Web Hosting - Can You Pick The Right Host?
Posted in Hosting by DB
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 [...] Continue Reading…
Changing Hosting Companies? How To Move Your Blog Without Any Downtime
Posted in Anatomy of a Blog, Hosting, How To, WebMaster by DB
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 [...] Continue Reading…
Amazon Web Services Ringing In More Changes.
Posted in Hosting by DB
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 [...] Continue Reading…
Using Amazon S3 To Host Your Media Files.
Posted in Hosting, WebMaster by DB
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 [...] Continue Reading…
Getting Started With Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
Posted in Hosting by DB
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 [...] Continue Reading…
Multiple Amazon Elastic IP’s, Single Instance
Posted in Hosting by DB
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 [...] Continue Reading…
Do You Have A Backup Plan For Your Website?
Posted in Hosting, Starting Out by DB
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 [...] Continue Reading…
Start Building Your Back Links Today
Posted in SEO by DB
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. 
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Anyway back to today’s topic. Back links, incoming links or whatever you [...] Continue Reading…
Why And What To Look For In An Aged Domain?
Posted in Domain Names, SEO, WebMaster by DB
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 [...] Continue Reading…
How Do I Rebuild An Expired Domain?
Posted in WebMaster by DB
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 [...] Continue Reading…
