Hosting and Domains

Now it is time to share the resources I use to research and find excellent hosting companies throughout the years. Also many of these tools I have used to assist hosting customers and they have all come in handy when you want to know anything related to an ip address, server, or domain name.
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Before buying web hosting you must do your research on the different web hosting companies you are considering. Once you have learned about customer service, server reliability, pricing you must verify that the information they have provided on their websites and through contacting them are true. Keep in mind while doing your research that it [...]

Website backups are a way to insure that your website data is intact at all times. Learning how to take your own backups and taking backups on a regular basis will help prevent any data loss from failed servers or your own mistakes. In later articles I will go more into detail on how to [...]

Pricing is really based on your own budget so it is hard for me to tell you exactly what price or range you should be looking at. I will just cover a few topics which you should consider when looking at the different prices on the packages you are considering. Remember to also consider customer [...]

Domain names are very tricky assets for a webmasters. They in theory are very cheap to buy and you can hold on them for an entire year before needing to pay another cheap renewal fee, for yet another year. It is not so cheap anymore once you buy another, and another, and yet another domain [...]

I have been sharing my insiders advice on how to buy web hosting, but I want to take a second to address server downtime. As much as we all hate downtime, servers go down and it is normal. But how do we know when enough is enough? There is a quick equation we can use [...]

Earlier this week I covered the customer service aspects when buying web hosting. Now I want to cover the second quality in a web hosting company I examine when looking for a new hosting company, server reliability. If there was ever one thing that webmasters all over the world and throughout the galaxy need, is [...]

This is a new series of articles I’m going to be writing about buying web hosting from the inside. I have worked in the hosting industry for over 4 years and I have a lot to share with other webmasters when it comes to buying web hosting. I have primarily worked in sales, billing, and [...]

Domain names are cheap assets we can purchase now and develop later. Webmasters tend to keep quite a few of them in their portfolio. Along with the domain registration comes a public whois that displays our personal information. Most of us work from home and that information leads to our home address and phone numbers. [...]

All webmasters are going to have to think about hosting. Hosting is the backbone to any website. Weather it be shared hosting, vps hosting, dedicated hosting, or co-locating your server, and all of the inbetweens. Looking for a new host or for other options can sometimes get daunting with the millions of choices and providers [...]