Who Is Hosting This

When it comes to hosting and setting up a website, many people focus almost entirely on the technical skills one needs to keep things running smoothly. At the very least, a webmaster needs to know how to use a computer and how the Internet works, right? Only sort of. Thanks to CPanel, WordPress and a [...]

If you are in a typical shared hosting environment, there are a lot of limitations on what you can do with your site and your server. Though you can add domains, install PHP and other scripts and generally upload things to your site, you can’t make any actual changes to your server. If a script [...]

The hosting industry is always in flux. New companies enter the fray every day and old ones are constantly leaving, either by being sold off or changing what they offer. As well as the stalwarts such as Hostgator, Dreamhost and GoDaddy, there are thousands of smaller companies in the market, some of which have been [...]

If your website is running slowly or inconsistently, it can be very frustrating trying to understand why. Tools such as Pingdom’s full page site test, which provide a very thorough and detailed overview of site performance, can be a bit overwhelming. There’s also the risk that, to the inexperienced eye, the results can be misleading. [...]

For webmasters and those setting up hosting accounts, the issue of security is an ever-present problem. There are so many security holes to watch out for, both easy mistakes and serious risks. Those running websites have to be constantly vigilant to keep their sites as safe as possible. This causes many hosting customers to scrutinise [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

CPanel is probably the best-known and most common control panel used by web hosts to enable their customers to quickly and easily manage their accounts. Nearly every major host uses CPanel, though it’s often well hidden underneath a clever skin. There’s a better than average chance your account has it. The reason for CPanel’s popularity [...]

If you run a website long enough, the day is going to come where you need to ask your support team for some kind of assistance. Whether your site is down, you need help fixing some kind of error or you need a new feature enabled, you’ll have to file a support ticket and get [...]

If you do Web development long enough, whether professionally or just as a hobby, you’ll probably find yourself building a website for someone with a lot less experience than you. It could be a client, a favor to a friend or perhaps even a gift for a family member. You’ll get it all started and [...]