Web Hosting

Some people just need an easy way to make a really simple Web site. They don’t care about being optimized for the search engines or even keeping the link more than a few months. They might just want a place to get started with real Web design or don’t have the time to […]

I see you have come back to the Web developer dojo for more training young master. Have you ever though about how important having a good 404 error Web page is? It is more important than snatching the pebble from my hand. If you play your cards right - you might be […]

When you get a new Web hosting account, there are a lot of things that can be confusing. I mean you are about to embark on a journey of server issues and configurations you have never seen before. It is intimidating. I got an e-mail the other day asking about one of […]

Will my Web site go down when it is being moved? This is one question that I get asked a lot, because nobody wants to suffer any downtime at all. When it comes to Web hosting and moving from Web host to Web host - can you expect to experience downtime? Now […]

If you are a school, church, or non-profit organization in need for Web hosting, things can be a little tough. Even though the price of Web hosting has gone down over the past few years to nearly nothing, paying the hosting bills might still be a hard thing to do. What is the trick to […]

I got a question E-mailed to me a few days ago wanting to know if knew of a quick and easy way to upload files to a hosting account without using an FTP client. Now there are more than a few, I can promise you that. One of the easiest ways might be […]

I got an E-mail from a friend of mine not too long ago that wanted to know if it would better to use the “one-click” install of WordPress that his Web host gives him or if he should just install it himself? Now both sides have their good points and their bad points, but […]

A lot of Web host these days are allowing their customers to host more than one domain name from their Web hosting plan. Now should you do this? I say it is a great way to get a lot of little Web sites hosted and it is a lot cheaper than buying a […]

Since starting my podcast on and about the Web hosting world almost two years ago, one of the biggest complaints I get is that there are too many Web hosts out there to choose from. Everybody wants to know who is the best, or if the company they are looking at is any good […]

The folks over at Microsoft are set to build a new data center facility in San Antonio, Texas. The entire facility will cost around $550 million, and will cover 400,000 square feet and housing tens of thousands of computers to host their services.
This new facility will be Microsoft’s first data center in […]

I guess before I can ask you if you want one, it might help if I told you what it is. After hanging around so many Web hosting geeks all day long, sometimes I forget that the real world is not as savvy with the Web hosting lingo that gets tossed around. For […]

I get a lot of questions sent my way, and I do my best to answer them all. Every so often though, I get one that is good enough to share in front of the rest of the class. Jim was the most recent person to drop me a line and he wanted […]

Not every Web site launched or project started can be a winner. You might think you have the coolest idea, the best design, and the most wonderful content and it can fall onto the Web with a deaf ear if nobody likes it. So should you abandon that domain and start fresh? Well, hold on […]

Now everybody knows GoDaddy.com is world famous for selling domain names. It seems like more often than not these days though it is trying to expand itself into other areas of the Web. The most recent expansion of Web services included Photo Filer. This new feature offers you another method for sharing […]

There has been some discussion around the Web about how regular Web hosts might be a dying breed. With all these specialized hosting solutions for photos, videos, backup, and music rolling around - who needs the shared services anymore? Well, I do think that specialized hosting is a good thing, but it is far from […]

Stumbling across free hosting solutions is something I do an awful lot. Since I have been writing about the Web hosting industry in one way or another for some time now, I get a lot of hosting suggestions thrown my way. Here are two free file hosting solutions that you may or may […]

Yes, I am back with two more free file hosting solutions that you may or may not have heard of before. When it comes to free hosting there are a lot of choices out there. Will you go with the best known ones, or do you feel like doing out on a limb? […]

For those of you who do not know, Hostingcon is one of the Web hosting industry’s biggest events. To make it simple, think of it as the high school prom of the Web hosting world. Now I know most of you were not there, so I have a collection of MP3s to make […]

We have seen Web servers in all shapes and sizes right here on the Web Hosting Show. How would you like to own your own oddball server? Now you can get your hands on your very own.

The one year birthday episode of the Web Hosting Show is ready for download. Other than talking about what the podcast had done in the past year, we covered some pretty big Web hosting news. From HostingCon to wire tap hosting discounts, here is the week that was in the Web hosting world.