Disclosure: VNKB.com at the time this article was published is hosted by Linode. After almost 2 weeks of becoming under a siege of DDoS attacks. VPS provider Linode has managed to defend most of the attacks. Datacenters that were attacked by the DDoS included: Dallas, Singapore, Atlanta, London, Newark, Fremont, and Frankfurt. The first signs […]
Verizon to auction 48 datacenters
Verizon maybe looking to unload 48 datacenters and hopes the sale of the 48 datacenters fetch at least $2.5 billion dollars. Verizon is hoping to sell each datacenter at an average price of about $52 million dollars. The datacenter assets include assets that Verizon acquired when the company brought Terremark Worldwide. Likely buyers include Microsoft […]
Web host’s DNS service
Should you use your web host’s DNS service? If your web hosting provider is providing free DNS service. You may consider using it if that is what you need. Most web hosting providers and most domain registrars provide complimentary DNS service with their respective services. If your website is a local community website or you […]
Web hosts raises the prices
When your web hosting provider decides to raise the prices for their web hosting plans. Do you decide to stay with the web host or find a new web host? Depending on your technical requirements and what kind of setup you have with your web host. It may be more financially wise to begin transiting […]
List of managed DNS providers
The following is a list of select managed DNS providers. Managed DNS providers manage your DNS records. You have to worry about your web server while they worry about DNS requests. Affilias, Verisign, Internap, and Neustar didn’t publish their prices on their website at the time this article was written. You have to contact the […]
Free web hosting control panels
The following is a list of over one dozen free web hosting control panels. Some of the web hosting control panels listed below haven’t been updated for years now and others are very active. ISPConfig http://www.ispconfig.org/ Kloxo http://lxcenter.org/software/kloxo CentOS Web Panel (CWP) http://centos-webpanel.com/ VHCS http://www.vhcs.net/ DTC http://gplhost.com/software-dtc.html Vesta Control Panel https://vestacp.com/ Virtualmin https://www.virtualmin.com/ Webmin http://www.webmin.com/ […]
UK2 brands
The following are the different web hosting and service brands owned by the UK2 Group. UK2.net – provides shared web hosting to dedicated servers Resell.biz – service enabling resellers to offer web hosting to domain registrations Midphase.com – provides shared web hosting, vps, reseller, and dedicated servers 100TB.com – dedicated servers WestHost.com – shared web […]
Most popular EIG web hosting brand?
The most popular web hosting brands owned by Endurance International Group (EIG) are probably BlueHost and HostGator. EIG owns other popular web hosting brands but both BlueHost and HostGator are most mentioned and more popular online compared to other brands owned by EIG.
Who is Unified Layer?
UnifiedLayer.com resolves to a single page website that doesn’t provide any information about who they are. If you do a traceroute to any website and it shows unifiedlayer.com in the trace then the packets are being sent onward to an Endurance International Group (EIG) datacenter. Unified Layer = Endurance International Group
Web hosting for China visitors
If your intended audience for your website are China based visitors. You should opt for a web hosting account that includes a dedicated IP address. If you choose to go with a shared web hosting account that has a shared IP address. That shared IP address may get blocked in the future. If you had […]