This is a list of places to troubleshoot by doing traceroutes and pings from around the world. You can use these providers to figure out if there are any issues connecting to your site. Major internet bandwidth providers: PCCW – http://lookingglass.pccwglobal.com/ Telia – http://looking-glass.telia.net/ Hurricane Electric – https://lg.he.net/ NTT – https://www.us.ntt.net/support/looking-glass/ Cogent – http://www.cogentco.com/en/network/looking-glass Level […]
Microsoft Azure continues growth FY16 Q4
Microsoft has released their earnings report for the 4th quarter for fiscal year 2016. Microsoft Azure experienced revenue growth of 102%. Excerpt from the earnings report: Intelligent Cloud Intelligent Cloud revenue increased $415 million or 7%, mainly due to higher revenue from server products and cloud services and Enterprise Services. Revenue included an unfavorable foreign […]
Web hosts in South Africa
The following is a list of web hosts in South Africa. If you are a web host and house your data in South Africa, please send us a message and we will add you to this page. Hetzner South Africa – https://hetzner.co.za RSAWEB – http://www.rsaweb.co.za/ Snowball – https://www.snowball.co.za/ eNetworks – http://www.enetworks.co.za/ Internet Solutions (IS) – […]
Who hosts Facebook.com?
So who provides web hosting for Facebook.com? Facebook is there own web host nowaday. Facebook has their own ASN number, AS32934. Facebook owns over 90,000 IPv4 addresses that they use in one way or another. When Facebook started out they may of not been their own web host but were renting servers from different datacenters. […]
Does my web host own their own datacenter?
If you are using a small or local web host then there is a low chance that they own their own datacenter. Your web host probably either is renting servers from a datacenter or is colocating their equipment inside someone’s datacenter. Your small or local web host would not be the only one. The practice […]
Free web hosting for 12 months
If you want to try out Amazon Web Services (AWS) or just want to host a hobby site for free for 12 months then check out the Amazon Web Services Free Tier. The AWS Free Tier gives you 12 months of web hosting services from AWS. Amazon imposes free tier limits and if you exceed […]
Using a server with ARM processors
Question: Will using a server with ARM processors instead of AMD or Intel processors how any performance difference? Answer: ARM processors isn’t as popular as Intel or AMD processors in the server world. ARM processors can be used but depending on what operating system you decide to use. There maybe some limitations if you do […]
Should I host my site in Singapore or in the US?
Question: Should I host my site in the United States or Singapore? Answer: It depends on where you expect most of the visitors from your site will be coming from. If you expect most of the people accessing your site will be from the United States, North America, or Europe then hosting in the United […]
Can a shared web hosting account be more powerful than a VPS?
Question: Can a shared web hosting account be more powerful than a virtual private server? Answer: No, generally speaking a VPS server with 512 MB to 1 GB of memory and access to 1 core should be more powerful than most basic shared web hosting accounts. In some rare conditions with specific and higher grade […]
How to make a site go really fast
Question: How to make a site go really fast? Answer: There are two ways to make your site speedup. The first one method is by switching from normal disk hard drives to solid state drives (SSD). The second method is by adding more memory (RAM) to your web server. Shared web hosting options If you […]