Choose the Right KnownHost VPS Hosting Package
Its been over a week since we migrated to Knownhost. For new customers interested in starting out with Knownhost, we share our experience which will help you get started…
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KnownHost VPS Hosting Offers Best Tech Support Ever
Its been over a week since we moved to KnownHost Managed VPS hosting and till now it has been a great hosting experience. Right form the beginning the experience was incredible starting with the sales team, and then tech support. I am so overwhelmed with their outstanding support, that it is a good example to [...]
How to Set Private Nameservers on Domain Names
We got some free new white-listed domain specific private nameservers courtesy of our new Knownhost VPS hosting. But setting up private nameservers is a little different, when you try changing the nameservers with your domain name registrar.
Migrated from Dreamhost to Knownhost VPS Hosting
QOT successfully migrated from Dreamhost shared hosting to Knownhost managed VPS hosting today. After a few days unavoidable downtime, we are back to share our learning experience with you over the next few articles.
Make Your Site Faster with Google Page Speed, Firebug
How can you can make your site run faster? Google has launched a firefox extension called Page Speed which webmasters can use to evaluate the performance of their web pages and to get suggestions on how to improve them.
Dreamhost Rewards Quietly Restores $97 Promo Codes
The Dreamhost webhosting $97 referral affiliate program is probably the best out there with a huge $97 affiliate bonus per new subscriber. Dreamhost officially stopped $97 coupon codes in late 2007 and limited the discount to a maximum of $50, but it seems for the last few months they have quietly restored back the $97 [...]
8 Tips to Find Better Web Hosting
Guest post by Dalirin
If you want to start a blog and you have money, it is advisable to go with your own web hosting because you would be in total control of your blog. There are so many web hosting companies, so what differentiates them are the services they provide.
Free Domain, Free Hosting Deal for Geocities Users!
Yahoo! Geocities is closing down and webmasters hosting sites on Geocities need to find an alternate free hosting solution soon to move their websites. Dreamhost is offering Geocities users 2 years of free web hosting!
Dreamhost Server Crash Analysis
Our Dreamhost server crashed and our site has been offline for a large part for the last 2 days! This again gives us an opportunity to share what happened and some tips we learnt from this experience.
Sitemap Generator WordPress Plugin Hits Server Memory Limits
Google (XML) Sitemap Generator Plugin is a popular wordpress plugin which can generate a search engine compatible sitemap of your blog in seconds … but it was leading to Dreamhost to terminating our wordpress scripts and resultant internal server errors.
How to Upgrade PHP4 to PHP5 in One Click
We upgraded our server from PHP4 to PHP5 today. Irritated by my internal server errors, I checked the PHP version of the wordpress hosting server and realized our blog was still hosted on the very old PHP4.4.9 version, though PHP5.2.9 version is the latest version available. So how to upgrade PHP4 to PHP5?
How to Find PHP Version of Hosting Server
In my attempt to fix internal server errors, I went about looking for simple ways to find the php version which powers the wordpress installation on our web hosting server. Here is the small tip to do it easily.
20K Pageviews Traffic Despite Internal Server Errors!
Regular QOT visitors would notice the site was down over last few days off and on with 500 Internal server errors. Still the site topped over 20,000 pageviews traffic everyday. The amazing secret is page caching!
Huge Core Dump Files in WordPress Folders
I was surprised to see my WordPress folder sizes increasing and FTP revealed huge ‘Core’ dump files in several folders of my WordPress installation. As they gobbled up my server storage space, I had no idea where these came from and what to do with them.
JournalSpace Blogs Gone Forever: No Data Backup
JournalSpace was a popular blog hosting tool, till all blogs vanished with no data backup in place. Thousands of JournalSpace blogs were wiped out overnight and bloggers left nowhere to go.
