If you’re a citizen of the United States, there’s little doubt that you are at least aware of the recent health care legislation that was passed. But no matter how you feel about the law, it is going to affect your life in one way or another. However, many of the impacts it will have [...]
Almost everyone has their own top list of Web hosting companies. Some are editor-driven, others are user-driven; some are based on popularity, others are based on reviews. However, they all tend to focus on larger, better-known companies that are widely respected in the field. With that in mind, I’ve visited half a dozen different sites [...]
Unless you are a customer on No Support Linux Hosting or use a similarly unmanaged solution, you probably sleep better at night knowing that you are backed up by a full support team, 24/7 and that you can ask questions whenever something goes wrong. However, even the fastest, most responsive support team can not fix [...]
To the visitor, all content delivery networks operate the same way. Edge locations across the globe provide critical content to them at a great accelerated pace due to their proximity. However, to the webmaster, they often work in radically different ways. The biggest difference to weigh is whether or not the CDN is a “Push” [...]
Amazon offers a wide variety of Web services, including everything from database hosting to entire servers hosted in the cloud. However, most Webmasters only find themselves considering one of the two, Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) or Amazon Cloudfront. Though the two services have a great deal of overlap, Cloudfront is actually built on top [...]
At 7:30 CST one morning earlier this month, I was awoken by my phone ringing. It was Techout, my site monitoring service, informing me of an outage at my main URL. Thinking it was just a false alarm or a simple need to reboot Apache, I leapt out of bed and headed to my computer. [...]
The vast majority of Web hosting companies tout their support proudly on their front page. Hostgator, for example, proudly lists “24/7/365 Technical Support” as one of its bullet point features. Site5 takes it a bit further and touts “Amazing Support – Always Friendly & Helpful”. Finally, LiquidWeb, refers to it as “Heroic Support” with “24x7x365 [...]
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 [...]
Quickly, what is the uptime guarantee that your host provides? Is it 99%? 99.9%? Or 99.99%? The correct answer is: It doesn’t matter. Though uptime guarantees feature prominently in hosting advertising, including being splashed in big letters on home pages, they rarely, if ever, pay out. Though I’ve already talked about uptime guarantees, it is [...]
Mac vs. PC. IPhone vs. Android. Firefox vs. Chrome. Plesk vs. CPanel All are great examples of debates that send the geekier among us either into rampant fanboyism or into a flame war depending on who is having the conversation. However, if you are just looking to host your site, don’t care about the cult [...]