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Nowadays, there are a lot of hosting providers that can offer you a lot of benefits if you use their services but you will never know whether their offers are what they have promised or not. Further, your requirements and your expected hosting providers’ availability sometimes do not meet. That is why you need to know it before you make any purchase by any sources like reading web hosting awards to choose your best one.

I myself have experienced with several hosting companies even free hosting providers. They offer a huge amount of space and unlimited bandwidth with 99,99% uptime and free domains for life. You can also host unlimited accounts on this package but they tell a lie. The server is down many times a week with no reason or over allocated bandwidth while it is supposed to be unlimited. It is so funny. Therefore, you should refer to different sources and read web hosting tutorials or ratings about all hosting providers and choose the best one.

Last week, I have read several useful web hosting articles about some hosting providers and I found out that no hosting companies are perfect to some extent. They all have limitations either capacity or space or even allowed scripts that users can upload to server. Fortunately, I got one from those services that can fit my purpose of my blog. It does not offer huge space or bandwidth but many bloggers rated it as the top one.

Just a bit experiences on how to choose the best hosting provider for my blog and I think you should think of what you need and what the hosting companies can offer. Good luck to you all and do not hesitate to recommend any hosting providers that I can think of. Further, when you recommend me any hosting providers, please kindly send me the sources of the web hosting rating related to that provider so I can take it into account for future reference.

FreeForums.org is not FREE anymore with Ad-sharing program launched

Written by Tran Tinh

As many of you have joined FreeForums.org for a long time and saw a dramatical growth of this free forum hosting and the most important thing that I decided to use this is its support service and stability too. These features has made it to #1 Free Forum on the internet.

Its growths will mean more money invested to keep their members’ forums running smoothly and stably. This is the reason why the FreeForums.org provider decided not to close their service but launching their Ad-Sharing program in the coming weeks. This revenue-sharing program will allow users to add their Adsense code to their forums and the benefits will be shared, but the percentage has not been disclosed and hopeful they will share this news once the program is up and running.

I personally think that it is a good news as we can earn more money from this forum and the service will of course be much better with more staff recruited and more resource to invest in. As you all knew that the cost for running the FreeForums.org servers is about 5 figures and they have only 3 full time staff working. They be must very hard and the decision to share revenue with its users is a right one.

For someone, who can afford a ad-free forum from them, the price is acceptable for just 4.95$/month. Here is the details for your consideration.

We appreciate that you choose FreeForums.org to host your forum, and would like to let you know of some important changes coming up.

In February, 2007, we launched FreeForums.org and have experienced phenomenal growth since then. In just three months of launching we built a loyal customer base that rivaled that of hosts who have been around for years.

Within just one week of the launch, we reported hitting our goal of 1000 forums . And, in one year, we reached over 150,000 hosted forums. It’s unheard of for a forum host to experience the kind of growth we have. We have been able to provide a level of services not offered anywhere else—and at a time when we have seen hosting sites exit the forum hosting business and start-ups struggle to keep forums up—we have raised the industry bar for what’s expected from a host.

With this huge growth we have run into some issues scaling the hardware and staff to keep up with the huge and expensive task of providing the level of service our users have come to love and expect.

To continue providing this exemplary service, we have made the decision to implement an ad-revenue sharing model on all forums as of February 7th 2008. This will provide you a chance to earn income, as well as enable us to pay for server costs. While this may come as an unwanted change to some, it’s absolutely necessary to ensure the continued operation of this site as a free service. With server costs pushing over five figures a month, and six paid staff members (three full time) there is no other way to keep the site running.

Our users have made it clear they prefer a stable, ad-supported service over a host with a lot of downtime, and we have taken that into account when making this decision.

We have been very pleased with how long we were able to go without ads. We served almost one Billion (1,000,000,000) ad-free impressions and went over a year without any ads. We are the only forum host in the history of the Internet to serve this many ad-free impressions and that is certainly something to be proud of. One thing is certain, while the ad-free model works for small forum hosts (ie. less than 1000 forums) it won’t last forever as maintenance costs go up and up. It’s simply not possible to run a business with zero revenue.

FreeForums.org will continue to give a share of the ad-revenue to our users. Over the next few weeks we will be launching the revenue sharing program that lets you use your AdSense code on your forum to make money. This will benefit our users by allowing them to get paid for the time they spend on their forum and letting them afford upgrades to improve their forum. FreeForums.org is currently the only forum host to share revenue with the forum owners. We also plan to use this revenue to hire additional staff members and speed up the development of new features and services.

For those profoundly against sponsors of any kind we have a no-ad option available. We will offer full ad-removal services starting at $4.95/month, which will remove all ads from your forum.

This is great milestone for FreeForums.org and our dedicated users. We are committed to providing the best free forum hosting service. This will allow us to improve on the already high level of services and allow us to offer even more industry-leading features. We have been working very hard on the phpBB3 version and we have some ground-breaking features to go along with it. We will be launching a free blog hosting service to integrate with your forums and build your community of members. Since implementing our new server network, our users have seen close to 100% uptime. We plan to continue to improve on this by investing in more backup and fail over systems.

On behalf of the entire team we thank you for using FreeForums.org

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Good luck to FreeForums.org!

Most sexy and funny clip on the internet now!

Written by Tran Tinh

Video-sharing networks are now lives of many people where they are sharing their own produced clips, movies for personal use and now it is not personal anymore but global use.

I am really interested in watching clips and videos but not a full movie of 3 hours or so but a short or a trailer that can harmonize the whole content of a movie. That is why I decided to watch funny and sexy clips on different sites from YouTube, MetaCafe, Revver to Clip.vn to relax whenever I feel tired after a harding working day or at weekend. But clips and videos must be short and funny.

Now I would like to share with you several clips that make you laugh the whole day and the important thing of these clips that you never know the rest or you can not guess its end. This makes them exclusive and different from other clips of same type.

Bad Girl

Hot Chicks Gets Wet

Two Funny and Sexy Girls

Free Golf Training Course with Experts

1000 Hands Dancing Video

I think watching this type of clip does not take so much time of yours but you will get more fun and refresh your mind for new ideas!

Written by Tran Tinh

Just to share with you guys that Jai who is currently the owner of the Blog Oh Blog (Blog Oh Blog is previously owned by Bob - a Malaysian guy but he sold this to Jai for a bid of 10,000USD) last year.

This post would tell you how to drive targeted traffic to your blog and maintaining it successfully through SEO - Search Engine Optimization techniques. How does SEO help your blog and how does search engines functions? Are all Google, Yahoo and MSN…use the same algorithm? No, that is the reason why you need to SEO your blogs with different ways to get your posts and results quickly indexed in all search engines.

Here are some tweaks that are highly recommended by Jai.

1. Keyword Optimization:

The use of relevant keywords in blog posts is one of the most common and also one of the simplest ways to optimize search engine ranking. It will increase your ranking if you use commonly searched words like for example: If you have a gardening site, you might want to use the word “Home gardening” or maybe even “House-keeping” more in your posts. As a result, when people actually type those phrases in the search box, your website is shown earlier because of the use of it in your web page is higher than the rest.

TIP : Don’t ever overdo it.

2. Get Link Love:

Many search engines (almost all) rank your site on basis of the number of back links that lead to your site. Now basically you could do link-exchange. But search engines will rank you even higher if you get one-way links. It’s simple: The more back links one has, the more earlier is his page displayed in the search results.

TIP: Try and get as many as One-way links . It’s always more effective than link exchange.

3. Use Image Tags to your Advantage:

Bloggers should also be aware that any pictures used on their blog can be used to improve search engine rankings with some search engines. This aspect of search engine optimization is often overlooked because many bloggers believe the pictures are not viewed by search engines. While this is true the search engines do crawl the code of the blog in addition to the content on the blog. This means the search engine will view the information provided in the image tags. Bloggers can take advantage of this by using the image tags to provide relevant keywords which can bolster search engine rankings. However, care should be taken to ensure the keywords used in these tags also accurately describe the image because blog visitors will often see the text included in these tags when they scroll over a picture on the blog.

TIP: Make sure that the tag is applicable to the picture.

4. Sitemaps are Necessary:

All websites need sitemaps. Why? Well, every sitemap has links to all the pages in a website and it helps search engine spiders gain even more easier access to your content. And it’s obvious that if more content is tracked by the SE spiders, the more results appear.

TIP: Well, try and go for a more simpler design for your sitemap and don’t go making it too difficult to access your previously posted content.

5. Search Engine Friendly URL’s:

Using Search Engine friendly URL’s like http://www.yourdomain.com/category/SEO will be more effective than the long ones. Why? Well long URLs are most likely to be considered as spam by search engines and users. Keep it brief. Don’t be under the impression that longer URLs will impress your visitors. Users generally despise those kind of addresses. It’s not tough to make the change, and frankly the faster you shift to Search Engine friendly URL’s the better.

TIP: To make the URL change, I’d generally recommend Permalinks Migration Plugin.

Thanks Jai for your great post and I wish your Blog Oh Blog a great success in the Year of Rat 2008!