If your business depends on 24/7 uptime email service then you will need to carefully consider your decisions. Popular email hosting services include Google Apps to Microsoft’s Outlook service and almost every web hosting provider also provides email hosting services. If you are technically inclined then it may be more fun to host your own […]

Depending on your website setup and the traffic volume that you are experiencing. The move to a dedicated database server should be considered if the traffic warrants it. Any sluggish performance could be addressed with a dedicated server that handles the database functions and nothing else. If you are hosted on a dedicated server and […]

If your web hosting provider has been acquired by another company. There is a good chance that your web hosting provider may change datacenters unless they own their own datacenter. When a large corporation or another web hosting provider buys another web hosting company. They would want to consolidate costs aka maintain operating costs and […]

If you are experiencing slowness when accessing your website at certain times of the day. You should start noting down the date and times that are you experiencing this issue. There may be a lot of different causes that could be causing your website to be slow. If you are on a shared web hosting […]

Virtual private servers (VPS) are parts or slices of a dedicated server that are split equally among a number of customers. The number of customers per server may vary according to the plan and cost. A VPS may have from 5 customers hosted on the server to 20-50 total customers. Shared web hosting is taking […]

The frequent asked questions page of your web hosting provider will have many answers to your questions. The FAQ page features the most commonly asked questions by other customers. If you haven’t checked out the FAQ page of your web host yet you should. The FAQ page may have answers to billing questions to technical […]

Some web hosting providers may offer the option for you to choose a web hosting plan with either SSD or a regular hard drive. SSD stands for solid state drive, a different type of hard drive that does not use a moving disk to store data. Instead, SSD drives use RAM like technology to write, […]

If your web hosting provider is offering shared web hosting and business class web hosting, what should you choose? If you are starting out and are unsure you should choose shared web hosting. If you are planning to run a lot of scripts or resource intensive programs then you may want to upgrade to business […]

If you are deciding on buying a web hosting plan from a web hosting provider. Make sure that the web hosting provider you are considering has made available their contact information. If all you find is the option to purchase a web hosting plan and some details about the web hosting account but no solid […]

Make sure the web hosting provider that you choose has 24/7 technical support available. If for any reason your web host says otherwise then you should switch web hosts immediately. Having 24/7 technical support is a crucial component of your web hosting plan. If your website suffers an outage at 1 am in the morning. […]