Most people who get a brand-new VPS or dedicated server soon realize that they have way more hosting account than they really need, at least on a day-to-day basis. That means room to spare to your friends and family, right? So, without a second thought, you agree to take a few of them on your [...]
Barely a week ago I attended OpenCamp Dallas 2010, my talk there was on copyright and licensing issues but I also spent a great deal of time talking to other bloggers about an issue close to my heart: their hosting. With Neospire Hosting and Layered Tech being a major sponsor of the event, it was [...]
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. [...]
One of the greatest debates among those seeking Web hosting is whether they should go with a large Web hosting company, possibly with millions of Web sites, or choose a smaller company, possibly a startup. There are perceived benefits and drawbacks of each but many of those are simply widely-believed falsehoods. The decision is a [...]
I had my first major run-in with social media in June 2005. Slashdot had picked up a controversial story I had just written and it was flung onto the front page. Though it was a huge success in terms of getting attention and new readers to my site, it was a complete disaster for my [...]
Shared hosting can be very cheap. If your demands are not very high, you can likely find a host that will gladly give your site a home for just a few dollars a month. However, you’ll probably have to pay several months, even a year or more, up front to get the good rates, and because [...]
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 [...]
Money is tight and everyone is looking for ways to cut corners. Whether you’re hosting an established site or just wanting to test the waters with a new one, everyone is looking to save a few dollars on hosting. However, no one wants to sacrifice speed or power. Cheap hosting that doesn’t doesn’t provide good [...]
Previously, I likened choosing a web host to buying a car. You can do all of the research you want, but you don’t actually know what you bought until you’ve driven it around for a while. Like cars, many hosts that seem like deals turn out to be “lemons” – while others that look like [...]
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 [...]