How Much Space & Bandwidth?

How can a normal user determine the disk storage size and bandwidth that is right for his / her website? Generally speaking, text does not take much space, if any. When it comes to images and videos, it's totally a different story.

Beware of first year hosting offers

You browse for a hosting plan, you find iPage offering unlimited everything with $42/year price tag. What you fail to notice is that this price is for the first year of hosting only. After that, the price goes up to $110 per year. In light of that case, you need to re-calculate your numbers before you go ahead with any hosting plan.

CPU Quota Errors

So your site is growing, your scripts are being heavily utilized, and then suddenly your webhost sends you an email, warning you about the CPU quota errors and that if you do not sort them out, your hosting account can be stopped or cancelled.

How Is The Monthly Fee Calculated?

 How does webhosting service providers calculate their hosting fees? Based on a simple equation: Web Space + Bandwidth = Monthly Fee. How do they make their profits? From overselling their bandwidth and web space.

Five Common Migration Mistakes—and How to Avoid Them

Migrating to new versions of Active Directory, Exchange, SharePoint, Office 365 and even Windows OS brings some important benefits, including enhanced reliability, usability, manageability and security, but it also can result in down time,  risk factors for compliance, governance, and productivity abound, especially when moving critical applications and data across on-premises, cloud and hybrid environments.

Quest Software has identified five common migration mistakes and offers tips on how to avoid them.

1. Poor PlanningCompanies often plunge into major migrations without reviewing existing environments (e.g., users, DLs, groups, public folders, etc.) as well as what needs to be moved (e.g., data stores, users, mailboxes) and what doesn’t (e.g., unused accounts, stale data, empty mailboxes). Assessing application and browser compatibility and preparing for the move are crucial, especially when dealing with Office 365, Windows 7 and Active Directory migrations.

[HostGator] Fantastico Is No Match To In-house Script Installer

A lot of angry comments have been coming out after HostGator stopped offering the Fantastico script installer for free among its list of services.

HostGator answer was simple, they have another yet better option, the HostGator Script Installer, which will install scripts with one click, and based on HostGator's clients recommendations, that one does a very good job installing scripts, if not better than Fantastico!

[VPS] CloudLinux Best Choice To Manage Resources

So you bought a VPS server from say, HostGator, and you are wondering how to manage that server to start your reseller business, and start offering shared hosting.

The best way to achieve that is to rely on CloudLinux on your VPS. CloudLinux automatically divides the resources so each client can get specific resources. Later on, you can start charging extra money for additional sites hosted on your VPS.

[VPS] WHM/cPanel Consumes 512 MB Alone!

If you were going for a VPS package, and was considering using the WHM/cPanel script, beware that the VPS version of this script consumes 512 MB RAM easily, even when claimed it only consumes 300 MB.

If you were migrating from shared hosting to a VPS package, get a real 1.5 or 2 MB, else ditch the WHM/cPanel option. cPanel is going to just about max out any RAM less than 1.5 MB.

[Fantastico] Not a Given Choice, Rather a Premium

HostGator recently stopped offering the Fantastico script installer for free, and started asking clients to purchase a license for it, if they wish to keep on using it. To clear things up, Fantastico issued a list detailing those hosting companies still offering it included in their list of features.

Conditions vary.  Sorted alphabetically.

Beachcomber Creations
Bluehost (Disclaimer: affiliate link)
BodHost
BurstNET                            
Caro net                            
DedicatedNow                            
eUKhost

Heed those tips before you go with HostGator

- HostGator's domain registrations cost $15/year.
- Domain registrations are carried out via eNom and not HostGator themselves.
- Disk space is unlimited, but there is a maximum limit of 250,000 files on shared hosting.
- If you reach 10GB or 100,000 files, automatic backups stop.
- HostGator charges $15 fee to restore a backup they have on their server.

If you still want to buy their services, kindly consider using this affiliate link here, out of your good will!