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Filed under: Utilities, Productivity, Web services, Google

Hosting companies to offer Google AdSense, site search services

Google has announced that it will work with hosting companies to offer AdSense, site search, AdWords for search and webmaster tools for your hosted websites. This is great news if you love your web host, but you want to simplify the process of monetizing your site and offering search to your users. Hosts can now integrate Google Services for Websites into their own control panels, so you should start seeing them pop up soon.

If you've never used Google's site services before, here's a rundown of what they do. Webmaster tools are useful for figuring out how to optimize your site for Google searches, and understanding what Google's bots see when they crawl your site. AdSense and AdWords let you buy ads in Google search results and sell ads for your site. There's no word from Google on which hosts will be adding these features, but if yours doesn't, you can point them to this page and suggest they sign up.

Filed under: Features, Blogging, Web services, Microsoft, Yahoo!, AOL

So your web host is retiring: How to back-up and move forward

On Monday, AOL (Weblogs Inc.'s parent company) announced that they are shutting down the AOL Hometown and AOL Journals services. AOL Journals members will be able to migrate to a new service, but AOL Hometown users have been instructed to back-up their files and prepare to go somewhere else.

There have also been reports (but Wikipedia is the source, so keep that in mind) that Yahoo! GeoCties has removed or shut-down some of its UK web servers. With Google killing its Page Creator tool and migrating everyone to Google Sites, the free static web host is a dying breed.

So what can you do if you are an AOL Hometown user (or you use another older service that might be on its last legs)? Read on for tips on backing up your content and publishing options for the future.

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Filed under: Business, Internet, Web services, Yahoo!

Yahoo! now offering "unlimited" web hosting

Crazy BuffetLoosen those belts and belly up to the bar, because Yahoo! Web Hosting has gone all-you-can-eat. Beginning today, Yahoo! is offering unlimited web hosting for all of its small business customers.

What does unlimited mean? In this case:
  • Unlimited disk space
  • Unlimited data transfer
  • Unlimited email storage
  • 1,000 email accounts
Along with the above, Yahoo! Web Hosting offers a wealth of website design tools, a free domain name, and automatic submission of your site to top search engines.

At $11.95 a month, you've probably spent more at Sizzler's buffet bar. Who can resist popcorn shrimp?

All in all, an interesting development by Yahoo! sure to tighten the web hosting race.

Filed under: Blogging, Web services, Commercial

WordPress.com announces VIP Hosting

WordPress.com VIP HostingWordPress.com, the free blog hosting service from the creators of open source blogging software WordPress, has announced a new hosting package for high-profile, high-traffic bloggers. WordPress.com VIP Hosting "allows these folks to piggyback on our WordPress.com infrastructure, getting the benefits of what we've built without the limitations of a free WordPress.com account around theme editing and javascript." It provides load-balancing across WordPress.com's many servers, SSL administration, Subversion access for template editing, the ability to use WordPress plugins that don't require database table modifications, and no limitations on JavaScript or advertising. The service allows users to have their own domain names (rather than example.wordpress.com), but requires a "Powered by WordPress.com" logo. Currently WordPress.com is only courting "existing high-profile publishers or startups" that it has "a good deal of confidence in," and the price reflects that: $250 per month with a one-time $500 setup fee.

[Via Matt Mullenweg]

Filed under: Business, Internet, Blogging, Web services, Social Software

Free hosting for Wikis

Wikidot is providing free webhosting to wiki sites and social networks using an AJAX interface. Wikidot launched in August when the developers were looking for a free wiki to host a software project. The service generates income by ads, premium features and partnerships. Wikidot's service is easy to set-up with some great features including:
  • sitename.wikidot.com - nice clean domain
  • create and edit pages quickly
  • invite people to edit pages
  • 100 MB storage
  • RSS feeds
  • RSS exports
The Wikidot service can also be used as a personal homepage, or a spot to store data that can be accessed from anywhere without knowing any coding or html.

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