Back to school web hosting

Every year when school starts, web hosts see an increase in orders as entrepreneurs and stay-at-home parents have more free time and the summer vacation season shrinks to the shorter days of winter. Many hosting companies plan special fall campaigns designed for these small startups. But lately there has been another wave this time of year and it comes as specialized accommodation packages for students and parents. We are seeing more and more websites for bloggers, online photos, resumes, family forums, podcasts and webcams. This variety of new technologies has generated an increased need for web hosting. Someone has to host all this content and information. And in some cases, like webcams, photos, and podcasts, the hosting needs are quite large.

College seniors and juniors are using simple “your name” resume websites. name to help promote your skills and give potential employees a place to research them. These websites can provide much more information and, if well designed, are a tribute to the professionalism you are trying to display. This is an easy thing to use on job search websites and to include in your email signature. You can usually find a website like this for around $40/year with tools to help you easily create it.

Blogging, blogging, blogging. This is certainly one that we are here about all the time. But students, teachers, and even parents love to blog about their educational experience from college to grade school. Blogging websites have become extremely easy to set up and many of them are free. These websites give anyone a forum to express their views and experiences, and education seems to be a topic that people love to talk about.

The next buzzword after blogging is Podcasting. This is the art of taking a blog to the spoken level. People can record whatever they want and upload it to a podcast website for the whole world to listen to. It’s very popular for people to create virtual tours of museums and universities for people to download and walk around on their iPod. Or it may simply be a recording of your personal views for the whole world to hear.

What do parents who like to see their children’s classroom and college voyeurs have in common? webcams Another step up from blogging and podcasting your thoughts and voice is filming yourself. Webcams are reaching all sorts of places and the back-to-school season seems to be adding extra momentum. Webcams are being used by schools to allow parents to see their children, they are being used on campuses and in neighborhoods for safety, and by parents and children separated by distance to see each other.

Another type of smaller website that we have heard of is family forum forums. As a family spreads out with multiple children at various colleges across the country, a forum board offers a convenient way for everyone to communicate on their own time and keep up with all the family’s conversations. Most hosting companies offer free forums with their hosting plans and they are very easy to install and configure. If you’re looking for a web hosting company with an automatic installation script, like Fantastico, you’ll be surprised how easy it is to get started.

The last type of back to school website is online photo albums. With the proliferation of digital cameras, people are now turning to online photo albums as a place to store their family treasures. This also allows your faraway college student to post photos of their dorm room for the extended family to see, as well as for the family to post photos of the good times they are having. A picture is worth a thousand words. There have been the creation of web hosting companies designed specifically for this task. This is called image hosting. Type “image web hosting” into any major search engine and you’ll find all the companies to choose from. Also, most web hosts offer free online photo album scripts that you can install. And as mentioned above, if they advertise an automatic installer like Fantastico, then the installation and setup is done for you.

Historically, the fall months offer a higher demand for web hosting, but with the advent of recent technology trends, we are now seeing a higher demand for specialized hosting during the fall that caters to students, parents, and friends. These are just 6 specialized hosting needs, but I’m sure there are other ways people use the Internet to enhance their educational experience and reduce the distance you sometimes put between family and friends.