Archive for the 'Hosting' Category
Web Hosting - Can You Pick The Right Host?
Friday, May 16th, 2008
Choosing a web hosting provider is like playing the lottery especially if you don’t have enough hands on experience in understanding hosts and the hosting industry. Infact I would go so far to say that even for someone who has relative experience the task of choosing a web hosting provider often proves to be a hit or miss […]
Changing Hosting Companies? How To Move Your Blog Without Any Downtime
Sunday, May 4th, 2008
I spent some time yesterday moving one of my blogs (no, not this one) over to another Web Hosting company. I figured this would be a good topic to talk about on Web Hosting Plans and tips as I’m sure some of you might be contemplating the same thing and not sure how to go […]
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 […]
Single Most Important Factor For Choosing a Website Hosting Company
Monday, March 24th, 2008
The most important thing you really need from a hosting company has nothing to do with the amount of bells and whistles they offer, no matter how shiny and pretty they may be. At the end of the day, the amount of space, bandwidth and all the free stuff don’t really matter when you are caught in the […]
Do You Buy Hosting Based On Uptime Guarantees?
Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
99.999% uptime guarantee, sounds impressive huh!! Before you take out your credit card and buy that perfect plan from that impressive sounding hosting company, keep this in mind. Many people simply do not realize that this much vaunted guarantee does not take into account scheduled maintenance time. This usually is the kicker for many people. Since it is not […]
How Do I Select An Affordable Hosting Plan?
Friday, March 21st, 2008
Stare too long at a comparison chart for a budget website hosting plan from a few of the million or so hosting companies out there and pretty soon you might just start to despair. Every company out there seem to be advertising the same features, unlimited disk space, unlimited bandwidth ( data transfer ) and to top it all even the […]
