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WEB HOSTING and DOMAIN NAME REGISTER

We have worked with many web hosting companies around the world, including US, Singapore, Malaysia, and Europe web hosting companies. Every web hosting companies have their strength and weakness. Some are cheap, some are expensive; some servers are fast, some servers are slow; some hosting is strict while others may be more relax in the shared hosting environment; some has better crisis recovery procedure than others.

From our experience, we highly recommend the following web hosting companies.

Just Host is a very cheap and good host in US. Its price is $4.95/mo for 2 years contract, and it has unlimited disk space and bandwidth plus FREE domain.

Vodien is a cheap and superb hosting in Singapore. They are our first choice web hosting in Singapore. Their support is prompt and unbeatable. What I like most is the speed of their servers. It is faster than most the web hosting companies in Singapore that I have experienced.

Oryon Network is another pretty good web hosting in Singapore. The price is cheap and the support is excellent.

Peer 1 is a great professional hosting option with service offerings such as cloud web hosting, managed hosting, dedicated servers and more.

TEMPLATES

If you are constrained by budget and not able to get a professional web designer to do a custom web design for you, you can consider to sign up with many excellent template or theme clubs.. These clubs offer a wide selection of premium and professional templates and themes at an affordable price. Our recommendations are below

RocketTheme is one of the best template club membership website. They offer high quality and professional templates for Joomla, PHPBB, and Wordpress.

Joomlart is another premier template club membership website. They offer high quality and professional Joomla, Magento, and Drupal templates.

SOFTWARE TRAINING

Technology is advancing in a breath-taking rate. Every year, we have new software, new platforms, and new versions. It is expensive to take classes to learn this new softwares, even if you can afford the time to go for classes.

However, there are great online training resources where you can learn new softwares in your own pace, own locations, own convenience at an affordable price. Below are some of our recommendations.

Lynda.com is a one stop and affordable software training, including Joomla, Wordpress, Drupal, Adobe Photoshop, Flash, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Sharepoint and many more popular softwards