When it comes to hosting, most customers have an expectation of certain features. They know how many GBs of storage and transfer they have, the various languages that their hosting account can support and how many databases they can create. In short, all of the things they need to power a website. However, hosting has [...]
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 [...]
Odds are you’ve seen the banner ads. Godaddy is offering SSL certificates for just $12.95 per year, a steep discount from the $29.99 usually charged for one year and the $49.99 that is more common in the industry. This has caused many webmasters, especially those running low-end e-commerce sites, to consider getting an SSL certificate [...]
One-click installs are a feature you can find on almost any shared Web host. They’re designed to make it easy to install some of the most common scripts used in hosting accounts including WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, phpBB and Cube Cart. The process takes only one click and a few minutes of patience while the script [...]
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, [...]
If you use a VPS or a dedicated server, you most likely have some form of control panel installed to help make management a little bit easier. If that’s the case, odds are better than average you’re using CPanel. While it is no substitute for SSHing into your site and managing things directly, it can [...]
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 [...]
One of the factors I research when shopping for web hosting is what kind of control panel for domain management they use. Plesk, ensim, and Direct Admin are common web administration packages used by webhosts with cPanel being the one I see advertised most. Some web hosts, like DreamHost, use their own proprietary web panel. [...]