Archive for April, 2008
Amazon Web Services Ringing In More Changes.
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Some more good news for all Amazon EC2 and S3 users. Amazon has announced that they are slashing bandwidth charges effective May 1st 2008. You can read more about the exact price difference in here.
Amazon seem to be rolling out quite a few improvements and changes over the past month. First it was Elastic IP […]
Using Amazon S3 To Host Your Media Files.
Friday, April 25th, 2008
Amazon Simple Storage Service or S3 as it is more popularly known is an extremely cost effective way to store and manage your data. Your data could be anything, from simple normal every day work related files to your hosting or database backups. The only limitation Amazon S3 has is that the file size should not exceed 5 GB.
I […]
Getting Started With Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
Sunday, April 20th, 2008
Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud web service sure did take the web hosting industry by storm when it was launched nearly 18 months ago. While many other companies have already entered or are entering the Cloud computing space, Google being one of the more notable names, Amazon continues to be the preferred choice and holds sway. However […]
Multiple Amazon Elastic IP’s, Single Instance
Thursday, April 17th, 2008
I recently blogged about Amazon’s Elastic IP offering and how this would impact Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud. By addressing one of the more pressing issues with EC2, Amazon has shown that it is willing to listen to their users and with the release of the Elastic IP and Availability zone features, Amazon will see a […]
Do You Have A Backup Plan For Your Website?
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
We all know in theory that backing up data is really important but how many of us actually do it? I’m guilty as hell. Even now I have so many important files on my laptop that I have absolutely no backup of and I still continue to procrastinate about it. If we are so lax […]
Start Building Your Back Links Today
Sunday, April 13th, 2008
I’ve been posting about SEO of late on Website Hosting and optimization and wanted to quickly touch upon back links in today’s post. ( It really goes to say what I’m busy doing at the moment. )
Anyway back to today’s topic. Back links, incoming links or whatever you want to call it is a pretty big […]
Why And What To Look For In An Aged Domain?
Friday, April 11th, 2008
Domain names!!! How much time do you spend on an average trying to find that perfect domain name. I don’t know about you but I’ve spent a lot of time (a really lot of time) trying to find the perfect domain name. Why does it take time? Because pretty much every name you can think of is already taken. I […]
How Do I Rebuild An Expired Domain?
Thursday, April 10th, 2008
About a week ago I mentioned here that I picked up an expired domain from an auction. It took a week but finally I got an email from GoDaddy telling me that the domain was finally in my GoDaddy account. Whew!! That was one long week. The original buyer could have still renewed the domain even though the […]
What Is A Good Link and What Used To Be A Good Link?
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
How do you go about link building? Every website owner at some point or the other must have wrestled with this problem. Do I use a link baiting service? Do I look at social media sites to improve my inward link count? Do I simply concentrate on content and let the world find me? How […]
Work On Long Tail Keywords to Drive Organic Traffic
Monday, April 7th, 2008
When was the last time you analyzed your website hosting traffic stats in detail? I’m not talking about constantly looking at your stats to see if there are new visitors, I’m talking about a more in depth analysis. How much of your traffic is driven by Search Engines? When did you last analyze the keywords that were used to find […]
