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How to get Google API Key – Google Maps API Key

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<strong>Why you need Google API key ?</strong><br /> Google provides API to access their services. In order to use a Google service in your website, you need a API Key.<br /> Google API Console: <a href="https://code.google.com/apis/console" title="Google API Console">https://code.google.com/apis/console</a><br />
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<strong>List of service provided by Google?</strong><br />
 Google Maps , Google Places, Google analytics, Google Drive, Google 
Books, Google + API, PageSpeed API, Youtube API, ULR Shortenter API, 
Google Cloud API, Google Android maps API, ..etc<br />
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<strong>Types of Google API Keys:</strong><br /><br />
a). Browser apps API key<br /> Browser key is used for services like Maps, where the API is used in user browser.<br /> Example: Services with JavaScript ( Google Maps javascript API , URL Shoretener API )<br />
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b). Server apps API Key:<br /> Server key is required for apps, where you use google API server-side.<br /> Example: Services with PHP/Java/.NET (URL Shortener ,  Youtube Data API )<br />
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c). Authorized API key ( OAuth)<br /> OAuth key is required, where the user authorization is required to access the service using the API.<br /> Example: When you are making application to read mails from Gmail / To store files in Google Drive.<br />
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d).  Android API Key<br /> Android key is required for android applications only.<br /> Example: Google maps for android, Google Cloud Messaging.<br />
Why you need to create a project ?<br /> In order to create a API key, first you need to create a Project. A project can have multiple services and multiple API keys.<br /> i.e: With the same API key, you can access multiple services provided by Google.<br />
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<strong>How to get Google API Key ?</strong><br />
<br /> Step1: Go to Google API Console: <a href="https://code.google.com/apis/console" title="Google API Console">https://code.google.com/apis/console</a><br /><br />
Step 2: Create API Project<br /><br />
Step 3: Register Project ID ( Go to Project => Overview Tab)<br /><br />
Step 4: Select Services you want to use ( Go to Project => Services Tab )<br />
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For <strong>Browser apps API Key</strong>
 : By default, one browser key is created when you select some services.<br />
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Otherwise (Go to Project => API Access Tab => Create new Browser 
Key button)<br /><br />
For <strong>Server apps API Key</strong> : Go to Project => API Access Tab => Create new Server key<br /><br />
For <strong>Android apps API Key</strong> : Go to Project => API Access Tab => Create new Android key<br /><br />
For <strong>OAuth API Key</strong> : Go to Project => API Access Tab => Create an OAuth 2.0 Client ID<br />
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Getting Started With WordPress – WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org

WordPress is a popular publishing platform that makes it easy for anyone
 to publish online. It’s very easy-to-use, quite powerful, and flexible.<br />
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If you want to create a site (website/blog) with WordPress, it’s important to note that there are two versions.</div>
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1) WordPress.com</div>
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2) WordPress.org</div>
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<b>WordPress.com Vs. WordPress.org </b><br />
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When starting out as a beginner, this 
question comes in everyone’s mind. Which one is better? .WordPress.com 
or WordPress.org. Let’s compare the features and choose the best one for
 creating your site.</div>
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<b>WordPress.com </b><br />
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The WordPress.com is a free version, and your site will be hosted on the WordPress.com servers.</div>
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You won’t have access to the powerful features like plugins , theme customization & create widgets etc.</div>
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WordPress.com provides limited theme 
support. Which means you are limited to free themes that exist in the 
WordPress theme repository. You are not able to edit the CSS or other 
codes within the theme.</div>
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WordPress.com provides limited monetization options. That means you cannot use AdSense, affiliate programs or any other kinds of monetization .</div>
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You can apply for WordAds,
 the official WordPress.com advertising program. But you need a custom 
domain for the same. The approval process is based on various factors.</div>
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If your site is hosted on wordpress.com,
 they own your site. If WordPress.com decides to delete your account for
 any reason, you have no control over that.</div>
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So I never recommend you to use wordpress.com unless you are looking for a personal blog .</div>
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<b>Choose WordPress.org Instead </b><br />
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WordPress.org is the self-hosted version
 of WordPress. The Software is completely free , but you need to find a 
host to run your wordPress site. You need to pay around $3-$10 monthly 
to get a good WordPress hosting. In addition, register a custom domain name for your site.</div>
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Most of the popular web hosting 
companies provides one-click WordPress install . So your blog is up and 
running in less than 5 minutes.</div>
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WordPress.org provides full theme 
support. That means you can use custom, commercial or free themes. You 
can edit, modify or customize your site.</div>
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You can upload any number of free, paid or custom plugins, which helps you to add more functionalities to your site.</div>
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You have full monetization freedom , ie. You can sell ad spaces, AdSense or other ad networks, affiliate program, etc.</div>
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So I highly recommended to use WordPress.org, if you really want to run a professional site and make 100% revenue from it.</div>

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PHP MySQL : Retrieve Data

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we will retrieve the information from the database table we created called "friends"<br />
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<pre><code><em> // Collects data from "friends" table 
 $data = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM friends") 
 or die(mysql_error()); </em></code></pre>
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And we will then temporally put this information into an array to use:<br />
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<pre><code><em> // puts the "friends" info into the $info array 
 $info = mysql_fetch_array( $data ); </em></code></pre>
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Now let's print out the data to see if it worked<br />
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<pre><code><em> // Print out the contents of the entry 
 Print "<b>Name:</b> ".$info['name'] . " "; 
 Print "<b>Pet:</b> ".$info['pet'] . " <br>"; </em></code></pre>
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However this will only give us the first entry in our database.  In 
order to retrieve all the information, we need to make this a loop.  
Here is an example:<br />
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<pre><code><em> while($info = mysql_fetch_array( $data )) 
 { 
 Print "<b>Name:</b> ".$info['name'] . " "; 
 Print "<b>Pet:</b> ".$info['pet'] . " <br>"; 
 } </em></code></pre>
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<pre><code><em> <?php 
 // Connects to your Database 
 mysql_connect("your.hostaddress.com", "username", "password") or die(mysql_error()); 
 mysql_select_db("Database_Name") or die(mysql_error()); 
 $data = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM friends") 
 or die(mysql_error()); 
 Print "<table border cellpadding=3>"; 
 while($info = mysql_fetch_array( $data )) 
 { 
 Print "<tr>"; 
 Print "<th>Name:</th> <td>".$info['name'] . "</td> "; 
 Print "<th>Pet:</th> <td>".$info['pet'] . " </td></tr>"; 
 } 
 Print "</table>"; 
 ?> </em></code></pre>

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List of High PR Do-Follow Blogs - Build Quality Backlinks

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<span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Link building is important for website/blog success. You will easily get </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">high page rank if </span></span><span><span style="font-family: inherit;">you earn more </span>back links<span style="font-family: inherit;"> from high PR , authority sites. </span></span></div>
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Commenting on blogs is the best method to drive more traffic to your site.
  But you will get better result only with meaningful and  engaging 
discussions. When you meaningfully take part in the community aspect of a
 blog, you’re creating strong relationships with people who can send you
 significant traffic.</div>
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Here I want to share a small list of 
High PR Do-Follow blogs  not only for commenting but for learn something
 new from their beautiful blogs.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">They
 removed ‘nofollow’ tags to improve the number of comments and user 
interaction. Please don’t spam them. Read the posts and participate in 
the discussion and get the greatest </span>benefit<span style="font-family: inherit;">.</span></div>
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<strong>PR7 </strong></div>
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<li>educause.edu/blog</li>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><strong>PR6</strong></span></div>
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<li>w3blog.dk</li>
<li>comluv.com</li>
<li>eartheasy.com/blog</li>
<li>socialtimes.com</li>
<li>siarchives.si.edu/blog/</li>
<li>blog.digitalbackcountry.com</li>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><strong>PR5</strong></span></div>
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<li>links.org.au</li>
<li>blondish.net</li>
<li>seobythesea.com</li>
<li>bluehatseo</li>
<li>blog.brazencareerist</li>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><strong>PR4</strong></span></div>
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<li>weblogbetter</li>
<li>uncommonphotographers</li>
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<strong><span style="font-size: medium;">PR3 </span></strong></div>
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<li>myblog2day</li>
<li>techpatio</li>
<li>techtricksworld.com</li>
<li>techwork.dk</li>
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<strong><span style="font-size: medium;">PR2</span></strong></div>
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<li>carinsuranceace.com</li>
</ol>
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How To Download Torrent Files With IDM

<span style="font-family: inherit;">Zbigz.com is site that help us to download torrent files with <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD3">internet download manager</span> or any other download manager.This site gives you <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD1">direct link</span> of any torrent files.To Download Torrents With IDM Just Follow My Easy Steps.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: medium;"><b>How To Download Torrent Files With IDM:</b></span></h2>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">1. Go To Torrent Downloading Site You Like And Download .Torrent File That You Like To Download.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">2. Go To Zbigz By <b><a href="http://zbigz.com/" target="_blank">Click Here</a>.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">3 . Create a Free Account On Zbigz And Log in There.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">4. Upload .Torrent File That You Downloaded By Clicking "Upload .Torrent File" Button And Click Go Button.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">5. After Clicking Go Button You See Two Options First Free And Second Premium,Go For Free One If You Don't Have Premium Account.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">6. Now,You See Zbigz's Server Start Caching The Torrent Files.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">7. After Caching Is Completed,Click .Zip Button To <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD5">Download All</span> Files in .Zip Format With IDM.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">8. Now,You Will Again See Two Options Free And Premium, Again Go For Free One If You Don't Have Premium Account.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">9. Extract .<span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD4">Zip File</span> With 7Zip Or Winrar.</span>

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Earn Money Online : Freelancing

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<span style="color: black;">FREELANCE OUTSOURCING</span></h2>
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<span style="color: black;">A young man after receiving his education has to move from door to door for a job. But jobs are never easily available. A fortunate one may get a job. In most cases the jobs are odd. Now the time has altered its own course. Now a day the young educated persons need not waste their time in searching of jobs. In fact internet <em><strong>freelancing</strong></em> outsourcing is giving them a golden opportunity of self employment like <strong>online jobs</strong>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">But <em>freelancing</em> outsourcing is not yet very much familiar to the mass people of our country. That’s why we are not able to enter the vast market of freelance outsourcing like India, Pakistan, Indonesia, China, Philippines, Russia, Ukraine, Brazil and many other countries. So I want to explain this topic in details.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">WHAT IS OUTSOURCING?</span></h2>
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<span style="color: black;">Outsourcing is a Job which is done by another organization not by own. It may be at home or from abroad. The main reason of outsourcing is to minimize the production cost. Mostly the rich countries like America and Europe are doing this to get quality productions at low cost in due time. Mainly IT based jobs like Data Processing, Programming, Graphics Designing, Multimedia, Virtual Assistant and many more are being outsourced from various countries.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">WHAT IS FREELANCING?</span></h2>
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<span style="color: black;"><em>Freelancing</em> is a job which is done by a freelancer. A freelancer is a person who is not assigned with a company or an organization for a long time. He has total freedom to choice a job as well as time schedule also. A freelancer does not abide by 9 AM – 5 PM office time schedule. Now it is more flexible due to wireless internet connection. If you have a laptop with wireless internet connection you can do any kinds of freelancing job from any where.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">FREELANCER MARKETPLACE</span></h2>
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<span style="color: black;">There are many popular web sites which create opportunities of outsourcing. These are called “Freelancer Marketplace”. There are two types of users in freelance marketplace. One called “Buyer” or “Client” who offers a job. And other called “Freelancer” or “Provider” or “Contractor” who does the job.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">HOW IT WORKS?</span></h2>
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<span style="color: black;">There are too many freelancers apply for one job which called “Bid”. Freelancers have to mention their price rate and time frame for a job in the bidding process.  “Buyer” can select any one among them.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">But generally a “Buyer” selects a “Provider” on the basis of his experiences, price rate, time schedule and cover letter (job application). After this selection process “Buyer” deposits whole amount of money of said project on an account named “Escrow” (not in every marketplace) which gives a security for the providers.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">After finishing a job “Provider” submits the job on the marketplace for the Buyer’s check. If everything is all right “Buyer” receives the work and marketplace authority makes a payment for “Provider” from “Escrow”. Marketplace site receives a service charge (10% – 15%) from Provider’s income and then they send money to the “Provider” in various processes. That’s the story about <em><strong>Freelancing</strong></em> Outsourcing.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Most Popular Freelance Outsourcing Marketplace sites :</span></h1>
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<li style="border: 0px none; list-style-image: url(http://www.spotlightbd.com/wp-content/themes/graphene/images/list-style-image.png); margin: 0px 0px 7px; padding: 0px;"> <a href="http://www.freelancer.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #1772af; text-decoration: none;">www.freelancer.com</a></li>
<li style="border: 0px none; list-style-image: url(http://www.spotlightbd.com/wp-content/themes/graphene/images/list-style-image.png); margin: 0px 0px 7px; padding: 0px;"> <a href="http://www.getacoder.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #1772af; text-decoration: none;">www.getacoder.com</a></li>
<li style="border: 0px none; list-style-image: url(http://www.spotlightbd.com/wp-content/themes/graphene/images/list-style-image.png); margin: 0px 0px 7px; padding: 0px;"> <a href="http://www.freelancer.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #1772af; text-decoration: none;">www.scriptlance.com</a></li>
<li style="border: 0px none; list-style-image: url(http://www.spotlightbd.com/wp-content/themes/graphene/images/list-style-image.png); margin: 0px 0px 7px; padding: 0px;"> <a href="https://www.elance.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #1772af; text-decoration: none;">www.elance.com</a></li>
<li style="border: 0px none; list-style-image: url(http://www.spotlightbd.com/wp-content/themes/graphene/images/list-style-image.png); margin: 0px 0px 7px; padding: 0px;"> www.rentacoder.com</li>
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How to get first job on oDesk

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<span style="color: black;"><em><strong>How to get first job on oDesk</strong></em> – this is a Million Dollar question. There is no absolute answer of this question. But it should have a effective and tricky answer. It happens when a Client may depend on a new contractor. What are the reasons for picking a newbie without experience and feedback? What is the point of view of that Client? We have to find the key reason and get the answer form the Client’s side. Let’s research and make some points.</span></div>
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<li style="border: 0px none; list-style-image: url(http://www.spotlightbd.com/wp-content/themes/graphene/images/list-style-image.png); margin: 0px 0px 7px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;">At first, any Client want their project to be completed successfully by the deadline.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px none; list-style-image: url(http://www.spotlightbd.com/wp-content/themes/graphene/images/list-style-image.png); margin: 0px 0px 7px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;">Secondly they prefer cost effectiveness. They try to make their project cheaper.</span></li>
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<span style="color: black;">So, a contractor should be capable of doing a job successfully, fast and cheaply. But how a new contractor prove him/herself that he/she can do this perfectly? What would be the way of applying for a job?</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">There is a lot of quality contractors available on oDesk. Most of them are experienced and they are keeping good feedback. But few of them are keeping their Hourly or Fixed Price Rate low.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">We think, we got the point. The key reason is Hourly or Fixed Price Rate. It should be low as much as possible. And after getting your first job you can increase it according to your feedback score. One more thing to be counted is writing a good Cover Letter.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">How to write a killer Cover Letter?</span></h1>
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<span style="color: black;">Cover Letter is a very important part of your job application. You should know how to write a effective Cover Letter to attract the Client. Here are some tips:</span></div>
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<li style="border: 0px none; list-style-image: url(http://www.spotlightbd.com/wp-content/themes/graphene/images/list-style-image.png); margin: 0px 0px 7px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;">Cover Letter should be well written without any grammatical mistake.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px none; list-style-image: url(http://www.spotlightbd.com/wp-content/themes/graphene/images/list-style-image.png); margin: 0px 0px 7px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;">Describe your all expertise clearly. There should be no false statement.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px none; list-style-image: url(http://www.spotlightbd.com/wp-content/themes/graphene/images/list-style-image.png); margin: 0px 0px 7px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;">Don’t use template. Write different Cover Letter for different jobs.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px none; list-style-image: url(http://www.spotlightbd.com/wp-content/themes/graphene/images/list-style-image.png); margin: 0px 0px 7px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;">Perfectly answer the all questions from job description. Don’t try to be over smart. Be polite.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px none; list-style-image: url(http://www.spotlightbd.com/wp-content/themes/graphene/images/list-style-image.png); margin: 0px 0px 7px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;">Never beg for a job. Just try to convince the Client that you are the best fit.</span></li>
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<li style="border: 0px none; list-style-image: url(http://www.spotlightbd.com/wp-content/themes/graphene/images/list-style-image.png); margin: 0px 0px 7px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;">Using Skype is a huge plus. If you can speak normally (not good enough) in English write down your Skype ID on Cover Letter.</span></li>
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<span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">So, we may come to the conclusion that offering a low Hourly or Fixed Price rate with a killer Cover Letter enhances the true chance to get the job. That’s all. Now you know <em><strong>how to get first job on oDesk</strong></em>.</span></div>
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If your site serves visitors from different countries, you may already have translated all its static content into several languages. But what to do with the content posted daily by the users in comments, opinions and ratings? As this may be as valuable a part of your site as the static content, you should think of finding a way to translate it into other languages. One service that can help is, of course, <a href="https://developers.google.com/translate/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c94c6; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">Google Translate</a>.</div>
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After going through this tutorial you will be able to fetch translations from the Google Translate API right from your app. You will learn how to gain access to the API, how to use it and how to handle errors if they occur.</div>
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In order to gain access to the Google Translate API, you will have to create a new project on the <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/console" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c94c6; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">Google APIs Console</a> which requires an active Google account. After creating a new project, just turn on Translate API on the list of all the available APIs by flicking a switch.</div>
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At the time of writing this article, the usage fee was $20 per 1 million characters of translation or language detection. Which means that translating a user comment of 300-400 characters would cost you $0.006 – $0.008. Naturally, if you want to translate a text into more than one target language, you will have to pay separately for each translation.</div>
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If you fear getting billed too much for the translations you make, you can control the API usage in your project by setting the maximum limit of characters that can be translated daily. The entire configuration is available on the Google APIs Console.</div>
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Getting the API key</h4>
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To access the Translate API from your app, you will need an API key connected to the project you have created on the Google APIs Console. To get the API key, just click <em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">API Access</em> in the menu at the Google API Console page. You will find the key you need under <em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Simple API access</em>.</div>
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Accessing Translate API from your app</h3>
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The Translate API offers 3 methods:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />- <em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">translate</em>, which translates the given text from one language to another,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />- <em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">detect</em>, which detects the language of the given text,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />- <em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">languages</em>, which lists the source and target languages supported by the API.</div>
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All the methods are called via GET requests. A common way of making such a request in PHP is to use the cURL library, which we will use in the examples below. The parameters passed to each method need to be URL encoded which may be achieved in PHP using the <a href="http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.rawurlencode.php" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c94c6; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">rawurlencode()</a> function. Remember that in each call you have to pass your API key as a <em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">key</em> parameter.</div>
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The results of each Google Translate API method are returned as a string representing a JSON object. To parse it, we will use the <a href="http://php.net/manual/en/function.json-decode.php" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c94c6; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">json_decode()</a> function.</div>
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Sample request</h4>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Translate</em> and <em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">detect</em> services are paid but we can use the third method – <em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">languages</em> – just to check if our app can connect with the API. To do so, we will make a request to the following URL:<code style="background-color: #eeeeee; border-bottom-left-radius: 2px; border-bottom-right-radius: 2px; border-top-left-radius: 2px; border-top-right-radius: 2px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Consolas, 'Liberation Mono', Courier, monospace; font-size: 0.9375em; padding: 2px 8px;">https://www.googleapis.com/language/translate/v2/languages</code></div>
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The entire code looks as follows:</div>
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    $apiKey = '<paste your API key here>';
    $url = 'https://www.googleapis.com/language/translate/v2/languages?key=' . $apiKey;

$handle = curl_init($url);
    curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);     //We want the result to be saved into variable, not printed out
    $response = curl_exec($handle);                         
    curl_close($handle);

print_r(json_decode($response, true));
?></code></pre>
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After executing the code above, you should see an array of all the languages that can be processed by the Google Translate API. A similar table is available in the <a href="https://developers.google.com/translate/v2/using_rest#target" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c94c6; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">documentation</a>. It is important to browse through that table because you will need to include language codes stated there when submitting a request for translating a specific text.</div>
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Getting the translations</h2>
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The core functionality of the Google Translate API is available through its <em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">translate</em> method. It is accessible under the following URL: <code style="background-color: #eeeeee; border-bottom-left-radius: 2px; border-bottom-right-radius: 2px; border-top-left-radius: 2px; border-top-right-radius: 2px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Consolas, 'Liberation Mono', Courier, monospace; font-size: 0.9375em; padding: 2px 8px;">https://www.googleapis.com/language/translate/v2</code></div>
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The <em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">translate</em> method has several parameters. The most important are:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />- <em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">q</em> – the input text,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />- <em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">source</em> – the source language (if it's not specified, Google will try to identify it automatically),<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />- <em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">target</em> – the target language</div>
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If you want to get a translated text, you have to change the URL of the request from the previous example. The rest of the code looks very similar:</div>
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    $apiKey = '<paste your API key here>';
    $text = 'Hello world!';
    $url = 'https://www.googleapis.com/language/translate/v2?key=' . $apiKey . '&q=' . rawurlencode($text) . '&source=en&target=fr';

$handle = curl_init($url);
    curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
    $response = curl_exec($handle);                 
    $responseDecoded = json_decode($response, true);
    curl_close($handle);

echo 'Source: ' . $text . '<br>';
    echo 'Translation: ' . $responseDecoded['data']['translations'][0]['translatedText'];
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A sample response containing the translated text looks as follows:</div>
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 "data": {
  "translations": [{"translatedText": "Bonjour tout le monde!"}]
 }
}</code></pre>
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What happens if you don't set the source language?</h4>
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If you decide not to include the source language (the <em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">source</em> parameter) in the request, two scenarios can happen:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />1. Google will manage to detect the language by itself, the JSON response will consequently contain an additional <em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">detectedSourceLanguage</em> property holding the source language code.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />2. The source language will not be successfully detected (e.g. when the source text was too short) and the Google Translate API will return an HTTP 500 error. This leads to the next part of the tutorial – handling errors.</div>
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Handling errors</h2>
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When your request cannot be processed, the Google Translate API returns an HTTP response with a code representing the type of the error. After executing a request using cURL, you can get the server response code using the <a href="http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.curl-getinfo.php" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c94c6; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">curl_getinfo()</a> function. If the response code is different than <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">200</strong>, it means that something went wrong.</div>
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The Google Translate API can return following error codes:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />- <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">400 (Bad request)</strong> – your request is missing some parameters or you have passed wrong values to the parameters present in the request (e.g. an invalid language code),<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />- <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">403 (Forbidden)</strong> – you have entered an incorrect API key or have exceeded your quota,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />- <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">500 (Internal Server Error)</strong> – Google cannot identify the source language of your text or another error occurred.</div>
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Additionally, when an error occurs, the Google Translate API returns a JSON response containing an error description. For example, when one of the required parameters is missing, the server will reply with a following response:</div>
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 "error": {
  "errors": [
   {
    "domain": "global",
    "reason": "required",
    "message": "Required parameter: target",
    "locationType": "parameter",
    "location": "target"
   }
  ],
  "code": 400,
  "message": "Required parameter: target"
 }
}</code></pre>
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So the best way of handling errors when querying the Google Translate API service is just to combine checking the HTTP response code and parsing the JSON response from the server. What is important, <em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">curl_getinfo()</em> must be called before <em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">curl_close()</em>:</div>
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    $apiKey = '<paste your API key here>';
    $text = 'Hello world!';
    $url = 'https://www.googleapis.com/language/translate/v2?key=' . $apiKey . '&q=' . rawurlencode($text) . '&source=en&target=fr';

$handle = curl_init($url);
    curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
    $response = curl_exec($handle);
    $responseDecoded = json_decode($response, true);
    $responseCode = curl_getinfo($handle, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);      //Here we fetch the HTTP response code
    curl_close($handle);

if($responseCode != 200) {
        echo 'Fetching translation failed! Server response code:' . $responseCode . '<br>';
        echo 'Error description: ' . $responseDecoded['error']['errors'][0]['message'];
    }
    else {
        echo 'Source: ' . $text . '<br>';
        echo 'Translation: ' . $responseDecoded['data']['translations'][0]['translatedText'];
    }
?></code></pre>
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Multiple translations in one request</h3>
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You can translate several texts in one request, which is undoubtedly more efficient than executing separate request for each translation. To do so, just pass a couple of <em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">q</em> parameters, each containing one text to translate.</div>
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However, it gets a little tricky here:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />- if your source texts are all of the same language, you can pass the <em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">source</em> parameter containing the language code of all the texts;<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />- but if you want to translate a couple of texts in different languages, you cannot pass several <em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">source</em>parameters. In such case you have to omit the <em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">source</em> parameter and just let Google guess what the languages of the source texts are.</div>
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Also note that you cannot get multiple translations of one source text in a single request. If you want to translate one text to different target languages, you have to make separate requests.</div>
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Conclusion</h2>
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Now you know the basics of connecting your app to the Google Translate API. More complicated implementations of the API may include auto-fetching translations when a user submits some content (or when a site admin approves it) and saving translations to a database. </div>
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If you plan to use the Google Translate API in your app, please remember to read the <a href="https://developers.google.com/translate/v2/terms" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c94c6; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">Terms of service</a> and <a href="https://developers.google.com/translate/v2/attribution" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c94c6; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">Attribution requirements</a> which contain several guidelines on how to display the translated content on a webpage.</div>

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There are also various email marketing tools that can help you develop email marketing further. One of the most common tools that digital marketers advise small businesses to have in order for them to succeed with email marketing is an autoresponder. In simple terms, an autoresponder is a kind of email marketing software that delivers your newsletters to everyone in your mailing list. Some of the popular autoresponders in the market are:</div>
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Lyris offers impressive digital marketing features that include enterprise email marketing, integrated digital marketing and real-time automation and analytics. However, their packages can be quite pricey compared to other email marketing software in the market. If you have a budget, this is a good software to look into because they have very good client support. They do have account managers assigned for every high-volume account to ensure that all your needs are being met, and they will also continuously evaluate the progress, performance and achievement of your email marketing campaign.</div>
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GetResponse</h4>
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Recommended for beginners, GetResponse is very easy to use and offered in a very affordable price. It lets you publish newsletters and offers hosting features as well as autoresponders to deliver your message to everybody in your mailing list. The company also boasts its high email deliverability percentage due to their established relations with various ISPs and email service providers.  They also offer a free version to those who want to try their services.</div>
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AutoResponsePlus</h4>
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AutoResponsePlus is recommended for those that have more than 25,000 subscribers in their mailing list. This autoresponder requires installation on your own server unlike GetResponse. They also cater to those that have more than 100,000 subscribers though they recommend a dedicated server since it will take up a lot. The software is easy to use and they let you have the total control over your email marketing. You have the freedom to design and stylize your own HTML email. They also offer tracking for open rates, bounce rates and link click-through rates.</div>
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Campaign Monitor</h4>
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Campaign Monitor offers beautiful email designs, sending your email campaigns and results tracking. The unique feature of this site that others do not have is their template builder that will let your create email layouts that are automatically optimized for mobile devices. Adding content is also very easy on their template and they also offer one click content.</div>
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Aside from these email marketing tools, you can also look into various email marketing resources to help you with your email marketing strategies. There are various blogs that talk about email marketing and reading them will inspire you to improve your strategies and techniques. Becs Rivett talks about email marketing in her blog and she adds visuals to her posts too. You can also check Email Marketing Reports for their articles on the basics of email marketing or how to improve it.</div>

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Understanding Dedicated Hosting Basics

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In today's increasingly technology focused society, very nearly any online entrepreneur can profit from opening a blog and generating an online income. With such a large number of website hosts to choose from, and with such a great amount of technical terminology to deal with before they can even to start to comprehend what they are getting tied up with, picking a hosting set up can appear an overwhelming undertaking.<a href="" name="more" style="color: #1111aa; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"></a></div>
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One of the best options for anyone hoping to generate an income from their blog or website is to choose dedicated hosting. This is due to the large number of benefits associated with this type of hosting including security, reliability and speed.</div>
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In this article, I hope to give you a general idea of what dedicated hosting actually is, what characteristics matter and which do not, so you can settle on an educated choice about where (and how) to host your blog and/or website.</div>
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<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Different Kinds of Hosting Accounts</h4>
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Not all types of hosting are considered equal. There are various different types of hosting available including Shared, VPS and Dedicated. Each have their own advantages, and even although we are most interested in dedicated hosting it is useful to understand what each type actually is. Here is an overview of the more popular hosting methods:</div>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Shared: A hosting system through which different websites are provided space dedicated for their personal use on a solitary server.  This option is the cheapest, slowest, and least customizable hosting option available, which is an ideal option for novices or beginners.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">VPS: (Or Virtual Private Server) is a hosting technique in which a client has access to a part of a server that is dedicated solely for their use. Multiple clients share this single server, yet each has their own access and resources allotted to them. An optimal choice for businesses and organizations that want greater freedoms, and fewer restrictions, than those offered by shared hosting options.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Dedicated Web Hosting: A hosting system where clients buy access to a whole server that is solely for their own use; it is the most adaptable of hosting alternatives, with the least restrictions. Additionally, websites have the ability to handle far greater traffic with this type of hosting.<img alt="dedicated hosting server" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIroEie9ZcYAlKBwNcfOZx1P_s6Sm2RcQVTh_16uI-28eGyQmhC_fDhhzf2eMP9SV7_OSzRCxOeRg1B1AI3_WFAvjw7KNdx-se3rMGbtPxRt3BkKOkdFZ4Bho_knld6NHp_MT4gnZKkJY/?imgmax=800" style="display: block; float: none; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 6px 0px 0px;" title="dedicated hosting server" width="400" /><div class="pinit-wrapper" style="cursor: pointer; left: 251.5px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: 989.8125px; visibility: visible; z-index: 9999;">
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Bandwidth and Disk Space</h4>
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Bandwidth is the means to measure the upload and download activity that takes place on a website over the course of a month. Websites that are heavy on graphics, downloads offered, or uploads possible on a site can determine how quickly your bandwidth is used. Disk space is the measure of space a site's holder leases from their host.</div>
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Both of these characteristics are imperative to think about when beginning a site. When looking at purchasing a site from a hosting company, it is important to know ahead of time, how much bandwidth you foresee yourself needing for your site, as well as how much disk space you will need. Lacking of bandwidth and disk space can cause numerous issues with the functionality of your site.</div>
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When choosing dedicated hosting you will not be sharing your server or bandwidth with anyone else which often makes it much easier to increase your bandwidth and disk space allowance if required. If you feel that your website needs some room to grow then this really is your best option.</div>
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<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Managed Vs Unmanaged Servers</h4>
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The majority of dedicated server hosting can be divided into two different categories : managed servers and unmanaged servers. If you opt for fully managed dedicated hosting then your hosting provider will take care of general maintenance tasks including running backups and installing software updates and patches. If you have unmanaged hosting then you will need to take care of this by yourself.</div>
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<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Why Choose Dedicated Over Shared Hosting?</h4>
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So is a dedicated server much better than shared hosting? With a dedicated server, you will have complete administrative access to your server. It is not shared with another company and you can use it to host as many website as you wish. You will also find that a dedicated hosting server will perform better than a shared one, especially if you need to use PHP or ASPX for some of your applications. Cloud hosting can often do everything that a dedicated server can, but it is generally accepted that dedicated servers can handle the tasks far better.</div>
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In the event that you are thinking about starting your own blog or website, then dedicated hosting is something that you are going to want to consider. Hopefully you now have some idea of the basics of this type of hosting service.</div>

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