At Google’s IO Conference earlier this month, the company announced its new Google Storage for Developers service, a cloud-based storage solution designed to directly compete with Amazon S3 and Rackspace Cloud. With Google, the largest Web host in terms of the number of servers, getting into the cloud hosting game, it certainly is a major [...]
A major WordPress hack has hit Go Daddy, Bluehost and Media Temple customers. The cause is unclear, but it’s an ongoing problem. Some users report similar problems with their Joomla and ZenCart installs. About the Hack The hack appears to have originated at the hosting provider level; hackers seem to have been able to infiltrate multiple accounts [...]
Recently, Hostgator has been very busy setting up additional companies that only make slight use of its big name. Last month I covered Site Auto Backup, a remote CPanel backup service the company started, and now I’m covering a new hosting identity for the company, SEO Hosting. However, SEO hosting is not just another shared [...]
WordPress is far and away the most popular blogging platform for self-hosted blogs and, as such, frequently comes under attack from a variety of source. This includes malware authors looking for an easy way to distribute viruses, spammers wanting to insert garbage links and identity thieves wanting to place tracking tools on your visitor’s computers. [...]
During my day job as a copyright and plagiarism consultant, one of my biggest and most common challenges involves handling spam blogs that are scraping content from users and posting it across the Web for illicit SEO benefit. It is a tough job that doesn’t always go very smoothly, but it is far and away [...]
So you want to buy an SSL certificate, or move away from your host’s shared SSL certificate, but you’re intimidated by the prospect of having to install a certificate on your server. Don’t be. If you have CPanel/Web Host Manager (WHM) running on your server, installing a custom SSL certificate is actually very easy, and [...]
One-click installs are a feature you can find on almost any shared Web host. They’re designed to make it easy to install some of the most common scripts used in hosting accounts including WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, phpBB and Cube Cart. The process takes only one click and a few minutes of patience while the script [...]
In April I wrote about a new service by Hostgator I had registered for, Site Auto Backup (SAB). At the time, I was too new to the service to offer much of a review but, with my first month done and my second payment having been made, I definitely have a perspective on the service [...]
Most Web sites have a lot of content that they have to host somewhere. Whether you operate a shopping cart, a blog or something else altogether, even small sites have to find places for their core files, theme elements, images, audio, video and other media content. Previously, all of that content was hosted on the [...]
Most web hosts offer dedicated IPs as part of their hosting packages. Even if a dedicated IP isn’t part of the deal, you can normally buy dedicated IPs for a monthly fee on top of your subscription. Should you buy one? There’s a lot of debate around dedicated IPs and the pros and cons of [...]