Category Archives: Hosting
Mar 30, 2009 by Matt | Posted in Hosting
Millions of people who blog don’t want to deal with hosting their blog themselves, so they use a blogging service instead. There are many things that factor into the choice of blogging service, but one of them should always be site reliability. After all, if people can’t access your blog, it won’t get read.
Though services like Blogger, WordPress.com, and TypePad don’t give you as much control over your blog as you would have hosting it on your own (paid) hosting account, their uptime is quite impressive.
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Dec 10
Since I’ve been planning on moving to a VPS server sometime in the coming months, I’ve been reading up on server administration. How to set up Linux to serve web pages and parse PHP, how to not leave the door wide open to attackers,…
Dec 5
A recent study conducted by Pingdom shows that Linux and Mac servers have a lot less downtime than those running a Microsoft OS. The data is based off the uptime of the individual companies’ websites. Apple, Microsoft, Red Hat, Slackware, and the others listed…
Sep 19
I know I’m going to outgrow my current shared hosting plan someday, so I figured I might as well be prepared for that eventuality. While I don’t want to go and pay 4-5 times the monthly rate I’m currently paying before I absolutely have…
Aug 22
“Who is hosting this?” is a tool that lets you enter a domain name and see who hosts the site. Kind of fun to play with, and a useful research tool if you’re in the market for a web host. The makers of the…
Jun 4
One day you’ll outgrow your $5 a month shared hosting account and need more resources to cope with all the Digg front page stories and StumbleUpon successes in addition to your large amount of search engine traffic. Or maybe your site is still fine…
Apr 25
I was stumbling around yesterday, and I found this interesting site: RetailMeNot.com is a big database of online coupon codes. They even have a large collection of codes for web hosts. I’m sure there are other areas of the site that may be beneficial…
Feb 17
Obviously you won’t get very far as a blogger if you don’t have a webhost. Without a host, you don’t have a website. If you’re reading this, I assume you’re looking for a good place to host your web site, without having to pay…
Dec 9
In response to Keep track of your shared hosting performance at the Royal Pingdom blog. Many blogs and small website are hosted on shared servers. Unfortunately, those bargain hosting plans have their share of problems. Most of the problem come from overselling, but that…
Sep 23
You’ve probably seen the amazing web hosting deals offered by companies like BlueHost, HostMonster, and LunarPages. The claim to offer something like 300GB of storage, and 3000GB (3TB) of bandwidth for the low price of $7/month (or similar). Do you really think that’s possible?…
