Your Questions About 1 And 1 Web Hosting
Robert asks…
Home Office and Vehicle expenses across multiple businesses?
I was wondering if anyone could provide some insight on how to distribute Home Office and auto expenses across multiple businesses. I have a web hosting business, three rental properties, and a regular full time job. In the past I deducted my vehicle expenses on the web hosting only, and deducted my home office expense under 1 of the rental properties in Turbo Tax.
Should I split the cost of the Home office expense across the three rental properties and the web hosting evenly or should I only take the deduction against one. For example: If the home office expenses were 4000.00
Rental property 1 – 1,000
rental property 2 – 1,000
rental property 3 – 1,000
web hosting biz – 1,000
Or should it be all under Webhosting = 4000.00
Also, for the vehicle if I used it for all business purposes, and no personal use should I take a % of the standard mileage for each business.
For example: SM = 4400
Rental property 1 – 1,100
rental property 2 – 1,100
rental property 3 – 1,100
web host – 1,100
admin answers:
Web host 1000
Richard asks…
Is there a web hosting company that (including with their shared hosting packages) offer real flash streaming?
I am currently with 1&1, and have a site where I let members watch films (legal films that are in public domain). Some films are around 40min and the users would like the ability to skip to any part they want without having to wait for the entire flv video to load in the flash player.
admin answers:
You might have to get dedicated server and host the movies on your site. Not sure how else a hosting company would let you do this.
Paul asks…
How many Domains can i host in BlueHost, web hosting?
I see that they have unlimmited web Hosting services…
but what am not sure of is SUPPOSE one has more than 1 website, and want to host with them, Do u buy separate hosting packages??
admin answers:
You can host as many as you want via an addon domain. Addon domains let you host different sites on your account and they share the same space. For example if your primary site is yourdomain123.com, you could make yourdomain456.com as an addon domain. The yourdomain456.com would be a totally separate Web site and visitors wouldn’t know its part of your yourdomain123.com.
Most decent hosting packages allow this. Bluehost is a good host. If you want to go with a little better host though, I would look into Hostgator or Dreamhost.
Dreamhost is employee owned, so they seem like they truly care about thier customers. Hostgator has awsome support. I have accounts with Dreamhost, Godaddy, Hostgator, and Bluehost. Withouth a doubt, of all those Dreamhost and Hostgator by far have been the best.
I have had no downtime on any of my sites and thier support is great. Dreamhost also offers a 100% uptime guarantee and they even have a $97 day money back guarantee if you decide you dont like them. That way you can try them out to see if you like them.
I would say Dreamhost is slightly better than Hostgator, but they will both treat you great and offer one on one help in case you run into problems, whereas some of the big companies, ie godaddy are terrible to deal with if you need one on one support with someone that speaks good english, especially if your not tech savy.
Here are some Dreamhost coupon codes in case you decide to try them:
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Here are some coupons for Hostgator:
SNOWMAN (20% off)
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Read comparisions of them both as well as some other hosting options including Bluehost here:
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Good luck!
James asks…
I’m thinking of starting a web hosting company. Is this a good plan to start with?
i’d like opinions on what i have to offer for my initial plan. In the future i want to offer more space and bandwidth to everyone while keeping the price the same. I only plan on offering 1 hosting plan and expanding the space and bandwidth in the future as i grow. Is this a good start? There are many bigger hosting companies that offer insane ammounts of space and bandwidth, Is the market to crowded? should i not make the investment in a webhosting company and do something else? can i compete with those big companies even though i don’t offer insane quantities of disk space and bandwidth?
$9.95/month
no overselling space or bandwidth
2GB space
20GB monthly bandwidth
unlimited domains
unlimited email accounts with webmail
unlimited MYSQL databases
PHP, CGI, etc
CPanel, Fantastico Deluxe
shared SSL
ticket support system, email support, (live chat and phone support in the future)
and much more…
admin answers:
If your main selling point is going to be a good price for specific space and bandwidth, then you’re going to find yourself with a LOT of competition. Try to find a niche market.
For example, I offer web hosting to a specific target audience, with a LOT of hand-holding and personal attention and custom maintenance services, and my plan STARTS at $300 a month (much more when continual SEO is involved).
You could also make the hosting part of a social networking culture… Let people actually MEET the people that they’ll be sharing their computer with… Social shared web hosting? Make it a matchmaking service… For example, what if all the folks sharing machine A are on a Linux server, and they’re all PHP programmers building content management systems.
Server B might be people that are all running online stores, sharing thoughts with each other on how to market their stores (and hopefully they’re not competitors).
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