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Weekly news #2 [Week 13]
Mar 29th
Hi there! It’s been a long time since the last article in the Weekly News category! But this week has just started and thus you can look forward to some more news to come. From now on the weekly news category will get it’s Monday and Friday article every week!
Here are the news or important staff I want to share!
A.Webhostingtalk.com
1. For the last two days over 27 new posting in webhostigntalk.com’s shared hosting offers section! Some of them advertised as a 50% off. You should check them out!
2. At the same forum you can find 18 new VPS offers & 17 new Reseller offers!
Why I mention those? Because the forum is a good place to start your web hosting search. Companies advertise there and do not pay for the adverts so only the market decides who wins and who fails – in contrast to some other forums/review sites… And you can always ask someone on the forum about their experience with a particular company!
B. For those of you who still don’t believe in Twitter. Just subscribe to your hosting providers Twitter account [if they have one] and follow them. You might get more news from the company this way and this might help you if you experience any downtime as companies [the good ones] would Tweet about their problems to help their customers! Read the rest of this entry »
I am back, finally! What was I doing?
Feb 19th
I know it’s been longer than I said, but at least I could see the world of web hosting from a different angle 
Until now I was mainly interested in the shared hosting world, but in the past weeks I have made my first steps in the VPS world.
From what I have learned:
- You should not start with a VPS unless your projects really needs this kind of environment.
- If you think your project needs a VPS right from the start make sure you order a Fully Managed VPS if you do not know how to configure and secure a web server or if you don’t have an administrator to do it for you!
- Basic management and/or Unmanaged means nearly the same: You will need to do all the securing, setting up and configuration alone! Buy this sort of plan only if you know what you are doing! To read a quick tutorial is not enough!!!
- Always read the Terms of Service and Service level agreement!!! It’s even more important than by shared hosting! You are responsible for the virtual server! There might be high fees for re-installation or technical assistance with unmanaged VPS in the ToS!
- Do you wanna go the VPS way alone and despite all the aforementioned problems? Than start learning LINUX!!! Debian and CentOS are what have fond to be mostly used [Ubuntu, Fedora etc. are popular too]. Debian is stable and very mature. CentOS, on the other hand is more up2date, but don’t forget they both use different package managers and most importantly you will have to use a CONSOLE / TERMINAL and no GUI to help you! Knowledge of Gnu/Linux is thus a must! Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly news #1.0
Jan 6th
What a nice day it is today I thought to myself this morning after my morning routine finished. Hosting news site read, WHT visited and now I can go on to write my first “Weekly News” category article. In fact there might me more “Weekly News” articles in one week – the number depends on important things that might happen in the industry and around
In this new category I would like to bring the most interesting and most important news from the world of web hosting. You might know, that I specialize on Shared hosting so you should not look for VPS or Dedicated news for now. Although I might include news from this area as well.
This category will be not only about “news” because I am not that high in the rankings and I really do not have the connections with major hosting companies, but I would like to bring you news about “hottest offers”, “most up2date offers”, “recent problems [uptime/downtime” etc. as I will find out along the way on my morning routine.
This first article will be no exception and so let me start. If you do not see it it’s 2010 and you should start moving fast as there are tons of “PROMO” codes out there! If you are like many people you most probably did not take advantage of the great special offers during Christmas 2009. You need to be satisfy yourself with just a new years offer or you can wait ’till next Christmas… . I would still recommend you to go with companies with history if you consider your project as an important one! Read the rest of this entry »
