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WordPress Cacheing with W3 Total Cache

January 19th, 2010 . by Jonathan

WordPress is far and away the most popular blogging platform for bloggers running their domains. It is free, powerful, stable and well-understood by most in the blogging community.
However, those who do know it also know it can be rather difficult to host at times. A dynamic platform running on PHP, it can crush servers when [...]

Hosted Blog Platforms: A New Option

January 14th, 2010 . by Jonathan

Though first founded in 2003, Squarespace has been attracting a lot of attention lately.
Simply put, Squarespace is not a traditional Web host that offers a space for you to run your site, it is an entire hosted blogging platform that, like WordPress or any other CMS, allows you to easily set up and manage a [...]

Hosting Abuse Policies: 5 Things To Check

January 12th, 2010 . by Jonathan

Abuse policies are one thing that few hosts publicize. They are usually kept quiet, buried in the footer of a host’s site or footnotes in the lengthy legal agreement users sign.
Host don’t want you to see them, read them or think about them. But they should.
These abuse agreements are the tools that hosts use [...]

Reseller Hosting: Why It’s Not Just for Resellers

January 8th, 2010 . by Jonathan

Nearly every major shared hosting provider offers some sort of reseller program. This includes Site5, Hostgator and SurpassHosting.
The idea behind these hosting accounts is that you get a block of server space, usually for only a modest amount more than a traditional shared account, and you then turn around and resell that space to multiple [...]