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Web page owners and administrators choose cPanel web hosting for its ease of use such as one-click install for complex scripts and the ability to manage multiple websites from the same interface. A critical function cPanel users do not usually find with their cPanel hosting plans is easy server load balancing for optimal email, database, and website performance.

HostingZoom offers cPanel failover hosting so you can take advantage of the reliability of clustered servers along with cPanel’s easy to use, comprehensive capabilities. Thanks to cPanel failover hosting, you and your web users will experience peak performance with no downtime. HostingZoom cPanel website hosting combines the cPanel control panel with real-time data replication and automatic rerouting of network traffic to a fully functional server.

cPanel failover hosting eliminates uncertainty

Improve your online infrastructure with cPanel failover hosting’s load balancing and server clustering features. No more waiting to send time-sensitive emails or losing potential customers while your web host fixes a server problem. HostingZoom cPanel website hosting instantly reroutes server data during maintenance or server failure. When the server is back up, HostingZoom cPanel web hosting restores the failover configuration, creating full redundancy and maximum performance.

If you are a web hosting reseller, cPanel failover hosting plays a vital role in managing your resale accounts and ensuring each customer remains online. You can offer your customers continuous web hosting service with constant uptime due to HostingZoom’s clustered failover server configuration.

Let HostingZoom cluster your servers

Achieving server clustering and load balancing using the cPanel control panel without HostingZoom’s cPanel failover hosting takes precise configuration of your network and may not result in actual load balancing. If configured incorrectly, it may direct all data to the faulty server, causing more problems and more frustration.

HostingZoom cPanel hosting plans – constant reliability, constant uptime

Learn more about how cPanel failover hosting can rejuvenate your online business. Visit www.hostingzoom.com for information about cPanel website hosting and cPanel dedicated server hosting.

Dedicated server hosting gives you the most security, resources and performance since you get to use all the bandwidth and disk space yourself. Don’t trade the increased performance for frustration in managing your dedicated server. Instead, get the most out of your dedicated server with cPanel web hosting with HostingZoom’s cPanel dedicated servers.

Instead of spending your time deciphering the complex workings of your server, cPanel dedicated server hosting is easy to learn and simple to use so you can concentrate on your business instead of your website hosting. cPanel web site hosting helps you use your dedicated server efficiently, configure it to work optimally, and gives you access to a full range of website features and utilities.

cPanel dedicated servers save you time and increase security

For dedicated servers, cPanel’s graphical interface and tiered structure make finding the functions you want and performing those tasks intuitive and easy to execute. cPanel dedicated server hosting simplifies day-to-day management tasks like domain setup and FTP management, and also more complex administrative tasks like IP blocking and setting up time-sensitive cron jobs.

Security is one of the primary benefits of dedicated server hosting, and cPanel dedicated server hosting contributes to your overall website security by giving you tools to block malicious programs and protect your website’s content and bandwidth. cPanel dedicated server hosting provides virus protection and allows you to set up password protection and usage restrictions.

HostingZoom lengthens the life of your dedicated server

cPanel dedicated server hosting at HostingZoom is fully redundant, lessening the daily wear and tear on your dedicated server, and ensuring uptime in the event of any server malfunction. We also perform daily backups, monitoring, and have replacement hardware available so your dedicated server always runs at optimal performance.

To further increase performance, monitor and analyze your website traffic with cPanel dedicated server hosting. Use your cPanel control panel to configure your site and web pages for the greatest exposure and also for the best use of your dedicated server resources. Operating your dedicated server web hosting with cPanel keeps you firmly in control and in full knowledge of how your server and your website are performing.

Join the HostingZoom team and maximize your dedicated server’s potential

If you are interested in dedicated server cPanel hosting plans with easy to use, powerful management features and security, visit www.hostingzoom.com. Learn more about HostingZoom’s cPanel dedicated server hosting and HostingZoom’s signature cPanel failover hosting.

The control panel to your hosting account is your seat of website operations. The ease of use and functionality of a control panel can mean the difference between a confident, profitable online experience and sheer frustration. At HostingZoom, we know how essential your control panel is, so we provide cPanel web hosting for all our web hosting plans. The simplicity, efficiency, and robust capabilities ensure you get both control and convenience with HostingZoom’s cPanel web hosting, cPanel failover hosting, cPanel dedicated servers, and cPanel virtual private server (VPS) hosting.

cPanel – simple to use with powerful results

You can create, configure, and maintain a website with the tools you get in your cPanel account. You will also find what you need to administer multiple websites in a single cPanel account. Create customized email addresses, install applications, analyze your website statistics, initiate password-protected directories, and load scripts with the click of a mouse to add a forum, surveys, blogs, ecommerce features, and much more.

Whether you are new to web hosting or a more experienced hoster, cPanel’s intuitive interface saves you precious time. Some control panels limit management features to creating email addresses, managing files, and adding sub domain names. cPanel gives you full access to advanced functions like Apache handlers and MIME types for telling your server and browser how to handle files. Web hosting with cPanel makes management easier so users at every level can utilize its powerful features.

HostingZoom provides unbeatable cPanel hosting

HostingZoom’s unique cPanel failover hosting with a multiple server cluster means supreme performance and no downtime. It also means seamless data and file transfers for new customers, with minimal downtime. With daily backups and a vast range of tools for multimedia, ecommerce and more, HostingZoom cPanel hosting plans give you the ability to configure your website to serve the needs of your demanding audience.

Our mission is to give our valued customers outstanding support and reliable hosting with many features at an affordable price. Your business has unique hosting needs and cpanel web host HostingZoom has the solutions. Get unbeatable speed and availability with HostingZoom’s cPanel web hosting, cPanel failover hosting, cPanel dedicated server hosting, and cPanel virtual private server (VPS) hosting.

To learn more about cPanel web site hosting and how it can enhance what you expect from your website, contact a HostingZoom service representative today.

We wanted to take this time and let you know that our move to the New Client Dashboard was a success. There were some bumps and challenges along the way but we are working hard to get these fixed and everything running smoothly again. If you see an error or something not working right please let us know. We are also discussing the move and any bugs or feature requests in our forums http://forum.resellerzoom.com/

Affiliate Program
The new Client Dashboard offers all of our clients the ability to use our affiliate program. The great thing is that its now all together in the Client Dashboard instead of a separate login for the affiliate program. The new Client Dashboard allows you to create multiple campaigns using any of the available banners for different target audiences and marketing goals. You can even leech the banners right off our site so your not using up any of your own bandwidth. There is no cost to you for the affiliate program and it offers you the opportunity to make some extra cash through referrals. Existing affiliate program members will need to make changes to their current banners. You will need to login to the New Client Dashboard and go to Rewards at the top and then Affiliate Overview. You may need to click on sign up now in order to get started with setting up your campaigns. Once you have setup your campaign you will receive a referral URL. This is the referral link for that campaign. You will want to include this in all the banners you pick for this specific campaign. When your campaign link is clicked on it will direct to the landing page you choose and set a cookie. This cookie is what tells our system that this is a referral from you. This is all you need to do to get started with the new Affiliate program.

Rewards Program
We have started rewards program since last week. The rewards program is our way of thanking existing clients. In a growing business the new offers often don’t apply to to existing clients which is no way to show a client you love them. We crafted our reward system to constantly shower clients with points to show all the ways we appreciate their loyalty. Clients can use the points to buy new services, add-ons, purchase some swag, and more. Here are some of the ways that you can earn points:

1. Signing up for a new account you get 50 points per dollar spent up to 2500 points on your very first invoice.
2. Paying your regular invoices for products or services  through us, You receive 1 point for every dollar spent.
3. You also get 50 points every month for being a loyal customer. 

You will be able to redeem your points from the client area of the Client Dashboard by ordering a new product or service. There is no limit to the points you can earn and they never expire! All clients will automatically be in this program so there is nothing that you will need to do in order to start earning points.

If you run an online business or any other website that needs to have a high degree of reliability and stability, you know how disastrous having significant downtime or having to roll back your data can be. It can lead to everything from lost sales to maintenance costs to loss of important records, and the best way to prevent system failure of this kind is to make sure the hosting company you sign up with provides failover hosting. Here, we’ll take a quick look at how failover works, and why it is important to any website that needs to keep its data stable and intact at all times.

Failover hosting essentially consists of two separate servers that have a “heartbeat” cable running between them. The main server, which normally hosts the website and stores data, sends electronic signals to the secondary server. Should the main server fail, these signals will cease, thus causing the secondary server to immediately take over the task of hosting the website. Each server is updated simultaneously, so that they always have the same type of data. This is called redundancy, and it is used to keep one server from getting ahead of the other and thus losing track of data.

Failover hosting can have a number of other benefits and features. Occasionally, there is a third server called a “spare parts” server, which is used to decrease downtime while failback is being performed. Failback refers to the process of restoring the original server to its normal capacity after it has failed. The second server may also be able to send a page to a technician or support center in order to get someone on the scene quickly to failback the original machine. Using failover in your hosting service is an excellent way to cut down on the amount of time your site is down during maintenance or technical problems, and will ensure that you don’t lose any important information in the case of any technical problems.

There are a lot of things that you will want to avoid losing, particularly if you run a business online, and failover hosting is simply the best way to prevent that. There are several ways to use failover, as it might be automated or be initiated by a human technician, but in the end it serves as the only way to not only back up data but increase overall downtime.

If you don’t use e-mail forms on your site, but you want to present yourself as a company with several “departments”, you can do that without setting up separate POP accounts. Cpanel offers a handy feature which creates e-mail “forwarders”. What this does, as the name suggests, is that it forwards e-mail addresses to another standalone e-mail account.

This also comes in handy if you have employees or partners who have their own e-mail addresses. With forwarding, you can automatically forward e-mail messages sent to sales@yourdomain.com to several e-mail accounts. This allows you to have several e-mail addresses for your website which can then be forwarded to one person or several people, all without the need for creating individual POP accounts.

Another handy use for this feature is allowing people to send messages to your cell phone or BlackBerry without revealing your cell phone’s number or e-mail address. All you do is set up an alias, say mobile@yourdomain.com, which would then forward to your cell phone’s address (assigned through your carrier) without revealing that address to prying eyes.

To set up forwarders, simply go into your Cpanel account and click that option under the “E-mail” section of the control panel. Cpanel will walk you through the process, step by step, and within moments you’ll have aliases (or forwarders) set up.

Why do this over setting up POP accounts? Maybe you don’t want to hand out POP/SMTP accounts to everyone, but you still want them to be able to access website e-mail. By setting up forwarders, you can accomplish that, and you maintain the ability to remove or add people at will.

So you have a website. It’s up and running. Now you need traffic. You’ve submitted your site to Google, Yahoo, and other search engines, but how do you make sure that your listing counts?

Meta tags.

What meta tags do is remarkable: they help you draw in visitors who are looking for specific things. The typical syntax of a meta tag is as follows:

Let’s take a look at an example of a description. This is what search engines would show to people as a brief synopsis of your website:

Here, you have the name of the business, and a brief slogan. This will help draw in customers, because if a potential buyer wants sprockets at low prices (and who doesn’t?), he’ll definitely click on a link with that description! And there’s your traffic.

Perhaps the most important meta tag is the one pertaining to keywords. These are the words that you want to draw people into your site with. The idea is to pull up your website when people search specific keywords. Here’s an example:

Separated by commas, there are several keywords, all of which pertain directly to the business: the type of product they sell, the reason customers would want to buy from them, and a value-added service: quick delivery!

There are many types of meta tags available, and you can use as many or as few as you wish, depending upon the needs of your website. When used properly, meta tags can increase your incoming traffic significantly, when compared to sites that don’t use meta tags (and surprisingly, there are some that don’t!).

If you need help, there are sites that can help you create meta tags, and then “validate” them, or verify that they are formatted correctly.

Meta tags can be a powerful tool for your website, whether that site is for your business, or your own personal pursuits. Using them correctly can increase your traffic, ad revenue, and rankings in search engines.

We here at HostingZoom appreciate how daunting a task it can be to choose the right host. After all, there are so many hosts out there, all of whom promise to give you the best deal.

So how does one choose the best host? Here are some points to consider, and how we fit into the picture.

Customer Service: The last thing you want is to watch your website go offline, and have no one available to help you. At HostingZoom, that won’t happen. We offer several methods of support: trouble ticket, chat, telephone, and we even offer a Support Manager who can address issues if you feel that you’re not getting the attention you deserve.

Reliability: Obviously, you need your host to be reliable. You want your website up 24/7, right? We offer clustered failover hosting, which means that if one server goes offline, your website can stay up. With most hosts, if the server that your website is hosted on goes offline, your website goes with it. That’s not the case with HostingZoom, which means more uptime for your website or blog.

Trust: We understand that some customers may be hesitant to trust a company that they don’t physically visit. We’re located in Houston, Texas, and are accredited by the Better Business Bureau. We are not a “fly by night” company; our parent company, Landis Holdings, Inc., has been around for 11 years. Unfortunately, there are quite a few “hosting companies” run by teenagers out of their bedrooms. While their desire to run a business at such a young age is admirable, your website needs to be in the hands of a company with experience, and resources.

Ease of use: What good is a hosting company if you can’t use their services easily? At HostingZoom, we make the entire process easy for you. In fact, we’ll even help you move from your old host, as long as you use Cpanel as your control panel environment. Not many hosts offer that service!

Here at HostingZoom, we care about all of our customers, and when you sign up for service with us, you’re more than just a number. We think that when you apply the factors mentioned above to any host you may be considering, you’ll see that HostingZoom is the smart move!

Perhaps the fastest growing hobby today is blogging. For a surprisingly low investment, you can share your thoughts, feelings, and opinions, and those writings can instantly be shared with people around the world.

But what software to use? If you choose to host your own blog, there are many packages to choose from. One possible choice is WordPress, which is arguably the most popular blogging platform in the world.

It is free, and it is well-supported. Not only that, but thanks to many hobbyists who give of their time and skills, “plug-ins” are available, which offer extended features, such as the ability to play videos inside your blog, and the ability to offer a list of related posts.

Most importantly, WordPress is easy to use, and with it, you can easily create pages and individual posts. One neat feature that WordPress offers is the ability to be a Content Management System, and through that, you can run a standalone website. Or, of course, you can run a traditional blog.

However you choose to configure WordPress, it is a snap to set up and even easier to use, leaving more time for you to happily blog away.

Reseller Zoom, a leading provider of reseller hosting solutions and a division of Hosting Zoom, today unveiled a new lineup of hosting plans for resellers. Hosting Zoom also launched new plans for customers of every budget, including shared, semi-dedicated, new hybrid servers, and dedicated servers. All plans are packed with features guaranteed to be a hit with resellers and customers everywhere, especially during tough economic times where additional value is welcome.

“In spite of the uncertain economic conditions in the market, our customers are finding ways to generate incremental revenues through providing valuable hosting services,” says Greg Landis, president of Hosting Zoom. “Our goal was to give them the tools and enable their success. Competitively priced plans running on the best machines with a healthy heaping of add-on features are a winning formula.”

Shared hosting plans on Hosting Zoom begin as low as $4.95 per month with all the disk space and bandwidth the majority of customers need. Failover hosting plans offer fuly redundant servers for failover, free private SSLs, and free domain hosting from only $10.95.

Hosting Zoom Hybrid Servers

Hosting Zoom is proud to announce a new lineup of Hybrid Servers, where semi-dedicated meets VPS. Choose from two Hybrid plans starting from only $99 per month for 100GB space, 1,500GB bandwidth and 2GB memory. All Hybrid plans include:

• Free ClientExec software
• Free WHM/cPanel or Plesk
• Free full management
• Free R1Soft Continuous Backups
• Unlimited domains
• Limited to only 3 main clients per node full root

Hosting Zoom Dedicated Servers

Choose from four dedicated servers from:

1. E7200 (Dual Core), 2GB RAM, 2x250GB disk space – $219 per month
2. Xeon X3330 (Quad Core), 4GB RAM, 2X500GB disk space – $269 per month
3. Xeon X3330 (Quad Core), 8GB RAM, 4X500GB disk space with RAID – $319 per month
4. 2X E5405 (Quad Core), 16GB RAM, 8X500GB disk space with RAID 0, 1 or 10 – $599 per month

All dedicated plans have buydown options, and include 5 IPs, 2,000GB bandwidth, remote reboot availability, and R1Soft backup add-on.

Reseller Zoom Reseller Plans

New Reseller Zoom reseller plans offer three tiers: Budget, Advanced and Failover.

Budget Reseller Plans are starter plans with value for webmasters to host multiple low traffic websites under the same account starting from only $5.95 a month, which includes 7GB disk space, 70GB bandwidth, and 20 cPanel accounts.

Advanced Reseller Plans are great for resellers to provide web hosting as a value added service and make residual income. The Advanced servers have 50% less resellers compared to the budget plan and suitable for reselling. Advanced plans begin at only $17.95 a month with 25GB of disk space, 250GB bandwidth, and unlimited accounts.

Reseller Zoom’s advanced Clustered Failover hosting system improves performance and eliminates prolonged downtime so you get a faster response and better uptime. Plans begin at $24.95 a month with 25GB of disk space, 250GB of bandwidth, and unlimited accounts.

Reseller plans may include free WHM, eNom/Tucows registrar, ClientExec, RVSkin, and Fantastico.