2008 October

What’s bandwidth? Bandwidth is the measure of maximum data that can be transferred in a given time, usually measured in seconds. Bandwidth should not be confused with data transfer as they are two different things. Data transfer is the amount of data to be transferred; while bandwidth...

10 Best Places to Host Files for Free

What will you do when you wish to share an extremely large file – so large that you can’t send it via email? Design drawings, custom software, technical proposals – sharing big files across the Internet can be quite a headache sometimes. Introducing file hosting The...

Bluehost vs iPower

Bluehost is a well known name in web hosting industry with a good number of satisfied customers and quality services. Lately the hosting company was reviewed in comparison with Lunarpages (Read Bluehost vs Lunarpages) here. This article will discuss the differentiating features...

When to take up a dedicated server?

You launched a website and worked hard on it for three months and now this is a high traffic site with thousands of daily visitors. Though your site grew in terms of traffic, but did you notice that it’s getting slow down day by day? This is because of the heavy traffic and...

Popularity Check: Hostgator vs Bluehost vs Lunarpages

Make your guess: Which hosting service is most demanded among Lunarpages, Hostgator, and Bluehost? The answer? Bluehost (based on Google Insights ). The result is not that big surprise as I already learned that Bluehost’s hosting the most domains among the three. The company...

Cheap hosting sucks! Here’s why

Cheap hosting does not always suck, but in most cases it does. Why it is so has many reasons and here are few common ones: Rushed Servers The cheap packages wrapped into ‘unlimited resources’ wrappers attract almost everyone. Everyone wants to have an ‘all in one’ pack,...

Choose your president and get 20% off in hosting!

No jokes! The heat of U.S. president election is everywhere – including folks in hosting business. Check out Eleven2 (a very new hosting company) that’s offering special discount with candidates name as promo code: Obama and McCain! In a limited time, you can order Eleven2...

Hostmonster vs Pow Web

In the past we’d compared Apollo and Hostmonster’s hosting services. Keeping the review trend alive, this article will compare Hostmonster with Pow Web Hosting. Hostmonster is in market since 1996, while the later mentioned is since 1999, so there may be a little difference...

No Overselling Hosts!

Overselling is the common terms used in web hosting industry when the web hosts are selling more space, bandwidth, or CPU cycles than they have in stock. How overselling is possible? By overselling, web hosting companies are banking on the fact that none of its customers will actually...