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Lately I’ve been seeing some web hosts adding Microsoft Silverlight support to their hosting features. Maybe I’ve been living under a rock, I don’t know but it seems I never took the time to find out more about this.
It sort of got my attention because I never heard of any specific needs to host some [...]

So who’s the new web host on the block? Ok well they may not be that new but it seems that Downtown Host has been making lots of noise as of lately!
Founded in 2001, this fast growing web hosting company is based out of Sarasota, FL.
Downtown Host is specialized in Customized Shared Web Hosting, Blog [...]

For those of you who haven’t take a look into our web hosting directory, I strongly suggest you do so before you choose your next web hosting company!
Our shared hosting directory now has over 200 plans to choose from and our newly added reseller hosting directory now holds over 70 packages. Not enough for you? [...]

I’ve never been interested much in online website building tools, but lately I took a look into HostGator’s SiteBuilder. I gotta say that creating a website has never been that quick and easy.
If you want to take advantage of the SiteBuilder, you gotta fill this from here: https://secure.hostgator.com/sitebuilder.php. It’s free with any hosting plan but you have [...]

Yesterday the web server that is hosting TheWebHostingHero.com encountered a hard disk failure. The rebuilding process has been sucking a lot of CPU resources which prevented the VPS from working correctly.
Fortunately no data has been lost since I’ve got three sets of backup copies stored in different places. I just wish my VPS would’ve been [...]

If you have been shopping around for a web host, you’ve probably seen Fantastico Deluxe featured by some providers. If you’ve been wondering what is Fantastico, this article is for you.
Fantastico Deluxe is a script installer. It automates the installation of popular web applications like a Wordpress blog or a phpBB forum. Fantastico will run only on [...]

If you need to serve your own ads or you want to start an serving service, have a look into OpenX, a free open-source ad server.
The project that started as phpAdsNew on SourceForge.net became OpenAds for a couple of years but lately the company has revamped its name and image to become OpenX.
OpenX requires a [...]

See how to signup for a web hosting account and setup your first website with this video.

Lately I’ve got an email from Charles, a blogger who owns Nierva.com. He apparently got his web hosting account suspended and was asking for advice. Here’s the email he sent me:
Hi there.
I’m Charles of Nierva.com. I just want to ask an advise regarding webhosting plans.I have just bought a webhost plan at webhostingpad.com. I still consider [...]