If you look across the board at some of the biggest and brightest web hosting companies out there, you will see the trend is the same. A lot of companies out there are looking to get rid of the dedicated servers and start offering alternatives like virtual server hosting.
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Will Dedicated Hosting Die?
State of the Web Hosting Show (2011 Edition)
As we enter year six for the Web Hosting Show, both as a podcast and as a website project of mine, I thought it was about time I apologized to you, said the unsaid and give you a look into the year to come for this very website. It is hard to believe this website has been around over half a decade and let me start things off by saying that I am not going anywhere soon.
Files You Should Not Host
Having a web hosting account is handy at times. It allows you to practically upload anything you want to share with friends, or to store online. This is a blessing and also a curse when it comes to the web hosting business though. While it is handy to be able to upload anything to a web hosting account, it is not always practical. Sometimes, it might even be against the rules.
Web Hosts and the DMCA
The DMCA is an abbreviation for the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which was signed into law in 1998. Now the big reason most people do no like this law is because it put in place questionable laws about circumnavigating copyright protection for personal backup use or the overall vagueness of the law in general. However, that really has nothing to do with web hosting – so I will not be discussing this issue today. The issue we will be talking about is the way the law made it easier for copyright holders to get stolen material off a website that doesn’t have the right to distribute it.
Truth About Search Engine Optimization
Search engine optimization (SEO) is an often talked about, yet rarely mastered trait that gets brought up in web hosting discussions. Most people usually come down on SEO tips and tricks one of two ways. They think it is legit and the business works, and others think it is all nothing but snake oil.
The truth of this age old debate is that search engine optimization is a legitimate business and way to get more traffic to your website. However, there are SEO snake oil salesmen out there that have given the business a bad name.
How to Give Faster Web Hosting Support
A web hosting company can not keep a customer base happy with sloppy support habits. Think of your reply back to a web hosting customer as a sandwich. You start out with the slice of bread introducing yourself, you have the goodies inside which represent your reply and you have the second piece of bread to finish things off. If you learn how to build your sandwich reply, then you can handle support situations in a much faster way than the web host down the block is doing it, making your web hosting company just a little ‘bit better.
How to Fix a Server Resource Site Suspension
Nobody likes having their web hosting account suspended for any reason. Going through a server resource usage suspension though can be on of the more stressful combination of web site hosting problems because of the many factors that come into play. Let me see if I can help you, to make your next server resource suspension at least go a little smoother, or at least let you know what you can expect.
How to Setup an Affiliate Program
Are you a web host looking for a way to bring in new customers, and reward current customers or web site owners for doing the dirty work for you? Then you might want to look into setting up an affiliate program. It takes some capital stored up to get started, but once you do – you will see your new accounts list grow and grow every single day.
The MIDGET Rule to Forum Success
Anybody can set up a forum script and host it somewhere, but what does it take to make a set of forums on the Web a big success? Well, I might not be able to help you build the most popular set of message boards you have ever seen (because if I could, I’d be doing that – earning millions in Google AdSense ads, and not still going on and on here). I do have a few suggestions though how you can get off the ground after having setup your forum script.
If you can remember the word M.I.D.G.E.T. you too can run a successful set of forums.
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