I have just completed my one-year trial of POW Web. The trial included purchasing domains and running three sites on my account, two of which ran on the blog platform wordpress. The busiest site, one of the blogs, ran cron jobs and received a high of 100 unique visitors per day. One site was a [...]
Until the end of July 2009, Pronet Hosting is offering a pretty amazing deal. If you click the banner above, you can get a full year of hosting for $4.95.
Consider this a preliminary review. I’ve only been with Pronet Hosting for about a week, as of July 19, 2009, so this review may be subject [...]
I never really expected to run this test, but from looking at my statistics, there are a lot of people interested in becoming resellers. I’m not one of them, but as I looked over the reseller program at GoDaddy, I decided that it was worth a good look. For one thing, I could do it for $199, which is a solid price for such a thing, and also it is very easy to use, so it won’t take up too much of my already strained time.
Overview: Netfirms is a shared and grid website hosting company. I hang out with site owners all the time and no company has as wide a range of opinions about them as netfirms. From “the last and only host you’ll ever need” to “the most oversold host on the Internet,” the spectrum of opinions is wide and contradictory. The reality, of course, is somewhere in between and is based upon user expectations going in. Netfirms is not a super-fast grid host. The reality is that Netfirms is actually a good, mid-power choice.
Overview: Outgrown your shared hosting? Is it time to go with VPS or dedicated managed hosting? You sound like you may want to take a look at UltraHosting because that is all they do, and they do it well. Not only that, but they set the bar for graduated scalability and pricing.
Rarely do I do reviews [...]
Host Papa is a shared host with a single hosting plan, as many companies have gone to these days. Host Papa really does most everything well, but one of the things that really distinguishes it from other hosting companies is that they have gone 100% green.
Clarification: There are two ways to use Wordpress. One is through their free hosting platform at Wordpress.com. The other is to install their software on your own hosting, which is generally referred to as Wordpress.org. There are some limitations with what you can do at free hosted Wordpress.com, which we’ll go through below. On the other hand, by installing their software on your own hosted account (most hosts have one-click installation), you can do pretty much anything you can imagine with Wordpress.
HostMonster is a shared-host with a “one-size fits all” philosophy. While that doesn’t necessarily, as we’ve seen, mean that HostMoster will suit your needs (though they will for the vast majority of users), and we do tend to prefer companies that are scalable, HostMoster is still a shared-hosting company that deserves your attention because of their technology, their superior customer service, the ease of use and their pricing.