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Google Apps is Awesome. Here’s Why

Jonathan — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:40:13 +0000

If you are self-hosted, you almost certainly have email set up through your host. Even the most basic hosting accounts today include IMAP and POP3 email accounts in addition to providing a Web server. However, Google offers a very solid alternative in the form of Google Apps and it comes in two flavors, a standard version, [...]

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Google Apps is Awesome. Here’s Why

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CPanel iPhone App Reviewed

Jonathan — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:07:20 +0000

If you use a VPS or a dedicated server, you most likely have some form of control panel installed to help make management a little bit easier. If that’s the case, odds are better than average you’re using CPanel. While it is no substitute for SSHing into your site and managing things directly, it can help [...]

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CPanel iPhone App Reviewed

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How To Survive The “Digg Effect”

Jonathan — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:23:20 +0000

It was in June 2005 I had my first major run-in with social media. Slashdot had picked up a controversial story I had just written and it was flung onto the front page. Though it was a huge success in terms of getting attention and new readers to my site, it was a complete disaster for [...]

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WhoIsHostingThis.com: A Timeline

Richard — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:09:42 +0000

Today Who Is Hosting This has a brand-new look. So we thought it’d be fun to look at how the site has developed over the last few years. 2007: Site Launches Site launched summer 2007 by Gordan Orlic and Stan Sredl. Stan now blogs at Mashable, while Gordan runs many Croatian websites, like

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5 Free Tools to Check Your Website’s Speed

Jonathan — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:51:03 +0000

Pop Quiz: How fast does your site load? Does it load in under ten seconds? What about five? Does it make it there in two? One? The answer is obviously going to be dependent on many different variables including the time of day, who is looking at the site, where they are located and how good [...]

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5 Free Tools to Check Your Website’s Speed

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5 Ways to Punish Your Server

Jonathan — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:57:44 +0000

WordPress has a very bad reputation when it comes to taxing a server. It’s known for killing servers under high load, especially without caching, and at times being a resource hog. However, running a blog, with any application, is far from the most taxing thing you can do to your server. If you are really [...]

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WordPress Cacheing with W3 Total Cache

Jonathan — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:01:40 +0000

WordPress is far and away the most popular blogging platform for bloggers running their domains. It is free, powerful, stable and well-understood by most in the blogging community. However, those who do know it also know it can be rather difficult to host at times. A dynamic platform running on PHP, it can crush servers when [...]

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Hosted Blog Platforms: A New Option

Jonathan — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:14:28 +0000

Though first founded in 2003, Squarespace has been attracting a lot of attention lately. Simply put, Squarespace is not a traditional Web host that offers a space for you to run your site, it is an entire hosted blogging platform that, like WordPress or any other CMS, allows you to easily set up and manage a [...]

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Hosting Abuse Policies: 5 Things To Check

Jonathan — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:35:49 +0000

Abuse policies are one thing that few hosts publicize. They are usually kept quiet, buried in the footer of a host’s site or footnotes in the lengthy legal agreement users sign. Host don’t want you to see them, read them or think about them. But they should. These abuse agreements are the tools that hosts use [...]

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Hosting Abuse Policies: 5 Things To Check

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Reseller Hosting: Why It’s Not Just for Resellers

Jonathan — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:23:54 +0000

Nearly every major shared hosting provider offers some sort of reseller program. This includes Site5, Hostgator and SurpassHosting. The idea behind these hosting accounts is that you get a block of server space, usually for only a modest amount more than a traditional shared account, and you then turn around and resell that space to multiple [...]

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Reseller Hosting: Why It’s Not Just for Resellers

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