Internet browsing can actually now be considered as a technique or even a skill, choosing unique keywords and narrowing a search term to only include specific results is the key to gathering information quickly.

Like driving a car, many people seem to adopt their own technique that works for them. Good techniques will help you to avoid ending up places you don’t want to be and will direct you to the exact information you require.

The Internet is a massive community, which consists of billions of individual websites. Using broad search terms such as “car” or “vehicle” will only bring back a humongous amount of results.

A technique you could try is to include quotation marks around a string of words or a phrase you specifically need information for. This will filter through the results including only results with that particular search term.

E.g. searching for “Managed Hosting” will bring up all websites with the phase “Managed hosting” in the exact order, specified within the quotes.

Have you ever been searching for particular information, although the search engine completely brings up everything you don’t want?

Annoying isn’t it… There’s actually a technique that can be used on most search engines to exclude certain search terms within your results. Tags can be added for keywords you want to include within your search, and also keywords you do not want to include.

The search tags are “+” for include and “–“ for exclude.

Lets do a test!

If you were searching for web hosting you may choose to search “UK web hosting”. This is generally a very broad search; it may often bring up companies offering web design rather than only hosting.

Try narrowing your search, “UK web hosting –design”. Notice how the results change excluding the word “design” from the results.

You can be as creative as you like with search terms, aim to spend less time searching and more time reading through the valuable information.

Many companies now design their websites knowing what type of search terms are used by a majority of people. You may find that you end up in the same place a number of times, when searching for a particular product.

By paying more attention to each actual website address within the search listing, you can easily skip past many results that are not suitable for the information you need.

What we do in Managed Hosting?

So what exactly does Managed Hosting cover?

A common concern across many Managed Hosting companies, is how does
“Managed Hosting” differs from the ordinary Hosting solutions that are widely available.

The term “managed” is sometimes considered a very generic term, which doesn’t really give potential customers an insight towards the management included.

Not all Managed Hosting providers offer the same level of service, CWCS being a proud “Managed Hosting” provider we feel it’s important to educate customers on all the services included. All costs on every single product and service include the highest level of management.

Hardware replacement is always included within a managed service, not only do we provide free hardware replacements with excellent swap out times. We improve on this, by offering a free 12-month hardware upgrade on dedicated servers to ensure hardware is always maintained and kept up-to-date.

Going that extra length and offering the fullest of “Managed Hosting” gives us the uniqueness over our competitors, ensuring our customers receive a total experience of what Managed Hosting is all about.

We feel support can sometimes be overlooked within the Hosting industry and is one of the key elements of what makes an outstanding Managed Hosting provider. Its critical for businesses to be reassured their provider can handle the emergency support requests and are able to act promptly; in line with this our support team are available 24/7/365.

To ensure customers remain happy with the level of support provided, we call customers regularly. Giving customers a personal contact allows us to build a relationship directly with our clients, which gives them the confidence they need in a Hosting provider.

Communication is vital towards Managed Hosting; with each customer being an individual. We offer every form of communication method from telephone to Live chat. This gives each customer a voice to raise any concerns or discuss anything in general whichever way they choose.

Flexibility, Managed Hosting is all about meeting customer’s expectations and adapting to each individual requirement. Our aim is to look after each customer individually; we will always do our best to adapt to meet each requirement no matter how much we have to stretch to do so.

That’s right; our Professional Dedicated Servers (Windows and Linux) are now being sold with a significant performance increase at the previous specification price, with this in mind the Professional server is now considered a high-end redundant hosting dedicated server.

The processor installed is a Xeon Quad Core 2.4GHz rather than the former Core 2 Duo 1.8GHz, but what does this mean for your server?

The Xeon brand is designed with servers and workstations in mind, therefore the build quality of the components is considered better than consumer level processors.

Technically, the processors have 4 Cores rather than 2, server applications supporting multithreading will greatly benefit from this.

With 4 workers all working on a particular job, the job is always complete quicker and more efficiently, the same applies to a server with 4 processor cores.

This all sounds good… but how could an online business benefit from the new processor?

Within a web hosting environment, the enhanced processing power along with the RAM will allow more users to browse your website simultaneously. Each single customer will experience lag free browsing.

Essentially, this allows more actions to be carried out more frequently with less strain to the server. For resellers, this could mean more clients are able to run more demanding websites.

For businesses running ecommerce, customers are able to view your products instantly without experiencing large load times. Orders can be submitted without the long wait on database queries, having a powerful server could actually mean you receive more sales.

And not only that, the Professional Server includes 2 Hard Disks configured with RAID, if one hard disk fails the secondary hard disk takes over without any interruption to your server. This is essential for most businesses as any downtime experienced could severely affect your day-to-day business.

With dynamic websites becoming increasingly more popular, a capable server utilising various scripting capabilities is important. The Internet is constantly changing; servers we offer are all easily scalable and able to serve your business for many years to come.

All our dedicated server plans are backed with our first-class 24/7 telephone and email technical support.

Why not view details on our dedicated server range.

With Google being a top leading brand within the IT industry offering a wide range of services ranging from email to online maps. It doesn’t come as much of a surprise to find their latest instalment of a new Internet browser.

Google with its massive online reputation is known for leading in every market. However as far as Internet browsers are concerned, Internet explorer has been the browser of choice for many years, with Firefox trailing closely behind.

Google are approaching this with a completely new idea, rather than looking at what’s currently available, they plan to redesign the “internet browser” entirely. Integrating its existing services such as Google Maps, this browser should prove to be a popular hit.

The browser is called Chrome and the beta version is available now to download.

What do the competitors think about the new browser?

I was actually surprised to discover Mozilla almost welcomed the idea of Google’s new browser. They commented on Google’s strategy suggesting they have a clear idea of how things should be, and have many smart people thinking how to make things better.

Microsoft was not so welcoming to Google’s new browser idea. Clearly this would raise the competition; Microsoft used this opportunity to reassure us that the new Internet explorer 8 will be the people’s choice and went on to remind us of its new features.

One feature that has increasingly become a must have on a SME business website is a form that visitors to your site can use to contact you via email. Thankfully this is quite easy to set up with a little knowledge of HTML, ASP and an email component like Persits ASP Email.

In the example below we create a simple form with fields for the visitor to enter their name, email address and message, with a button to submit the form.

Example 1: form.asp

<html>

<body>

<form method=”post” action=”contact.asp”>

<label for=”email”>Email Address:</label>

<input type=”text” name=”email” id=”email”><br>

<label for=”name”>Name:</label>

<input type=”text” name=”name” id=”name”><br>

<label for=”message”>Message:</label><br>

<textarea name=”message” id=”message”></textarea><br>

<input type=”submit” name=”send” value=”send message”>

</form>

</body>

</html>

Next, we create contact.asp which the form will be submitted to. In the example below, the strSubject and strEmail values can be customised, the former being the subject of the email and the latter the email address that the submitted form will be emailed to. The next section will process the email and the html will check for errors and output a message which will either announce the mail was sent successfully or report an error message (for debugging purposes).

Example 2: Contact.asp

<% ‘Define settings

strSubject = “Form submitted” ‘email subject

strEmail = “email@domain.com” ‘email address

‘Confirm form has been submitted

If Request(“send”) <> “” Then

Set Mail = Server.CreateObject (“Persits.MailSender”)

Mail.Host = “localhost”
Mail.From = Request(“email”) ‘ From address
Mail.FromName = Request(“name”) ‘ optional
Mail.AddAddress StrEmail ‘ to address
Mail.Subject = strSubject ‘ message subject
Mail.Body = Request(“message”) ‘ message body
strErr = “”
bSuccess = False
On Error Resume Next ‘ catch errors
Mail.Send ‘ send message
If Err <> 0 Then ‘ error occurred
strErr = Err.Description
else
bSuccess = True
End If
End If

%>

<html>
<head>Submiited</title>
</head>
<body>
<%If strErr <> “” Then %>
Error occurred: <% = strErr %>
<% End If %>
<% If bSuccess Then %>

Your message was sent successfully.

<% End If %>
</body>
</html>

The above example is just something to get you started, the component has more features available for advanced uses, please refer to the official documentation for more information.