General Questions
How is Gallery Web Host different than other online photo galleries?
Your gallery is hosted on it's own Virtual Private Server. With most online galleries your domain is hosted as a subdomain of their site. If you don't have an email address yourname@yourdomain.com then you are hosted as a subdomain sharing resources with possibly hundreds of other users. At Gallery Webhost your domain name is hosted at the top level and includes a dedicated mail server and a dedicated database server. This gives you a website not just a gallery.
What is a VPS?
With Virtual Private Server (VPS Hosting), also known as Virtual Dedicated Server (VDS Hosting) technology, a web server is divided into multiple isolated environments. Each environment has its own server software providing independence for that website and gallery. Scripts, database and programs used to run your gallery are not shared by any other user.
What is a dedicated ip address?
Every domain name that is home to a website has an IP address assigned to it. An IP address is the real address of a website. For example, if you typed 69.36.171.68 into your web browsers address bar you would see Gallery Web Host website come up. This is my dedicated ip address. Most websites share an ip address, sometimes hundreds can share the same ip address.
Do I need a dedicated ip address?
Not necessarily. Most websites today share an ip address without problems. Some say a dedicated ip helps with the search engines. Dedicated ips are required for sites accepting credit cards but your gallery uses PayPal and Digibug for payment processing so a dedicated ip is not requried. On the other hand if you want the best, then there are advantages to a dedicated ip.
Do I have to know any programming?
No. Not at all. It is quite easy to manage your gallery. Everything is done online with an intuitive interface.
How can my gallery be used to sell prints?
Your gallery comes with two methods for selling prints online. Your gallery has a shopping cart that can be used to take orders that you print yourself. You can accept online payments thru your gallery with a free PayPal account. Your gallery ties in directly with PayPals payment service for credit card processing.
Your gallery can also tie in directly with Digibug an online printing service offering everything from prints, posters, mug, mouse pads and t-shirts. Its free to sign up with Digibug and you set the prices and products you want to sell. Digibug does the processing and you receive monies directly from them for all sales. For example say you want to sell 8 X 10s. You set the price at $20.00 - the wholesale price is $1.90 - you receive $18.10 Digibug does the printing, credit card processing and shipping. You select which images in your gallery to offer for printing.
How can my gallery be used to sell digital downloads? Digital Downloads are available using the same service (Digibug) as for prints. The cost to you is $1.00 per image that is downloaded. When you upload a high res image to your gallery it is automatically resized to a smaller version for online viewing. When someone purchases a download the original images is sent to a secure place where the purchaser may download the image. The link is only available for 72 hours after the purchase.
|
