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If you use your dedicated server for gaming or plan on joining the game server hosting business, you’re probably wondering what control panel you should use. A number of options exist, but here’s a brief overview of the most popular choices: TCAdmin– Although one of the most expensive control panels, …

There have always been rumours that site speed impacts Google search rank, but now Google has confirmed this myth on its blog: Like us, our users place a lot of value in speed — that’s why we’ve decided to take site speed into account in our search rankings. We use …

Pligg is an open source CMS that lets users submit and vote on content. If you’re looking to create the next Digg or reddit, this is the software to use. But what about Pligg hosting? Any host that can handle more popular CMS’s like WordPress and Joomla should play fine …

Anytime you move to a new web host or upgrade to a new server, you will need to migrate your data. In the old days, data was often stored in flat files or simply directly within the HTML files. While the management eventually proved to be inefficient, it was much …

An unmanaged dedicated server is almost like a bare-bones computer. While you get all of the essentials required to call it a server, there are many features that you will want to add. Some of them are free and/or open source, while some require purchase or even subscription services. It …

As government agencies in the United States invest billions in new data centers and servers, federal CIO Vivek Kundra blasted them for not taking advantage of preexisting resources: One of the most troubling aspects about the data centers is that in a lot of these cases, we’re finding that server …

Question: My current website URL looks like http://mydomain.com/index.php?page=creative. How can I remove the index.php and question mark to make it look more like a regular page address? Answer: If your web server is Apache, you should be able to do this with mod_rewrite. If you have a shared hosting account, …

Also known as inline linking, hotlinking occurs when someone else uses a picture or video from your site somewhere else on the web, but doesn’t bother to host the content themselves. These “free riders” can hog precious bandwidth and in some cases, cause server instability. Fortunately, hotlinking is very easy …

Red Hat, a company that holds a large portion of the Linux server market, recently released the latest version of their OS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5. The first version of the 5.x series was released in 2007, and now RHEL 6 is said to be released soon. RHEL is …

If you have more than one website or ever plan on expanding your web presence, multiple domain hosting is a must. As its name implies, the service lets you host multiple domains on a single account. Believe it or not, some shared hosts actually limit you to one domain. Multiple …