What do I have to consider when hosting a landing page, and which hosting service is the best choice?
I need to host a landing page. I need the hosting space, but it is more important that I am able to easily transfer users to Google cloud or Amazon web services.
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Aug 12, 2014
It's not clear what specific requirements you have. To the best of my knowledge you can have landing page hosted anywhere (e.g. LeadPages), and have it linked from your website.
In one of the comments you mention that some hosting companies don't allow information to move to another host. I haven't come across any instance about this in my long business career.
To give an example, my host is HostGator but all my emails are handled by Amazon SES. I'd to do some configuring, but HostGator never stopped me. Again, for a long time, I ran self-hosted e-learning courses where all the video lessons were streamed from another host. No problem whatsoever!
As for webhost and domain name registration, people will give their own opinion which may not reflect reality. I suggest you search for terms like 'best domain registrars', 'best web host', and you'll know your answer.
I just now did one, and you can see this Lifehacker article, http://lifehacker.com/5943452/five-best-domain-name-registrars. All the best.
Aug 12, 2014
Generally speaking, you want hosting provider that has adequate up-time and good support, if you have technical problems. Space is very cheep and most hosting providers will give you more space if you ask. You should not have any problems transferring any users to your new provider.
Aug 12, 2014
Landing Page First impression lasts a life time Make sure it is good, relevant, and eye catching. If using Joomla there is a lot of very well made landing page extensions.
Hosting I have had Go Daddy and I have heard this is not our problem that we deleted your files to many times. I looked at others Host Gator and One on One, but Blue Host caught my eye about 2 years ago I became a reseller for their Host space mostly for my customers and I am able to provide great service to them at a low price.
But mostly I can only say the service is stellar even when someone has a domain at Godaddy and a site at Blue Host they have helped me solve issues.
I am not much for "bravo-ing" companies but this company deserves it.
Not tons of advertising glitter and glamor but awesome host company with awesome service.
Aug 12, 2014
90% of all hosting firms are pretty much the same, as far as services and costs.
When using Landing Pages I prefer a Host that will give you multiple subdomains.
In this way you will have as many Landing Pages as allowed and all hosted all in one package. The more Pages, the more traffic. Personally I use both Aweber and Get Response, because of the ease to set up campaigns. Hostgator is another I have used in the past as well as Hostzilla. All are very good so it depends on what you need, as other services and the package they are promoting. Domain registrations are now being covered by just about any Hosting firm as well.
Aug 12, 2014
I'm with Gert. You question is not clear because we're not sure how you're using the terminology.
If the hosting is just for one landing page, really any hosting is fine - and the issues of shared hosting mentioned, having enough space or bandwidth, etc. really won't affect you much (unless your one page streams self-hosted video to thousands of users at once from huge amount of traffic).
But if you need a whole dynamic website hosted, that needs better hosting. That's why clarity of terms and of your question is important to get a right answer.
Also, the answer depends on other things.
* Is your site a LOCAL site or for an international audience? If local, I prefer to use hosting on a server that's in or near that city - may be faster (and maybe a slight edge for local ranking). If international, any US city is fine. To choose a city where your server is located, the best is Site5 hosting.
* Is it just "a page" or a whole site? Is it expected to get tons of traffic realistically? Will it use lots of bandwidth (like your own self-hosted video watched many times in a short time - not Youtube, but uploaded to your own server).
If you want it easy to transfer to other hosting. Most hosting companies will help you transfer everything exactly as is from another to THEIR hosting. So, just find live chat on the new hosting you are considering, and ask them what's involved in transferring. (the top hosting co's. will have live 24/7 chat). Most will transfer your stuff for free - because they're happy to be your new host - you just have to give them your former hosting access & they take care of it.
Aug 28, 2014
Michael, it's really just speculation either way, since neither of us has definitive testing to prove it does or doesn't affect rankings. It seems to make a difference for me, but hard to pinpoint exactly which factor actually made the difference among so many I implement. I always favor on "just in case it DOES make a difference" as I want as many positive factors as possible. According to this article, it CAN affect thing slighlty IF the site hasn't made use of webmaster tools to specifiy geo-location (ie, made it easier for Google to not guess). https://www.seroundtable.com/seo-geo-location-server-google-17468.html
Aug 12, 2014
I actually use LeadPages for this. You can create amazing landing pages with LeadPages and you could publish them to your WordPress website. But if you ultimately want to send the to Google cloud or Amazon Web Services, for example to download something, you could too. Even better, you can actually add a downloadable report or document directly into LeadPages and it is sent to your subscribing customer. LeadPages does a lot of testing so they have great insights what works and what does not. If you're interested, check them out here: http://link.leadpages.net/aff_c?offer_id=6&aff_id=4078
Aug 12, 2014
Hi - We like to use our preferred WordPress host at WPsiteHosting.com -- we have a marketing agreement with them and about 35 clients on their system... they are international with 4 different operation centers.
For landing pages we use a tool called Instapage which offers 3 options for hosting... host on their system, host on a subdomain of your domain, or push through to a WordPress page via a plugin. They are great for A/B testing, and you should test every one of your landing pages because well done tests will almost always improve your lead gathering results.
Aug 12, 2014
Hi,
I'm afraid you are mixing up a few things here, let me try to clarify this a bit.
"Landing Page": A landing page is the page that first opens when you visit a website. For example, when you go to www.mosaichub.com, you see a page on your screen, this page is called the landing page. It can always be the same (then it's called a "static page"), or it can change. For example, a blogger writes an article every day, and he always want the latest article to appear as the "landing page", this means every day visitors see different content, this is called "dynamic".
"Hosting": You do not host individual pages, but you host a "website". A website consists of one or more pages, e. g. "Home", "About us", "Contact us" etc. A website always has a domain name, e. g. "mosaichub.com"
"Google Cloud" and "Amazon Web Services": These are very generic terms for a myriad of different services (hosting, streaming, newsletters, just to mention a few). Could you explain a bit more detailed what you try to achieve, or what your users should be able to do?
Aug 12, 2014
Gert -- technically a "landing page" can be any page at your site that is designed to be advertised and used as an overview of a service, product or company. It does not have to be the first page you come to at a site. And, you can indeed host a single page as we often do using the service InstaPage.com for landing page A/B tests.
Aug 12, 2014
Question to MosaicHub: I answered this question 5 minutes after I received the email (it's the first time I did that, actually), and below the question it shows "No comments yet, be the first". But Then I noticed there were 9 answers already?
See: http://i.imgur.com/tZp1Sfh.png
Aug 12, 2014
Scott, I agree with you, and I stand corrected. However, given the original question, I believe there's some very basic conceptual misunderstanding, and I just tried to simplify the picture. I'm a reseller, and I'm hosting a couple of websites for customers. Most of them are not familiar with the terminology, and just use terms more or less randomly, assuming that everybody else probably understands exactly the same. Basically, I just think it needs quite a bit more clarification regarding the purpose of this site.
Aug 13, 2014
Understood Gert... always good to seek clarification. You never know what level of understanding people may have as a starting point.
Aug 14, 2014
In the simplest terms. a "landing page" can be any page of a website to which the visitor is directed and "lands" on, hence the name. In our SEO work, the link the searcher finds in the organic Google results takes them to a specific page, which is the designated "landing page" from the website which correlates to that specific search. For one of my service company clients, a search for pluming repairs will "land" on that page. A search for AC repair will "land" on that specific page, and so on
Aug 12, 2014
The problem with GoDaddy and similar hosting services is they are all shared serviers, and are not managed. So if one site gets hacked, it's easy to get to other sites on the same server,. Plus you're sharing all the resources such as available CPU's. And if there is a problem, who's going to fix the site for you. There also is no automatic backup service. I use a managed dedicated server with InMotion and backup service for all my clients and highly recommend them.
Aug 12, 2014
I have had many different experiences with hosts and they sometimes boil down to asking your host the right questions. The worst case scenario is a host that deceives you into thinking you own your url and and have the right to transfer it. So avoid the less well known names. Shared hosting is inexpensive with somewhat slow site loads. Customer service is what it is, some are good and some are poor. The biggest drawback to shared hosting can be the limited use of bandwidth, so you cannot schedule backups or use other functions/plugins that are resource heavy. Start small if your budget is limited and then upgrade at the right time or invest in a dedicated server account at the start. Site security is your responsibility, not your host!
Aug 12, 2014
your question is not quite clear. Technology matters. You mentioned landing page, i take it that you have other pages under the pipeline to design/develop or if it is a product. there are features. liaise with your team or source of the landing page you have to give you details like what technology did you/they use ? this will inform our advise whether you're going with shared/vps/dedicated hosting.
Aug 12, 2014
I have half a dozen websites and use blacknight.com. I've never had a problem with these guys.
Aug 12, 2014
Not sure what specifically you want to accomplish but from my experience you'll have to re-upload the content to the new hosting company if that's where you want the site to be. Like MicheLe said forwarding is also possible.
Aug 12, 2014
I would suggest ~ http://www.thesba.com/web-services/cloud-managed-services/ ~ I have 20 sites of various types hosted w/New Tek. If you need a C Panel Access or even a website builder they have that included with many of their options. I do a lot with Go Daddy too for my SMB clients that want something easy to use and maintain. Every time you register a domain name w/Go Daddy they give a one page site free. It's easy to transfer stuff to Go Daddy but not as easy to move away later, just saying. The customer support at both New Tek & Go Daddy I would say is good to very good, rarely do they say they don't know or can't help. What ever you are doing, make sure it is mobile optimized!
Aug 14, 2014
I agree moving away from GoDaddy is not very easy, another host I like is 1and1 but they don't make it easy to move either. Right now I am using, iPage, and I register URLs through WhoIs.com.
Aug 12, 2014
I agree with Charles...hostgator is good..being a software firm I use their services...and godaddy is good for domain...I would also like to add in here that rackspace is also good when it comes to cloud
Aug 12, 2014
I like hostgator for hosting and GoDaddy for domain name registration. You should strongly consider using a domain name. That way, you can easily move to a different host by moving your files to the new host and then changing the name server names at your domain name registrar. Both of these companies have great technical service, which is very important when you have a question.
Aug 12, 2014
I agree with Charles...hostgator is good..being a software firm I use their services...and godaddy is good for domain...I would also like to add in here that rackspace is also good when it comes to cloud
Aug 12, 2014
... Are you for real? GoDaddy is probably THE worst web host all around - overpriced, horrible support, poor performance etc....
Hostgator used to be good until they got bought out, and now most of their servers are oversold (but I still think they provide good support).
Aug 12, 2014
Bryan, I know that GoDaddy is not good for hosting..I have mentioned clearly for domain purchases only..Rest your are right that Go Daddy is not at all trusted. As far as hostgator is concerned I am using them from past 2 years and no complaints yet.
Aug 12, 2014
I would need more information to answer this question. I know plenty of hosting sites that can host websites and more, but not sure about transferring it to the other two, unless you mean to forward it to look like it is for your current or a client's site that is currently already using google cloud or amazon web services...?
Aug 12, 2014
Hi MicheLe, thanks! What I mean is that some hosting don't let you, in a free and easy way, to transfer your information to another hosting services.
What I mean is now I'm working with hosting A and wan't to move all my information and star working in cloud serices or other hosting company.
Thanks again for your answer!!
Aug 12, 2014
Get Pall, it depends on your current account type if it's easy to transfer or not. For example, when you have a cpanel account, then it's very easy. There's a feature called "cpmove", first you create a full backup of your site, then the new hosting company can just create a new account from this backup. I'm a reseller myself, and I've done that for a few customers. I'm not trying to sell you something here, I'd just like to mention that I've done that before. So from a cpanel account to another cpanel account it's outstandingly easy. But to further answer your question you'd need to tell us what kind of account you have currently. If you are not sure, maybe just post a screenshot of the admin panel here (make sure it does not show any sensitive information, like IP addresses). From that screenshot, we might be able to identify your account type.
Aug 13, 2014
Gert is right that there are different ways to move sites. For example, WordPress sites may be moved by exporting and importing an XML file directly from within the WordPress admin. area, or you can use a tool like PHPadmin to export and import your MySQL database directly. Gert mentions a third possibility.
Neither way is "free" (unless you do it yourself or the host does it for free) in terms of time involved, nor is it "easy" the first few times you learn to do it. But you should be able to find online tutorials and step-by-step instructions to help you.
The location of the server on which a website or single landing page is hosted as absolutely zero effect on the organic search rankings on the SERP, whether it be for local or national websites.