Set Up Your Site’s Crash Plan
Administrators – at least the ones who actually know how to do their job – already know that no network is completely safe from crashes and outages regardless of how good the administrators are and how robust their systems are, but the August 2003 widespread power outage in the U.S. Northeast hammered the point home, […]
Best Text Heavy Websites
Designing a really good text-heavy website can be a bit of a balancing act. It’s common knowledge that text content is still the best vehicle for delivering information and helps make it easier to get indexed by search engines, but being too text heavy can turn away visitors – especially now that surfers have started […]
How Web Hosts Can Boost Small Businesses
Overall, the global economy is not conducive to running small businesses. Large companies are either big enough to weather the downturn or are actually growing stronger due to their ability to gobble up small businesses that are losing revenue. Thankfully, it’s not all doom-and-gloom for small businesses. There is one key area where small businesses […]
Security Threat: Offsite Backup in Bitly Security Breach
For a long time now, offsite backups are considered as very secure and safe from infiltrators, as they only ever target the main servers and on-site backups because that’s where the payoffs are. However, URL shortening service Bitly has recently revealed that an unauthorized individual may have compromised an offsite database backup service that hosts […]
Manage Your Company’s Digital Move
One of the odd things about enterprises these days is that they recognize the need to digitize, but they go about it in such a roughshod and disorganized way that it creates a lot of wasteful spending, wreaking havoc on their IT budget. With different departments usually implementing digitization on their own, resulting in islands […]
Starting a Reseller Hosting Business
There are many ways to earn money online, but one of the most effective – though underrated – ones is starting a reseller hosting business. Being a web hosting reseller is essentially acting as a middleman for hosting companies: you sell their hosting packages and either get a commission or get free hosting. Another form […]
Use Rank Ranger Risk Index to Alert you to Major SERP Changes
The recent Google Panda refresh not only brings the infamous algorithm to 4.0, it also heralds a new direction in which updates to the algorithm will happen on a regular and unannounced basis. This means your SERPs could change any time without any warning, so it has become important to stay on top and get […]
How to get your site Online FAST When Your Web Host goes Down
If you already have an active site with a decent amount of regular traffic, you know that switching servers can be troublesome. It takes at least 24 hours for your domain to propagate to the new servers so there’s always going to be downtime on the visitor’s side. The revenue and potential new visitors you […]
Everything You Need to Know About Reseller Hosting
Reseller Hosting is basically when you sell a parent web hosting company’s resources as your own. Many web hosting companies provide reseller packages, where you buy the plan from them and then resell chunks of it to other people for a profit. Some people choose to resell it as is, while other people create their […]
Is CDN For You?
Content Delivery Networks (or CDNs) are very useful and can solve many problems for websites who value availability and user experience. However, they’re not exactly a requirement and whether or not you need one for your site depends on various factors. But First, What is CDN? CDNs are essentially designed to address problems with global […]