If you were once a customer or user of the blog host Blogetery, you aren’t now. On July 9th the site, along with the 73,000 blogs it hosted, disappeared, never to return. It was something of a murder mystery for the Internet. Initially, the site’s host, BurstNet wasn’t making matters any easier and was effectively [...]
If you’re going to host your own .com website, you need two things: A hosting account and a domain. Though we’ve already talked at great length about warning signs when buying a hosting account, precious little has been said about how to avoid getting burned when buying a domain. Though domains are usually significantly cheaper [...]
Your site is down. You realize that you need to contact support and you visit your host’s contact page. There, you are faced with a decision: Do you reach for the telephone and give them a call? Or do you send them an email/file a trouble ticket? Most people find talking to a human being [...]
It has happened to nearly every hosting customer at some point. You’re researching a host and visiting their “Why Us” page or some other page with information about the company. There they talk about how they run a “Tier 3″ or “Tier 2″ data center with no explanation about what that means. Though hosting geeks [...]
When it comes to hosting, most customers have an expectation of certain features. They know how many GBs of storage and transfer they have, the various languages that their hosting account can support and how many databases they can create. In short, all of the things they need to power a website. However, hosting has [...]
WordPress is one of, if not the single, most popular applications hosting customers install on their servers. Not only is it an incredibly popular blogging platform, but it is also a well-respected CMS and is used to manage a large number of sites, even those that aren’t blogs. Nearly every major host, especially those who [...]
While it is true that “the cloud” is not a place in the physical world but merely a buzzword for making stuff available for access via the Web, everything that exists in the cloud also exists somewhere in the physical world as well, or, in the case of content delivery networks, in multiple places in [...]
Does your host have a blog? Surprisingly, many don’t. A blog is an excellent, free and easy way for a host to stay in contact with their clients at times other than when a trouble ticket is filed. It’s a chance to put a more human face on the company, let clients see what goes [...]
It has long been established that downtime is a fact of life for pretty much any Web host. Even Wikipedia, which operates two datacenters, suffered an extended period of downtime earlier this month. Though a good host will certainly keep downtime to a minimum, you can tell even more about the quality of a host [...]
CPanel is far and away the most common control panel used by Web hosts large and small. this includes companies such as Hostmonster, Bluehost, Site 5 and Midphase just to name a few. CPanel is so common because it is incredibly reliable, secure and easy to use. It’s a control panel that even the greenest [...]