Blogging Tips

The Different Kinds of Hosting

Whether you are setting up a new blog/site or are outgrowing your current setup, finding new hosting can be a very daunting challenge.

One of the biggest problems with hosting is the terminology. There are so many different kinds of hosting out there and their descriptions are not always helpful. Worse still, every kind of hosting is targeted at a different type of user and getting the wrong kind of hosting can leave you either overpaying for your needs or with a setup that isn’t powerful enough for your site.

So how do you know what kind of hosting is for you? Here’s a rundown of some of the more common host types, their advantages and who they are targeted at.

Written by Jonathan Bailey from Plagiarism Today
Posted on March 26th, 2009 and filed under Domain Names & Hosting
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Imgur: Dead Simple Image Hosting

Many bloggers prefer to host their images elsewhere. Whether it is that their hosts provide limited space, they have bandwidth concerns or just prefer the convenience, image hosts like Flickr, Imageshack and PhotoBucket have served bloggers and Webmasters over the years.

However, a new service hopes to make image hosting even easier for bloggers. Imgur (pronounced imager), does this by reducing image hosting to nothing but the upload. There are no accounts to register for, no need to tag your image, nothing but an upload button.

Best of all, the images hosted on the site are private, only the uploader gets the links, and, if needed, the service can do some very basic image editing before uploading the images to help ensure that your images are the right size when you embed them on your blog.

It’s a very simple service, but one that many bloggers are going to wonder how they lived without.

Written by Jonathan Bailey from Plagiarism Today
Posted on March 12th, 2009 and filed under Domain Names & Hosting
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Who Do the Blogging Stars Host With?

In August of 2008 Who is Hosting This.com, a site that automatically determines the host of a Web site, looked at the then top 100 blogs and answered the question “Who Do Rock Stars Host With?”

Predictably, there was a wide range of answers and many different hosts mentioned. There were some free hosts, including BlogSpot, others were self-hosted but most were on a wide variety of dedicated Web hosts that target higher-traffic sites.

The winner, however, was Media Temple, a well-known and respected host from Culver City. Second was Datagram, a dedicated hosting provider that specializes in larger sites. Though these two doubled their nearest competition, combined they only had 19% of the list, meaning that there is a lot of disagreement about who to host with among even top blogs.

Though it is interesting to see how large blogs host themselves and maintain their sites with both high availability and high traffic, is there anything that can be gleaned from the list for small to medium-sized bloggers looking for a good hosting solution?

The answer is yes, but only if one is willing to dig through the results.

Written by Jonathan Bailey from Plagiarism Today
Posted on March 10th, 2009 and filed under Domain Names & Hosting
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How to blog on a (very small) budget (Part 1)

It seems that “saving money” is the gossip subject of recent times. All over the world, the news tells us of recession, companies going into administration and massive cuts in jobs. Most of us are tightening the belt and keeping a close eye on our wallets, saving money and reducing spending wherever possible. And a great deal more people it seems are …

Written by Amanda Fazani from Blogger Buster
Posted on January 5th, 2009 and filed under Blogging, Domain Names & Hosting, Search Engine Optimisation
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Do you need to protect your whois information?

Whois Protection Whenever you register a domain name you need to provide the registrar with your contact details. There are 4 pieces of information you need to provide :

Administrative Contact – The admin contact is the person appointed to manage the domain name. They have complete control over the domain name
Registrant Contact – This is the company or individual who has the …

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on December 5th, 2008 and filed under Domain Names & Hosting
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How secure is your domain name?

Domain Name Theft A websites worth is tied to it’s domain name. When you build traffic to a website you are building traffic for that domain name, when you develop back links to the site you are developing links for that domain name. If you lose your domain name you effectively lose your business and everything you have spent working towards.

This is …

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on November 25th, 2008 and filed under Domain Names & Hosting
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How to Choose a Domain Name for Your Blog That Will Generate the Most Traffic

Years ago, the conventional wisdom when it came to selecting a domain name was to keep it simple, short and ended with a .com. Think Pets.com, Cars.com, Shopping.com, etc. The idea was to give web searchers something easy to remember that also said what the site was all about.

However, domain names like this have long been registered. So, how do you name a blog or website for maximum profit? Thankfully search engine …