Over the past 10 years since world wide web became popular, there are millions of domains registered and tons of content published online. Everybody is writing for everything, anything you can think about, people do that for pleasure or for profit. Nowadays when most of the analysts say: “it is very hard or impossible to invent anything, which still has not been tried already somewhere over the world” – that’s not truth. At least this is the case with the online service we wish to present you here.
The Internet is still a place where new and innovative ideas may become world wide popular with relatively small investment. With this article we want to stress on a relatively new service over the Internet, born of the online users’ necessity. These services are called “Shortening services”. What they do is very simple but extremely efficient – an innovative way of turning a long URL into a short one.
TinyURL – www.tinyurl.com is the fist shortening service to discover this nice. Unfortunately later this year they faced their biggest fear, Twitter previously using it for their default shortener switched to Bit.Ly
Bit.ly – www.bit.ly is the most famous URL shortening service today, although not the first one offering this kind of service.
Here is a quick link shorten example:
This link: http://www.awardspace.com/web-hosting/paid-shared-hosting
Into: http://tinyurl.com/yakwjcg or http://bit.ly/8u4JX5
It has been 10 days since Yahoo closed GeoCities – the free hosting service that they acquired back in 1999 for $2.87 billion. Rest in Piece GeoCities! After the news for Yahoo pulling the plug to their free service we started seeing a lot of GeoCities customers moving our way and we are Welcoming all of you that are looking for a substitute. Our Free Web Hosting service has a lot to offer.
What would we do without GeoCities we wonder… Where would we have put our brightly colored, constantly flashing backgrounds? Who else had rotating .gifs for links and neon green page hit counters? There is no substitute for your plethora of font colors and sizes, for your broken HTML codes and page badges… Anyway this name will always remain a symbol for the industry, and Internet relic.
If you’re a GeoCities user, you’ve been given plenty of warning, but you can still hop over there and get your data out today before current owner Yahoo turns out the lights.
Use the time while you are here and take a look at our Free Hosting plan.
The fall is coming and the leafs start falling and so do our prices.
Great news for those who want to invest in quality web hosting cheap. AwardSpace now offers 4 and 5 years prepaid hosting plans packages for prices starting at only $3.49/month. You can now take our max pack plus plan for only $6.99/month, which includes UNLIMITED disk space, UNLIMITED traffic, UNLIMITED domains hosted and 2 FREE domain transfers/registrations FOR LIFE. What’s better than buying quality cheap hosting with the US dollar being so low?
The 4 and 5 years plans are also suitable for serious webmasters that intend to invest longer time in developing a serious business online. We all know that Rome wasn’t built in a day and it usually takes more than 1 year for a new online business to take off.
The new packages are also good for people who have used our free service, found that this is exactly the type of hosting they need and want to upgrade to get the better deal. Existing customers already convinced in the quality of the service may also renew their accounts for a longer period and benefit from the lower price.
Any questions? Do not hesitate to contact us!
We have changed the hostname for cp10 from cp10.awardspace.com to cp10.awardspace.net. The new URL https://cp10.awardspace.net has SSL certificate for encrypted connection and secured access to your hosting account settings.
AWARDSPACE.COM is proud to announce that our paid Linux hosting now supports ASP.NET technology. ASP.NET is a part of the Microsoft .NET framework, it is a powerful tool for creating dynamic and interactive web pages. The current version our hosting supports is ASP.NET 2.0. You can run the following file types .asax, .ascx, .ashx, .asmx, .aspx, .soap, .rem, .axd, .cs, .dll;
To enable ASP.NET support for your web hosting account please login your web hosting account ASP.NET Manager section, choose the hostname you wish to use ASP.NET from a given list and click “Activate ASP.NET” button. Free accounts do not support ASP.NET.
Disclaimer: Here we have to make clear that ASP.NET is the latest version of Microsoft’s Active Server Pages technology (ASP). This is not the classic ASP. ASP.NET is an entirely new technology for server-side scripting and is not an upgraded version of ASP. You cannot run classic ASP on though this means .asp files.
For those of our clients that have ecommerce web sites, SSL certificates are a must. While before you were facing the difficulties where to get SSL certificate and how to set it up with us, we have done this for you. Now you can pucrhase SSL Certificate from our web site or from your Web Hosting Control Panel, SSL Manager.
Buying SSL Certificate will automatically create SSL Control Panel for your ease. Inside this SSL Control Panel you can see your SSL Certificate, CSR and Private Key. Purchase additional SSLs or renew expired one.
For those of you who will use the SSL Certificate with a web site hosted with us you have to set it up inside the Web Hosting Control Panel, SSL Manager.
At AWARDSPACE we aim to give as much freedom of our clients as we can, developing various different functionality for their ease. That is why we have developed separate Domain Control Panel.
Every one of our clients who register or transfer a domain name will have separate Domain Control Panel. By purchasing domain registration/transfer you will receive separate Welcome Emails with ClientID and Password for Domain Control Panel. Use this login to access your Domain Control Panel. Login is available with either ClientID or Email address used for domain registration/transfer.
For domain names registered before Feb 2009 please contact our support from your Web Hosting Control Panel, Support Center, Trouble Tickets and ask your domain(s) to be setup with Domain Control Panel.
VPS Hosting is available for all our clients that have the need of getting their sites over to more reliable solution than shared hosting. VPS is partitioning a physical server into multiple Virtual Servers having the appearance and capacity of a dedicated server. Each Virtaul Server is absolutely independent from the others on the physical machine. Each one has its own operating system, and each server can be independently rebooted.
Unlikely other providers we value our clients time and support VPS Hosting with Control Panel you can easily use. Webmin Control Panel is fully installed and ready to be used on the VPS once you purchase it.
Visit our VPS Hosting offers here.
We have set up different MySQL cluster giving our paid customers the opportunity to use either MySQL 4 or MySQL 5.1 as platform. The new feature is available inside the Hosting Control Panel -> MySQL Manager section. When you create new database you can choose which database version you want to use. Additionally old databases created on MySQL 4 can be upgraded to new versions available, i.e. currently MySQL 5.1.
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