The web hosting world’s equivalent to the crazy old uncle is at it again. Bob Parsons, the many behind the brand at GoDaddy, recently got in trouble for shooting Elephants while on a trip in Zimbabwe. PETA along with many other critics are urging people to transfer their hosting and domain registrations elsewhere.
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Daily Tip: Don’t Kill Elephants
Pros and Cons for VPS Hosting
Anybody who has been in web hosting long enough to at least know the tiers knows that when you move from a shared hosting server to a VPS hosting server, your entire website experience will be better. However, there are misconceptions about how much bang for your buck you will get with VPS hosting too. With that said, I thought it might be a good ideas of looking at some of the pros and cons of switching from your standard shared web hosting plan to a Virtual Private Server.
Quick Stress Tips for Hosting Workers
When you work in the web hosting industry, it is very simple to sometimes become overwhelmed by everything there is to do. You might have a dozen or two tasks staring you in the face this very morning that you are dreading. Here are a few quick and easy ways to regain yourself motivation and conquer the day.
Hosting News Facelift
It is not often that I highlight other sources of hosting information here, but I do feel like something should be said for the hard work and dedication that has gone into turning The Hosting News website around. For years, the Hosting News was a good source for finding hosting information – but the website interface was badly designed, ugly and hard to navigate through.
Better Domain Management with Hover
I am always a little cautious when it comes to domain name companies. The usual formula, if you look at GoDaddy as an example is to offer the basics, and then load you up with a continuation of ads on top of ads trying to trick you into getting extra services you don’t need. However, Hover – from the Tucows company is really breaking the domain name registration mold by offering you more tools and less junk to avoid.
Get Vanilla Hosted for You!
If you think Vanilla looks like an awesome forum script, but your not sure if you can get things together as far as installing it yourself – you are in luck. If you don’t have a web hosting account or you would rather get Vanilla as an all in one package, try out their hosted installs of the script.
Vanilla Forums 101
I have talked plenty of times with you before on free forum scripts you can easily setup and run from your web hosting account. By far, the most unique one I have seen is Vanilla. The Vanilla Forums script is a great open-source, standards compliant forum script. However, that is not what impresses me. The thing that impresses me the most is the fact that is stands out from the rest of the crowd and refreshes the idea of what a set of forums should look like.
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Best YouTube Clone Scripts
So, you want to start your own website where people can upload videos of dogs of skateboards? A few years back, this would be nearly impossible. These days though, finding a script that will clone many of the best features a video sharing service like YouTube has is pretty easy. There are a lot of duds out there though in the world of YouTube clone scripts so I have gone through the trenches to find you the three best scripts for the job.
What is FFMPEG Hosting?
Time to take a look at another hosting term you might have heard of but didn’t really know what it means. FFMPEG hosting is the word up for review today. This is a term that is used to refer to any time of hosting that provides an assortment of of recording, converting and streaming tools for audio and video on the server side.
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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.
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