A website is a great engagement tool

First and foremost, a website enables you to connect and interact with your fans, so that they can easily find your music and easily buy your music. In addition to this, it produces a platform whereby events can be announced, people can interact with each other, and new fans can be able to find you. With these great features, the fan base will eventually increase, and thus form a great way to earn resources through your music online. Furthermore, technology has proven to be a vital component in all music industries these days. People are heavily relying on sites to aid in their businesses. It would be a bad idea if the musicians today miss out on what technology has to offer. Social media profiles are nice but you need to direct your fans to your website to make them subscribe to your mailing list and send them newsletters to ask them to reward you for your music. In short, a website is the first door to outside world for a musician, band or a label.

It shows you are serious about what you do

It is widely known that a website is normally branded with a domain name, and personalized email. It is important for musicians to appear focused and serious. This way one can get to contact important people without being portrayed as a fake or worse yet; unserious. A website will have personalized information, pictures and video available to everyone out there therefore proving that the musician is absolutely passionate about his/her music and that he/she is serious.  In addition to this, domain names provide security to identity fraud since they cannot be copied as opposed to user pages and accounts. Also, it allows you to have an email address with your music project or band name. Artglider offers free website templates, unlimited pages, unlimited pictures, unlimited traffic and bandwidth for musicians and bands who wants to start their own websites.

Your website is your story, your playground

Another importance of owning a website is the fact that the musician is able to customize the page’s design and therefore control what the fans see. This is opposed to simple pages from social networking sites which are all similar in design and user experience. With a website, a musician can communicate his/her feelings to his fans by way of customizing the design of the site. This way, every user gets an idea of the musician’s personality or a band’s character. In fact, websites can also have blogs which enable the fans to get immersed in the experiences of the musician. This therefore means that there will never be any unwanted ads, there will never be any interferences when your fans view the website.

Today’s world simply proves that there is no excuse not to have a website. Websites have become the new way of meeting people, interact with them, let them buy from you and most importantly, listen to music. Websites connects people with their wants and needs. So give your fans what they need and start your website today.

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You have your own fully customized and active website just in a few very simple steps and in a few minutes. You can choose from these beautiful website templates that are designed for artists, bands and labels and make your online presence memorable and your fans to feel comfortable browsing through your content. With these free webite templates from Artglider, you can modify the page the page names and your own data and keep your website running in a few minutes.

Our web hosting plans comes with free domains, unlimited pages, unlimited web space and unlimited bandwidth. You can upload as many pictures or music as many pages as you wish. Use one of our many tools to stay in touch with your fans your own way: you might create an elegant and beautiful website with a blog, modify titles and content of your pages, simply unleash your creativity and customize it all to your and your fans’ taste.

Artglider offers free website templates that are easy to create and will make a real difference to all fans and potential fans visiting you online. Reach your website’s full potential with choosing from a variety of free templates and your fans will understand that you care about them as well as about your music.

We have pretty website templates designed for musicians, bands and labels. You preview and download them here. (You need to be an Artglider hosting client to download them). The templates comes with the installation files and a how to guide explaining the easy steps.

If you have another project which isn’t music related, we have also solutions for you. Inside your Control Panel we have added more than 300 Templates and you can use them various purposes.

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30 Days Money Back Guarantee

If you are dissatisfied with our website hosting offerings for any reason, we will refund your hosting expenses in the first 30 days after your sign up. Contact us and receive full refund. Please, bear in mind that domain name registrations are final and non-refundable. As adjustments are no longer allowed after a registration request is submitted, double check for correct spelling before buying a website domain name.

%99 Network Uptime Guarantee

Another guarantee of ours is about keeping your music websites up and running. Your websites will be online at least 99.9% of the time. But please notice that this guarantee doesn’t include the situations that we don’t have control over such as bad web applications uploaded by the user, problems with subscribers’ domain names they bought from any other company and breakdowns. Artglider grants you 99.9% network uptime and server stability but please notice that we may rarely have Scheduled Downtime to upgrade our service, in that case you will be informed minimum 24-hour in advance.

One Hour Response Guarantee

We reply to any website hosting ticket in 60 minutes and average reply time is 25 minutes. We also have phone and email support. We have a nice article about the support system which you can find here.

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Artglider guarantees 24/7 website hosting support available 365 days per year. Support is available via our online Contact Us form, via our phone lines and live chat, and the webhosting control panel integrated ticketing system.

If you need website support, you can contact us immediately any time from the Support Page or just inside your web hosting control panel.

We reply the tickets in 60 minutes.
Each website hosting ticket is replied to within no more than 60 minutes after it has been opened. 24/7 Ticketing support with 25 minutes average reply time. Please create a ticket within your hosting Control Panel whenever you need help.

We are on the phone when you need us.
Two USA telephone website support lines are available from 4am to 8pm PST where we answer all the calls from all the countries. Additional UK and Australia telephone support lines are now available.

We quickly reply your emails.
Besides tickets and phone lines, you can simply send an email to us.

We are there all the time in the support channels, but most probably you will find all the answers you are looking for by yourself. If you need to find anything in the hosting Control Panel, the very first step you should take is to press the Help button, which is visible on each and every page. A context menu will appear. We made lots of video tutorials as well. Just go to your control panel and watch our how to videos. Besides the Frequently Asked Questions in the main site, you will find dozens of more questions with their answers in your Control Panel.

Weather you like DIY or via assistance, Artglider is the best web hosting service for musicians, labels and music people. If you don’t have your hosting account, sign up with Artglider today.

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Also, you can set up email forwarding, activate email filters, create auto-reply messages and enable anti-spam protection.

What is better is to create an email account takes less than 20 seconds with Artglider.

Click “Email” tab in your Hosting Control Panel. Click “Create a New Email Account” in the page and a pop-up window will appear. Just name the mail address, set up a password, if you like type a forwarding email address if you want to reply your email from another email client like Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail. Click “Create” and it’s done.

Here you can find detailed information about the handy Email Manager.

After creating your email you can reply to them inside your Control Panel or you can connect them to a mail clients like Thunderbird, Mac Mail and Windows Live Mail. What is more better is you can direct them to popular mail service like Gmail, Yahoo or Outlook.

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