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Back To School Web Hosting
Every year as school starts web hosts see an up tick in
orders as entrepreneurs and stay at home parents have more
free time and the vacation summer season winds down to the
shorter days of winter. Many hosting companies plan special
fall campaigns designed for these small business startups.
But lately there has been another wave around this time
of year and it comes as specialized hosting packages for
students and parents. Increasingly we are seeing websites
for bloggers, online photos, resumes, family forums, podcasting,
and web cams. This variety of new technologies has spawned
a larger need for web hosting. Someone has to host all of
this content and information. And in some cases like web
cameras, photos, and podcasting the hosting needs are pretty
large.
Seniors and juniors in college are using simple resume
websites with "their name".name to help promote
their skills and give potential employees a place to research
them. These websites can give a lot more information and
if designed well are a tribute to the professionalism you
are trying to portray. This is an easy thing to use on job
hunting websites and to include in your email signature.
You can usually find a website like this for around $40/year
with tools to help you easily create it.
Blogs, blogs, blogs. This is certainly one that we here
about all of the time. But students, teachers, and even
parents love to blog about their education experience from
college down to elementary school. Blog websites have become
extremely easy to setup and many very full featured ones
are free! These websites give anyone a forum to express
their views and experiences, and education seems to be a
topic people love to talk about.
The next buzzword after blogging is Podcasting. This is
the art of taking a blog to the spoken level. People can
record whatever they want and upload it to a pod casting
website for the whole world to hear. It is very popular
for people to create virtual tours of museums and universities
for people to download and walk around with in their ipod.
Or it can simply be a recording of your personal views for
the whole world to hear.
What do parents who like to see their child's classroom
and voyeuristic college kids have in common? Web cams. Another
step up from blogging and podcasting your thoughts and voice,
is actually filming yourself. Web cams are finding their
way in to all sorts of places and the back to school season
seems to spur an extra boost. Web cams are being used by
schools to allow parents to view their child, they are being
used around campuses and neighborhoods for security, and
also by parents and children separated by distance to see
each other.
Another smaller type of website that we have even heard
of is Family forum boards. As a family gets spread out with
multiple kids in multiple colleges across the country, a
forum board offers a convenient way for everyone to communicate
on their own time and keep up with all of the conversations
of the family. Most hosting companies offer free forum boards
with their hosting plans and these are very easy to install
and setup. If you look for a web hosting company with an
auto-installer script, such as Fantastico, you will be amazed
at how easy it is to get started.
The final type of back to school website are online photo
albums. With the proliferation of digital cameras people
are now turning to online photo albums as a place to store
their family treasures. This also allows your far away college
student to post pictures of his dorm room for the extended
family to see as well as for the family to post pictures
of the good times they are having. A picture is worth a
thousand words. There has been the creation of web hosting
companies specifically designed for this task. This is called
Image hosting. Type "image web hosting" into any
major search engine and you will find all of the companies
you need to choose from. Also, most web hosting offer free
online photo album scripts that you can install. And as
mentioned previously, if they advertise an auto installer
like Fantastico, then the install and setup is done for
you.
The fall months historically offer increased web hosting
demand, but with the advent of recent technology trends
we are now seeing an increased demand in specialty hosting
during the fall that caters to students, parents, and friends.
These are just 6 specialty hosting needs but I'm sure there
are other ways people are using the internet to enhance
their educational experience and reduce the distant that
it sometimes puts between family and friends.
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