This sounds like a fairly basic question: “How many people visited my site yesterday?” However, despite appearances, it’s a surprisingly difficult request and one that a variety of companies, including Google, struggle to answer. There are a few technical and ideological challenges that sit between you and an accurate number for that query. Though many [...]
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? [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Recently, Hostgator has been very busy setting up additional companies that only make slight use of its big name. Last month I covered Site Auto Backup, a remote CPanel backup service the company started, and now I’m covering a new hosting identity for the company, SEO Hosting. However, SEO hosting is not just another shared [...]
A few very good reasons why you should use Google Apps over alternative services, and a quick guide to setting it up.
I didn’t get Twitter for a long time. I mean, the l-o-n-g-e-s-t time. Like many people, I damned it as just another time drain. I was delighted to be proved wrong when I saw some real world uses. One that captured my imagination was seeing how companies like Zappos and Dell were using Twitter to [...]
Many Content Management Systems (CMS), such as WordPress, create dynamically generated URLs. These URLs look something like this: http://example.com/page.php?id=1 Now, just looking at the link above you can’t possibly know what type of content is on the page. In contrast, look at this link: http://example.com/webhosting-for-beginners You have at least a general idea about the content [...]
I wanted to fancy-up our Twitter profile (@WhoIsHosting) with a custom look to match WhoIsHostingThis.com Within 20 minutes of Photoshopin� I had a background image ready for upload thanks to the following links: Check out this informative post from the CronCast blog, with dimensions and layout suggestions to create your own Twitter background. Or, if [...]
An interesting post and discussion titled “Ranking, SERPs, SEO Dead in 2009?” at Sitepoint got me thinking… Once upon a time, you could build a site about “foo”, fill it with invisible text containing the word “foo” and get in the top 10 results in the SE’s. Years later, if you could find enough pages [...]