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Pop Quiz: How fast does your site load? Under ten seconds? What about five? Does it make it there in two? One? Don’t know? You should! A fast site should be one of your top priorities. It’s one of the easiest ways to ensure that you get more visitors and that they stick around longer. [...]

What do Miles Davis, Jamie Kennedy and Dane Cook have in common? That’s right: Squarespace. Confused? Let me explain… Though first founded in 2003, Squarespace has been attracting a lot of attention more recently. Simply put, Squarespace is an entire hosted blogging platform that, like WordPress or any other CMS, allows you to easily set [...]

Abuse policies are one thing that few hosts publicize. They are usually kept quiet, buried in the footer of a host’s site or footnotes in the lengthy legal agreement users sign. Host don’t want you to see them, read them or think about them. But they should. These abuse agreements are the tools that hosts [...]

It’s one of the most frustrating hosting-related problems, especially for a small business. You go to send legitimate email, whether its personal, business or a legitimate mailing list, and find that much of it either bounces back as spam or is promptly placed in the recipient’s junk folder. As both human beings and legitimate marketers, [...]

Changing web hosts is always a pain. Even if you just run a basic blog using WordPress or MovableType, you have to first copy all of your files, move your database(s), check to make sure your permissions are ok, check your account settings, edit your host file, test the new site out and then point [...]

There’s only one thing worst than hosting problems – having to move web host. If you’re having issues with your current host, you should always try to sort them out first; only pack up and leave after an attempt at cooperation has failed. If your site is experiencing one of the problems below, try talking [...]

A host/client relationship is a partnership. Yes, the client is the one paying the host the money and, yes, the host has a lot of responsibilities over the server, the network and site itself, but, as a client, you have responsibilities and duties as well. Even the best Web host can not adequately serve a [...]

If you’ve read the previous post about how to choose web hosting, you may well decideto move to a VPS. However, choosing a VPS to host your site is not as simple as picking a shared or even a grid host. There are a lot of new terms and variables to consider. In addition to [...]

Web servers are a prime target for hackers, not to mention the risk of accidents and natural catastrophes. Even if you think your website is too obscure to attract attention, remember that viruses and bots scan IP ranges for vulnerable computers to infect. Even home PCs are under attack from the second they connect to [...]

The vast majority of Web hosting accounts you can purchase are managed. All shared hosting accounts, including GoDaddy, Hostgator, Dreamhost and so on are managed, meaning that the user does not have root access to their server and the host itself is responsible for maintaining the software that runs the account including the operating system, [...]