Jamie Willard

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What’s all about Zenni: the #1 online eyeglasses store that opticians don’t like? Why Opticians don’t want give you PD data. Is it against the law? Why Opticians keep you away from ZenniOpt. What’s the deal? We all deserve to make business and earn for a living. Why prohibit people in using online eyeglass store anyway?

Reliable business web hosting is crucial to the success of an online business and prevents many headaches for those looking to put their information online.  With an online business, if you do not have a reliable server you will undoubtedly face down time and lost customers. If your site is not available, a potential customer may decide to wait for your site to come back up, but it is probably more likely that they will simple search for your competitor’s site, which is up and running, and buy their product or services instead. The reliability of your website hosting service becomes critical to being there for your customers, being able to meet their needs, and as a result, having a profitable business. Your reputation is likely to suffer if you are perceived as being unreliable. Few people want to use a business that they cannot count on being available to them when they need it. Your web hosting service provider will be your invisible partner to help you ensure that every time a customer looks online for your products or services, they have a satisfactory experience, and are able to get what they need from you.

What features should you look for in a reliable domain web hosting service? Constant monitoring, twenty four hours a day, seven days a week, is critically important. If your site is down, and you have 24/7 monitoring with your web host, someone will instantly know about the problem and be able to begin fixing it.  If there is no monitoring, and it crashes at midnight, it could easily be down for eight hours, losing who knows how many customers, before you even know there is a problem. Daily site backups are important, as well. If the server crashes, you will be able to restore to exactly how your site looked less than one day ago, and will not have lost much, if any, data.

The number of website hosting services has grown enormously and the increased competition has brought down the cost of website hosting quite considerably. There are even free hosting services these days that will cost you absolutely nothing. These free hosts may provide you with a limited amount of space and less options available but are worth considering if your site is fairly simple and only consists of a few pages. Free web hosting services do vary though, some may actually allow you more space than you ever need but with little or no technical support, or some may require you to place advertising on the sites for them.

For businesses a free web hosting is not applicable, simply because it’s expected to earn profit. It’s a good idea to shop around as there are many web hosts that provide different packages like; blog hosting, multiple domain hosting, budget hosting services and etc.

They’re antsy and edgy, tired of waiting for promotion opportunities at work as their elders put off retirement. A good number of them are just waiting for the economy to pick up so they can hop to the next job, find something more fulfilling and get what they think they deserve Oh, and they want work-life balance, too.

Sounds like Gen Y, the so-called “entitlement generation,” right? Not necessarily, say people who track the generations. In these hard times, they’re also hearing strong rumblings of discontent from Generation X. They’re the 32- to 44-year-olds who are wedged between baby boomers and their children, often feeling like forgotten middle siblings—and increasingly restless at work as a result.

“All of a sudden, we’ve gone from being the young upstarts to being the curmudgeons,” says Bruce Tulgan, a generational consultant who’s written books about various age groups, including his fellow Gen Xers.

This isn’t the first time Gen Xers have faced tough times. They came of age during a recession and survived the dot-com bust of 2000. In recent years, though, more members of the generation—stereotyped early on as jaded individualists—had families or began settling down in other ways. It was time, they thought, to enjoy the rewards of paying some dues.

“We were starting to buy into the system, at least to some extent,” Tulgan says, “and then we got the rug pulled out from under us.”

Now, in this latest recession, nearly two-thirds of baby boomer workers, ages 50 to 61, say they might have to push back their retirement, according to, a recent survey from Pew Research.