Web Hosting

Have some photos you want to show off? While nearly all paid hosts offer some form of photo hosting, there are a number of free photo hosting solutions out there. These sites are a great way to organize and share photos with friends, coworkers, and even the whole world if …

Unless you own a forum with 100,000 users or a top-100 blog, chances are good you use shared hosting. This web hosting plan term can be a bit confusing, however. What is shared hosting and just how is it shared? There’s no need to worry. Newcomers to the industry might …

Every website has code. HTML code is the backbone of the Web, but for more advanced features on a website and especially for web applications, you need a good scripting language. Here are a few, some basic, some more complex that are free for Linux servers: Javascript – Built into …

Run a hosting site long enough and you are bound to encounter customers who want blogs. Even if you are a customer yourself, there is a good chance you will want a blog. You could get a free one from WordPress or Blogger, but having your own domain for it …

If you’ve ever been bumped off a flight because of overbooking or waited in long lines at amusement parks, you’re probably familiar with the concept of overselling. But did you know that just like most other service providers, web hosts are often guilty of overcrowding, too? Shared hosts oversell their …

Still using a counter on your website? Then you probably still listen to vinyl records and run Windows 95. Although very popular in the web’s early days, counter scripts are now very outdated technology and only websites stuck in the 1990s still use them. Most counters are not only ugly …

These days, a number of hosts advertise plans with unlimited features– no bandwidth limits, all the disk space you can use, and so on. While this may seem like a good deal up front, there really is no difference between an “unlimited” host and one that places limits on its …

Looking to run a CMS like WordPress or Joomla, but don’t know how to install it? Thankfully, many hosts offer automated installation of the most popular scripts and content management systems out there. Often called one-click installation or Fantastico (cPanel hosts only), the service is generally offered for free. Simply …

Although it was 1985 with Symbolics computers in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA registered the very first .com domain name, it would take nearly 12 years for Web as we know it to really explode with doctoms. “This birthday is really significant because what we are celebrating here is the internet and …

A number of hosts offer free domain forwarding. What is it, why do you need it, and are there any limitations? Domain name forwarding simply lets you forward visitors from your domain to a specific URL or display a page. For instance, I could tell my host to send all …