How To Backup With Plesk Control Panel Plesk is a hosting control panel but less well known than cpanel, which is not to say it is inferior, just different. Backing up your websites using Plesk is still a pretty simple process and after posting a video recently on how to back up using Cpanel, someone requested that [...]
Continue reading...8. May 2010
Having recently moved all of my sites to a KnownHost VPS it is time to expand a little on my experiences so far. Knownhost came highly recommended and after looking at several providers and shortlisting a handful based on features, reliability reports, price and general customer feedback, the final choice came down to the support and [...]
Continue reading...21. April 2010
KnownHost VPS – A Very Impressive Beginning web hosting is a funny animal. Not long ago I changed my hosting provider – I consider myself a pretty loyal customer if I feel I am getting value for money and have always believed it is a mistake to go cheap for any service, hosting or otherwise, or [...]
Continue reading...25. January 2010
web hosting explained for absolute beginners. It is easy to forget that the whole subject of web hosting is a complete mystery to many people and this video, covers the absolute basics, explaining in simple terms what web hosting is and the basic mechanics of how it works. Whilst most of our visitors are probably a [...]
Continue reading...12. January 2010
GVO Reviews – MK Hosting USA Reviews As mentioned in my last post I was about to move my hosting arrangements to another provider. I’m pleased to say that this has now been done over the course of the weekend and visitors should not have noticed any interruptions in service. So, after four years with GVO, [...]
Continue reading...12. January 2010
MK Hosting USA UPDATE Before reading this glowing review further please see the following links: MK Hosting Customer Reviews and this thread about MK Hosting USA at WebHostingTalk Unfortunately MK Hosting USA appear to be on the verge of failure and despite initial great impressions, we suggest that you do not consider them as a hosting provider. Currently [...]
Continue reading...8. January 2010
For a long time the sole platform option in hosting was between low- price shared servers or higher- cost dedicated servers. Now there is a sensible third choice – mid- priced Virtual Private Servers or VPS. Virtual is the key description here. A VPS offers most of the advantages of a dedicated server whilst actually running [...]
Continue reading...6. January 2010
I have been a customer of GVO for around four years, long before the recent face lift, when my hosting provider was a Canadian based company called Kiosk.ws headed up by an amiable and hands on guy called Joel Therien. A lot has happened in those four years and you can read my recent post about [...]
Continue reading...30. December 2009
We came across this video recently which explains how to host your own webpages from your home PC. This will enable you to host a site without the need to pay a hosting company and all the software used is free to download and use. We tried this ourselves and after a bit of fiddling around [...]
Continue reading...17. July 2009
Most webmasters and bloggers will start their online hosting careers with a shared hosting package. It is usually the best path for new sites unless a huge amount of traffic is expected because it is affordable and perfectly sufficient for those building their first site or blog. Shared hosting is a good thing and has enabled [...]
Continue reading...9. March 2009
Following on from my recent posts regarding the free web hosting experiment I recently conducted, I went information gathering for other people’s experiences and, as I have always suspected, there is a lot of bad news out there. The aim of this post is to prevent you from making an expensive mistake with the false economy [...]
Continue reading...13. December 2008
Honest hosting reviews: is there any such thing? There are plenty of people who will have you believe that there is not and some will go as far as discrediting virtually any hosting review website. As a site that obviously falls under that banner I thought I should address the issue here on these pages. Before [...]
Continue reading...6. December 2008
Lunar Pages basic hosting starts from only $4.95 per month with their latest offer but like our other featured hosting companies they offer a range of services including business hosting, reseller hosting, VPS, dedicated servers and more. All annual plans include a free domain. cpanel, Fantastico, Ruby on Rails and SSH access all come as [...]
Continue reading...7. October 2008
web hosting providers are in abundant supply. Learn what to watch for to avoid getting scammed. It’s hard to separate fact from fiction in advertising, and certainly no less so when dealing with web hosting providers. Bold, broad-sweeping claims are endlessly repeated in a shameless effort to keep you from reading the fine print. In an [...]
Continue reading...24. September 2008
Dedicated web hosting Has Many Advantages By Volodymyr Zablotskyy Compared to shared web hosting, it is more expensive to host your web site on a dedicated server. You may wonder why you would even think about using a dedicated web hosting solution. Well, there are many advantages to having your own dedicated server. There are several web [...]
Continue reading...17. September 2008
This article explains what is meant by the term “managed hosting”. Who should use it and what are the benefits? When the capacity and features of a shared server are no longer enough, you may want to consider moving to a dedicated server with managed hosting. Managed hosting solutions are relatively new, but worth checking out. [...]
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26. May 2010
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