InMotion Hosting updated all of their Virtual Private Server (VPS) plans this week. The upgrade includes double the amount of dedicated RAM and a 50 percent increase in bandwidth for every VPS plan. Here's a screenshot from the Inmotion Hosting VPS page. The increase in memory and bandwidth, along with…
In an effort to personalize web hosting services to the various people who need them, the term web hosting could be further broken down into a number of categories. One specific type of web hosting is corporate hosting. As you may have guessed from its name, it is essentially the concept of providing web hosting services to corporate level companies. The needs of corporate companies will differ from the needs of a small business, so all that is taken into consideration. For example, some corporate level companies offer common shares and pay out dividends, and they may want investors to be able to track this information from their website.
Ethics are a major issue when it comes to online businesses and interactions. The Internet gives online access to billions of users worldwide, with a portion of them being hackers and bots. Apart from true search engine bots, there are hundreds of untraceable bots running online with the sole purpose of affecting sites. Some of these bots are aimed at inserting viruses into sites, while others simply waste your bandwidth. Not every hosting client has an unmetered amount of bandwidth, so these bots could seriously become an issue for a high traffic website. This is one of the reasons as to why CloudFlare was created.
CloudFlare not only blocks off unwanted traffic, but it helps you supercharge and protect your website as well. CloudFlare is a unique network of computers running their own filtering system which helps thousands of website owners. Some of the notable features and benefits of CloudFlare include the following.
If you are familiar with how static websites function, you know that all you need is a couple of HTML pages and some pictures and you’re good to go. Unfortunately, it doesn’t always work like that and in many cases, you will need to create and setup a database for your website to run on. Before we get into the actual work of setting up your database, let’s look at why we need databases and how they could actually help us and our site. There are various types of databases around, but in our case, we are only interested in MySQL databases.
The web hosting industry is not like it used to be, as competition and demand increased, prices dropped in accordance with the competition. When there were not as many web hosting companies around, they charged their own prices and didn’t really consider their competitors’ prices. Today, there are thousands of companies in the market and they are all competing for your business and in an effort to get your business, they are dropping prices and/or increases services/resources. With the large number of web hosting companies around, it will be difficult to choose one and stick with it. Some companies exist today, but they may run out of business six months down the road. For this reason, you should take the following tips into consideration when selecting a web host.
In the last decade, the web hosting industry has grown by an average of three hundred percent. It was one of the fastest growing businesses in the webmaster industry. Today in 2012, the growth of web hosting companies has slowed down. With a rise in competitors in the business, many companies started offering unlimited resources as part of their hosting services. One of the first companies to begin this service was the well-known web host, BlueHost. After the trend began, many other companies started following in their footsteps to offering unlimited and unmetered hosting services. Throughout the rest of this article, we will be looking at the things you need to know about unlimited hosting.
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If you aren’t already familiar with the various control panels used in web hosting, don’t stress out too much. Control panels are just the main hub in which you get to access all the settings and controls for your hosting account. A few of the settings in a basic control panel are straight-forward, but other features could be hard to get used to. Regardless, we will take a look at some of the most common features in a control panel and see how they work. For the most part, we will be focused on cPanel, but these features are also available in other control panels such as Plesk and DirectAdmin.
Drupal is a unique content management system that is almost as popular as Wordpress and has features that really catch the eye of some webmasters. You will know the power of Drupal once you try it. I have seen lots of Drupal users who have not gone back because of…
If you are really serious about making money online, then you should get to know GetResponse Email Marketing. You can never really make big money online if you do not keep a list of your prospects. However, keeping a list is hard if you do not have list management software to help you. This is where GetResponse comes in. It is one of the leading list management providers that are able to store your list of e-mails so that you can send messages to them again and again. From here, your business becomes automated and you get to contact each and every one of your subscribers with the click of a mouse.