BEGIN WordPress
William B:
William B: RewriteEngine On
William B: RewriteBase /
William B: RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
William B: RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
William B: RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
William B:
William B: # END WordPress
William B: /public_html/.htaccess
William B: You should backup that file so that you can easily fix this issue if it happens again.
William B: The missing code caued the permalinks to stop functioning.
Mahesh: ok
Mahesh: but now is that changed back to the same file
Mahesh: before i had an issue
Mahesh: ?
Mahesh: just want to make sure that none of the settings are changed
William B: Yes, we have fixed the .htaccess to include the necessary information for the permalinks to function properly.
William B: You should backup the .htaccess file and save it where you can restore the .htaccess if you experience this issue again.
Mahesh: Okay I understand that
Mahesh: and will do that
William B: Excellent.
Mahesh: I appreciate your quick support
Mahesh: I will blog about this incident
Mahesh: and will give a thumbs up to HostGator’s support team
Mahesh:
William B: Thank you.
William B: You’re welcome!
Mahesh: Thanks again
William B: We are always glad to assist.
William B: You’re welcome!

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Now you can transfer money from your PayPal account to your Debit, Credit or Prepaid Card. This feature is available in 26 countries namely Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, Cyprus, Estonia, Gibraltar, Iceland, Indonesia, India, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lichtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Malta, Philippines, Romania, San Marino, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey, UAE, and Uruguay.

This new functionality is a welcome to PayPal’s international users like me as we had very limited ways to withdraw funds from PayPal.

To withdraw funds from your PayPal account to a Credit, Debit, or Prepaid card, add a card with a Visa or MasterCard logo. Debit Cards are accepted only if they have a Visa or MasterCard logo.

Source: The PayPal Blog

Today, it’s possible to host your site for as low as $1/mo. to as high as $50/mo. It depends on the disk space and bandwidth of your plan.

Features of a Web Hosting Service

Disk Space

Disk Space or server space is the amount of space (in MB or GB) you get to host your website on the internet. Most websites need less than 10 MB disk space. But it depends upon the type of website you are going to start.

Bandwidth

Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data transfer per month in Gigabytes or even in Terabytes you get with your account. Now, what does it means to you? Let’s say your homepage is 50 KB in size including all graphics and text. Suppose your web hosting service gives you 5 GB monthly bandwidth.

Then it means that your web host allows a maximum of 100,000 visitors per month to your home page.

CGI Scripts

Make sure that the web hosting service you choose allows you to run CGI or Perl scripts.

Traffic Analysis

It’s important to analyze your traffic so make sure your host provides you a website statistics program which gives information about your unique visitors per day/month/year. And also about your traffic referrers i.e information about the source of your traffic.

Recommended Web Hosting Services

Never go for an unbranded web hosting company or web hosting services offered by members from forums. It’s because they don’t offer a reliable service. They may gain some customers today and may shut down their service tomorrow. Web Hosting Services offered by such members from forums are usually one-man web hosts. It means that the tech support, sales, billing and accounting are all done by a single person and he might be a reseller of a bigger hosting company. So never trust such people.

Now, I am going to introduce you three web hosting services namely GoDaddy, IXWebHosting and HostGator. Each of these web hosting company falls into a specific category. GoDaddy offers the cheapest web hosting service, IXWebHosting offers more features than the other two hosts. HostGator is my recommended web host and the most reliable web hosting company.

GoDaddy

If you are looking for a cheap web hosting service then I really recommend GoDaddy.com. Checkout their Economy Plan as well as Deluxe Plan.

Economy plan costs $3.99/mo. or $3.59/mo (12 months plan). It gives you 5 GB of disk space and 250 GB of bandwidth. It allows you to host only domain name.

Deluxe plan costs $6.99/mo. or $6.29/mo. (12 months plan). It gives you 100 GB of storage and 1,000 GB of bandwidth. Deluxe plan allows you host unlimited domain names. It means that you can host multiple web sites within a single account, sharing the same disk space and bandwidth.

Both the Economy and Deluxe plan comes with $20 Google AdWords Credit and $50 Microsoft adCenter Credit. If you don’t have a domain name then that is additional and it costs additional $1.99 if  you opt for annual plan or additional $6.95 if you opt for monthly hosting plan.

IX Web Hosting

IX Web Hosting is rated as the top web hosting company by several web hosting review sites. Checkout their Expert Plan and Business Plan.

Expert Plan costs $4.95/mo. and it allows you to host two domain names within a single account. It even offers you a FREE Domain Name. Expert plan gives you 300 GB web space and 3,000 GB bandwidth.

IXWebHosting’s most popular is their Business Plan. It comes with 2 FREE Domain Names and offers you 500 GB web space and 3,500 GB bandwidth, it allows you to host 8 domain names within a single account. Business plan costs $7.95/mo.

IXWebHosting offers you FREE marketing credits too. It gives you $50 Miva Credit, $25 Google AdWords Credit, $50 Yahoo! Credit, $50 BidVertiser Credit, and up to $100 ABC Search Credit with their Expert Plan. And with the Business plan you get all the above plus $25 additional Google AdWords Credit.

HostGator

HostGator is my favorite web host. HostGator is also ranked as the top web hosting company by several web hosting review sites. HostGator’s most popular plan is their Baby Plan. Read my full HostGator review here.

Baby plan costs $9.95/mo. It allows you to host unlimited domains within a single account. It comes with 100 GB disk space and 1,000 GB bandwidth. It is one of the most reliable web hosting company with excellent support.

HostGator doesn’t gives you FREE marketing credits. But never mind that as you can get all those credits for free from other source. I’ve coupons for $50 Microsoft adCenter Credit, $199 Yahoo! Search Marketing Credit and $50 Google AdWords Credit.

Planning to start an online business? Then, it’s time to choose the right domain name for your business. It’s important to have a domain name of your own even if you are going to promote other businesses (affiliate marketing). First think about which domain name(s) makes sense for your business.

Your domain name is your identity and people uses that to find your business. Now should you go with a .info, .biz or similar domain names? No!!!

Just go for a .COM domain name. Search Engines give more importance to .COM domain names. Also, people trust a .COM domain name more than any other domain names.

Now analyze the ‘Keywords" for your business and use that information to select a domain name. It’s because having a keyword rich domain is critical for your online business.

Start your "Keyword Research" using the following keyword suggestion tools.

Overture Keyword Selector Tool

Google AdWords Keyword Tool

Wordtracker

Good Keywords

SEO Book Keyword Suggestion Tool

Now select those keywords which are popular and rank them according to its popularity.

Registering Your Domain Name

Registering a domain is very easy these days. Just fill up the form and pay using your credit card (or PayPal).

There are tons of websites which provides domain registration service. I have registered around 24 domain names. I didn’t register all those domains from one site instead I used different services.

Recommended Domain Registration Services

I recommend three domain registration services namely GoDaddy, Netfirms and Yahoo! Domains.

GoDaddy is the largest domain registrar and it surpassed Network Solutions in terms of total domain names registered. GoDaddy offers one of the cheapest domain registration service. GoDaddy charges you $6.95/year for a domain name and charges additional $6.99/year if you want to enable Whois privacy.

Netfirms charges only $4.95 for the first year and then $9.95/year from the second year onwards. What I like about Netfirms is that they give domain Whois privacy absolutely free. So its a deal.

Now, what’s up with Yahoo? Yahoo! Domains charges just $1.99 for the first year. Renewals are at $9.95/year. What about Whois privacy? Yahoo! charges additional $9/year for Whois privacy.

If you want to enable Domain Name Privacy then I suggest you to go for Netfirms. And if you are looking for the cheapest domain registration service then choose Yahoo! Domains. Finally, if you want to join the largest domain registrar then register it with GoDaddy.