24th December 2009
It has become such a common term that many people think "cPanel" is a generic name for any Web site control interface. In fact, it’s a company name and a commercial product that hosting firms buy to give customers an easy way to maintain their sites and...
27th November 2009
Once you have finished building your Web site, whether two pages or 2000, it has to be made available to people browsing the World Wide Web. To accomplish that, it must be placed on a Web server, a computer that has been properly configured to deliver Web...
27th November 2009
One thing we've all learned from the rise of the Internet is that weekly or monthly magazines are no competition when it comes to the best way to stay current and well informed. This is true whether you are trying to stay abreast of geopolitics or high-te...
24th November 2009
You will often hear people sigh about the "rat race” and pine for a so-called "simpler time" 10, 20 or 50 years ago when everything was just right. The problem is, there never was such a time, and 50 years ago people were pining for an older era, too. H...
23rd November 2009
Companies called hosting providers are in the business of giving websites virtual "homes" in cyberspace. There are many types of hosting services and "Web site solutions," and knowledgeable webmasters can customize approaches for their own, unique needs. ...
11th November 2009
You might think you’re saving money and showing good business sense by using the free Web space that comes from your Internet Service Provider (ISP). Alternatively, you may have gotten a friend to give you a subdomain, meaning your URL would like someth...
05th October 2009
The Google Plan for Interplanetary Domination
Google, a company that some conspiracy theorists honestly believe has a plan for ultimate world domination, has a history of pulling April Fool’s pranks that later end up as real products or policies. In ...
11th September 2009
Streaming Without a Streaming Server with Flash (Pseudo Streaming)
The Adobe Corporation has a monster hit on its hand with Flash. The latest Flash Player, version 10, had been downloaded to almost 60 percent of computers worldwide within two months of...
11th September 2009
4 Technologies That Will Change Web Hosting (2 Sooner, 2 Later)
Any technological advance in computing, of course, will help everyone who uses computers. Frankly, the metaphor can be extended almost without limit, since just about every living soul on ...
31st August 2009
Cloud computing is a buzzword of the moment, but what does it really mean? Is it really ready for prime time, or should you stay with a VPS? First, some definitions:
Head in the clouds?
In some ways, cloud computing is like grid computing in that it l...
13th August 2009
There is a service you may have heard of, TinyURL, that will assign a short little URL when you want to provide a short link instead of a 46-letter one. Now, that can be handy for forwarding links to pages that are deep down in the directory, especially o...
07th August 2009
Many now-web-savvy folks will be forgiven for not recognizing the “personal” potential of the Internet right at first. In the mid-1990s, as the AOL diskettes and CDs starting clogging grocery aisles and mailboxes everywhere, it seemed that regula...
31st July 2009
Although the usual reason for having a website is so people can find it—and your products and services—you may have reasons for securing and obscuring your site. In this article we will leave aside the discussion of your reasons, because that’s y...
10th July 2009
There is a simple reason that "proxy websites" exist in the first place, and that is because some people really do believe that information access should be done privately, confidentially but still openly. The first key to understanding the use of pro...
10th July 2009
Life isn't fair. Bad things happen to good people. Everything that can go wrong, will.
Most of us grew up with these cliches, and the reason every culture has its cliches is because there's usually more than a grain of truth in them. Every day there a...
