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It might seem to be a small thing, but virtually every webmaster knows that verifying your site can be a tremendous pain. In an age with largely-automated CMSes and sites that practical run themselves, adding meta tags, hiding special HTML files or even editing DNS entries can be a confusing pain. However, for many different [...]

Overselling is one of the dirty secrets of the shared hosting industry. It is a fact that almost no customer can escape and a reality at virtually every hosting company, including all of the major players. Without it, the super-cheap prices shared hosting customers have come to expect would not be possible and the whole [...]

Network Solutions took another security hit earlier this month as a widget offered by its site Grow Smart Business, a site that is currently down for maintenance, was hacked and used to spread malware on anywhere up to 500,000 different domains. The hack was discovered by Wayne Huang of the Web application sercurity firm Armorize. [...]

If you run websites for long enough you will likely find that at some point, a host that started out as good begins to degrade, eventually becoming a host that is bad enough for you to want to move away. It isn’t a change that happens overnight. After all, a single incident of downtime could [...]

For the most part, we expect a Web host’s terms of service to be fairly straightforward. Don’t be a spammer, avoid any illegal content and don’t try to host a major site on an “unlimited” account and you should be fine. Unfortunately, it isn’t always that easy. Terms of service are not written for the [...]

WordPress is hands-down the most common application installed on most hosting accounts, especially shared hosting. Many major hosts have partnered with Automattic to highlight their WordPress-friendliness and many others have nice logos and graphics on their sites to indicate that they are WordPress-ready. But what do you really need out of a host to run [...]

We become aware of a malware infection affecting WhoIsHostingThis.com users a few hours ago. Our ad server, OpenX, was compromised and used to serve malware for several hours today. The malicious code was removed within minutes of our team becoming aware of the issue. The number of users we believe were at risk was low [...]

If you aren’t aware, WhoIsHostingThis is not only a great tool for finding out the host of a site; it’s also a collection of hosting reviews and hosting coupons that will help you find the best host and the best deal for your site. But, with over 30 coupons offered and more being added all [...]

Without a doubt, “cloud hosting” has become one of the great industry buzzwords over the past few years. Like all great buzzwords, it has morphed to mean a variety of different things but the core principle remains the same. Cloud hosting, more than anything, is a new kind of hosting architecture in which many different [...]

If there is one thing that every hosting customer fears more than unplanned downtime, it’s account termination. Most downtime is a temporary thing; barring some kind of tragic hardware failure, your host will likely be back online eventually, the only question is how long it will take. Account termination, however, is a permanent outage and, [...]