VPS & Dedicated

A federal judge in Maryland today approved a £1.07 million ($1.67 million USD) settlement today for nearly 5,500 customers of NaviSite, a datacenter that suffered long downtime after several servers were accidentally unplugged. NaviSite had told its customers to expect downtime for a server upgrade. Instead of upgrading the servers, …

If you have decided to move your company’s web sites to a dedicated server, there is a good chance that you have chosen a Linux-based operating system to run on it. Linux, a free and open source alternative to proprietary operating systems such as Microsoft Windows or variants of UNIX, …

There comes a time when owners of large sites find their shared hosting account no longer meets their needs. They may be running out of bandwidth, disk space, or the site might be something like a forum or blog that uses a lot of server resources. When this happens, webmasters …