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Let?s say you?ve just finished designing and implementing a great web site for your business and you can?t wait to start generating web traffic and to buy targeted traffic for it in order to greatly increase the volume of sales that your business does.? Now that you?ve got a great website ready to go, how do you find someone to host it on the Internet for you?? Well, there many options out there and many items to consider when deciding what kind of web hosting is right for you and your business.? Let?s go over a few examples and go into a few details about why or why not a certain service might be right for you.

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The first consideration you should take into account is how much you have to spend on web hosting services.? If you have a lot to spend, then you might have to worry about this aspect, but even if you don?t have any more money at all to spend on web hosting, there may still be an option for you.? Your ISP (Internet Service Provider) may also offer some amount of on-line personal space for you to use as you see fit for being a subscriber to their Internet services.? Since you are already paying for access to the Internet, in this case, you wouldn?t have to pay for any additional services.? However, such services do usually come with limitations and might not be suitable for hosting a business website through.? For instance, the space you have available is probably small and limited and might not be adequate for hosting a commercial website with everything that it entails.? The next limitation is usually that it comes only with a simple domain URL, such as ?www.myisp.com/mywebpage?, for example.? And such a URL may not be appropriate for your commercial web site.? Another thing to look out for is server-side limitations by your ISP.? For example, you might want your website to use a certain scripting language for desired functionality, but that language might not be supported by your ISP and you may be out of luck.? Also, more often than not, ISPs limit the amount of bandwidth that your free website can use, which can result in potential customers being unable to access your website if that bandwidth quota is reached.

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Now then, with all of these limitations possibly imposed by your ISPs free web hosting offer, it probably doesn?t sound like a viable solution to host a business website on.? Which is probably a correct assumption, however, there is one interesting aspect with this type of hosting (and free hosting in general).? If you ask your ISP, they probably have the ability to remove certain restrictions, for a small fee, of course.? And if you only require that a few of these restrictions be lifted in order to adequately operate your business website, then you may be able to get those lifted for a nominal fee and thereby have very inexpensive hosting for your business? website.? This same kind of model and mindset usually accompanies most types of free web hosting services, so keep that in mind.

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The next consideration is for those that are ready and willing to pay a decent fee for their websites to be professionally hosted.? When looking for a high quality web hosting service, it?s important to keep a few things in mind before making a final decision.? Your business? website is an important tool for increasing growth and revenue, so you?ll want to make sure that it is available to as many people as possible as often as possible.? With that being said, you?ll want to investigate the uptime histories of any potential service provider.? A high quality web hosting service should have VERY small amounts of down time, and their uptime percentage really should exceed 99% of the time to adequately host a commercial website.? Another aspect to verify is the level of customer service and support that the hosting service offers to their customers.? If your website does happen to go down for whatever reason, you?ll want to rest at ease knowing you can immediately contact the hosting service and be able to easily let them know of the outage and have them quickly and efficiently make the necessary fixes.? The next item to think about is available disk space and available bandwidth.? Some hosting services put limits on both of these, so you?ll definitely want verify what those limits are and that that those limits are going to be compatible with your expected amount of web traffic and data throughput.

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The next examples of web hosting opportunities are targeted more at those who are technically savvy and comfortable maintaining and operating their own Internet servers.? Both of these options have the potential to be very cost effective, but do generally require more work on your part and much more knowledge to keep your website running smoothly.? The first of these options is to find an unmanaged web hosting service.? This kind of service basically offers you a server at their data center, some electricity to power it, a network cable, and remote access for you to manage and configure it.? With this form of hosting, you don?t have to be responsible for the hardware side of web hosting, but everything else is pretty much up to you to get working right.? The next kind of hosting that is along those lines is to host your own server on your own ISP with your own registered domain name. This kind of hosting is by far the most complicated and time consuming, but does have its benefits as it gives you 100% and instant control of everything that has to do with hosting your business website.

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Now that you have had a taste of what kinds of hosting options may be available to you, it is important that you analyze each of your available options in order to get the hosting service that is right for you and your business in order to generate the highest amounts of premium traffic and targeted visitors that lead to a successful on-line operation.

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NCAA comes down hard on Penn State

Sanctions include $60 million fine, 4 -year bowl ban, vacating wins from 1998-2011

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NCAA president Mark Emmert (right) speaks as Ed Ray, chairman of the NCAA's executive committee and Oregon State president looks on, during a press conference Monday.

updated 10:53 a.m. ET July 23, 2012

INDIANAPOLIS - The NCAA slammed Penn State for the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal Monday with an unprecedented series of penalties, including a $60 million fine and the loss of all the school's victories from 1998-2011, knocking Joe Paterno from his spot as major college football's winningest coach.

Other sanctions include a four-year ban on postseason games that will prevent Penn State from playing for the Big Ten title, the loss of 20 scholarships per year over four years and five years' probation. The NCAA also said that any current or incoming football players are free to immediately transfer and compete at another school.

NCAA President Mark Emmert announced the staggering sanctions at a news conference in Indianapolis. Though the NCAA stopped short of imposing the "death penalty" - shutting down the Nittany Lions' program completely. But the punishment is so severe, it's more like a slow-death penalty.

Sandusky, a former Penn State defensive coordinator, was found guilty in June of sexually abusing young boys, sometimes on campus. An investigation commissioned by the school and released July 12 found that Paterno, who died in January, and several other top officials at Penn State stayed quiet for years about accusations against Sandusky.

Emmert fast-tracked penalties rather than go through the usual circuitous series of investigations and hearings. The NCAA said the $60 million is equivalent to the annual gross revenue of the football program. The money must be paid into an endowment for external programs preventing child sexual abuse or assisting victims and may not be used to fund such programs at Penn State.

"Football will never again be placed ahead of educating, nurturing and protecting young people," Emmert said.

By vacating 112 Penn State victories over a 14-year period, the sanctions cost Paterno 111 wins. Former Florida State coach Bobby Bowden will now hold the top spot in the NCAA record book with 377. Paterno, who was fired days after Sandusky was charged, will be credited with 298 wins.

The scholarship reductions mean that Penn State's roster will be capped at 65 scholarship players within a couple of seasons. The normal scholarship limit for major college football programs is 85. Playing with 20 less is crippling to a program that tries to compete at the highest level of the sport.

Emmert had earlier said he had "never seen anything as egregious" as the horrific crimes of Sandusky and the cover-up by Paterno and others at the university, including former Penn State President Graham Spanier and athletic director Tim Curley.

The investigation headed by former FBI Director Louis Freeh said that Penn State officials kept what they knew from police and other authorities for years, enabling the abuse to go on.

There had been calls across the nation for Penn State to receive the "death penalty," and Emmert had not ruled out that possibility as late as last week - though Penn State did not fit the criteria for it. That punishment is for teams that commit a major violation while already being sanctioned.

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Penn State has already agreed to not fight the sanctions.

Emmert said the university and the NCAA have signed a consent decree, essentially a pact signing off on the penalties.

"This case is obviously incredibly unprecedented in every aspect of it, as are these actions that we're taking today."

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Artisan craze helps drive boom in craft booze

Take a look inside the Woodinville Whiskey Co's distillery to see how bourbon whiskey is made.

By Allison Linn

WOODINVILLE, Wash. ? ?When Orlin Sorensen and Brett Carlile got the idea to start a whiskey distillery, the longtime friends freely admit they knew little?more about spirits than that they liked to drink them.

?We had no idea how to do it,? Carlile said.

Just a few years later, Woodinville Whiskey Co. is among the more prominent players in a surging craft distillery industry, which is drawing hundreds of hard liquor fans into the hands-on business of distilling vodka, whiskey and other spirits.

There are perhaps 250 craft distillers operating around the country right now, up from about 50 in 2005, according to a Michael Kinstlick, who runs Coppersea Distilling in New York state. He prepared an industry report for the American Distilling Institute, the craft industry?s trade group.

The explosion in interest has been fueled by more relaxed state laws, which have made it easier to set up distilleries, combined with the growing?interest in?hand-crafted, artisan?and locally made products.

?There?s been a major renaissance in America in wine, beer, food,? said Bill Owens, founder of the American Distilling Institute. ?Now it?s our turn.?

It also helps that Americans ? perhaps influenced by ?Sex and the City? and ?Mad Men? ? are increasingly favoring spirits over beer and wine. Spirits accounted for 34.1 percent of?alcoholic beverage revenue?in 2011, up from 28.7 percent in 2000, according to the Distilled Spirits Council, a lobbying group.

But while distilling spirits all day may sound like a dream come true, the reality is that it?s hard, physical work that takes a lot of money? to get started ? and may not?pay off for years.

At Woodinville Whiskey, located in?an industrial strip about 30 minutes outside?Seattle, the day often starts as early as 6 a.m. and can stretch?late into the night, especially if the founders?are hosting an all-volunteer bottling marathon.

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Brett Carlile, co-owner of Woodinville Whiskey Co., fills a barrel with unaged whiskey.

One recent morning, Carlile was bounding up and down a set of movable stairs, checking on a huge vat of water and locally grown corn that he had just milled into a fine corn meal. Cooking the grain, called mashing, is the first step in the long process of making whiskey.

As the mill roared, he turned his attention briefly to a barrel that had just been filled with "white dog," whiskey that has not yet been aged. The barrel had sprung a small leak and the stopper, referred to as a bung, had broken apart.

As he worked to fix that, he kept his eye on a gas nozzle that was being used to fill yet another massive barrel. Later, he would use a forklift to hoist the barrels into the former computer repair shop next door that serves as their warehouse. The barrels will then sit for several years while the alcohol takes on the flavor from the wood it is stored in.

Carlile, 35, said he lost 30 pounds within months of starting the whiskey company, just from the physical activity of running the distillery.

?It?s a blue-collar job,? he said. ?I get sweaty every day.?

Carlile is a former construction materials salesman who quit his job to start this business. He and Sorensen went to high school and college together but?say they came up with the idea of starting a distillery separately. The coincidence was so powerful they felt it was meant to be.

Sorensen, also 35, is a former pilot who was laid off after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. He?started a web marketing business that he has?kept going on the side to pay the bills while Woodinville Whiskey grows.

To learn about the business, the pair turned to Dave Pickerell, who had been master distiller at Maker?s Mark for 14 years before starting a consultancy focused on craft distillers. Woodinville Whiskey was one of his first clients.

Pickerell, who is based in Louisville, Ky., now has clients coast to coast. He thinks the weak economy and high job losses have actually helped get some people into the industry.

?There were people who had a dream and were displaced and said, ?Why not?? he said.

The big challenge of starting a whiskey distillery is it requires a?big investment in?space and equipment, but it takes several?years before the whiskey is ready to be sold. That?s one reason why many craft distillers sell vodka or other clear spirits that don?t need time to sit in a barrel developing flavor.

Woodinville Whiskey has mitigated that business?problem by selling vodka and the unaged?white dog whiskey. They also aged some of their whiskey in small, pricier barrels so they could get a product on the shelf quicker. They started selling those this year.

The company had about $1.3 million in revenue last year and expects to see a 30 percent increase this year. But the big payoff won?t come until 2013 or?2014, when the big barrels of whiskey?filled?in 2010 are finally ready to be bottled and sold.

The waiting game can be stressful. Pickerell recalled a time when Sorensen and Carlile called him in a panic, certain some of the aging whiskey had been ruined. By the time he flew out there, the perceived problem seemed to have resolved itself.

?Every once in a while I?ve gotta talk ?em off a ledge,? he said.

Sorensen said they aim for a retail price of between $45 and $50 a bottle, on par with premium competitors. They recently had to lower their prices slightly to offset an increase in other fees from new Washington state laws allowing liquor to be sold at retailers rather than just state-run liquor stores.

To fund the business, the company has borrowed about $600,000 and plans to seek more financing. Sorensen, 36, said the company is?profitable, but for now the co-founders are pouring money back into the business rather than taking a paycheck themselves.

They have two full-time and four part-time employees. Once or twice a week, the company?hosts bottling events for?12 volunteers who help out?in exchange for T-shirts and pizza.

The products are still only sold mostly in the Seattle area, in line with the practice of most craft distillers, which start small and local. Woodinville Whiskey has?ambitious expansion plans, but Sorensen said the company will stay primarily?focused on their home state.

?We?re from Washington. The people who helped build our brand are from Washington,? Sorensen said.

Although the number of craft distillers is surging, experts say they represent far less than 1 percent of total spirits sales in the United States.

Still, the increase in small distillers has been enough to attract the interest of big industry players. The Distilled Spirits Council, which traditionally limited itself to big spirits companies, recently started accepting some small distillers as non-voting members. Many think it?s also only a matter of time before big companies start buying up some of the more promising craft distillers.

Meanwhile, more distillers are expected to open up shop. Owens, the president of the Craft Distilling Institute, runs twice-yearly courses in how to start a distillery. He says the classes, which cost $3,500, regularly fill up.

To Owens, the fact that it?s difficult to start a distillery and can take years to see a real payoff are among the industry?s attributes.

?You get rid of a whole bunch or class of people that are just into greed or money,? he said. ?We?re into people who have a love of the craft.?

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