For many organizations, businesses and people looking to hosting a web site the most often chosen form of hosting is "Shared Hosting". This type of hosting is very cost effective, and for many web sites this is the ideal hosting solution. Shared hosting has both advantages and disadvantages that you need to be aware of before making your decisio...
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 stands for Domain Name Server. The wo...
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 does not offer a ...
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 its own unique features,...
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) - Why Should You Use Them
CSS layouts have been around for many years, but it is still common to see table-based layouts. Since the advent of the CSS 2.0 specification which introduced positioning, all sorts of possibilities have become available to budding website designers, and in this day and age, the only real reason to utilize tables is for displaying tabular data. ...
A Personal Review of the Tempur Pedic Mattress
My wife and I bought a Tempur Pedic mattress back in the early days when most people hadn't heard of memory foam mattresses. We've slept on it for some years now and, I feel, I can hive an honest opinion of the Tempur Pedic mattress and or memory foam mattresses in general.
We live in an old period house and for many years we slept in an...