Depuis le temps que j’observe les résultats des blogues et que j’observe celui des autres, je pense que je peux maintenant définir quelques indicateurs de performances clés pour un blogue en voici quelques uns:

- Est-ce que mes articles et pensés sont lus?
- Est-ce que les articles font réagir?
- Comment mes articles se font différents de toute cette masse de blogueurs?
- Est-ce que j’ai des fans ou des lecteurs réguliers?
- Quel est mon degré d’influence?
- Qu’est-ce que ça me rapporte, directement et indirectement?
- Est-ce que les bénéfices sont plus grands que l’investissement temps que j’ai mis à écrire cette article ?

Pour chacune de ces questions, il faut leur donner des réponses honnêtes.

Ces questions ou ce questionnement est utile dans le cas que nous voulons faire un profit avec notre blogue, autrement, il n’est pas nécessaire de se poser autant de questions!

Bonne performance

Ce programme se veut de fournir un serveur en commandite à des bloggeurs qui ont déjà un site web populaire et qui répondent à certains critères de performance.

Voici un extrait anglais du notre nouveau programme et vous donnera en même temps un aperçu:

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Top hosting center a Montreal-based web hosting company, is looking for dynamic and creative bloggers and in return we will sponsor your blog with fully managed servers and with an option to make more money with our affiliate program and more.

THC`s prerequisites:

* PageRank 4 +
* Alexa 22,100 -
* Compete 40 000 +
* Technorati 1500, Authority 1400+
* 200 Posts ( average ) +
* 12,000 Comments +
* 45,000 Backlinks (Yahoo!) +
* 2,000 indexed pages (Google) +
* Average of 40K unique per month (without social media)

Example: http://www.johncow.com.

If you think you qualify, send your request to Eric@tophostingcenter.com

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Je suis convaincu que ce programme vous enchantera!

Laissez-moi vous invitez à vous inscrire à notre programme d’affilié que vous ne retrouverez pas sur le marché avec 50% de commission, en plus, il nous fera plaisir de vous assigner un coupon personnalisé en votre nom et aussi vous pourrez faire profiter vos lecteurs d’un escompte additionnel de 15% sur nos programme d’hébergements partagés.

http://www.tophostingcenter.com/affiliates.html

Soyez assurer que THC fait tout en son pouvoir pour mettre en place les meilleurs programmes possible et de même les plus compétitifs.

At Top Hosting Center (THC), I spearhead the team in formulating strategic plans to thrust new hosting ideas and promote stable business environment, viable hosting products, and quality services to our customers. We are very much aware of the hosting industry competition and guess what – I personally love it – so do you.

The benefit of greater competition in the hosting industry we are involved definitely would bring only good news to the people. It promotes lower hosting prices and gives better value to your money. For our side, the competition encourages us to offer better plans at cheaper prices. It would surely entice more people to join the World Wide Web bandwagon as more businesses shift to the virtual world. Let us become your reliable agent to get you there!

Our successful Rudolf hosting plan, THC’s current flagship in our web hosting department, will eventually retire when the 1000 plans are sold out. Presently, we are in the middle of discussions between proposals with the board for our next wave of hosting plans and products. For sure, it would surpass the features of our existing plans – and yes, new additions to the standard features, greater bandwidth and bigger disk space for almost same price! It’s our smart move to adhere with the call of the global competition and hopefully, it would bring new excitement to the people who are still seeking for the “right” hosting company. You should try us!

I am very confident with THC. We are well funded and we are powered by dynamic and knowledgeable people that aim only to deliver quality services for customer satisfaction. So, if you are proposing to join THC or an existing customer, we strongly assure that you and your online business are in good hands!

I Want To Have A Blog, Where Do I Start?
You have two options to start blogging: you can either create an account on free blogging websites (use Google to find them) or buy a hosting plan from a reliable web hosting company. I strongly suggest you choose the latter option: it lets you surpass resource limits, liberate you to do more than blogging and provide you with dozens of nifty applications that you can use in conjunction with your blog or independently.

If you don’t know yet, my name’s Eric and I am the CEO of Top Hosting Center, a hosting company that offers ultra-affordable and generous web hosting packages for people who want to become full-fledged bloggers. I can personally give you good recommendations so you can start your blogging venture right away.

How Much Does It Cost?
If you avail our advantageous hosting plan called “Rudolf” that is tailored for bloggers, you can own a hosting account and a domain name for a life! That means, you own a blog forever and a permanent web address www.yourblogname.com for your lifetime web presence! You only need to pay $95 USD, one-time – no monthly recurring fees, no hidden fees, no other costs – the best web hosting plan for bloggers the Web had ever seen!

If you are not techie, our enthusiastic customer support representatives will guide you on your blogging quest at any time of the day: for free.

Get Hooked With WordPress
When you purchase Rudolf, you can reach our online chat support representatives to guide you in installing your blog. Choose WordPress as your blog platform. WordPress, one of the EasyApp applications you can get from Rudolf, is currently the most in-demand platform we have and we highly recommend. You can download customizable themes that suits your blog layout/design needs. WordPress also boasts myriad plugins that extend the WordPress blog functionality.

What Are The Benefits Of Having A Blog?
Just as what I’ve said earlier, having a blog lets you:

• Make an online journal to store memories (throw your diaries away)
• Upload your pictures and incorporate them to your blog
• Upload your movie clips to YouTube and present them to your blog
• Monetize your blog articles by participating paid reviews or integrating advertisements
• Present your written thoughts and opinions to any people in the world
• Meet new friends, fellow bloggers, and socialize with them
• Open doors to new opportunities
• More excitement to your online life

We wish you good luck for your blogging and see you at THC!

My staff picked the most frequently asked questions (FAQs) related to blogging, provided them answers, and organized them. It created a usual question-and-answer scenario between our customers and our support representatives – an excellent guide if you want to start blogging right away.

These are the questions they picked:

• What name should I give to my website?
• Is a site name and a domain name the same?
• Which blog type should I build?
• What blog platform should I use?
• Is there any alternative to the WordPress platform?
• Should I edit locally or upload by FTP?
• Do you have any content management software that I can use if needs arise?
• Where can I find and download plugins and themes for my WordPress blogs?
• I want to use a blog editor. Is there a blog editor which is handy for my purpose?

Read the complete answers to the questions above in the article posted at our THC Web Hosting blog. I am pretty sure that it will help you in many ways.

If you want to run your own blog with or without any blogging experience, you can grab our generous Rudolf hosting plan and take advantage to the greatest hosting offer the Web had ever seen for only $95 USD, one-time payment, and lifetime ownership! Each plan comes with standard hosting features, 250 GB disk space, 3000 GB unmetered monthly bandwidth, and a free lifetime domain name – plus 24×7 live support!

We had launched Rudolf with 1000 plans available and a month after, our sales increased and the remaining Rudolf plans broke below 500 – rapidly diminishing due to the unprecedented demand. However, I can personally spare you Rudolf plans if you are interested. Just mention where you heard about Rudolf (that you were referred by this post), when you communicate with my live chat or email support representatives and they know what to do.

See you at THC!

Please take note that Friday January 11th at 09:00 pm Eastern time, we are going to apply security patches and reboot our Linux servers.

That night, without any negative expectations associated to the applied security patches and server reboot, we encountered a serious connectivity issue between our web server and the MySQL database engine. Database-reliant web pages of websites running under THC completely failed regardless of plan and platform. There was no exception: even on THC’s official site, all dynamic pages were down as well.

The assessments made by the tech department revealed that the database connectivity issue was severe. This prompted me to declare an “emergency status” after realizing the scope of the problem, and directed our support department to issue another advisory to our customers about the situation.

We are currently facing an issue with MySQL databases after our reboot.
Please bear with us as we are currently working on the issue.

All my technical staff quickly responded to the problems and checked the software configurations of the web server and database engine. After hours of analysis, they came up with a solution to implement “load balancing” which I agreed. With it, should our primary MySQL server fail again, site operations will not be interrupted as the secondary server automatically replaces and resumes the database operations. After implementation and several successful confirmation tests, the issue was resolved and our support department rolled another email to our customers.

We are glad to inform you that our MySQL database connectivity has been fully restored. All database-reliant web pages and files are now working well.

As you read from our previous advisory, we applied security patches and did a server reboot last night. After such, we encountered unexpected connectivity issue with our MySQL server in a high severity.

The time we spent during the restoration process included a major revamp with our MySQL server configuration. We have applied load balancing as our permanent solution for this issue. With it, should our primary MySQL server fails again, site operations will not be interrupted as the secondary MySQL server automatically takes care of the database operations.

Please note that all your data and files are backed-up, safeguarded and remained intact after recovery.

If you ever encounter problems with your website that are non-existent before, please write to this e-mail customercare@tophostingcenter.com

We are very grateful for your forbearance and understanding.

It was a quite long night for everyone at THC, and we were all astonished when we realized how many cups of coffee we consumed. I was able to congratulate all of them for doing their dedication and for delivering their best service in catering rare emergency situation such as this.

I am more grateful to all our customers who were very patient and understanding, as reported by our customer support department. Please be informed that this event is isolated and the people of THC are strongly committed to give you the best hosting experience ever.

Update: Twelve hours later, we made some optimizations and adjustments to our load balancing configuration at our data center. This caused short, intermittent time outs to all websites. The end results, however, are improved server performance and assured stability.

Even before I entered the web hosting industry with THC, I was aware of the importance of server uptime, the quality of customer support, and competency of hosting features over price. These are significant points that influence the decision of prospective customers as one could lose hundreds of dollars for mishaps on the hosting company’s side.

At THC, our network infrastructures are designed to withstand problems that could degrade or affect our machine’s performance. Our network connectivity is a constitution of multiple redundant Tier 1 backbone providers and through our partnerships with Level (3) and Congent, we enjoy an 8 Gbps bandwidth capacity for the advantage of our customers.

In our shared hosting department, we implemented several procedures to ensure that no user can exploit our server resources in an unconventional and harmful way. We give emphasis on server security, stability and reliability to give full comfort to our customers. My administrators are full-time certified professionals — they are able to solve server issues in timely fashion.

We at Top Hosting Center are happy to know that our customers are benefiting much from us, perhaps more than what they paid. We are happy that they availed the best hosting deals and experiences the Web has ever seen. So why not you?

Basically, the web directory services aim to bring benefits to our customers, to us, and to every user on the Web. To our existing customers, by adding their site links on our directory, their websites are exposed to Web users (and fellow THC customers) who are seeking relevant websites categorically.

Adding links to directory can be done by clicking the Submit Link menu item. The rest is easy and self-explanatory. All submitted links are validated manually by us to ensure the quality of the website entries and that there are no links leading to malicious websites.

To us, we use the directory to give us a bird’s-eye view of the websites running on the top of our servers. It allows us to adjacently campaign and promote our customers’ websites for additional traffic and exposure.

One of the striking features of our Website Directory is the links popularity. Each time a Web user clicks a website listing legitimately, it is equivalent to one “hit” or vote to that website. The more votes a website gets, the higher its rank appears on the Popular Links page which is tantamount to “greater website exposure.” Users can also recommend a website to their friends.

In terms of page design, we intentionally made the directory simple and easy to use. This ensures that the page loads fast and responsive to the needs of the Web users. Additional features and enhancements will be added in the future.

We strongly hope that our aims be fruitful and this free web directory service will bring benefit to all of us working around THC.

Visit THC Website Directory

Take a look, for instance, this Squidoo post that compared THC’s hosting features over our giant, well-known competitor in the hosting industry, Dreamhost. The graphic below (taken from there), illustrates a comparison of our current flagship plan, Rudolf versus Dreamhost’s special anniversary plan.

As you can see, if the battle was just a numbers game, Dreamhost could easily beat our Rudolf hosting plan. Dreamhost offers twice the amount of disk storage resource and greater bandwidth. However, our Rudolf plan’s figures are not that bad — and it’s not bad either. Its resource numbers are in fact, still beyond adequate to the needs of a basic and intermediate webmaster. It is sufficient enough to create big websites with thousands of users and enormous contents. More to that, customers who purchase our Rudolf plans will own them for life.

The graphic also explained why customers preferred to buy Rudolf. We have a better lineup of support features. We don’t offer only online documentation, e-mail support and ticketing system, but our customers say that our 24×7 Live Chat Support System is stellar and useful. According to them, they feel secured and assured that they can get help at any time of the day. For your information, our online chat staffs are well-trained, friendly and knowledgeable to give Level 1 to 2 support.

Chris Aah, the owner of Philaahzophy blog, wrote a series of post with his early experience with Top Hosting Center. He bought a Rudolf plan and have been our top customer who frequently comes back for support. Perhaps he was testing us. I think he did.

I think the bottomline here is that the people in my company did a good job. I look forward on improving more our services to give our new and existing customers a hosting experience that they will never forget. This is my personal executive goal in 2008 for Top Hosting Center.

Signup for Rudolf plan — only one-time $95 USD, lifetime ownership.

If you want to become a good webmaster, you’ve got to plan things ahead especially on tasks concerning your prospective website. While owning a website can be easy by simply availing webhosting services and acquiring a domain name, carrying out tasks of a true webmaster can be tricky – but fun and potentially rewarding.

Before you jump to start, it would be best to assess yourself and write things down. Get a pen and paper and specify clearly your personal goals and your website goals. Put to paper all your thoughts about the type of website you are interested to work on (e.g., niche site, blog site, directory, among others), the subject of the site, your proposed target audience and the features you want to implement in the future. Write all your ideas in mind and filter them out later.

If you got them listed, you must narrow them down — cream off unnecessary things. Do not think of creating a Yahoo-type site where people can find almost any topic and web service on one web page. Yahoo is a web company and their website is created and powered by a great number of highly-skilled people. For starters, it is recommended to build a personal site that presents a topic you really liked or inclined too. You can probably decide to set-up a blogs site, products review or any site which you can provide quality information and resources that can be helpful to others. Well, the decision is completely yours.

By becoming a webmaster, you will be considering the website design and structure. You need to choose carefully which navigation system works best for web users when they come across your site’s web pages. You must ensure that the colors in your layout blend well with texts and graphics. Provide some space on pages for advertisements which you will be having later on. If you plan to be the one who will develop your site’s web pages, you might consider doing some research on web languages such as HTML, PHP, ASP, as well as database language like MySQL. Learning such languages will be a great help for your webmaster profession but not completely required because you can learn them on the way. Many webmasters who avoid web programming outsource their website development needs just to have a complete site running for a quick start – they pay someone else to create a complete site for them. As long as it is completed, the site is uploaded to the web server. The webmasters would only work on the contents of the site (ensuring they are good quality), apply as affiliate marketer and integrate website ads, work on traffic improvement, and start realizing their website’s revenue potential. If you want to learn more on how to generate money from your site, research about affiliate marketing. I can personally recommend to you our lucrative affiliate hosting program — a great start to earn money on the Web.