Online shopping is is no more a trend it basic requirement these days unfortunately world’s most common and massively used payment gateway “Paypal” isnt available in Pakistan for years freelancers , companies , individuals have been waiting for paypal to initiate services in Pakistan but for some reason they dont want to .
so it isnt the end of world, there’s always an alternative i personally use MONEYBOOKERS and PAYONEER the best and o think only payment gateways currently working with Pakistani banks like a charm . You can use moneybookers to accept payments from online freelancing sites like odesk and can use payoneer there too . beside that you can shop online using moneybookers or payoneer too . Moneybookers is much cheaper thn paypal payoneer have fixed withdrawing fee while withdraws with moneybookers are 100% free . You can shop online like :
Buy Webhosting in Pakistan , clothes , gift , electronics and much more , payoneer is powered via Mastercard so you can use that on any site accepting mastercard for payments and you can upload / withdraw cash to your payoneer card via your bank account .

today i recieved this email from Odesk Customer Support :
“Hi %$%$,
The last few days have seen Pakistan hit by severe storms and floods, which may have directly affected you or your family. Please know that we are sending our best thoughts and well wishes to you during this difficult time.

We wanted to let you know that we have sent an email to your employers advising them of the situation in Pakistan and asking them to be patient as the flooding may have impacted your ability to work. Please do contact them as soon as possible to discuss your oDesk contracts – they may be concerned and would like to hear from you.”

now this shows Odesk really cares about its users , thanks Odesk i am from Pakistan fortunately my area isnt heavily effected by floods and i am working usually on contracts excepts download and upload speed of my wimax network is bit effected but i have alternative DSL link , i hope other odesk contractors or employers from Pakistan who are effected by this natural disaster will recover soon and will continue to boost the “Outsource to Pakistan” page’s weekly hourly map
once again thanks alot Odesk for your best wishes and concerns .
if you are freelancer and want to offer web development , graphic designing , data entry , software development services , Checkout odesk.com , its best portal for service providers and employers to select the best service provider from the talent pool .

i signed up with webthosting for their cpanel shared web hosting package , outlook of their website looks impressive but its all useless , i signed up for account and i got cpanel access instantly i was happy with their services for first 2-3 days , on 4th day i received down time notice email ,

it was 2-3 hours down time , i thought its all cool no worries , but few days later they sent me same email and this time down time lasted for few days , i wasnt able to login to my cpanel too during this time . i have been playing with many web hosts some are over selling but i think none of them have such irritating down time periods . every week they have to warn about some errors / malfunctions / hacks attempts etc etc …
so if you are looking for a good web hosting my sincere advice is “please Stay Away From WebThosting ”

some major reasons to stay away from webthosting :
1.no live technical support
2.new company , no good history
3.irritating downtimes every day
4.unsafe / risky servers
5.they offer ffmpeg but its limited to less than 100 second upload limit like if you want to upload a big video which will take more than 100 seconds to upload ,then ffmpeg on webthosting will disallow that .
6.non-friendly support
7.cpanel panel login url gets changed every week

if you have more to say about webthosting please do share your thoughts in comment section .

which site is good for you to find work or find a provider ? odesk or elance , lets  review both sites below and compare the features , i am freelancing for almost 6-7 years  , there are few renowned websites known for outsourcing like Odesk , getacoder , getafreelancer ( now freelancer ) and Elance  there are some other too like scriptlance , rent a coder , ilance etc etc but if you compare traffic stats you will definately dropdown to these two   , so which one is better ?

Free

i regularly use both odesk and elance to find projects , Elance isnt completely free for providers which isnt  catchy  for any new provider to signup at all ,while Odesk is 100% free for providers but theres limited quota of 20 Bids per week for average provider there which i think is good idea to keep odesk spam free  ,  there are always fresh job postings on both sites but through buyer’s perspective if he/she will post a job on odesk candidate list will be around 10-30 same posting on elance will only render 5-10 applicants so it will give buyer less choices and talents to select best provider .

Profile Pages

now lets checkout provider profile pages , Odesk profile pages are much smoother , through the point and clean while elance prodile pages look bit boaring . if you dont have  attractive feedback there chances are low you can get job there when your competitor have high feedback , in this context on odesk if you have good portfolio and less or no feedbacks you can still prove your presence to buyers there .

General popularity

Popularity wise i think both websites are at same stage , both websites are featured in  media many times .

SEo rankings

seo wise Elance got edge , elance is ahead of odesk for popular searched keyowrds like “ find web developer” ,  ”find a freelancer”  .

Payment and Withdraws

Payment wise odesk is superb elance doesnt support withdraws via moneybookers , which is very depressing as many Asian countries which are marked as top outsourcing destinations like Pakistan , Philippines etc dont have paypal and service providers of these countries vastly use Moneybookers .

will share more comparisons soon if you want to share some likes / dislikes of any of these sites please comment below .