I have been looking at many of the new products and services being offered in the website hosting marketplace lately. In particular, I’ve been trying to figure out if web hosting prices are going up or down. It’s not as easy to figure out as you might think. Click to continue »

If you’ve spent much time researching web hosting, you’ve almost certainly run across the term “cloud hosting”. While it’s a great term, it doesn’t exactly say a whole lot about what it actually is. And without knowing what cloud hosting actually is and is good for, it’s pretty hard to evaluate how it might benefit your website. Click to continue »

I have been thinking quite a bit since HostingCon about Cloud Computing. One panelist, Emil Sayegh, General Manager at Mosso – the Rackspace Cloud Division – really stoked controversy when he proclaimed that: ”Shared hosting will be obsoleted by the Cloud”.

Since I know tons of hosting professionals who have made considerable sums from shared hosting, I wondered how this migration from shared to the Cloud would occur. In order to conceptualize the transition from shared to the Cloud, I decided to look over a few Cloud offerings and consider the advantages of the Cloud over a traditional shared hosting offering. First off, let’s settle on the definition of Cloud computing as offered by Mr. Sayegh at HostingCon: ”A set of pooled computing resources done offsite using software”. Also based on the HostingCon discussions I gathered that two of the big advantages of Cloud computing are ‘instant on-off’ and ‘scalability’. Click to continue »

Web hosting can present an easy way to go green, if you’re willing to do a bit of legwork and research on the options available. Many website owners don’t realize the amount of energy a typical web host uses. But between security systems, servers, and the massive cooling needs of most data centers, web hosting is not an insignificant energy user. Click to continue »

The physical security of a web host’s data center isn’t always considered when one is choosing a web host. After all, we tend to think more of the security of our data from hackers and other electronic threats, and not so much from someone actually breaking into the data center to steal equipment. It’s not uncommon to see users on web hosting forums claiming that physical security isn’t really a consideration, as they’ve never heard of anyone walking into a data center and stealing a server. Click to continue »

There are a lot of things to consider when choosing a web host. Determining your own hosting needs is the first step in finding a host that can offer what you need and want. Read on for a list of what you should consider when figuring out what you need in a web host. Click to continue »

Google Operating System – an unofficial source of news and tips about Google – is reporting that Google will ”launch a service that indexes and ranks content from microblogging services like Twitter.” According to the piece, certain search queries will trigger Google’s ”MicroBlogsearch universal search group” – which is described as functioning in a manner similar to Google’s blog search. In other words, aggregating and making sense out of the millions of active Tweets at any given time, and somehow ranking the Tweets according to a Google algorithm applied to the data. Click to continue »

Green?

Be green to get green…

Do you remember last year when web hosts and data centers were turning ‘green’ 20 a dozen in a bid to “save the environment”? I do – ‘green’ was quite the buzzword at the time and it seemed that anyone who wasn’t turning green was basically turning their back on Mother Earth. Back then I personally questioned whether there was a bandwagon effect taking place, and as they say, if there’s any doubt, there’s no doubt. Click to continue »

On this day, at this time, change has come to HostSearch.com!