A Brief On Website Response Time Measurement

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The time elapsed from the moment of the request of a certain URL until the requested page is fully displayed is defined as response time. This process consists of 3 units – transmission, processing and rendering.

• Transmission is the time necessary to transmit the user’s request and receive the server’s response.
• Processing describes the period during which the server has to process the request and generate the response.
• Rendering is a client-side operation and includes the time needed by the client machine to display the response.

There are several ways to measure the website’s response – client-side testing, server-side measurement and remote website monitoring from different locations. All of these methods have their advantages, but the choice is up to you.

Server-side Measurement

Server-side measurement is reliable, but can sometimes be difficult when there are proxy servers, which are quite common today. Being a server-side application, there can be a lot of issues with the configuration and in some of the cases it will go down with your site and there may not be much else that you can do. Server-side measurement is a good approach for collecting visitor information, but does not have the full functionality of the remote monitoring.

Client-side Testing

Client-side testing is the best way through which you can get the most accurate perception of what your users are experiencing. However, it is limited to your network or geographical location and, more often than not, it does not reflect the universal experience that the average Internet user has with your site. There are several tools which can help you measure your website’s response time. Some are simple client-side scripts and others are more advanced (e.g. Yslow from Yahoo! and Page Speed from Google). The latter two tools are best used with Firefox and are mostly used as additions to Firebug.

Although client-side testing is a great way to gain first-hand information about the users’ experience, it can be time consuming and it only provides you with details for your site’s visibility from only one location. This may not be an issue if your business is local, but it is not sufficient for online retailers and service providers with clients all over the world.

Remote Website Monitoring

Remote monitoring is a recurring test that is performed by one or more remote locations at the same time. You can run various tests from different geographical locations, effectively simulate user’s experience from the different checking points and get accurate information about your website’s response time. It is accurate, easy to implement and its applications are backed up with a flexible reporting system and emergency 24/7 live support.

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A brief on Reseller Hosting

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The concept behind reseller hosting is simple: A hosting reseller buys a ‘reseller hosting account’ from a service provider (a larger hosting company or a data center owner) and then sells it to others for a profit.

How Reseller Hosting Works?

Its business model is pretty much the same with any offline retailing business – the reseller may purchase the hosting capacities (bandwidth/hard disk space/software/CPU power) themselves at cheaper rates and then sell them at higher "retail" rates. Typically, hosting resellers often operate their business under an independent brand or label. In other words, a hosting reseller will not inform the end users that he/she is selling someone else’s services.

It does not need extensive technical knowledge to be a hosting reseller. In most cases, the data center operator is the responsible party for hardware maintenance and configurations. A hosting reseller is more like an agent where his/her jobs are mainly interfacing with the existing customers and winning more new customers. This is why a hosting reseller firm often spend greatly on advertising campaigns.

The economics of reseller hosting

Let’s do some simple mathematics and see how a reseller host make money.

John purchases Hostgator’s Copper Reseller Package and gets 80GB disk space, 700GB bandwidth at .95 per month. He then breaks the package into 10 separate accounts with 8GB storage and 70GB bandwidth each and sells it for .99/mo. At the end of the day, John’s profit (assuming that he sold all 10 accounts) will be .90 – .95 = .95/mo. Not much, but it’s still some sweet money considering that there are not much work to be done.

Repeat that for another 9 times and you’ll get a nice 0 passive income per month. In fact, why just stop at doing 10 sales – the Internet is an ever-expanding world, why not buy and resells more? 100 customers earn you 0/mo;  why not go 1,000 or 2,000 or even 5,000!

Well, that seems like a sure-fire business model, why not we just start one!

But wait, the question to ask is why: Why should your customers buy your *limited* hosting package when other larger web hosts are selling cheap *unlimited* hosting?

Having a unique selling point is a must for every successful hosting reseller. Some might offer free CMS and blog installation services; some might help in website design and development; but what most successful resellers do is to focus on profitable niche markets (example: Europe/India/Asia markets, gaming community, specific script user community, etc).

How to choose a good reseller hosting provider?

Here are some important consideration factors when you are searching for the right reseller hosting provider.

Reliability Needless to say, your reputation as a hosting reseller depends a lot on the quality of your provider’s servers and network. Make sure that you stick with reseller hosting provider that has strong uptime record or the sky will be falling on your business.

Customer Supports Efficient customer support is another important characteristic you should be looking for. Remember that you will have a lot of different clients to handle thus chances of things get screwed up are very high. A dedicated team of technical support that are able to respond to your requests is extremely important.

Web Hosting Features Basic hosting features like bandwidth, disk space, and addon domain capacity are vital for hosting resellers as these are the ‘products’ that determine how many accounts you can create and sell. More allocated bandwidth or addon domains means more profits.   

Scalability If you are just starting out reselling hosting services, you may want to pay for only a few domains at a time, and provide a very basic range of applications. However, as your business grows, the number of sites you service will increase and you may also need to increase the range of applications you can provide your customers. Does your host provide a relatively hassle-free way to upgrade? For instance, could you move easily from a shared server arrangement to a dedicated server without needing to change hosts?

Wrapping Things Up…

You probably ended up in this post because that you are new to all these but interested to get your hand wet soon. If so, all I have to say is ‘Just Do It!’. Web hosting is a huge industry and it is far from being saturated – competition is steep but I am pretty sure there is still money to be made!

And, in case my article does not clear your doubts fully. If that is the case, I would suggest further reading at this valuable section of Web Hosting Talk Forum: href="http://www.webhostingtalk.com/forumdisplay.php?f=3" target="_blank">Reseller Hosting (WHT).

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A Brief Guide On YouTube

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Facts:

• More than 24 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every single minute.
• Over 3 billion videos are viewed a day.
• More video is uploaded to YouTube in one month than the 3 major US networks created in 60 years.
• 98 of Adage’s Top 100 advertisers have run campaigns on YouTube and the Google Display Network.
• Every minute more than 500 tweets contain YouTube links

All of these facts, courtesy of href="http://www.youtube.com/t/press_statistics" target="_blank">YouTube statistics, make it really hard to call YouTube less than a multimedia powerhouse, marketing channel of choice, and social media front runner. To better understand YouTube and the direction in which they are headed, let’s take a tour of their history (a full history can be viewed href="http://www.youtube.com/t/press_timeline" target="_blank">here).

YouTube History

• April 2005 – First video uploaded to YouTube (view href="http://youtu.be/jNQXAC9IVRw" target="_blank">here)
• December 2005 – Official site launch (8 million videos watched a day)
• July 2006 – 100 million video view per day
• August 2006 – First advertising concepts launched
• October 2006 – Acquired by Google for .65 billion
• June 2007 – YouTube3 mobile site launched
• December 2007 – YouTube Partner Program launched
• January 2008 – 10 hours of video uploaded every minute
• March 2008 – YouTube Insight Analytics tool launched
• October 2008 – 15 hours of video uploaded every minute
• Jan 2009 – Homepage ads expanded from 1 to 7 formats
• May 2009 – 20 hours of video uploaded every minute
• October 2009 – YouTube announced more than 1 billion views per day
• November 2009 – 1080p Full HD launched
• March 2010 – 24 hours of video uploaded per minute
• May 2010 – YouTube exceeds 2 billion views a day

YouTube Case Studies

Justin Bieber: You may love him and you may hate him, but it’s hard to deny the power of YouTube in his story. A few years ago he was just another young teenager with a passion for music. His life changed when his mom decided to start posting videos of him singing on YouTube – initially for just for family, then for an ever growing loyal audience. Once Usher Raymond and Scooter Braun saw the video, they took him under their wings and now he is an A-list pop star. (If you’re a fan of JB, check out one of his first YouTube videos href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csymVmm1xTw" target="_blank">here.)

href="http://www.youtube.com/user/karmincovers">Karmen: A male female duo also has seen success from flexing their vocal muscle on YouTube. Known for remixing covers of top 40 songs, Nick and Amy are now not only making waves in the music industry, they are getting paid by YouTube.

href="http://www.youtube.com/user/SHAYTARDS?blend=1&ob=4">Shaytards: With an impressive 1,000+ uploads and nearly 1 million subscribers, Shay Carl and his family are living their lives on camera and amusing millions of viewers. YouTube has recognized their influence and their impressive interactive following and is now financing the family’s fun.

These are only three of the growing number of YouTube success stories. As made apparent in these testimonies, YouTube is a great medium for marketing, personal branding, and well, just plain to have fun. Do you have any questions or want to learn more about a specific feature of YouTube? Let me know in the comments below.

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