Hosting

Even though Amazon Web Services has been around for many years now, several persistent misconceptions abound, particularly among owners of small businesses. For instance, many of them believe AWS is for big players only. Perhaps this perception arises from the fact that many online giants use AWS servers for hosting, including AOL, Reddit, and Netflix. Or perhaps the fact that AWS is the undisputed king of the cloud development world, with $17B sales in 2017 alone, has precipitated this misbelief. ...

Godaddy is one of the top domain registrars and hosting companies of the world. It has over 500K customers. I’m one of the customers of Godaddy. I’ve been using its email hosting and domain registration service for 5 years. Here’s my review of the company. List of GoDaddy services that I use Domain names Premium email address Domain names Godaddy website is user-friendly. It doesn’t matter whether you’re an experienced or a novice user, registering a new DN is easy with GD. The home page of GoDaddy’s official website features a text box through which you can find domain names. ...

Most hosting companies have introduced 2+ plans. The price of the hosting depends on the hardware and software the company is offering the customer. A plan that offers a low amount of RAM or a single core processor will be less expensive as compared to a plan that provides heaps of system memory and CPU. No matter what plan you use, you must always keep an eye on the server CPU usage. If you don’t do so, a user process may use up to 90 - 100% CPU and other applications/system processes won’t be able to execute their tasks. ...

Affiliate programs are great alternatives to PPC and CPC networks. Once you join an AP, you’ll get access to tools that will allow you to build affiliate links. A webmaster/website owner must use the tool to generate affiliate links. Once you generate a link, paste it into the blog posts. When a visitor clicks the link and buys a product from a website, you’ll earn a commission. To know how your site is performing and which URLs on your website are giving you leads, the affiliate programs features a reporting section. There are 1000s of affiliate programs, but the ones that pay affiliates the highest commission fee are mentioned below. ...

A2 is one of the top 10 hosting companies in the world. The company has been operating since 2001/2002 and it has launched several hosting plans for every budget. As of today, over 10K sites are hosted on A2 servers. A2 offers cloud, VPS, dedicated and shared hosting service. Is it a reliable hosting firm? Are its plans affordable? Is its support staff customer friendly? Let’s find it out! ...

I started my online career with a site hosted on Godaddy. I switched to A Small Orange from Godaddy after finding its plans cheap. After a major DNS incident, I quit ASO and bought shared hosting plan from Hostgator. HG shared plans are great for growing sites. The traffic to my site grew and I had launched a few more sites. To make sure that HG doesn’t ban my sites by high server resource usage, I bought unmanaged Hostgator VPS plan. The VPS had 512 MB RAM. Everything was going great. When I was holidaying at my native place, my sites were down for 8 hours. To find the reason for this, I logged into the server to go through PHP, Nginx, MySQL log, and system log files. The system log file had several “MYSQL server has gone away” entries. This problem occurs when the system doesn’t have enough free memory for MySQL. ...

StudioPress is a popular name in the world of WorldPress. It has launched several SEO optimized WordPress themes. Popular blogs and news websites use its themes. Last year, Copyblogger Media, the company that owns StudioPress had launched StudioPress sites, a great and cheaper alternative to managed WordPress hosting. Managed WordPress hosting from a reputed company costs no less than $25. For example, KINSTA and WP Engine are two of the most popular managed hosting providers. Their subscription fee starts at $100 and $29 per month. ...

CDN aka content delivery networks improves the performance of your site. They reduce the latency by serving JavaScript and CSS files from the location closest to the visitor. A CDN provider may have several data centers spread across the world. When you signup for the CDN service, the service will cache static resources of your site on a server nearby the location you specify. You’ll have to install a CDN plugin so as to change the website resource URL. ...

InMotion is one of the top-rated hosting providers in the world. It is an independent company and not a subsidiary of EIG. IM has cheap and feature packed web hosting plans suitable for all types of users. InMotion supports over 399 web applications and uses the high-speed SSDs aka sold state drives in their servers. It has excellent ratings on various review websites. Genuine users like you have published their honest reviews. ...

Several hosting companies challenge Hostgator by providing competitive plans with mouth-watering features. But the big question always haunts the minds of money spenders. Are the plans worth the money or is the company reliable? As an answer to the above two big questions, we’ve shared comparisons and reviews of various hosting services. We’ve decided to share more comparisons so that you can buy get the best hosting for your site. Today, we’ve compared InMotion and Hostgator plans and features. ...