Posts filed under 'Webhosting'

Domain names are your prized real estate on the web and securing and protecting your valuable domain name is essential. As the number of your owned domain name increases, managing domain names requires extra effort and advanced skills. Here are some simple tips to keep your domains fine tuned. (more…)

Thousands of Slashdot visitors were in for a surprise when Slashdot, the top technology starting point of many was ‘not connecting’. Slashdot is famous for the Slashdot effect which crashes servers and makes smaller sites unavailable when they are featured in a Slashdot story. (more…)

Have you wondered how green your web hosting is? Web servers use electricity, the more popular your site the more electricity is used, and your website can have a major impact on the environment. Today is Earth Day, so I urge you to check the efforts of your webhosting provider towards a greener future. (more…)

Automattic recently released an excellent update of their bbPress forum called bbPress Brubeck 0.9, which was a feature rich upgrade and also important for anyone who integrates bbPress with WordPress and wishes to update to WordPress 2.5. But for the early adopters stuck with a buggy upgrade, they quietly released bbPress 0.9.01, with no formal announcement on their blog. Surprise! (more…)

What happens when your blog story gets featured on the front page of Yahoo! Get prepared for the highest site traffic ever. As Yahoo! Buzz is getting a revamp (after Yahoo! Picks closed), some lucky publishers are getting an opportunity to join as Yahoo! Buzz Publishers and drive huge unbelievable traffic to their sites with pageviews being limited by how much load the web hosting server can handle… (more…)

When your site hosting is down, sometimes email support is not good enough and you demand response from a real human. Dreamhost has enabled an option to get phone callback for hosting support, for the rare times when a you cannot wait for an email response. (more…)

I slowed Googlebot crawling down a few months back. It seemed Googlebot, the Google search bot, was then crashing our shared hosting server repeatedly and my hosting provider Dreamhost intimated that we fix the issues if possible or upgrade to a higher hosting plan. Since private servers are expensive, and my traffic is not spiky (Digg-y), I decided to fix the Googlebot issue myself. (more…)

Wordpress Blog Hosting was always simple with Dreamhost one-click installation. Now they made it even simpler with an Easy Mode option where they handle all the software management/upgrades, and no files are installed to your account! (more…)

Yahoo! Web Hosting is offering unlimited disk space, unlimited data transfer, unlimited email storage, and 1,000 email accounts — all for $11.95 a month. Is this truly unlimited hosting as it appears to be? (more…)

Now you can make money online by simply referring employees to web hosting company Hostgator, and if they hire your referred expert, you can earn an easy $2500 per referral! Just think the referral income if you ran a placement agency… (more…)