In the hosting industry, Mike Witty (right – picture via blog.servint.net/) has one of the more varied jobs imagineable. As Director of Network Compliance at Servint, a VPS host that powers this site and many others, Mike is responsible for handling abuse complaints, overseeing security and making sure that the company complies with all relevant [...]
Everyone who has ever had a bad hosting account knows that it is a rough ride. No one likes being uncertain whether their site is up or down or wondering how long it will take to load. However, many wonder what the big deal is, especially for sites that aren’t particularly well-trafficked. A few hours [...]
Moving just about anything, be it yourself to a new house or your site to a new server, can be a tremendous pain. We’re always looking for a little bit of help when it comes to moving and whether its moving companies that specialize in transporting your belongings or site migration services provided by new [...]
The big day has come and it’s time to move to a shiny new hosting account. Whether you’re upgrading to a larger account to handle your traffic, getting away from a bad host or simply getting a better deal, you probably want to make the move go as smoothly as possible. However, everyone has heard [...]
Most bloggers and other hosting customers seem to be pretty happy with their host. However, if you’re among the minority who are not, you need to ask yourself the question: Why am I staying here? Whether you’re fed up with slow servers, too much downtime, bad support, high prices or just not happy with what [...]
No matter what you may think about it, GoDaddy.com is one of the few Internet brands that people who don’t spend all day on the Web immediately recognize. It’s up there with Google, Yahoo and other giant companies of the Web, at least in terms of recognition, and it is one of just two brands [...]
If you were looking for domain hosting in the mid-to-late 90′s, there was one hosting feature that every host was promoting: Server-Side Includes (SSI). In a time where many sites were still built using raw HTML code and the main choice was whether to use a visual or a text-based HTML editor, SSI added a [...]
The Internet is filled with great rivalries. Digg vs. Reddit. Apple vs. Microsoft. Facebook vs. Myspace. Sadly, there are very few good ways to settle them. After all, which side you come down on is usually a matter of personal taste and not something that can really be based on fact. However, one site dares [...]
If you’ve only been a hosting customer for the past few years, you probably take a lot of features for granted that those who have been around for longer do not. Web hosting, like all technology-based industries, is a very fast moving one and the hosting accounts that users purchased just five to ten years [...]
If you run a Web service, or even just a network of popular sites, you know how difficult but important it can be to communicate with your visitors any technical issues that you might have. If a site goes down, you likely get barraged with emails from well-intended (or angry) visitors letting you know about [...]