Google Aims To Make Websites Faster For Users

Posted: Wednesday 26th May 2010

One of the best ways to have people visiting your site is if your site ranks well for certain keywords on search engine result pages. But just setting up your site would not guarantee that you will be one of the first sites listed by search engines on their result pages. While ranking well for certain keywords is entirely a different subject with different things to look at, the latest update from the biggest search engine, Google, is that the speed of which your site loads plays some role in rankings.

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Going Green: A Growing Trend In Web Hosting

Posted: Tuesday 25th May 2010

Today, most companies are claiming that they are eco friendly. Automakers like Toyota and General Motors have already sold thousands of hybrid vehicles which are said to be more environment friendly than the conventional gas powered vehicles. This going green trend is also happening in the web hosting industry with different companies banking on their green operation to secure the businesses of clients.

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Court Order Shuts Down Web Hosting Company

Posted: Sunday 23rd May 2010

Web hosting companies are should now be more careful with their choice of clients if they don’t want to end up like hosting provider 3FN. The said company was recently closed down by a federal court ruling in the United States citing that the web hosting company allowed the hosting of nefarious content from malware to spam to child pornography.

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Cloud Hosting Provider Names New Chief Marketing Officer

Posted: Saturday 22nd May 2010

Hosting company GoGrid.Com specializing in cloud hosting recently announce that they have a new chief marketing officer in Jeffrey Samuels. With cloud web hosting becoming more and more popular, it is vital for any company to take advantage of this situation and having the right person at the helm could help the company move forward.

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The Latest Sales And Promos From Web Hosting Companies

Posted: Thursday 20th May 2010

The good thing about having a lot of web hosting companies is that the competition has made companies provide perks for their potential customers. It is possible that weekly, web hosting companies are coming up with promos which webmasters can enjoy. The following list includes just some of the latest web hosting promos and sale:

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WebHostingGeeks’s Web Hosting Award For 2010

Posted: Tuesday 18th May 2010

The year is not over yet but the people behind Web Hosting Geeks have already given out awards for different categories in the web hosting industry. Since they have put a lot of time and effort in validating and testing out hosts for these awards, this should give webmasters an idea which is a good company to trust their sites to.

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GoDaddy To Announce Winner Of Latest Contest During Indy 500

Posted: Monday 17th May 2010

When it comes to the Internet a viral something can prove to be the thing needed by a company to make the move forward. Surely, GoDaddy, one of the biggest names in hosting and domain registration does not need any more hype since they are already well known. But their latest contest might do them a whole lot more than their Super Bowl commercials.

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The Pirate Bay Works With Pirate Party To Go Back Online

Posted: Sunday 16th May 2010

A German court recently made news after it required a data center to keep The Pirate Bay from connecting to the Internet. The site though is back again and this time it is powered by Pirate Party ISP which marks the first time that these two worked together.

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Apache Registers 1.9 Million Increase In Host Names

Posted: Sunday 16th May 2010

Google might be the biggest name online but even its name cannot stop the decrease in the number of host names on its server. For fans of the big G though, this is nothing serious. According to Netcraft’s survey which included 206,026,787 sites, Apache had the biggest gain in the number of hostnames for the month of May.

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Russian ISP Dropped By Upstream Provider For Harboring Cyber Thieves

Posted: Friday 14th May 2010

In yet another win for the good guys, Russian internet service provider PROXIEZ-NET accused of harboring cyber criminals have been shut down by DIGERNET, its upstream provider. This action was taken after evidence have surfaced that the ISP is providing bandwidth to people who have made it their business to steal information from other people and using it to get money.

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