Web Hosting
Go Daddy, You Are Starting to Become a Little too Spammy For Me
I have been a long time Go Daddy customer. They are reliable, honest, and you can always find a coupon to get you even cheaper domains. Go Daddy has been known for the "up-ell" technique, as their checkout process offers you boat loads of extras to try and get that extra dollar from you.
I had [...]
Microsoft vs. Google Apps Round One
To bring you up to speed if you have not been following: Yesterday in a total PR move Microsoft publicly released a series of questions about Google Apps Premier Edition (GAPE). Today Google has not officially responded, but it has made it’s way onto several Google related blogs. I agree with what most are saying, [...]
How To: Simple Error Pages With .htaccess
HTTP error pages are more important than some may think. If you have a visitor or a customer to your site and they reach an error, you want to display a message and give them alternatives to find the content they are looking for. Most graphical control panels from hosting companies give you the option [...]
Bust A Name Fool!
We have all been there before: you are starting up a new blog or killer service and can’t find a domain name because all the cool domains are already taken. Well not really, there are still some good gems out there that the cyber squatters have not snatched up yet. The trouble is, how do [...]
Thoughts about PHP after the Facebook Source Code Leak
So by now, you already know that Facebook source code was leaked due to a mis configured server. And if you didn’t already know Facebook is written in PHP, a language that is compiled when it’s executed. So there are some questions that come to at least my mind about this situation.
First, what does this [...]
PHP 4 Product Lifecycle Comes to an End
PHP.net has announced that the product life cycle for PHP 4 has come to an end.
Today it is exactly three years ago since PHP 5 has been released. In those three years it has seen many improvements over PHP 4. PHP 5 is fast, stable & production-ready and as PHP 6 is on the way, [...]
How to Save on Blog and Website Bandwidth Bills
Plagued by high bandwidth bills for your blog or website? There are multiple solutions out there that can drastically reduce the amount you shell out every month.
Outsource your Blog Hosting:
There are many free blog hosting services out there, Blogger and WordPress being the most popular. If you do not mind not having complete control of [...]
What to Do When Your Web Host Starts Sucking
I originally started writing this because a friend is franticly starting jump ship from a falling Web Host. It turns out that for the last several months my hosting provider, HostMySite, has been falling in quality. With any hosting provider support is the key. You need to have smart, savvy support technicians that are available. [...]
To Bundle the JRE or Not, That is The Question
In the trenches, while revamping BlueCrestStudios the question of whether to bundle the JRE with the download of our products has come up many times. Cross platform Java installers like Install4J not only make it easy to create professional application installers with ease, but bundle an isolate JRE so the user does not have one [...]
My Move to Mosso and GMail: Part One
I have used many web hosting companies in the past, and always used Plesk as my choice of a control panel. It seems the same thing happens every time with a new web hosting company: at first the service is great and the resources are fast and responsive. Over time, quality degrades as resources are [...]
