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Webmasters don’t have to use WordPress to host a blog or family/personal website. Many professional webmasters are using WordPress to run fully functional websites, as there are thousands of free WordPress plugins that will assist in helping webmasters make the most of their WordPress web hosting site.
Here are a few more advanced WordPress plugins for webmasters who need that extra edge.
WP Super Cache
Need to relieve some of the load off your dedicated web server? By using this free WordPress plugin, you can generate static HTML files automatically, easing the load on your server instantly and without hassle.
NextGen Gallery
Creating a photo gallery using WordPress doesn’t have to be rocket science. In fact, this plugin will easily and efficiently help you create a professional image gallery in minutes. Create sortable albums, unzip massive files, add watermarks to protect your work, incorporate a slideshow or widgets, and more.
cformsII
Using contact forms on your WordPress website is now easy and efficient with this WordPress plugin. It allows you to manage and maintain contact forms in a highly flexible and customizable interface.
WP E-Commerce
In the past, it’s always been difficult to configure a WordPress website to look and feel like a real online shopping portal, but with this free plugin, you’re no longer confined to a blog! Now you can sell products and services (digital or tangible) with ease.
Everybod loves WordPress, and it is an amazing way for experienced web professional and those new to dedicated server hosting to manage their website(s). One reason WordPress web hosting has become so incredibly popular is because of the extensive plugin directory that allows you to add advanced features with ease to your WordPress website!
I’d like to share some of the best and most valuable WordPress plugins for your dedicated server. All the plugins mentioned are 100% free and designed with new webmasters in mind!
WP Super Edit
This amazing plugin allows for added functionality to your normal WordPress font and style toolbar. Similar to Microsoft Word, WordPress has always made it easy to add italics, bold, bulletpoints, or indents to any post, but WP Super Edit takes that a step further.
All In One SEO Pack
SEO can be tiresome and troubling to new website owners, but it doesn’t have to be. Simply install the All in One SEO Pack and your META tags will be automatically generated for every post and entry, and your titles will be optimized without stress as well. Or, you can choose to fine tune the plugin and add your own tags and titles as you see fit.
Add to Any Share/Save/Bookmark Button
Want your visitors to be able to instantly add your posts to their favorite RSS Feed readers? Well, now you don’t have to hassle with HTML code, because AddtoAny does it for you. Simply install the plugin and your readers can add their favorite posts to their RSS readers without hassle.
MyCaptcha
Everybody hates Spam, but everybody loves MyCaptcha, because it helps you avoid unwanted comments on your WordPress blog. Simply install the plugin and choose from a variety of lovely designs that display a random series of letters and/or numbers that your commenters must enter before their comment goes into your blog.
Building your website using WordPress, Joomla, b2evolution, ExpressEngine, or any of the other amazing Content Management Systems or tools out there can take the trouble out of designing your dedicated server’s website. WordPress, for example, is one of the best resources available for websites, blogging, and even business web hosting. Many businesses are catching on that not only does WordPress look nice but it’s also easy to understand, even for a technological newbie, and it works hand in hand with Google and the SEO search engines.
With that said, here are some WordPress design resources to help you get started on your dedicated server site.
Free WordPress Themes
If you are looking for quality free WordPress themes, this link from Lunarpages Web Hosting Blog is sure to do the trick. These contests have accumulated hundreds of free WP themes for you to choose from and customize to your server’s unique website look.
Free Webmaster Tools
Need to learn a bit more about SEO and keyword analysis before you are done with your WordPress website? Well check out these amazing free webmaster tools from Lunarpages, which can not only help you research keywords and check out competitor data but submit your website to the search engines as well. This is a very, very useful site to have handy.
300 Tools for Running WordPress Blogs
This is by far the biggest resource for free WordPress tools you will ever find. Check this out for helpful URLs to plugins, comment assistance, removing NOFOLLOW tags for SEO, and more.
You may be wondering why we would be talking about “small business web hosting” on a dedicated server website. You may think to yourself, if you’re only a small business, why would you need such a big server, storage space, RAM, or bandwidth?
Well, our answer to you is that small businesses can be just as resource-intensive as fortune 100 corporations! It might surprise you to know that millions of small businesses are purchasing dedicated servers every day, because even if they appear to be a small business to some spheres, in their local or national markets, they play like the big boys.
Think, for example, about your local supermarket. Hundreds if not thousands of people shop there daily. Maybe the supermarket has a couple sister supermarkets placed around the county or nearby cities, or maybe it’s a chain supermarket but only for the Eastern, Western, or Midwestern United States. If they need a website, they are not going to be using shared web hosting – they are going to be sitting on a dedicated server, because those thousands of customers will be visiting their website to print directions, get contact information, request the newsletter, or search for deals and discounts.
Small businesses may be ‘small’ by nature, but they can eat up resources just like the big boys. Consider the following things as a small business owner:
* Do you have more than 100 employees?
* Do you require a custom Content Management System to be developed for your website management needs?
* Do you have more than 100 customers?
* Do you offer more than 50 products? Or if you offer services, do these services include web-based services like email, management, design, SEO, or logo creation?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, you should consider dedicated server hosting.
Blog Web Hosting is possibly the fastest growing type of web hosting these days. Because blogging helps with SEO (search engine optimization), builds resources and content, and draws customers and audiences to explore and offer their opinions, link back, and more, corporations are using blogs for their websites as content management systems, even as individuals continue to grow the blogging community with daily unique content about their hobbies and personal lives.
This puts b2evolution web hosting in the forefront of the industry, as b2evolution provides quality open source (free!) blogging software for your website!
b2evolution is actually an advanced blogging tool that is great for beginners and experienced webmasters alike. Similar to WordPress, b2evolution includes all kinds of traditional blogging tool, like posting categories, tags, comments, skins, and content management, but also combines that simplicity with a sophisticated yet easy-to-use interface with features like file and photo management, multiple blogs, and detailed user permissions and groups.
On your dedicated server, you just need to find a reliable dedicated web host and use a LAMP-based configuration (i.e. Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/PERL/Python).
DotNetNuke Web Hosting is a unique website development and management choice, popular with ASP.NET hosting enthusiasts. Like many other content management systems, DotNetNuke requires little knowledge of actual web development or programming skills and allows for novices as well as intermediates and experts to navigate its control panel to update websites. But unlike other CMS applications and software, DotNetNuke can actually be used to run intranet and extranet as well.
The only downside to DotNetNuke is that it is not completely versatile in that it does require the ASP.NET environment, although Windows Web Hosting is incredibly powerful and a great option for dedicated server hosting. The big upside is that DotNetNuke is easy to install, easy to work with, and easy to customize – plus, it’s open source software, which means you can get it completely free. There are also a wide variety of websites that support documentation and troubleshooting, so you’re always able to find a skin or solution for your DotNetNuke website.
WordPress Web Hosting is one of the most popular choices for new webmasters these days, but it is also a viable choice for large enterprise bloggers and popular websites for affiliate websites, ecommerce, and more. As most bloggers will eventually outgrow Shared WebHosting, customers often upgrade to a dedicated server to host their WordPress website.
Even though WordPress is a blogging platform, most users these days use it as a content management system, as it easily integrates pictures, text, videos, ecommerce, and more into your site. It’s also incredibly easy to learn. It’s biggest competitor, Joomla, is best-suited for larger websites, while WordPress is easier to learn and adapt to. Both Joomla web hosting and WordPress webhosting are valuable choices if you are new to the website hosting world, as content management systems are becoming more and more popular.
The good thing about WordPress Web Hosting is that you have literally millions of incredible templates to work with and there are endless WordPress Theme Design contests that showcase the entries and even offer Free WordPress Themes for download.
Joomla web hosting is becoming a very popular choice for novice and experienced users alike due to its incredible power for maintaining and editing websites. With Joomla, users have an easy way to create websites, because Joomla is a content management system (CMS), a tool that assists in managing your website. CMS web hosting puts you in control of your website’s features, content, etc.
Because Joomla is a CMS, you are able to login to one simple interface to manage all aspects of your website. You can add images, polls, chat scripts, content text, advertising banners, links, music, video, blogs, and more, all from the same easy-to-understand control panel.
Because Joomla is open source or free software, web hosting providers can provide it to you for free via the Fantastico Script Library. With one click, you can install Joomla into your website in any location you’d like – from yourdomain.com to joomla.yourdomain.com, etc. If you have a dedicated server, you can download Joomla from their website instantly and download it yourself in several very simple steps. Once installed, you can immediately start using it.
With Joomla web hosting, you can maintain your website with ease.
Database Servers are becoming more and more popular these days, as technology professionals not only need a server to run their website for web server hosting but they also require the functionality and performance of a reliable database server. And in setting a database server up, you not only need affordable dedicated web hosting but also a database management system.
So what is a database management system?
A database management system (or DBMS) is more or less a piece of software that helps you organize, store, manage, edit, and retrieve of data in a database or databases from your server. Like content management system (CMS), it is setup to do these things as easily as possible for you.
There are many database management systems around, but here is a quick list of some of the most popular choices for dedicated server hosting: