WEB HOSTING BLOG

Brontobytes enabled .EU transfers. This long-awaited feature has had good initial results with many transfers going through since it was enabled.

What should I know about .EU domain name transfers?

We added another European server to the server farm.

Thank you for using our services and products.
We look forward to providing you with a unique and high quality service.

Order Wizard has been updated. Over the past few months, we had many emails asking to make the order system ‘less’ confusing and to make it less step process. With all the requests, a new skin was developed. If you notice any problem in the future please email us.

Nowadays, hundreds if not thousands of websites and web pages are created each day. This has resulted to the mushrooming of more and more web hosting companies that offer to provide space for websites whether it is the entrepreneurial or personal kind. With too many choices to choose from, you should be able to dissect and select from among the numerous web hosting providers, the one that is right for you.

Europe’s Promise

Even if the European market is perceived to be quite backward when it comes to internet technologies and internet applications, the fact remains that Europe is a highly desirable market to tap into. Even if percentages will tell you that Europe has less internet penetration than other continents, given the relatively big European population, the absolute numbers of people that correspond to the relatively small percentage of people who use the internet is still staggering.

It comes as no surprise, therefore, that more and more businesses are setting their sights on Europe. If you wish to be part of this exodus to the European markets, then you will need to look for a European hosting company.

Things to Look for in a European Web Hosting Company

The first thing that you need to know about a potential web hosting company is the presence or absence of a trial-period or a money back guarantee. This is so you will have something of a fallback in case things go wrong. Most web hosting providers have a one month money back guarantee. One month is ample time for you to decide, based on the performance of the web hosting company, whether the company is giving you your money’s worth. This trial period and money back guarantee ensures that you will incur no unnecessary expenses in your European market expansion.

The second thing that you need to know is the kind of technical support that the web hosting company gives to clients like you. It is a given in Internet technology that problems will crop up that could disrupt your website from running smoothly. Know the customer support they give, the hours their phone lines are open to take in your call, and the number of days their technical support team is available. Check, too, if the customer service team speaks fluent English; you wouldn’t want to spend a lot of your support call time trying to bridge the language barrier instead of getting your concerns addressed.

It is also important to note that some European web hosting companies charge cheaply for their web hosting services but charge exorbitant amounts for technical support calls. It is therefore important to check how much getting support for your website will cost if you sign up with a European web hosting provider.

Another thing that you should definitely check is the type of web hosting provider your company is; that is, whether you are dealing with a web hosting reseller or a core web hosting provider. This is important in case you have issues with the web hosting company’s servers. Resellers, since they are just middlemen, can usually provide only very limited technical support.

If you wish to have a reputable, reliable and quality European web host, visit Brontobytes. You can be certain that your needs entailed by your business’ European expansion will be capably met if you sign up with this company.

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We added a Downloads category in our Support desk. Downloads is a collection of the most popular free scripts.

Most scripts are in PHP and are very easy to install and well documented. Some basic knowledge of HTML is required in order to work with these scripts. Always check the home page of every script that you want to download to see if there’s any new update. Some of these scripts are already installed in the Fantastico Script Library.

Marketing in the European continent has always been a big problem to businesses and companies in the said region. Although European nations are united by a lot of aspects, each country still has differences that marketers and advertisers should consider. Aside from the distinction from country to country, there are clusters inside each country whose preferences should be considered.

European nations have basically pleasant relations with each other, and their cultures have great similarities with each other. However, there still remain differences in habits, language culture, climate, etc. and these have caused great difficulties to businessmen who are attempting to enter the European markets.

The Problem: Euro-Consumer Clusters

A consumer cluster may or may not basically point to a group of people in the same European country. These clusters are defined by social, political, and cultural characteristics – what marketers call socio-demographics. Take for example; French speaking Europeans belong to a different cluster from English speaking citizens. Taking the same group of people you could still divide the group into other clusters depending on financial income, gender and preferences.

When it comes to advertising and marketing, each company must consider the uniqueness of each cluster in order to communicate with them properly. Most people might think that this is not really difficult to do. All that an advertiser or marketer would have to do is to customize a marketing approach for each cluster. Nevertheless, you must remember that we are not just talking about a large city here. We are talking about the panEuropean region. Although customising a marketing approach is doable, this would entail a large investment and a considerable amount of risk.

Although if you think about it, the real problem does not lie in the Euro-Consumer clusters but in the advertising media available that could reach most if not all euro-Consumers. Television is the widely used medium when it comes to advertising in a large area. Television advertisement could reach all of Europe, but could it address each cluster properly? Television might be able to overcome the language cluster, but a company could never customize a program for each cluster without spending a fortune. Print media, on the other hand, could not even overcome the language barrier effectively.

The Solution: Internet and Website Marketing

Basing on the marketing problem that has been mentioned above, some people assume that there is no easy way for panEuropean marketing. This is not true, though. There is, in fact, a cheaper and more effective way of addressing the need to specifically market to each cluster. Technology was good enough to provide us with the internet.

The internet reaches almost the same market as television. Through internet marketing, one has the ability to customize a program to fit each cluster at a lower cost and with much greater efficiency. With the internet, the language barrier is the last thing you’ll ever need to worry about, too, since most internet browsers have the ability to translate content effectively. You could even design your site in different European languages to effectively address the language cluster problem.

To get help and the best web hosting service to facilitate your internet marketing campaign in Europe, visit Brontobytes. Brontobytes is a European web hosting company familiar with the problems that advertisers and marketers face when it comes to panEuropean marketing, and it could therefore provide excellent tools and applications to address these problems.

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We updated our support desk system. If you experienced any problem using our support desk during the day this is because of the update. If you notice any problem in the future please email us.

In April 2007, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) approved the applications of certain domain registries to increase their prices. Domain registries are the private companies which manage the registration, technical operations and control the allocation policies of the TLD’s for which it is responsible.

Domain registries VeriSign, Afilias, Neulevel and Public Interest Registry applied for and received price increases and have announced they will be raising their wholesale prices to all ICANN-accredited registrars.

In light of that decision, Brontobytes will be adjusting its Domain name pricing on Tuesday, 16 October 2007 as follows:
Old Domain Pricing: €7.95/year
New Domain Pricing: €8.45/year

Please submit a support ticket if you have any questions.

The web hosting industry first boomed in the United States with the high demand for web host servers that cater to the vast number of websites that cropped up in the web. From a host of smaller start-up companies to web hosting providers that are backed up by giants in the telecom industry, web hosting has indeed become a multi million dollar industry that has caught the fancy of investors. The web hosting boom is now being experienced in Europe, with major players competing to be the major players in the continually expanding increasingly profitable European market.

The Demand for Sophisticated Web-Hosting Services and Infrastructure in Europe

The demand for strong web hosting services is driven by the need of internet businesses to have adequate and efficient backup so that that they can prevent their websites and e-commerce businesses from toppling over and going down due to traffic surges. This is why all over major European cities, scores of internet data centers (IDCs) have been built, old warehouses were refitted by specialist building contractors with specifications needed to house data storage servers.

The cost of investing in these IDCs is indeed steep; estimates from 5 years ago peg the price of a 10,000 square meter IDC at roughly 25 million pounds, still excluding operational costs. Web hosting infrastructure improvements are costly indeed. However, such costs and risks are nonetheless undertaken by investing web hosting providers just to ensure that their place in the web industry is firmly set. With their ability to provide rapid connection and secure services, they hope that they will be perfectly positioned to take advantage when the European e-commerce potential is realized.

Web Hosting Infrastructure Developments in Europe

The emergence of the European web hosting services market is seen as a blessing by network operators who have set their eyes on the European market. The increasing investment in data centers all over Europe has also brought attention to these network operators and has further increased the popularity of the European market in international commerce and trade.

Some operators have even seen the value of web hosting services; for most of them web hosting is the fastest growing area of their business. Their problem is not merely competition; the challenge lies in making their name recognizable by increasing their size.

However, a lot of cash is needed for this to happen and financial back-up is something most operators lack unless they bring in another bigger partner. Size can be achieved by building more data centers that can provide web hosting services to European businesses and other companies that wish to tap into the European market. Nonetheless, nit everyone sees a guaranteed profit from building data centers especially in the small cities in Europe.
Despite these doubts, more and more companies are still investing. More data centers are built in Europe each year, with network operators aiming to be leaders in the European web hosting industry. Because of these investments, improvements have been seen and companies like Brontobytes continue to upgrade its services in order to answer to an ever-growing need for web hosting providers in the rich market that is Europe. A boom in this web industry has been looming in the past couple of years and, so far, network operators big and small have answered this trend.

If you wish to expand your internet operations in the European market, visit Brontobytes at www.brontobytes.com so you can have a sophisticated web host provider backing up your operations.

Europe Hosting by Brontobytes

We updated our affiliate tracking software. The new version includes more features and an easier way to navigate through the Affiliate Management control panel.