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Hosting

BlueHost Website Hosting Review

December 8, 2009

Blue Host offers an excellent value website hosting package at the best price I can find. What truly sets them apart from all the other shared hosting companies is the special software they have developed to overcome the weakness of a traditional shared host.
The problem with traditional shared hosting has always been that since you [...]

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Find out what other websites are on your shared host

December 7, 2009

Shared hosting packages are cheap. But often hundreds of sites are running on one server which means slow response times for your site.
You can view the names of other sites being run on the same shared host by entering the name of a site into find shared host neighbours.
How it works:
Usually all the hosts on [...]

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Choosing A Domain Name Registrar – GoDaddy

December 7, 2009

Choosing a Domain name registrars
by John Davidson
You won’t need much support from a domain name registrar so why pay $35 if you can get away with only $10?
Be wary of the sites that offer $2.99 names though. They lure you in with a cheap price for the first year like $2.99, but then soak you [...]

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Securing GoDaddy Shared Hosting

December 7, 2009

by John Davidson
There are a few annoying security holes with GoDaddy shared hosting that can be easily fixed. The first annoyance is the default GoDaddy login page does not use https:// (secure encrypted login) but instead ordinary http:// which transmits your username and password in plain text.
On the GoDaddy home page leave the username/customer# and [...]

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