What happen to the 1^st hosting company, A?

It was a local hosting company, very good, reliable, good support and professional. As far as I can remember I used their service for 2 years plus. It stated to me clearly that I cannot run a forum. That’s fine and that’s why I got myself hosting B because I wanted to run a chemical engineering forum. I hosted some blogs on it until around 2009, where that time I faced some huge downtime when all my blogs was claimed to consume a large amount of their resources. It affected my income up to some level. Luckily I have some profitable blogspot.com blog that are running online. I was puzzled because I know I don’t have that much traffic and my niche wasn’t that popular ~ chemical engineering!!! I asked for further clarification and details on which specific blog(s) or page(s) really created the problem. They can’t produce the report to me. However, they recommended me to transfer to another hosting and that was when I migrated to hosting C. Hosting A administrator helped and guided me to transfer to hosting C.

What happen to the 2^nd hosting company B?

I got myself a domain and hosting from this small but quite well known hosting company among Malaysian bloggers. The owner of the hosting also runs a famous forum which attracted those who desire to make money online. My reason for taking hosting B was just to run a forum. I managed to run a forum using a platform that is easily installed via fantastico in the cpanel. Unfortunately, after one year and after having 300 plus members inside the forum, it was hacked. The poor forum cannot be accessed at all despite of staying at PR2 after merely a year. I consulted the hosting admin. He recommended me to back-up and re-install the forum. I tried but I don’t know whether I did the right thing or not. I was so forum and ftp naïve. I got frustrated and wasted a lot of time meddling with backing-up and installing the forum repeatedly. Frustrated, I asked for the hosting admin assistance. He claimed he tried but after that can’t do anything about it. So, the forum when history!!! I was so disappointed and that was a very expansive lesson for me.

What happen to the 3^rd hosting company, C?

Hosting C just started its business and offers cheap hosting packages. The support was superbly efficient and I liked it very much. I was happy to use hosting C service. I use this hosting because I want to have a back up for hosting A. I don’t want to have all blogs in one hosting, ie hosting A. So, I created few more blogs incorporate it in hosting C. When I experienced problem with hosting A in 2009 (as stated above), I also got a second hosting C account. They helped me and I immediately got all my blogs from hosting A online instantaneously. Unfortunately, hosting C cannot maintain their outstanding services and slowly I experienced problems at the end of last year. That’s when I searched for a replacement for hosting C and after a brief searched, I opted hosting D.

Hosting D = Jomhosting.net

After experiencing some problem with hosting C, I saw a good promotion from Jomhosting.net. Since I know the owner, I tried using his service. So far my blogs are doing fine with Jomhosting.net for 7 blogs of mine hosted there. This hosting company provides substantial cheap for newbie. If you are newbie (new to blogging and wanted to use a cheap hosting), you can try it out. Check the hosting packages here.

Hosting E = Hostgator.com

This is the latest hosting that I purchased yesterday and all 13 of my blogs were successfully transferred here. I have no complains or what so ever. I think it is the best hosting in the planet. Although the price is slightly expansive than the local hosting company packages, I don’t care. I need a reliable hosting provider with dedicated 24/7 support who can answer/respond to me immediately. Last month and up to yesterday, I experienced weird downtime on 2 of my blogs including this blog, cyza sector. I have been asking around about the intermittent problem which occurred, but there was no conclude answer on solving the problem. After transferring to hostgator.com, I believe the problem has been solved by hostgator.com and I’m glad. I hope Cyza Sector and my Heat Exchanger blog will continue up operating without downtime. I’m proud to host my blogs with hostgator.com. I signed up for the baby plan which requires me to pay recurring $9.95 per month via paypal.  The beautiful part of this package:

• Unlimitted addon domains

• Unlimitted bandwidth

• Unlimmited disk space

• Free $50 adwords + more and more superb features…

I’m going to use the free $50 adwords to market one of my blogs. Oh, isn’t that great? If you have low budget, you can choose their cheapest plan which is only $4.95 per month. Try it out and chat with their support. You can easily clear any of your doubts after chatting with them.

Conclusion

Selecting and after that using a hosting for your blog and website is very crucial. You need to choose the most reliable hosting. If you are new, you can try the cheaper hosting packages, probably from local hosting. Get use to hosting, cpanel, and ftp. At this stage, a newbie may have at least 1 blog or the most 2 or 3 blogs. But, once the blogs and websites have grown and start generating income, you may want to protect that.

Hosting operation is not under you control, but you have the power to choose which reliable hosting to erect your online real estate. Having a dozen or 2 dozens of blog generating cash with unreliable hosting is like suicide. When the hosting is down, you can’t even communicate with the hosting support and that is very unfortunate. You will lose your income. The advertisers will get mad and shout at you.

Check out this analogy…

Imagine you owned an oil refinery and the production requires electricity to power up the pumps, heating, pressure etc. Your production is smooth and meets the daily and monthly target. You profit margin of selling oil from your refinery is very impressive. You give out 5 months bonus to all your staffs at the end of the year. Then, one sweet day, while the plant is running, the electricity supply (@ hosting service) was cut-off. You can’t do anything and your refinery (@ your blogs) is experiencing bad downtime. No oil is produced (@ your income). Worse… the supply won’t be back until 1 week due to a major explosion at a nearby power station. They can’t repair the problem faster because they are lack of manpower (@ hosting company not enough technical support). You are helpless. You can’t produce oil. Your customers (@ advertisers) get angry because the oil you promised them is not delivered.

Although this is not a perfect analogy, but you can just imagine and picture that.

Moral of the story

When your online business is getting bigger, get the most reliable hosting. I don’t see anything else but hostgator.com.

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Do you have a Facebook account? I believe yes. Most of those in the online community like you and me have a Facebook account. A lot of those utilizing Facebook like to share experiences, status, photos, videos, quotes, opinions etc in Facebook. When I ask my wife who is a regular in Facebook, she fancy reading the status of her friends and  see the photos being uploaded. Others like to play games such as Farmville and other games that I’m not familiar with at all.

There are also users who have a Facebook account but rarely keep updates in Facebook. I belong to that category. Honestly, I have better things to do rather than spending my time in Facebook reading other people status. Please, don’t get me wrong. I’m not condemning those Facebook enthusiast. I still read other people’s status when I’m in Facebook, but not that often. I’m just prioritizing my time because I have studies and research to do, consultation works to dwell with, blogs to take care, family to be with and others.

My moderate Facebook activity

I’ll normally log into my Facebook account when somebody tagged me. I’ll be curious and log in to check out why I’m tagged. Normally, I’ll leave comments if it is necessary and to interact with others. In other occasions, I’ll log in once in a while, maybe around 3-5 times a week. I rarely leave my status, check my notifications and messages. Currently I have 50+ notification and 60+ messages which I don’t read. So, please don’t send me messages on my Facebook (because I don’t read it). I prefer communication via email. I’ll normally accept friends in bulk process which means, I’ll allocated once a month to accept those who want to be friend’s with me. I normally won’t accept recommended friends by others. It’s better if those people sincerely want to be friends with me.

Should you focus on Blog or Facebook?

If one like to share, I strongly believe it is better to share stories, activities and anything in a blog rather then Facebook. Why?

1. Total control

You have total control in your own hosted blog. You can back up your blog and its content and keep it. You may not have total control in your Facebook account. Can you back up your facebook? It is better to have something that we have total control. Isn’t it?

2. Make money potential

You spend time online sharing this and that. Why not work smart and make money in one shot. This can be done if you have a blog. You spend countless hours writing in your blog and your visitors (loyal and first timer) read them. At the same time, you can add in advertisements and enjoy the money from it. Can you do this with Facebook? You can share this and that, but you cannot place your own advertisement codes from any make money program inside your Facebook page. However, Facebook is a good place to market your products, services, blogs and websites. It can be a powerful marketting tool but not make money. So, you can promote your blog via Facebook.

Think about it…

So, it’s your call. I’m not an expert to say which is best for you or me. Those 2 points mentioned above are just two issues that I found crucial because it involves time and money. If you opt to spend more times sharing in ablog, you need to invest little money to get your own domain and hosting; and a lot of time building the blog, but the rewards may be sweet. If you blog with a free platform such as blogspot.com or wordpress.com, you still don’t have the total control. However, using blogspot.com, you can place advertisements in your blog and wait for money rolling to you.

Facebook is a free account. You are free to share anything, make friends and build massive networks. You can continue sharing your updates, status etc. You can also create groups and start various activities include playing games.  If you are not inclined to making money online and the hassle to manage a self hosted blog, then by all means, continue  being an active member of Facebook.

My Stand

I’ll keep my account in Facebook. I use Facebook to keep up with other friends activity once in a while. I use Facebook as one of my marketing strategies for some of my blogs. It has proven to be an important tool and it works well. I also created a group and once in a while communicate within members. The members of the group  keep growing and that’s a good sign because I can send traffic to my blogs by leveraging Facebook efficiently. Estimated percentage of my online time spent on Facebook is around 3-5%.

I’m still focusing on my blogs most of the time. I’m working on to create a residual passive income with my blogs. It works perfectly but of course it needs a lot of time, passion and patients. I prefer spending 4 to 6 years now to establish all my blogs and after that earn a cool 4 to 5 figure monthly income from it.

Conclusion

As a conclusion, both blog and Facebook are very important tools in Web 2.0 in this era. Both have its strong points and it is clever if you can integrate both of them. Focusing ONLY on blog and ONLY on Facebook is considered under utilizing the beauty and power of both of them. With that I rest my case. It’s all up to you…

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