Free hosting is the most basic type of web hosting. Free hosting is generally supported by advertisements, and only offers limited features. This is the best type of hosting for those that are starting out and only need hosting for a small personal site that will require little bandwidth.
Free web hosts will no...
Why Choose Paid over Free Hosting
Many people are faced with this question everyday, after you have developed your web site you will most likely begin looking for good free hosting, but what is the catch with free hosting providers?
Nothing in this day and age is free, and this is especially the case with hosting. Try asking yourself this question. How do free hosting pr...
What is Shared Hosting
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...
cPanel Primer For The New Web Master
If you are about to purchase web hosting, it is very likely that you will be using cPanel to manage your hosting. To get the most from your web hosting, you need to learn the workings of cPanel.
If your web hosting doesn't offer shell access, cPanel will be the only way to manage your web hosting, ...
How To Switch Hosting Providers Without Downtime
To many the idea of moving your web site from one host to another can sometimes seem like a daunting task but the process of moving your site is simple when you know what steps to take and the order to take them in. This article will walk you through the steps required to perform a site move without the downtime.
Firstly there is this on...
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 not understand all the web hos...
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. ...