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Small Business Web Hosting Checklist

On the Internet today there is an enormous amount of information about web hosting. There are thousands of different hosting providers offering an even larger number of plans, while this is good for competition, it also makes it hard to decide on which host and plan will suit your needs best, especially when you do [...]

What Is DNS Propagation and Why You Have to Wait 72 Hours

So you have found your domain name, registered that new domain name, and paid for hosting to store all your sites pages ready to be served to your site’s visitors. What comes next?
Well we need to point that domain name to the server at your hosting provider where your web site is stored. Firstly DNS [...]

Bluehost and Fantastico – The Perfect Match

Bluehost and Fantastico go so well with each other that they seem like the perfect match. Bluehost is a web hosting provider (Bluehost Review), and Fantastico is a feature, together they can help you create an extraordinary website.
Fantastico is the number one auto-installer for use with servers using cPanel Control Panel. Bluehost utilizes cPanel Control [...]

Migrating a Website to a New Web Hosting Provider

Migrating a website is the process of moving a from one web hosting provider to another. There are several reasons why you would need to perform a website migration, below are some reasons you might need to do this;

1. You have found a better hosting deal and are looking to save money
2. Your current host [...]

Pros and Cons of Free Web Hosting

Beginners to the online world will be enthusiastic to hear that there are free web hosting providers available to them. These beginners then rate and compare those free web hosting providers. Typically they will choose the provider offering the largest quantity of disk space and bandwidth. To many people, one would think that free web [...]

The Benefits of Cheap Web Hosting

Why on earth would you ever buy something that you don’t need or pay for something that you’ll never use?
If you’re in the market for a web hosting plan, chances are that you’re a small or start-up company with a tight budget. You’ve planned out every expense down to the last dime. If you’re in [...]

Windows or Unix (Linux) Web Hosting – Which is the best choice?

This question is asked by people that are new to web hosting and web design every day. This question is the single most important decision you will make when looking to purchase web hosting. Unix (and Linux variants) and Windows are the two main operating systems powering web servers today, and each operating systems has [...]

Affordable Web Hosting Versus Free Web Hosting

Affordable web hosting services are plentiful on the Internet. Free hosting services are even more so, and they appear to be a very good option, after all you can have a web site up and running in a minimal amount of time with zero financial burden. All that is required of you is to create [...]