Hosting

A good web hosting provider is the heart and soul of your website: it should provide speed, reliability, ease of use, and effective customer service at a reasonable price. The best hosting plans can be taken for granted, but the worst ones will never be forgotten.

Dreamhost

Upgrading to a Dreamhost VPS

March 11, 2011 John 5

Upgrading your Dreamhost shared hosting account to a virtual private server can be a cheap and easy way to maximize your site’s speed & reliability. This guide will take you step by step through the incredibly simple process they’ve set up to move your website data to the new location.

BBC

BBC to delete archives: What not to do…

February 9, 2011 John 0

BBC doesn’t seem to have learned any lessons from the loss of classic television videos, because now there is talk about deleting more than a hundred miniature websites rather than taking a few moments to archive them on a bigger hosting platform.

Bluehost

Why I left Bluehost

December 1, 2010 John 0

After three years of hosting with Bluehost, my two highest income websites have been moved to a Linode VPS. Here is a little more detail about why I made this switch.

Bluehost

Website Speed – Linode vs Bluehost

November 30, 2010 John 0

While Bluehost and Linode are in completely different hosting classes, the difference in price definitely translates in to a difference in speed. Here are the results from a Wordpress speed test on the two hosts.

Hostgator Web Hosting

Hostgator Black Friday Coupons 2010

November 25, 2010 John 2

Hostgator is running some incredible deals for Black Friday in 2010. Don’t miss out on a great chance to pay rock bottom prices on one of the most popular hosting brands available.

Hostgator Web Hosting

Hostgator coupon June 2010

June 14, 2010 John 1

Quick summertime savings are easy to get with a new Hostgator coupon activated in June 2010. Save some money on your shared or VPS hosting costs today.

Dreamhost

Dreamhost promo codes for $100 off 2 year plans

March 6, 2010 John 0

There have been a few changes to Dreamhost’s limited editional promotional codes. Instead of requiring five or ten year commitments, the maximum discount of $100 can be applied to hosting plans as short as two years long.

Dreamhost web hosting

Dreamhost Coupon – Extra Bandwidth

January 26, 2010 John 0

Get some extra bandwidth for any new Dreamhost hosting account – learn how to utilize coupons in order to upgrade your bandwidth allocation at no extra cost.

Dreamhost

Dreamhost Coupon – Cash Discounts

January 26, 2010 John 0

Forget the upgrades, some times you just need to get the product or service you need at the lowest possible price! If you’re looking for great webhosting on a recession-sized budget, be sure to check out these Dreamhost cash coupon codes.

Dreamhost web hosting

Dreamhost unique IP coupon codes

January 26, 2010 John 0

A great way to improve the search engine ranks of your websites is to create links from related domains on unique IP addresses – find out how you can sign up for a new Dreamhost hosting account with free coupons to help you get started running multiple domains.

Hostgator Web Hosting

Hostgator Coupon 2010 Update

January 21, 2010 John 0

Hostgator has some new coupon codes out for 2010 – here is a list of Hostgator discounts and coupons that are available as of January 2010.

Dreamhost web hosting

Dreamhost Coupon – 2010 Update

January 6, 2010 John 0

I’ve got some new Dreamhost coupons for 2010 – be sure to check out these discounts before signing up for any new hosting in the new year.

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A Fond Farewell to Geocities

October 25, 2009 John 1

Geocities will be shutting down this week after many years of providing a free hosting service. Sites like these helped influence the evolution of the internet toward a more social media, and as such, it will be missed by myself and many of the others who used it as a platform for early web experiments.