FreeBSD 11.0 – new release date set

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FreeBSD 11.0 final – the new release date is now September 28, 2016. Originally it was suppose to be on September 9, 2016 but that didn’t happen. The day came and went and there was still no FreeBSD 11.0RC3. FreeBSD 11.0RC3 build is set to begin this week. After RC3 is released and other bugs […]

Host your site locally or don’t?

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Two reasons you want to host your website locally or near where your main audience of visitors will be. These are just two main reasons and there can be a lot more. There can also be reasons why you don’t want to host your site locally but that is another day. 1) Access your site […]

DigitalOcean adds high memory droplets

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Digital Ocean has announced that the New York VPS provider has added high memory “droplets” to its product offering. High memory intensive droplets will enable developers and other customers to run large databases and other memory intensive applications. Pricing for high memory droplets starts at $120 dollars per month and includes: 16 GB of memory, […]

When is FreeBSD 11.0 coming out?

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Question: When is FreeBSD 11 going to be released? Answer: There is no clear date yet when FreeBSD 11 will be released. It is expected that FreeBSD 11.0-RC3 will be released sometime in the near future before the actual 11.0 version is released to the public. As of today only FreeBSD 11.0-RC2 is available. It […]

Canadian web hosts

This is a list of web hosts that operate a datacenter in Canada. If you represent a web host that offers web hosting from Canada and would like to be included on this page, please contact us. Canadian Web Hosting – https://www.canadianwebhosting.com iWeb – https://iweb.com GreenGeeks – https://www.greengeeks.com/ OVH – https://www.ovh.com/ Cogeco Peer 1 – […]

How much does CloudFlare DDoS protection cost?

Question: How much does CloudFlare’s DDoS protection service cost? Answer:The free and Pro plan includes some limited DDoS protection. Any significant DDoS attack would probably require an upgrade to the higher priced plan. CloudFlare provides advance DDoS protection for one domain for the price of $200 dollars per month. If the size of the attack […]

GoDaddy acquires ManageWP

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GoDaddy has announced the company has acquired ManageWP. ManageWP provides a dashboard service to let administrators of WordPress sites, manage all their different WordPress sites from one common dashboard. This acquisition by GoDaddy will help and provide GoDaddy customers with a new tool to manage their WordPress sites hosted at GoDaddy. The ManageWP service enables […]