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Category: Hosting

Robust, Affordable Blog Hosting

Posted on February 20, 2009 by David with 1 Comment

A few days ago, I wrote about my trials with InMotion Hosting. They’ve since called to apologize for, “letting me down.” No kidding … when they take everything off-line for nearly 9 hours for server maintenance, that is letting down customers. Oh, did I also share that they said a cpu usage spike by a [...]

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Trials of Unreliable Web Hosting

Posted on February 17, 2009 by David with No Comments

For a while, I thought it was just me … that I was having bad Web hosting karma. But, I have learned that many bloggers encounter issues with unreliable or inconsistent hosting service and empty advertising claims from Web hosting companies.
I once used a Web hosting company that had U.S. flag icons pasted all over [...]

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Hosting Services for Wordpress Blogs

Posted on January 6, 2009 by David with 3 Comments

Over the holidays, there were some “too-good-to-be-true” sales on Web site hosting by some hosting companies. “Unbelievably low” prices! You know the hype. One hosting company got so many inquiries that its site crashed … that is not a good sign.
Let me explain why hosting prices have gotten so low:

Competition among an over-supply. There are [...]

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Web Hosting: Good, Bad, Ugly

Posted on October 21, 2008 by David with No Comments

While I have written about web hosting services before, it is a constantly changing landscape of quality and reliability. It almost seems as if when a hosting company becomes popular, it will ruin its reputation by moving customer service off-shore to a place where English is not spoken and/or load up each server with far [...]

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Web Site Crash … or Just Me?

Posted on July 6, 2008 by David with 1 Comment

How many times has this happened? You type in the name of a Web site or click on a favorite among your browser bookmarks and … nothing happens. Happens to all of us at one time or another.  You have no idea whether the site is down or your Internet connection has hiccuped [...]

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Web Hosting: Look Beyond Odd Names

Posted on May 18, 2008 by David with No Comments

Web hosting services is how you get a blog (or Web site) online. They are the conduit to the Internet. Today, Web hosting has gotten very affordable inexpensive low cheap dirt cheap. For as low as $4.95 a month, you can sign-up with a first-rate Web hosting company and be online within minutes. [...]

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How-To Start Your Own Wordpress Blog

Posted on May 13, 2008 by David with No Comments

How to get a custom, personalized blog site up and running with you in charge of your own domain … yourname.com or .net … that will support your business, your organization or yourself. What are the steps? What comes first?  And, how can you have your own blog on your own domain name [...]

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