Keeping things short, I recently teamed up with the guys at Hostsentry.net … for the good of the web hosting community.
HostSentry.net is a non-profit web site, which is designed to give the visitors to this site all the tools they need to make an educated decision about their hosting provider.
We encourage the sharing of knowledge, [...]

Comparing Europe and US hosting
When it comes to choosing a hosting server or a shared account many don’t know what’s better for them so we are going to do a small comparison.

Speed
Let’s say you are located somewhere in Europe, Germany maybe – and your site’s visitors are mostly from Europe. Your visitors will have best [...]

Some find out the hard way that their site is no longer suitable for shared hosting. Same thing happened to them. They definitely need a dedicated server now. It’s a clear example of “Taken down by success”.

~1000 unique visitors per day might not be much but when you get lots of hits …oh brother, so [...]

A few days ago there was an important soccer game, atleast for Romanians. The game wasn’t featured on TV, no television network had the right to broadcast it, legal issues, bla bla bla.
The game was on live radio though but the sites broadcasting the sound stream had a hard time copping with the high demand [...]

For the last few days I have been digging up info on hostican. I know they are an older company that rebranded their name, they used to be known as IndexCore. Hostican, the name they “wear” now is about 8 months old and they are a Cpanel host. (Yes, I got some inside info).
What is [...]

I often ask people if they really need all that space and bandwidth when they ask about a big overselling hosts. I’m talking about xxxxGB traffic and xxxGB space in the shared environment. People buy these ridiculous plans for usually under $10 / month and then they find themselves booted of. People don’t know the [...]

Ok, I signed up with hostgator again after they launched the new offer, I had an account with them in the past but left when I got my own server.
This is day 22 of the month and I host 3 wordpress blogs with hostgator.
One having served 200544 pages , one 188908 pages and one 92524.
I’m [...]