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Home Hosting: The Pro’s and Con’s

August 18th, 2009 . by Jonathan

James Rolfe – better known as the Angry Video Game Nerd – recently had a bit of a hosting problem. After installing WordPress, he found that his previous host was unable to sustain the load. After several crashes he moved the site to a new host and, after a “Twilight Zone” period where two versions [...]

5 Signs You’re a Bad Hosting Customer

August 10th, 2009 . by Jonathan

A host/client relationship is a partnership. Yes, the client is the one paying the host the money and, yes, the host has a lot of responsibilities over the server, the network and site itself, but, as a client, you have responsibilities and duties as well. Even the best Web host can not adequately serve a [...]

How to Choose a VPS

August 4th, 2009 . by Jonathan

If you’ve read the previous post about how to choose web hosting, you may well decideto move to a VPS. However, choosing a VPS to host your site is not as simple as picking a shared or even a grid host. There are a lot of new terms and variables to consider. In addition to [...]