Managed WordPress hosting companies offer a user-friendly dashboard that simplifies common tasks such as setting up new websites, updating the WordPress core and WordPress themes and plugins, and making backups. While beginners will love this approach to hosting, those of you who are used to using web hosting control panels such as cPanel will feel … Read more
RDO Servers is a website hosting company based in South Carolina, United States, that offers a wide variety of hosting solutions. They started operating in 2009 as a faith based company. Their company offers domain registration, shared hosting, VPS hosting, reseller hosting, and dedicated hosting plans. They also sell SSL certificates, server management plans, and … Read more
Content Delivery Networks are a global network of servers stored in data centres around the world. Their purpose is to help serve content to users at improved speeds. The term is commonly abbreviated to CDN. CDNs are designed to compliment your hosting setup, not replace them. Many hosting companies offer a content delivery network to … Read more
No hosting company can guarantee that their server will remain online 100% of the time. Whatever hosting company you choose to host your websites with, you are bound to experience downtime at one time or another. Downtime can be caused by a number of reasons such as upgrading your server hardware, receiving a DDoS attack, … Read more
A DDoS attack occurs when an individual or group of people tried to send a surge of traffic to a particular server or network. This flood of traffic can overwhelm the server with requests and as a result, the websites on that server go offline. DDoS stands for Distributed Denial-of-Service; which is pretty apt because … Read more
The number of hosting options available can be daunting; particularly for those of you who are planning on hosting your first website. The first question you need to ask yourself is what type of host you should use. As you can imagine, a small website with only a few hundred visitors a day has vastly … Read more
In its simplest form, a website is just a collection of files that store information. Like all types of files, they need to be stored on a computer somewhere. As I am sure you already know, it just is not practical to host a website yourself. It is technically possible to do it, however to … Read more
Web hosting is a billion dollar industry that will be around as long as the internet. You can make a lot of money if you build up a good service and market it correctly. I have looked into starting my own web hosting company in the past. I wasn’t hoping to become a millionaire. All … Read more
IP addresses are assigned to each device that connects to the internet, whether it is a home computer or a server located in a data centre. The principle function of a domain name server is to point a memorable name to a numeric IP address. For example, you can visit Google.com by visiting http://74.125.224.72/, however … Read more
Many hosting companies who sell VPS plans and dedicated server plans ask whether you want a managed plan or an unmanaged plan. A managed hosting plan is where the hosting company handles everything. They will set up the hosting control panel for you and help you manage it. For example, the hosting company will install … Read more