It is with deep sadness that I would like to announce the demise of UCWebhost. Here’s the email they send to their customers lately: We are sorry to inform you that as of August 12th, 2011 UCWebHost, Inc. will be going out of business. It has been our pleasure of these past years to have [...]

Knownhost, a VPS webhosting company, has just made my Christmas celebration more meaningful. Here’s the email I got from the company. Read it to learn why Knownhost makes me happy this Christmas. News: KnownHost Santa has arrived and this year it’s bigger and better than ever.   We are pleased to announce we are AGAIN upgrading [...]

Lunarpages webhost is currently running a unique promotional activity. If you’re lucky, you can either win a free webhosting for one year or get a free 16 GB Apple iPad. Of course a free Apple iPad is a much better choice considering that it costs more to purchase an ipad than to order a one-year [...]

I just got a newsletter from Hostgator who is hosting some of my sites. I actually have 3 web hosting companies, each has its own purpose. According to Hostgator, they have rolled out an application called Quickinstall, which has the same functionality of cPanel’s Fantastico. More details about this application can be read in below’s [...]

The most important part of a Web site may be what you put on the pages: the information, services, or products you offer. To pull it all together, however, you also need a domain name and a server, a computer with special software where you can publish your site on the Web. At this point, [...]

Crazy but it took me 2 years before I could figure it out. I was not able to figure it out because I did not ask. Truly, the only stupid question in the world is the question you don’t ask. So finally I asked my webhosting provider why I cannot update my WordPress blogs when [...]

The current host of my forum site seems to have oversold me. I don’t know, but lately my only site on their VPS is loading very slow. Website visitors to my forum are not that many, less than a hundred in an hour. I looked deeper into the problem and I found out that my [...]