For the most part, we expect a Web host’s terms of service to be fairly straightforward. Don’t be a spammer, avoid any illegal content and don’t try to host a major site on an “unlimited” account and you should be fine. Unfortunately, it isn’t always that easy. Terms of service are not written for the [...]
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 [...]
If you’re going to host your own .com website, you need two things: A hosting account and a domain. Though we’ve already talked at great length about warning signs when buying a hosting account, precious little has been said about how to avoid getting burned when buying a domain. Though domains are usually significantly cheaper [...]
Web hosting is a highly-competitive industry. With thousands of hosts, not counting resellers, all vying for a limited number of customers, it can be a very cutthroat industry with low prices, slim margins and, at times, downright sneaky marketing tactics. Many Web hosting companies, including many legitimate and major players in the field have taken [...]
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, [...]
In April I wrote about a new service by Hostgator I had registered for, Site Auto Backup (SAB). At the time, I was too new to the service to offer much of a review but, with my first month done and my second payment having been made, I definitely have a perspective on the service [...]
Hostgator recently announced a new site backup service aimed at users of CPanel and WHM. The service, named Site Auto Backup, aims to give CPanel users a low-cost automated backup solution that is off-site and updated daily. Priced at $1.95 per month for the first GB of storage and $1 for every GB beyond that, [...]
Do you know how to recover if disaster strikes your web hosting setup? In summer of 2006 I had just set up my site on its first VPS host. It had been a rocky start and it came with some adjustment. However, things had been moving fairly smoothly for a week or two and it [...]
Over the past few months Dreamhost has been cracking down on customers who have been using large chunks of their web hosting space for their own personal files that have nothing to do with web sites. According to the Dreamhost August Newsletter: Now, you know how we give out a LOT of disk space with [...]
In a previous post I explained DreamHost’s “Snapshot Back-ups” — which are pretty spiffy. But did you know that you can backup your entire DreamHost account with one click? Just log into your web panel under Home > Backup Your Account. Push the shiny button to request a complete account backup of your entire DreamHost [...]