Who Is Hosting This

Like most things on the Web, hosting and hosting technology is constantly moving forward, improving every year and every month to be faster, more reliable and cheaper. But it is one of those technologies where, if you don’t stop and look around from time to time, you might miss some of the big changes. If [...]

The Westboro Baptist Church is best known for its controversial picketing of military funerals with anti-gay slogans and its recent contentious victory at the Supreme Court. The church has made a lot of enemies online. One of those is a “hacktivist” called “The Jester” or “th3j35t3r”. The hacker took it upon himself to silence the [...]

A friend of mine called me early in the morning: “Hey, can you check on my site? I think it’s down?” I had recently set up a new domain for him and was hosting it on my VPS. I’d shown him the ropes on how to maintain it. However, the request seemed odd. When he [...]

Everyone who has set up a website is familiar with the process of configuring their nameservers. They are the pair of subdomains provided by your host that directs those wanting to visit your domain on where to visit. Setting up nameservers usually only takes a few seconds and is, for the most part, a cut [...]

The recent disaster in Japan has highlighted two things: the vulnerability of infrastructure and just how critical it can be during difficult times. The Internet has become a vital means of getting information out to the masses, but it’s also a critical part of the economy of almost any modern nation. Internet access and Web [...]

If you build websites or are any good with computers, odds are you’ve been asked to help build, setup or maintain someone’s site. Whether it’s a family member, your boss or just a less-savvy friend, you need a way to explain hosting to someone who isn’t familiar with it. In order to create or maintain [...]

This site, which is hosted on a ServINT VPS, is hosted on Linux. If you have a site on a traditional Web host, it is almost certainly on Linux. Google uses over 15,000 Linux servers and, though marketshare analysis often varies, most agree that Linux, which is the predominant type of Unix, has an overwhelming [...]

Last week, Automattic, announced a new plugin for WordPress called Jetpack. The plugin is designed to bring many of the features offered by their WordPress.com hosted solution to those who wish to host their own installation of WordPress, including updated states, grammar checking and more. But Jetpack more than just a great plugin, it actually [...]

As much as I love CPanel and will continue to write about it, I have to admit that it is far from a perfect system. It’s great for webmasters, especially those without a lot of experience running a server, but it still has its fair share of shortcomings and gripes. With that in mind, here’s [...]

After months of searching and researching, you’ve found what you think is the perfect hosting deal. You held out, waited for the perfect sale and struck when the discounts were at their best. As a result, you’ve now got a hosting deal that seems almost too good to be true. But just hold your horses? [...]