2008 November

What’s SSL? SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) in web hosting concern is a type of website hosting on certified secure servers which can be defined in simple words as a “safer online business” sites. Is SSL necessary for my website? SSL is of great concern for hosting an E commerce,...

How to retain search ranking when moving your blog?

You’ve recently moved your blog from Wordpress.com/Blogger.com to your own domain, reason being better customization and monetization, and it’s done now. One thing you’ll wonder that there will be a major change in your traffic, so you need to have that back, and for that you...

Hosting efficiently with addon domain

An add-on domain is a new domain name that’s added on top of your main domain in your hosting account. An add-on domain do not have its own control panel page (cPanel for example); rather, it’s squatting below the main domain where a sub directory is added in your main...

20 website hosting tips for the five-years-ago me

I started hosting websites and running web business back in year 2003. Back then during my newbie days, I made tons of foolish mistakes (and still often make mistakes now). Yep, without doubt I learned faster from my own mistakes but you bet I wish badly for a mentor to point out...

The 80/20 Rules applied to spam

Guess what, it’s reported that 80% of spam activities are supported by around 100 known spam operations. As spams can be traced via aliases, addresses, redirects, locations of servers, domains and dns setups, to a hard-core group of around 100 known spam operations, almost all...

WordPress 2.6.4 is fake!

Recently, it seems there has been an attempt to distribute a “trojaned” version of WordPress (the so-call WordPress 2.6.4) via some form of phishing scam. Old version of WordPress are targeted where the users of these old version WordPress are pointed to an updates of...

Guest Post: Picking the right host

How To Pick The Right Web Host To Suit Your Needs There are an estimated 200 million web sites on the internet, not including single blogs, blogposts, or unrecognized sites. Of those 200 million, you have thousands of web hosting sites to choose from. So you ask, "How do...

Friend’s name domain prank

Check out domain registrar GoDaddy’s funny advertisement below. Domain registration had turned so cheap that it’s almost free when compare to other expenses in your life. Ready to grab that domain of your friend’s name? Now you can be the one cranking the same jokes...

How slow load time affect your website?

We have been talking about how clean web designs affect site load time earlier. As some of you might overlook the issue, this article explains why slow load time is very bad and it should be avoidable at all cost. Listed here are some of the critical issues with slow website...

Hostgator Unlimited Hosting

Not long after Lunarpages unlimited hosting offer, Hostgator – one of my favorite hosting, has upgraded its shared hosting plans to offer unlimited storage space and bandwidth in late October. With this change, there will be no space and bandwidth restrictions on any Hostgator...