Ok, you have finished your great new web site. You've spent hours upon hours working on the design until you have made it perfect, you have chosen an excellent domain name to use for the site, and a great deal of content. Of course, your next question is "What step do I take next?". Choosing the best web hosting provider for your needs can be th...
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, ...
Finding The Right Web Hosting Provider
Finding the right web hosting at an affordable price can be a daunting task. Most common web hosting providers will promise the world and then bring many headaches. Would you like to see your site down for 24 hours or more and receive next to no help from support regarding the problem? This situation is avoidable by carefully considering a web h...
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...
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 ...
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 hosting pr...
Content Management Systems (CMS) - Is a CMS the correct choice for you?
If you are new to website design, a term that you may have heard lately is "CMS". In this article I will outline what a CMS is and list the advantages of using one.
The term "CMS" is short for Content Management System, basically a Content Management System is a piece of software used to assist its users in the process of managing websit...