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The Web Hosting Roundup

August 30th, 2009 No comments

With so many web hosts out there it all becomes a little confusing when you start trying to weigh the apples against the oranges against the onions and so on and so forth. Of course you could always Google “best web host” or something of the similar but you will most likely get a relatively interesting set of results pointing to all sorts of websites promoting their top ten list of web hosts. Honestly, some of these lists contain hosts I have never heard of before, but what gets even more interesting is that their number one web host is sometimes the same company that is hosting the website. You then begin to wonder if the company or someone affiliated with the company created this website as a traffic driving venture to make their services appear better from a “non-biased third party perspective”. Other times people just tend to rate the products they used the highest simply because they have not actually tried the other projects and maintain their personal bias. In either which case, just doing a little research can really help you out. Just to give you an idea though I have taken some of the published Top 10 lists, pulled them together, and looked up their Better Business Bureau (BBB) Reliability information just for good measure. » Read the Rest

What Type of Hosting Should I Get?

June 24th, 2009 No comments

Web hosting can be quite a wonderful thing once you get it all figured out, especially with all of the neat things you can do. But how do you get to the point where you know what you want and you know what you need? This is where a little bit of research comes into play, but I am going to try to help you out with that a little bit before sending you out into the cyber world. Typically I think it is better to start out broad and narrow your way down. So let’s start with what type of server platform you would like to run, Windows or Linux. » Read the Rest