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Advantages of Hosting Your Website in Canada

4GHadmin | 15 July 2014

There are various reasons and benefits that your website will get when you get a hosting service from Canada when compared other countries, especially the United States.

The first and foremost reason is that, as a Canadian, choosing a service from Canada, you keep your dollars in Canada. This amount is small but the act shows you are loyal to your country. Yet there are some other points that you need to consider. One of the top most reasons that come to many people around the world as an effect of Snowden NSA-leaks is data and personal privacy. Hence, 80% of Internet traffic is routed through US servers and 8/10 of the Internet fiber optic bone links flow in and out of US. It is difficult to have the data and usage guarded totally by NSA surveillance as of today. However, having your website files stored within Canada, and the ability to directly connected to your local Canadian webserver., reduces the chance that your personal information has been read and/or stored by state-actor spies or otherwise malicious entities.

Today, many Asian, American, European and Middle-Eastern companies are looking for Canadian web hosting service providers for hosting their business applications and mission-critical websites. The reasons vary across companies, but since 2012 and 2013 4GoodHosting is consistently signing up more customers from US and other countries and it’s only been speeding up.

Benefits of Shared and VPS Web Hosting

4GHadmin | 08 July 2014

Benefits of Shared Web Hosting

Affordable cost – The benefits shared hosting come in terms of cost as you share a common server with other clients of the web hosting company. With this, we can save money so that we can offer you the services at a lower cost. With less than $10 per month, you can get two different plans of shared hosting. If you consider the features that you are able to get today, our web hosting packages will be more effective and gives excellent value.

Simplicity – We maintain the servers and their associated hardware in our peer data center, provide you with the connectivity and along with it, we will maintain all the server administrative tasks that are complex for you. For those people who don’t know or who don’t have the necessary manpower to run severer or who just need to focus on the critical aspects of their business, shared hosting is a perfect solution.

The way to Backup Your Database with phpMyAdmin

4GHadmin | 01 July 2014

On modern websites, information is often stored within databases (db’s) instead of directories on a web server. Therefore, simply storing your website’s files into directories of your website won’t deliver all the data your website application presents and also needs to operate.

So you should occasionally carry out a database backup. If you utilize a MySQL database, you should use phpMyAdmin to backup your database from inside its graphical interface.

To backup your MySQL database with phpMyAdmin, try this procedure:

1. Login to phpMyAdmin. It is possible to find it via your hosting control panel, such as cPanel.

2. Click the database name for the left column in the page.

3. Click on the Export tab at the top of the phpmyadmin page.

Five Significant Benefits of VPS Hosting

4GHadmin | 24 June 2014

Overall, the benefits of VPS hosting can easily be summarized as affordability, guaranteed resources, full control, better performance, and security & reliability. Let’s learn about them at length.

1. Guaranteed Server Resources

Different from shared environment which share precisely the same server resources, VPS offers guaranteed resources to every virtual server. Each vps possesses its own storage, data transfer usage, CPU, RAM, IP, and other resources. Even if the neighbored vps consumes too many resources, it cannot influence your site resources and performance. So you don’t need to worry about your site affected by the malicious websites on the same server.

2. Full Control

VPS hosting offer full control and root usage of users. As a result, it is possible to setup the OS as you want, install your preferred control panel and software, and do anything you like to handle and configure your server without restrictions. You can tweak the server to enhance the server performance and install custom applications and scripts to run unique websites; which is not accessible in the shared environment.

Google: Backlinks Still Crucial for Rankings

4GHadmin | 17 June 2014

With Google’s recent algorithm updates, webmasters have started believing that links no longer work and it does not matter to Google anymore. But the truth is, links are the most crucial element in Google’s ranking algorithm and it is really important to have the right links if you want your website to rank high and attract more visitors. Google’s Matt Cutts has also stated that links are very essential if you want to rank high.

From transcript:
“Backlinks are a really, really big win in terms of quality for search results [… ] backlink relevance still really helps in making sure we return the best, most relevant, most topical set of search results.” This was confirmed by Matt Cutts in another video:

Last month, Matt Cutts confirmed this in another video:

It’s a Year Since Snowden Leaks – Still Efforts On to Restore Trust on Online

4GHadmin | 10 June 2014

It has been roughly a year back the truth that US national security agency NSA has been accumulating huge amounts of personal data on American and other international citizens secretly.

This year, a year after Edward Snowden leaked the documents on how and to what extent government has collected huge amounts of personal data, he has become an icon of the movement that demands more transparency from government agencies when they are using Internet technologies for the purpose of surveillance.

However, transparency is just a one-way street in that regard to this heavily corrupted and non-constitutional government. They want to know everything you are doing but they want you not to know how they are spying on you, and are secretive in dozens if not hundreds of other ways.

Dauntless and strident calls for reforms in government government surveillance are coming from the companies that hold large amount of customer and client data on the Web. The compulsions come in the form of threats of prosecution through court orders issued by the Foreign International Surveillance Court. The orders seek the information without intimation of such a move to the customer. This sounds like the Nazi era during World War II. The companies who are responsible for personal data are working over strengthening their security backbone through encryption of customer’s data at least at some key junctions. The move came after NSA managed to intercept customer data flowing between various private data centers of Google.

Bad Panda! Google has changed ranking again: Panda 4.0 and PDL 2.0.

4GHadmin | 03 June 2014

Millions of websites have began lost their rankings after the update. Has your website affected? Perhaps your ranking went up as others float down?

What can you do to avoid new ranking problems?

According to several recent reports, major sites such as ask.com (competition to google), ebay.com, biography.com and aceshowbiz.com have lost as much as 70% of their rankings on Google. It seems that the content (often automatically server generated) of these web pages is not appetizing for Google’s new ranking algorithms.

How does this affect your web pages?

If your website mainly consists of quite similar pages, it’s likely that your site will be affected by Google’s new ranking manipulations and similarly if the content/structure of your pages has been created automatically or ‘dynamically’.

These algorithms now additionally target webpage spam. If you do not get too spammy with your pages, you shouldn’t have to worry much.

If you want to get long-term results, do not use spammy methods to promote your website. Use ‘white-hat’ methods and play by the rules. Your website’s Google rankings will be much more stable then.

Please contact us for more information: http://4goodhosting.com/seo-services.html

Design Concepts that You should Consider When Designing or Redesigning Your Website

4GHadmin | 27 May 2014

Are you planning to bring a new design to your website? Or for redesigning and worried of how to start? If so, you need to read this article. In this article, we’ll discuss concepts that you should consider before you design or redesign your website.

When thinking about your website design, sketch regularly

The benefits of sketching is you can note your clients’ requirements accurately.

Sketching helps you organize the content, you can structure the concepts that the client requires and some other aspects related to web designing.

Make a brief blueprint or the algorithm before you start designing the website. It’ll cost nothing and it is very easy – just you need to have the basic knowledge of sketching.

Making a blueprint of web designing is also one of the finest approaches to convey your ideas about the layouts.

By making a blueprint before you start web designing process will give you new ideas.

Sketching also helps you get new ideas instantly and by this, you can save time.

Because Net Neutrality is currently a very important topic…

4GHadmin | 20 May 2014

Net Neutrality is an Important Topic Today

‘Net Neutrality’ is a widely discussed topic today. Therefore, we feel it’s right explain to our customers for more clarity.

We found http://www.theopeninter.net/ to be useful. It helps you grasp complex issues easily.

Network neutrality implies websites and services should be able to generate equal satisfaction among users across devices: cable, cellular, or via phone connection.

Companies such as AT&T, Verizon and Comcast intend to consider each site and service differently so that they can sell their services at different prices to different users.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is proposing a law to frame limits for Internet Service Providers (ISPs). This is likely to result in keeping the Internet accessible to all – without discriminating any websites or services.

If the Internet is offered via cable connections and bills, it might become hard to restore as it’s today. We should build completely an independent Internet service. Make sure to inform your friends and family.

Those who are vigilant and informed strive to Hold Net Neutrality in place during Government Negotiations

4GHadmin | 13 May 2014

100+ major tech companies have voiced some opposition in defense from a new proposal from Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler that would make concessions to a “pay to play” model of network management; which would allow ISPs to charge companies for preferential treatment.

These new rules, which are supposed to be voted on May 15, are anticipated to make a major stand against “net neutrality,” which is the idea of a level playing field for all: ISPs should treat all data that travels over their networks equally.

The good principled proposal by Wheeler, a former government lobbyist has been opposed in writing by the likes of Google, Reddit, Facebook, Amazon, and others. The proposal reads that the FCC should *not* permit “individualized bargaining and discrimination.”

The Open Internet Order, a prior attempt by the FCC to set forth regulations in favor of net neutrality, was shot down in January by a federal court that stated that it exceeded the FCC’s authority.

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