The number of ways a server can be turned to evil by malicious attackers is enough to make even the laziest of webmasters put a lot of energy into security. However, despite their best efforts, a server’s security is always at risk because of one key fact: security is a joint effort between the account [...]
Nearly every major shared hosting provider offers some sort of reseller program. This includes Site5, Hostgator and SurpassHosting. The idea behind these hosting accounts is that you get a block of server space, usually for only a modest amount more than a traditional shared account, and you then turn around and resell that space to [...]
Buying a Web host is a lot like buying a used car. You don’t really know what you’re buying until you get a few hundred miles down the road with it. So how do you avoid buying a lemon with your hosting plan? It isn’t easy to say the least. The terminology alone is confusing [...]
Google Apps offers webmasters some pretty spiffy tools, such as email hosting for your domain, custom calenders, start pages and more. Even spiffier is that DreamHost has made integration and registration with Google Apps dead simple and can create neat subdirectories for the Google hosted content. Hurray! To get started using Google Apps with your [...]
Dreamhost is recognized as one of the top web hosts for good reason, they stand by their service and offer a money back guarantee. In case you haven’t heard, DreamHost offers the best (well, at least the longest) money back guarantee in the industry. With DreamHost, you get 97 days to decide whether you want [...]
When you opened a hosting account with Dreamhost, you were entitled to a free domain registration. Like many people, you may not have taken the offer and registered a domain at that time. Good news: If you didn’t take advantage of your free domain when you signed up, you can still redeem your free domain…and [...]