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Happy Republic Day

Prashant — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:24:32 +0000

We would like to wish everyone a very Happy Republic Day!

Wikipedia: In India, Republic Day commemorates the date on which the Constitution of India came into force replacing the Government of India Act 1935 as the governing document of India on 26 January 1950. The 26th of January was chosen to honour the memory of the declaration of independence of 1930. It is one of the three national holidays in India. While the main parade takes place in the national capital New Delhi at the Rajpath before the president, the anniversary is also celebrated with varying degrees of formality in state capitals and other centres.

Note: Our office and phone support will remain closed on the 26.01.2012. However we have Chat and Email support open today as well.

Readers’ Choice Awards – Hosting 2011

Prashant — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 06:50:11 +0000

Thanks to our clients, we had won this award last year… it’s time to show us some love again. Please cast your vote for us.

Find out which pages of your website are loading slow

Prashant — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 03:30:57 +0000

Google Analytics has come out with a new feature, Site Speed Reports. Learn which pages of your website load slowly as slow loading pages often cause visitors to leave in frustration. Check out the Site Speed report and see your average load time by page. Login in to your Google Analytics then go to the “Content” section and then click “Site Speed”

If you aren’t using Google Analytics on your website, you should go here to sign up http://www.google.com/analytics/

PayPal raised the per transaction limit to $3000

Prashant — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 06:45:50 +0000

Today, PayPal India has raised the transaction limit per transaction to $3000. This comes as a big relief for people who were doing single large transactions. Finally RBI has woken up and understood that we cannot do business with such restrictions in place. However this is still valid only on cross border transactions and not for within India. We are still waiting on the day when PayPal payment with India is ok’d by RBI, this will help thousands of merchants and promote e-commerce growth in India.

Create easy to use feedback forms without any coding knowledge

Prashant — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 06:10:59 +0000

If you are running a website and want to use a feedback from on it to collect information from your visitors and have it sent to your email address (form to email) and you don’t know HTML / PHP to code your form then WuFoo is the solution for you. WuFoo lets you create forms without any programming knowledge with just a few clicks and then you can cuts past the code generated by WuFoo into your website and it works like a charm!

From simple to complex forms, you can do that all easy and fast. Best of all you can have a form for free with WuFoo. Check out their website now www.wufoo.com

Change in Dedicated IP Pricing

Prashant — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 05:30:15 +0000

Owing to the global shortage of IPv4 Addresses and a general increase in the price of IP Addresses we have changed our Dedicated IP prices to Rs.2500/year affective immediately.

OpenCart one of the best shopping carts to start with

Prashant — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 05:26:52 +0000

We have been experimenting with opencart and found it to be an excellent piece of open source free shopping cart. Need less to say it is available with us with just 1 click installation on Basic / Silver / Unlimited hosting plans. Before we go in depth to say why we choose this cart over many other, we would like to point out that if you are planning to start your online business and are considering opencart for as your software then you should select our silver hosting plan. The reason why silver hosting plan is better is because it will let you have your main website on the primary domain and then you can simply add-on a domain to host the cart.. all in one plan!

The reason we are all praise about opencart is because it is very simple to use and works right out of the box, it took us 1-2 hours to get to know how things work. We had tried oscommerce some years back but opencart is definitely way ahead of it. One of the best things about opencart is that it works with 2checkout. With all the paypal problems happening in India, 2checkout still offers a decent option for Indian merchants to be able to do business not just in USD but also in INR. The other highlights about the cart is the ability to add affiliates and have custom discount coupons as well as gift vouchers. The template of opencart is very good as well and you can simply change the theme with very professional high quality opencart themes.

Ecommerce in India is on the rise so if you were planning to sell online, this is the best time for that!

Merchant loosing business over PayPal PAN number verification drive

Prashant — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 08:01:59 +0000

Seems like RBI has made it so complex for PayPal to do business in India that it has gone crazy. All Indian merchants are facing the brunt of not being able to do business within India with PayPal and since the PAN card verification drive is going on, it has become impossible to do business with PayPal from anywhere. We have heard this from many merchants and have experienced this ourselves that PayPal keeps rejecting valid PAN card details and then put the account on a temporary hold where you are unable to receive any money.

If this was not enough, PayPal is auto withdrawing payment to bank accounts everyday. Which means that even if you get a payment of $2, this amount is sent to your bank next day resulting in loosing money with conversion and small payment transfer charges.

In this age where more and more companies are going online with ecommerce, it seems like RBI is encouraging monopoly by stopping multinational companies like PayPal to do a game changing business in India.

Top 10 Most Spamming Countries

Prashant — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 07:15:40 +0000

Spamhaus.org has listed the top 10 worst spam generating countries and to our surprise, India is no where in the top 10… which is a good news

eCommerce / Internet growth in India

Prashant — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 09:35:57 +0000

Read an article in Hindustan Times business section about the ecommerce and internet growth in India, very interesting statistics. While most of us have seen commercials of flipkart / snapdeals etc it is not all a bubble, all these ecommerce websites are showing exploding sales and have proven that eCommerce in India has finally arrived. Looks at the data below and you will see that the Indian ecom story will be a grand success in the time to come. All the more reason to start your website today itself. Who knows, your’s could be the next biggest internet idea.