Archive for the 'WebMaster' Category
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
SEO Techniques Vary With Situations. What Is Your Approach To SEO?
Saturday, April 5th, 2008
I’ve been obsessed with Search Engine Optimization for a while now. I’ve been consciously trying to train myself to think like a search engine for pretty much everything that I do related to websites and website hosting. The amount of reading one must do and ofcourse filtering out the bad from the utter rubbish to imbibing […]
Bought An Expired Domain. I Wonder How Google Will React.
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
It’s been an eventful day today. I had planned to spend some time tweaking the home page of Website Hosting but instead spent the entire afternoon in auction bidding for a domain that had recently expired. Finally did manage to get it, paid a tad more than I thought I would but what the hell. […]
Elastic IP’s and Availability Zones - Amazon’s Two New Offerings For EC2
Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Great news from Amazon today. According to the email I received today, Amazon has just launched Elastic IP’s and Availability Zones for all application instances running on Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
EC2 Background
Some of the biggest critics of Amazon’s EC2 framework have always pointed out that a lack of Static IP Address on your production system […]
How Do I Select A Dedicated Server Management Company?
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
The next step in the hosting ladder after a reseller account is running a dedicated server. As a reseller you can only do and offer so much to your customers. An increasing customer base or increase in resource demand from existing customers will push you to start shopping around for a dedicated server.
Now assuming you/your company […]
What Is KVM And Why Do You Need It?
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
What is KVM? Do I need to it? Simply put, KVM stands for Keyboard, Video and Mouse. A KVM (switch) is primarily used to control multiple computers from the same keyboard, video monitor and mouse. At some point in your hosting career you will increasingly become concerned with remote administration access. As you graduate from […]
