VPS, cloud hosting and hosted apps, that’s what VPS.net’s favorite territory. This UK-based VPS company has been in the hosting business since 2006 and has since specialized in cloud hosting solutions for businesses of all kinds. Today, VPS.net has servers running in over 20 locations around the world with support for a whole range of popular web apps including WordPress and Magento. We were eager to learn more about the company and got an interview with the team’s Bill Rossell. Read More…
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Interview with LiquidWeb on Storm Platform Powered VPS Hosting and Heroic Support
Liquid Web is a company that is truly passionate about great hosting solutions coupled with top-notch customer support. This hosting provider is famous for running all of its data centers by itself and managing all aspects of their business by themselves, making sure that they have full control so they can fulfill all expectations that their customers have. Liquid Web values great customer and technical support so highly that it registered its “Heroic Support®” slogan and created its own fit and sporty-shaped customer support mascot.
We recently had an interview with Stefan Nava, Sales Engineering and Business Development manager at the company and got to learn more about what drives this company and its team. He also shares a few great tips for anyone considering VPS hosting and gave us a few hints at what’s coming at LiquidWeb in the near future. Read More…
What’s The Best WordPress VPS Provider
There comes a time in the life cycle of every WordPress blog when shared hosting just doesn't cut it anymore. As your blog grows in popularity, serving webpages to an increasingly larger audience places tremendous strain on system resources. On a shared hosting service this results in poor performance, which can slow down your site, cause pages to load incorrectly, and eventually drive away your visitors (besides negative SEO effects since page speed is a crucial factor in determining SERP rankings). Read More…
VPS Hosting Comparison: VPS.net vs HostGator VPS
Choosing the right VPS hosting service can be a daunting task, making the right choice is crucial to your business. So here's a comparison of sorts of two very popular VPS hosting services: VPS.net and HostGator.com. Both VPS.net and HostGator offer some great services and at reasonable prices.
Features Galore
Both VPS.net and HostGator offer some amazing offers or plans for both customers and resellers. The best thing about what VPN.net has to offer is the wide range of server locations that you can enjoy. With servers located in 13 different locations around the world, you can have your server hosted in the location that your business plans to target. HostGator, on the other hand, offers a wide variety of packages that cater to every kind of VPS hosting need. Read More…
VPS Location Matters
It is tempting to immediately buy the cheapest VPS that offers ample security, space, speed and features. However, it is also essential that you pay attention to where your servers are physically located. Physical location seems like it should not play much of a role in your site's success, but it certainly does. Read More…
The Best Forex VPS Hosting Solutions
While you can do forex trading on your personal computer from home, most serious forex traders opt for VPS hosting solutions instead. You know that forex markets are fast and unforgiving, and even the slightest computer problem can end up costing you big time. Home traders are liable to endure power failure, computer crashes, or ISP connection problems, which can completely cripple your forex trading. Read More…
Choosing VPS Hosting for Drupal
When choosing how to host your Drupal website, you have to select between the shared and non-shared hosting dichotomy. While non-shared hosting has traditionally implied the use of a dedicated server, the emergence of Virtual Private Server (VPS) hosting has given the power and customizability of a dedicated server to users who can’t afford one. But in choosing between shared hosting and VPS hosting, which is better for your Drupal site? Read More…
Using VPS Hosting for Minecraft
Hosting a Minecraft server is a pretty good idea, and there are many VPS hosting services that offer this functionality. DotBlock and GoDaddy are two service providers that provide Minecraft hosting services.
Minecraft Server Hosting at DotBlock
DotBlock offers a Minecraft VPS Stack. This includes a pre-installed configured version of Minecraft Server and a fully licensed version of McMyAdmin. McMyAdmin is a powerful, easy-to-use web-based control panel that you can use to configure your Minecraft Server. There is no limit on the number of users playing on the server. The server itself comes with CentOS 6 (a Linux-based OS) and support software (Java, Bukkit). Read More…
Watch Out for Add-On Charges
Whether you are looking for a VPS to run your own blog, practice server administration or need one as a business solution for cloud computing, running mail and web servers, or data storage, it is more than worthwhile to pay attention to add-on charges. Every VPS provider, including GoDaddy, VPS.net and DotBlock, offers add-ons. Some are necessary for optimal performance, others are nice to have, and some look lucrative but are not really needed. Read More…
What To Choose: Managed or Unmanaged VPS Hosting?
VPS hosting offers a magnitude of greater control over your website’s server, but with this power comes responsibility. If you don’t know how to manage a web server, you may be utterly clueless how to take advantage of VPS hosting. Managed hosting options are available, but usually are significantly more expensive than unmanaged VPS hosting. Both managed and unmanaged VPS hosting offer excellent speed, usually with guaranteed 20 mbps connections, and prevent you from sharing resources with other customers, but which option is right for you? Read More…