Archives for January 2008
Web Hosting for Non Profits
In the fight for web hosting prowess many hosting companies have gotten smart and offer free hosting accounts to non-profits. Some ask for nothing in exchange for the free hosting accounts, while others insist on a text-link or banner ad to be displayed advertising the host’s price and features. If you run a non-profit group […]
Go Daddy Review
When it comes to domain names there is no single company with more name recognition than GoDaddy.com. From their controversial super bowl ads to their cheap domain names, Go Daddy has proven to be the one to beat. Go Daddy was the first registrar to sell domain names for less than ten dollars. But, since […]
Choosing a Domain Name
There are thousands of new domain names registered every day. The most common thing I hear from first time website owners is that their domain name is already taken. Nonsense, I say. With a bit of creativity and keyword research I can usually help them choose a better domain name than the one they had […]
Website Monitoring Services
One of the worst feelings in the world is to go to your website to find that your website is down. With shared hosting this can happen quite frequently and all too often you will not be told why or when it even happened. Many times it is caused by “security updates” or “fixes” on […]
Switching Web Hosting Companies
At some point in time most people become fed up with their current hosting provider and set out to move to a new hosting company. Many people do not realize how much work is involved with moving a website from one web host to another. Since I just finished moving a few dozen websites I […]
Dedicated IP
Many times when you sign up for web hosting you don’t know what features you need until it’s too late. For instance, I was helping my Aunt build a website to sell her homemade aprons and handicrafts. She had purchased web hosting before talking to me and later discovered that her host did not offer […]
PLESK Control Panel Software
Every web hosting service comes with some type of control panel software to make managing the account easier. Some hosting companies have chosen to build their own control panel software from scratch like iPowerweb and the vDeck panel. But, most hosting companies use one of the big 3 control panel software solutions PLESK, cPanel or Helm. I have used […]
Netfirms Free Host Review
Yesterday I got a phone call from a little old lady that had a website for her clogging group in the midwest. She had designed the one page website using iDesign on her iMac computer. The website looked professional and was very well thought out. She wanted me to recommend a different hosting company because […]
Wordpress - King of Blogs
The face of web hosting has changed over the past decade. Blogs are the new vehicle for people to share their thoughts and pictures on the web. When I ask people I meet if they have a website, most reply “Nope, but I have a blog”. Many people don’t realize that a blog is a […]
Softlayer Dedicated Servers
Today I finished transferring the last of my websites to my new dedicated server on Softlayer. Many of my friends tried to convince me to choose other dedicated server hosts like RackSpace, FastServers and The Planet. I had heard of the new company Softlayer from a friend who had just signed up at Rackspace. I […]
