One of the great things I love about being on the internet and doing business there, is the low level to entry for just about any kind of business you can imagine. The biggest expense your going to likely incur as a new web entrepreneur, is your own time. And, you shouldn’t just discount that. Your time is a valuable resource, if you live in any kind of demanding life like mine. Job, family, and friends can take up a lot of your time, so spend it wisely. But, where I can get you some really inexpensive business start up resources is domain names and web hosting.

Prices for companies that offer these kinds of services are very competitive, so it’s pretty easy to get what you need at prices you can afford. Whether your just a small business that only needs shared hosting, or a full fledged corporation that needs a dedicated server with all the bells and whistles your going to be pleasantly suprised when you find out what’s available. Your more than likely going to have a hard time narrowing down your list of perspective vendors to a short list. That however, is a good problem to have. A word of advice though. Once you’ve chosen a vendor, be sure to keep that short list close at hand. You never really know how good a company is until you’ve used them for six months to a year. There may come a time, when you have to make a change, and it’s good to have that initial research close at hand.

One of the key differences between quality software and buggy software, is the amount of time the developer devotes to testing of their product. Generally speaking, only large software development companies have the resources to devote to a full time QA testing department. That’s not always the case, but generally it is and it shows in the quality of their software. For many new development firms, it’s often quite a hurdle to get their development team more involved in the testing of the software. I can relate, after spending quite a few years as a software developer. As much as I enjoyed developing software, I always hated testing my programs. And to be honest, having developers test their own stuff is not always a good idea.

There is a solution to this problem, ant that is employing the use of external software QA services. Basically, your outsourcing the testing of your programs. It’s a good solution for a number of reasons. First of all, it frees your skilled developers to do what it is they do best. That is crank out tons and code, and find innovative design solutions for complex business problems. Secondly, it gives the testing of your software to someone that doesn’t have a personal interest in seeing the programs run perfectly. They want to break your software, and they need to think more like an end user than a developer to do that. So, if you can’t afford an in house QA team, that’s probably a good thing, because a better solution would be to have professional third party companies run your software through it’s paces.

So you want to start a blog. Like many people, you probably think that the cheapest web hosting company is the best. Am I right? Well, before you go on a search for the cheapest blog web hosting provider you can find, there are a few things you’re going to want to know. You see, [...]