Blogger

Bloggers is the blanket term for anyone that uses a blog to post information on topics that are of interest to them. Becoming a blogger is actually simpler than it might seem. As blogging has grown in popularity, many website offer platforms to quickly and easily create a blog.

Some of the most popular blogging software platforms are Blogger, Livejournal, Typepad, Wordpress and Xanga. These websites will host your blog, generally for free, and provide you with the tools to create blog posts without having to know a lot about software.

I recommend using Wordpress. This software is easily installed through your hosting control panel if you are using Watersweb Hosting or Shop Kit Plus. Once it is installed, you can choose from several free themes to install on the site, or you can hire a Wordpress web designer to make the blog match your product selling site.

7 Tips To Moving Your Website To A New Host — Without Losing Your Product Data

Welcome To Episode #5!

Chances are, if you’ve been online for any length of time selling physical products from a website, you’ve had to move that site at least once. If you were lucky, you had a great host who helped you move everything to the new server with no problems. If you weren’t so lucky, you may have experienced excessive downtime, or even the loss of data. Yikes!

I’ve heard my share of stories about nightmarish website moves, and even experienced a few of my own. So, I put together a special report, which you can access at Watersweb Hosting, that you visual learners can download and print out. And if you’re an auditory learner, you can listen to our podcast, and I’ll tell you the seven steps to prevent data loss during a server move.

Enjoy!

–Michelle Waters, The Physical Product Seller’s Coach
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The Number One Reason To Host Your Site On A Linux Server

Windows fans make several credible-sounding claims that their software is more secure than Linux. However, an article in The Register, the UK’s biggest techology website whose tagline is “Biting the Hand that Feeds IT,” clearly shows the very opposite as it blasts through many Windows-favorable myths.

The article quells arguments such as:

1. Windows only suffers so many attacks because there are more Windows installations than Linux, therefore Linux would be just as vulnerable if it had as many installations
2. Open source is inherently less secure because malicious hackers can find flaws more easily
3. There are more security alerts for Linux than for Windows, therefore Linux is less secure than Windows
4. There is a longer time between the discovery of a flaw and a patch for the flaw with Linux than with Windows

This article is a must-read for anyone who plans to place sensitive information on the web — or even on a home computer.

NOTE: Watersweb servers are Linux based.

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