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Why DigitalOcean Web Hosting is Better than Others

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DigitalOcean web hosting is something that most of the people are aware about; now, you must know why DigitalOcean web hosting is better than others before you take any decision.

Hello, all!

Today, I have chosen the topic “Why DigitalOcean web Hosting is better than others?” But before I start with comparison let me introduce DigitalOcean in simple words for you guys.

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DigitalOcean Web hosting is a moderately new toddler in the world of cloud Virtual Private Server (VPS) with very bold and attractive tagline of “Simple Cloud Hosting built for developers”. All the services provided by them are basic as you get VPS in the cloud in addition to DNS management. That’s all. You are not provided with any fancy load balancing, Hadoop clusters, hosted databases etc. If I compare DigitalOcean web Hosting with Amazon Web Services then you will feel that AWS is better but I would say do not judge just yet. I have seen many people comparing Bluehost vs Hostgator, but I would suggest them to try Digitalocean once, I am sure that they will forget Bluehost, Hostgator or any other service.

Reason why you should Consider DigitalOcean web hosting

The straightforward reason why you should consider DigitalOcean web hosting is that no other web hosting company provides VPS at such a low price.

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Another biggest benefit is that you get a neat and clean web server on which you can do whatever you want. You can even configure high-performance web server like Nginx which you usually get at a very high price from other hosting providers. Especially for bloggers who need high-performance servers, nothing is better than Digitalocean. Since bloggers always have to experiment with configurations and speed optimizations, a VPS is one of the best fit within the budget.

In short, It’s like your own server and you don’t have to share any resources with others. You get your own public IP and the performance of your website is never degraded when someone else is using high bandwidth, which we usually see in the shared hosting of other hosting services which are equivalent in terms of pricing.

DigitalOcean web hosting is completely value for money.

A glimpse of some features making DigitalOcean web Hosting better than others:

• The pricing

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If we talk about pricing then no other hosting can simply beat the pricing of DigitalOcean servers.

I am in love with this server because of low prices along with great performance, which allows you to build small but scalable cloud architecture for yourself. With the help of this, you can try your startup ideas without even hurting your pockets. Another noticeable thing about their pricing page is that they roll the prices monthly, not on the basis of hours. You will be glad to be assured that there are no hidden costs as compared to other Web hosting like traffic prices of AWS, volume prices of EBS and fixed IP prices.

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The real performance of the website or the server comes into light when all of a sudden your website get a huge amount of visitors, which we also refer to as “Realtime Visitors”. so even if you go for the basic plan which is $5 per month, your website can easily handle 100 visitors in real-time which is equal to 2500+ visitors in a day and this quantity of visitors will make your earn at least 5$ per day. so if you calculate, you are spending just $5 per month and earning $150 per month.

Isn’t that great?

• High-performance virtual machines

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DigitalOcean Web Hosting only offers high-performance machines. All disk drives are SSD with the network speed 1 Gbps. The droplet startup time is unbelievable 55 seconds, whereas in other large cloud providers it 1-3 minutes. If you will perform independent tests then you will discover that DigitalOcean nodes are on top of performance tests and far above Amazon machines. As you can see in the graph above that the speed of the DigitalOcean server is much faster than others and at much cheaper rates.

Given below is the video where the guy is checking the speed of his DigitalOcean server. It’s really blazing fast, just check it out.

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• CPU speed

At DigitalOcean Web Hosting it can be observed clearly that we are getting very powerful computing power and that too for much less money as compared to another hosting.

• Elastic Load Balancing

This is the most important missing feature in DigitalOcean Web Hosting. Elastic Load Balancing is the best way to do fire and forget load balancing without worrying about scaling. With the aid of this feature, you can easily add and remove nodes using their API. I would request creators to build such services in DigitalOcean and I bet users would never mind paying for such services. In this regards DigitalOcean is lacking behind but, if you want you can use third party apps and software on your VPS that will manage load balancing for you, after all it’s your dedicated VPS, you are free to do anything.

In a Nutshell

The DigitalOcean Web Hosting versus other hosting battle is now heating up. But you will not deny that DigitalOcean Hosting is clearly better than other hosting as it is a great and inexpensive way to start experimenting with the cloud. It offers a simple, uncomplicated setup but still, there is the scope for improvement in it by removing the burden of the typical infrastructural parts. Some features need to be added to in-house solutions like elastic load balancing.

I hope this post will be helpful in making your decision firmer if you were confused about choosing the DigitalOcean.

Please comment on some other features of DigitalOcean, which make it better than another hosting.

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Infographics – The Best Way to Increase Traffic to Your Blog

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You may have a blog, but if nobody is reading what you are posting there, it feels unfair. Time for you to enhance the traffic to your blog with Inforgraphis – the best way to increase traffic to your blog!

We all know that content delivery is transforming at a great pace. In the past, the content was delivered via text only but, nowadays things has changed and you can see the content getting delivered as video and images. These images are called as “Infographics”. You must have seen people sharing reviews of gadgets over youtube which is another form of sharing content. These type of content is lovable by the readers, Neil Patel on his blog also shared a content to double the traffic.

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Importance of InfoGraphics

When it comes to blogging, content that provides relevant info with good looks is important and this is the reason why bloggers are running behind infographics. Infographics are the best way to engage readers attention and provide relevant info in one go.  I have seen people investing in content marketing and i would say that its really good, but when you have an infographic marketed by any content marketing platform, your content shouts like anything making more and more people hear what you wanted to say.

These infographics not only please the readers but, help them in understanding that you are really providing a genuine info.

I have seen many bloggers juggling around the ways to increase traffic to their blog, but here I am providing the top way that will help you in increasing traffic to your blog.

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Basic Funda Behind Increase Traffic with Infographics

When you add an infographic to your content, Google index it, add the infographic to its image search. So when a reader search for something related, your infographic is presented at the top and thus you get a boost in ranking and traffic.

Ways blogger can use to Increase Traffic using Infographics

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Get indexed

Share on social media

 

Provide info rich content

 

I hope you liked the content and infographic that i have shared above. Don’t forget to share.

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How I Managed to Get Free Followers on Social Media

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You know what? You need to find out how I managed to get free followers on social media by clicking here and reading everything about it!

Social media is being used by almost everyone today and this is the reason why it is used by marketers and bloggers on a high scale. You can easily find pages and groups managed by bloggers and marketers the reason behind is to increase likes and followers so that to get more amount of social signals for their websites.

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You must have seen pages and groups with millions of followers and even on twitter; you must have noticed some profile that have got millions of followers.

 Do you know how people get million of followers?

  1. They either have hired someone in order to increase the follower count
  2. They have promoted their profile, page or group in order to get more number of followers

In both the cases, they have spent a good sum of money. Many people even use social warfare but again, you will have to spend money buying it but, the method that I am sharing here will get you free followers for sure and you don’t have to spend a single penny. But before that let us understand

Why are Followers Important?

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There are many reasons why followers are important and not only me but, “Forbes” also says this in one of an article of importance of likes and followers on social media. I have explained the major ones below

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Reason #2 – Increase engagements

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If you have got a good amount of followers on your group, page or profile, then you will get more amounts of engagements. Suppose, if you have published a post on your website and shared it with your profile, page or group then the people who are following that page, profile or group will get the notification that something new have been shared and then they will visit the profile, page or group and if they like the post you shared, they will surely like and share it which will increase the engagement of others too.

Reason #2 – Improves ranking

In last some years Google and other search engines have improved a lot. They have become so intelligent that they can easily keep an eye on the all the activities done on the social media linked with your website. These search engines notice the activity performed on the social media profile, page or group linked to your website and understand that people are taking interest in the content you share, and thus your website will be rewarded with good ranking in return. This is even experienced by “Brian Honigman” and he accepted this in one of his post as social media effects SEO .

Hence, I would say that if you have a blog, you should never ignore social media as it will boost the ranking of your blog.

How I got Free Followers on social media?

I hope you came to know why followers are important. Keeping the above things in mind I have followed various methods (Paid even) but all are waste of time and money. I even hired the team of social media experts but what they delivered me was all waste as more than 90% of the follower are fake profiles.

Method that worked for me

One day I was just browsing the internet and what I found was awesome. I read somewhere that “content is king” not only for your blog but also for your social media.

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For Facebook

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Keeping this in mind, I first joined a couple of groups that are as per the niche of my blog (that’s the best way to find the right audience). You just have to write the word related to the niche of your blog on the search bar. I have entered the word “blogging“. Then, I started sharing good and useful content from all over the web on those groups. What I found was really surprising; members of those groups are liking and sharing my content. If you know some people who like to share your content, you can either search them by entering their names in the Facebook search or if you want you can even do a facebook search for people without logging in and find out the exact person. Then, send them a request and add them so that they can start sharing your content.

Then, I shared the content of my page to those groups and I got the same reply from the audience. I was glad that my trick is working awesomely. I then decided to join more groups and follow the same method. I started posting good contents from the web and in between, I use to share the content of my own page. This strategy kept the audience engaged as they are getting info as per their need and my posts started getting a good amount of likes and this thing increased my free followers. Even the most famous “Neil Patel” also says the same in his guide to boost facebook organic search.

That was the day when I came to know that “content is really the king of internet”. The best content you share the best results you will get but you will have to place the content in front of the right audience.

Things to remember for Facebook

    1. Be regular and active
    2. Talk to people by commenting and if they have any queries, make sure that you provide them the right answer and if you are not sure, better give them at least an idea or hint.
    3. Never forget to share the content on all the groups of the same niche.
    4. Share interesting info from all over the web and in between share the post of your page too.

For Twitter

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When it comes to twitter, I found that there are no groups and thus finding the right audience is a bit difficult. But, here too I followed a trick which I have explained below.

The first thing that I did is searched for some bloggers by writing the word “blogging” in the search bar. I have got some people who have verified profile (Blue tick mark ones). I followed them, some ignored me and some followed me back. Then, I went inside the profiles and gone through their followers. I then followed some people who have a complete profile and have the word “blogger” written in the description. Then, I came back to my profile and started retweeting and linking the posts that already have been retweeted many times, and it worked like a charm. I have got 300+ free followers that are active on twitter. You can even follow the strategies to target your twitter followers shared by Neil Patel.

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Now, I follow the same method for twitter all the time and the count of free followers are increasing day by day.

Things to remember for twitter

  1. Never follow any company because they are not going to follow you back.
  2. Be regular and active.
  3. Don’t forget to unfollow the people who are not following you back (even after 3 days of your follow).
  4. Don’t just retweet the website posts, retweet whatever you like, be natural.
  5. Always try to keep the following count lower than the follower’s count. This will help People understand that you are sharing valuable posts and that’s the reason why numbers of people are following you.

If you follow the steps given above properly, you will surely get a good response from people. Many people will comment or reply to your post in a negative way, so instead of arguing, better ignore them.

I hope you will get a good amount of free followers. I am working on Google+ and others too will update the info soon.

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