Who Is Hosting This

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 [...]

For some time now on this site I’ve been warning users about the dangers of unlimited hosting and how such accounts were never truly “unlimited” but rather, are only “unlimited” until an account begins to interfere with the server. While that limitation is widely understood within the hosting community, it now has a new poster [...]

W3 Total Cache, previously covered here, has released version .9 (technically, as of this writing, .9.1.1) which adds new features and fixes several of the bugs and gripes users had with the previous release. According to the changelog, over 35 new features and fixes were added into version .9, not counting some additional 10 changes [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Just weeks after Amazon announced its new reduced reliability storage service, the company has once again shaken up the cloud hosting field again, this time with a series of upgrades to its Cloudfront service. The new additions include a new edge location, this one in New York City, a 25% drop in price for HTTP [...]

Those who had accounts at 3FN recently received a shock when they found that their hosting accounts were completely down. However, it wasn’t a server error, network interruption or even a natural disaster that took the host down, it was the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which won a permanent injunction against the host in April, [...]

Even as Google enters the cloud storage fray, Amazon, the industry stalwart and runaway leader, is not taking the matter lying down. Even before Google could finish its announcement Amazon made one of its own, saying that it was offering a new form of storage for its S3 product, this one cheaper though, by design, [...]

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 [...]

If you are a user of self-installed WordPress on Godaddy, Bluehost, Media Temple and other services, there is a decent chance that your site has been hacked and, worse yet, you may not know about it. Though what exactly caused the hack remains unclear, it does not appear, at this time, to be a vulnerability [...]