How would you like to be able to gain a ton of information about a web site, right from the status bar in Firefox?
ShowIP, an add-on for the Firefox browser, will deliver you not only the current IP address of a web site but a lot more helpful tools as well.  By left-clicking on the [...]

For those of you who have your own POP3 e-mail account that came with your web hosting for your web site – would you like to import that mail into Gmail?  Using Gmail’s Mail Fetcher, you can download messages from up to five other email accounts, centralizing all your e-mail in Gmail.
First thing you must [...]

ICANN stands for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.  You can think of them as the overloads of domain names.  The purpose of ICANN is to coordinate everything about domains.  They are like the godfather of the domain name world.
You can read more about the mission and goals of ICANN here:
http://www.icann.org/en/about/
What Does [...]

I have often gotten asked, how can you or what does it mean to put that little “R” with the circle around it or the little C with the circle around it on a web site?
Two of the confusing terms you may hear tossed around the web these days is trademark and copyright.  Are they [...]

From head to toe, from pillar to post this podcast yet again delivers a little something for everybody. From dissecting ICANN to help with turning Gmail into your default e-mail client for all of your e-mail addresses, this week’s hosting podcast promises to deliver the goods*.
Format might have changed a little but one thing [...]

That is the question a lot of people are asking about coming out of this year’s most recent HostingCon.  Paul Hirsch of the AIHSP stopped by to answer a few common questions we all have about this new association of internet and hosting service providers.
Download the Web Hosting Show, Episode 162!
Running Time: 8 minutes [...]

How fast is your hosting support? Well Peer 1 has recently brought that challenge to a whole new level. They recently sponsored two of their system administrators in the 24 Hour LeMons race.

For more information on the race, and to check out some gallery pictures, check out this link: The 24 Hours [...]

Time to wrap up the past week in hosting in three headlines or less.  Can I do it?
Domain People want to Make You into a .Pro
DomainPeople, well not all domain people – just the company with the name is accepting reservations for .pro domain names from new registrants through August 31.  For more info on [...]

You have seen the deals out there all of your life.  They are for “a limited time only!” or “the special weekend offer”.   These are what I would call “today’s special” marketing pitches to your customers or soon to be customers.  I am amazed though that more web hosts are not taking advantage of this [...]

Connecting the massive amounts of people, from the server grunts to the high dollar CEOs of the hosting industry isn’t such a bad goal.  Sure, it might be a big one but that is what the Hosting Industry Organization is looking to do.
Based around what started as a group on LinkedIn.com, this project has [...]