Great reputations still great? When you come across reviews of web hosts. Many customers may be raving about their web host. Proclaiming that their web host is the best or greatest. Now look at the dates for those reviews. Were they written in the last few weeks, months, or years? The reviews that you encounter […]
Question: Should I stay away from web hosts that offer multiple layers of support? Answer: It depends on the type of web hosting product that you are ordering. Unmanaged VPS and unmanaged servers If you are ordering a “unmanaged” virtual private server or server and the web host offers technical support as an “addon” then […]
Endurance International Group, the owner of Bluehost, Hostgator, Fatcow, and many other different web hosting brands will be letting go of at least 440 employees in the coming months. VentureBeat is reporting that the layoff’s will last from March to October in 2017. The Orem, Utah office (used primarily by Bluehost) will be closed as […]
Rightside Group has entered into an agreement to sell eNom, the domain reselling registrar business to Tucows. Rightside will retain ownership of it’s retail domain registrar business (Name.com) and it’s portfolio of new global top level domains (gTLDs). Tucows’ is the owner of Tucows.com, Ting (virtual mobile network operator), OpenSRS (domain reselling registrar), and Hover.com […]
Liquid Web recently released a press release that confirms rumors that the Michigan web host acquired rival WiredTree. The terms of the transaction was not revealed. Liquid Web also confirmed that the web host is transferring WiredTree customers to Liquid Web’s network. There would be schedule migrations and Liquid Web has a dedicated team in […]
Compass Datacenters has announced that RedBird Capital Partners and the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Fund have invested in the datacenter developer. Compass Datacenters is a company that specializes in building datacenter facilities for datacenter operators and large technology clients. With the growth of the Internet and new “Internet of Things” which involve a lot of devices […]
CoreSite, a datacenter provider has announced that the company’s Los Angeles datacenter has been selected as the North American access point for the new SEA-US Trans-Pacific cable system. The SEA-US Trans-Pacific cable system is an underwater cable that connects different countries along its path. The SEA-US Trans-Pacific cable system is expected to come online by […]
If your site’s bandwidth is being eaten up by the Googlebot. You will have to enter into Google’s Search Console and change the setting so Googlebot doesn’t crawl as often. When the Googlebot doesn’t crawl as often on your site. The bandwidth usage by Googlebot will decrease. The “freshness” or how often new pages on […]
Carter Validus Mission Critial REIT II, Inc., has announced that the company has acquired the Andover Datacenter II that houses Navisite’s datacenter. The acquired datacenter has 153,000 square foot of space. Carter Validus Mission critical REIT II paid $37 million dollars for the facility. An unnamed weather and forecasting organization is also a tenant of […]
If you have just ordered web hosting service for the first time with a company. They may not activate your web hosting account until you can verify you are really you. This usually means you have to send some form of identification (ID) to the web host. When this happens you have a few options. […]