January 19th, 2010 . by Jonathan
WordPress is far and away the most popular blogging platform for bloggers running their domains. It is free, powerful, stable and well-understood by most in the blogging community. However, those who do know it also know it can be rather difficult to host at times. A dynamic platform running on PHP, it can crush servers [...]
January 14th, 2010 . by Jonathan
What do Miles Davis, Jamie Kennedy and Dane Cook have in common? That’s right: Squarespace. Confused? Let me explain… Though first founded in 2003, Squarespace has been attracting a lot of attention more recently. Simply put, Squarespace is an entire hosted blogging platform that, like WordPress or any other CMS, allows you to easily set [...]
January 12th, 2010 . by Jonathan
Abuse policies are one thing that few hosts publicize. They are usually kept quiet, buried in the footer of a host’s site or footnotes in the lengthy legal agreement users sign. Host don’t want you to see them, read them or think about them. But they should. These abuse agreements are the tools that hosts [...]
January 8th, 2010 . by Jonathan
Nearly every major shared hosting provider offers some sort of reseller program. This includes Site5, Hostgator and SurpassHosting. The idea behind these hosting accounts is that you get a block of server space, usually for only a modest amount more than a traditional shared account, and you then turn around and resell that space to [...]