Category Archives: Web Hosting

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As any Internet marketer or business owner marketing your business online, your website is your lifeblood.

You live or die a virtual death, based on whether your blog or e-commerce store is up and running.

So, your website MUST be up at all times.

Although I had been with Bluehost shared webhosting for about 5 years, I made the choice to switch two years ago.

Much of my decision had to do with the chronic overloading of it’s servers, leading to poor performance as resources were throttled and conserved. If you exceeded 1% CPU usage, it’d be common to see a blue error screen that your site was inaccessible because it had exceeded it’s allocated resources.

So instead of rejoicing that my blog had made the list of top viewed Internet marketing or affiliate marketing blogs, my visitors would instead see the equivalent of a Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD). Talk about a wasted effort.

It looks like things haven’t changed much. Yesterday, I did some Continue reading

Niche Site Developers: Take A Closer Look At BlueHost

If you develop themed niche sites (such as ones based on the Xbox360, Apple iPhone or Linkin Park), you’d realize the value of a web host which provides for hosting unlimited domain names.

At the same time, most reseller accounts will not provide much in the way of customer support.

But what if you could find shared hosting which provides support for unlimited domain names (a virtual rarity).

I think webhosting company BlueHost has upped the ante by offering both unlimited domain names and real time chat support for its hosting customers.

Added to that is the implementation of the options of turning on FastCGI recently, which allows PHP scripts to remain in the server’s memory, reducing the need to run the PHP interpreter each time the script is run.

While you may not want to find out the gory details, do note that Continue reading

Web Hosting goes the Grid way

Thanks to Developer who posted on ForumPostersUnion about this topic.

Introducing: Mediatemple.net’s Grid-Server plan

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Here’s a write-up:
(mt) Media Temple’s Grid-Server is a completely new hosting platform that replaces yesterday’s obsolete shared server technology. We’ve eliminated roadblocks and single points of failure by using hundreds of servers working in tandem for your site, applications, and email.

The Grid’s on-demand scalability means you’ll always be ready for intense bursts of traffic and the growing audience resulting from your online success. Continue reading