Bitcoin Explained
If you keep up to date with the web hosting industry news you might have come across ‘Bitcoin’. It seems that hardly a day goes by without another web host announcing that they have adopted Bitcoin as a payment...
June 14, 2017
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If you keep up to date with the web hosting industry news you might have come across ‘Bitcoin’. It seems that hardly a day goes by without another web host announcing that they have adopted Bitcoin as a payment...
June 14, 2017
At the beginning of this year we took a look at some of the free forum software which allows developers to add forums to websites. To balance the equation we thought we might have a look at some of the premium (paid)...
May 19, 2017
When we first published this article back in August 2013, we had no idea how popular it would prove to be. Many thousands of people have read it since then and looked at the solutions we suggested might be viable...
April 18, 2017
Remember the days when every website had a forum? Those were the days, weren't they? Unfortunately, with social media on the scene, these days many website developers just don't bother adding a forum anymore, instead...
January 16, 2017
Remember the days when the only domain names available ended in .com, .net or .org? Things were easy back then. You either got the exact name you were looking (like 'web.com') - or you got the next best. Back in those...
December 20, 2016
Over the last decade there has been a revolution in access to the internet. Whereas once building websites was the sole domain of developers and coders, these days you don't need any programming skills to setup even the...
November 9, 2016
Let’s face it - everyone and their brother has a blog or website these days. While many people manage blogs and sites for the love of it, still more are hoping to get rich from their efforts. You might have the...
November 3, 2016
Whether you run a web hosting business or any other type of business, the chances are that you are pretty much running everything through a mobile phone. Arranging meetings, doing deals, contacting customers -...
June 17, 2016
Businesses that are trying to find technical expertise and particular skill sets can find themselves hunting far and wide for the right people. Regardless of which industry you are in, recruitment is a great drain on...
June 6, 2016
With more and more people joining the 'new economy' and either becoming involved in startups or self-employed, coworking space is being viewed by many as an ideal solution to avoiding the cost of dedicated business...
June 6, 2016
It seems that everyone and their brother are bloggers at the moment, but few are truly successful. However, when a blog has 100,000 subscribers or more, what might have started out as a bit of a side interest can become...
June 3, 2016
With Google's algorithm constantly evolving, changing and growing it can be stressful determining what factors are important in regards to your search engine optimization (SEO) efforts. Some aspects are obvious and...
May 9, 2016
If you are a small company, particularly one with a global audience of potential customers, social media marketing is important. For web hosts and cloud companies, it's vitally important. The typical web host customer...
April 27, 2016
WordCamp London 2016 is in the history books. Over this past weekend, hundreds of WordPress enthusiasts, hosting providers, developers and designers descended on London Metropolitan University to meet, learn, and grow...
April 12, 2016
Although the world might have gone mobile, you still find the PC at the core of most businesses. Your accountants still use Excel and your sales team still produces PowerPoint-based presentations. As everyone...
April 1, 2016
Let’s face it. Running a small business – regardless of whether it is a web hosting business or not – is hard work. You have enough on your plate. You are doing the marketing, setting up the products, getting...
March 16, 2016
As a web host, you might have set up thousands of blogs for your customers but never once considered needing one yourself. Why, you might ask yourself, do you need a blog? Well, the immediate answer is fairly simple
February 10, 2016
One of the key buzzwords at the moment is the curiously entitled 'Internet of Things' - usually abbreviated to 'IoT'. The term was introduced in the 1990s by a founder of MITs' Auto-ID Center, Kevin Ashton, who was part...
February 10, 2016
Choosing the right hosting provider for your business can be a harrowing experience for anyone who is not well versed with server infrastructure and its subtleties. Here are guidelines that will assist you in choosing...
January 20, 2016
A new year is upon us - a time that energizes us and strengthens our resolve to do something more with this coming year than we did with the last. For web hosts and other small businesses it's a time for renewed...
January 5, 2016
If you have always wanted to read a book about overcoming procrastination, but never go around to it, read this article instead…
January 4, 2016
It's the same every year ... Millions and millions of people worldwide set out their New Year resolutions at the end of December. Of course, on a personal front it's always something like 'lose weight' or 'make more...
December 29, 2015
Let’s face it – a lot of companies are offering very similar products and services, and that’s especially true in the web hosting industry. Simply do a search for ‘shared web hosting’ and up comes a seemingly...
December 2, 2015
Dedicated hosting is similar to managed hosting in that the service provider leases a particular server to just one client. However, the chief difference lies in the fact that these servers come pre configured and you...
November 19, 2015
Small businesses used to be easy to run. You set up shop, you placed an advert in your local newspaper, and you waited for business to come your way, and that was it. Unfortunately, the advent of the Internet changed...
November 6, 2015
Finding your first host can be intimidating. Although hosting will seem simple once you’ve been around awhile, at first it’s all very opaque. Part of the problem is simply that there’s a lot of misinformation out...
September 21, 2015
Lucky for us Google is continually tweaking and enhancing its search solution. That means we can refine our searches and pick up the information we truly need rather than wade through oceans of website pages. However,...
August 14, 2015
Building a website is generally considered a technical process that a coder or website designer should manage. Many people think it's a simple process... It's about impressing people with graphics and cool effects that...
August 3, 2015
Search Engine Optimization (otherwise known as SEO) is a series of techniques that help websites achieve a higher rank in Google's search results. Obviously, the higher you are in Google's list of sites for a particular...
August 3, 2015
Many people are a bit disparaging as far as Google Sheets and Google Docs are concerned. 'They are no Microsoft Office' people say. Well that's true - because unlike the online edition of Microsoft Office, Google Sheets...
June 26, 2015
