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Green Web Hosting: Going the extra mile

There are plenty of hosts out there claiming to be green only by buying renewable energy credits and not by taking the correct measures of decreases their power usage. Sure, renewable energy credits sound like a smart idea of “fixing” what you have caused, however, the consequences of what has been created have already [...]

How synonyms affect Google search results?

Google announced a big change in how to handle the search results via adding synonyms for words that can be used in search. This should affect the position of web pages in Google’s search results. It is important that Google can deal with synonyms. Google wants to show the best results for search. Because of that, it [...]

The Way Google Ranks Tweets – Official Google Statement by Amit Singhal

Google Search Engine started to show real-time results side by side to the regular search result pages. These real-time results are meant to show web searchers an access to new and instant news items as fast as it happen. The main components of Google’s real-time results are twitter tweets. These are the real-time micro-blog messages that [...]

FFMPEG Automatic Installer

Our team at VEXXHOST has released a new utility that automatically installs all the applications required to encode videos on your server (FFMPEG, MPlayer, MEncoder, etc.) It’s very simple and utility, all you have to do is just execute it and it’ll take care of everything afterwards. Feel free to post on the forums or [...]

CodeIgniter: The Future of PHP Web Development

As a PHP developer since the introduction of PHP3, I always insisted on creating my scripts from scratch. I believed that starting from an empty text file was the best, fastest and most lightweight solution. This was what I have been doing for the past years until I read up more about PHP [...]

Google’s real-time results – How to get in

Starting December 2009, Google search engine started to show real-time results on its search engine result pages. The real-time result box is displayed for search keywords and phrases that are currently in discussion on popular social network websites. For Google to provide these real-time results, they started many partnerships with websites like MySpace, Facebook, FriendFeed, Identi.ca, [...]

How Will Google Caffeine Affect The Rankings Of Web Pages?

The name given to Google’s next algorithm is “Google Caffeine”. This is going live early 2010. It looks like “Google Caffeine” will be not a regular updates. “Google Caffeine” will possibly be a main overhaul of the calculations that Google uses to rank websites. What changes we will expect? For sure, Google hasn’t revealed all the information [...]

Will web page speed become a more important ranking factor?

Google’s Matt Cutts recently suggested that the speed of a web page may soon get more attention in Google’s ranking algorithm. It seems that Google focuses on fast websites to make the searching experience better. What can you do to make your web pages faster? Of course, you should start by choosing a reliable web host that [...]

Brand new, much more user friendly, PHP configuration manager

The PHP configuration feature, exclusive to vexxhost web hosting clients that use our shared web hosting or reseller web hosting services, allows you to modify any PHP settings, enable or disable modules such as Zend, IonCube, FFMPEG-PHP or phpShield. This allowed our clients to configure their websites instantly without having to go [...]

SEO Tips: For how many keywords should you optimize your web page?

Alright, you have just put the last minutes touches on the look of your new website, it’s been uploaded on to your favorite web host (vexxhost, obviously!). Now, you want some people to look at your web pages but don’t want to spend much. Introducing the world’s most efficient free, guaranteed, traffic: Search [...]