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5 Alternative Uses for Blog Hosting
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE As the name implies, blog hosting is primarily designed to host blogs. A blog is simply a public online journal that may or may not contain personal information. Each entry is called a post, which may include text, images, and...

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Cloud Blogging vs. Blog Hosting
Thursday, May 3rd, 2012Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE Blog hosting is a topic we cover every month on The Hosting News, and most of the time the topics are related to free blogging software and self-hosted blogging platforms. There is, however, another type of blogging platform that is...

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5 Ways to Boost WordPress Performance
Monday, April 30th, 2012Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE WordPress is one of the most popular blogging apps, likely because it is free and also relatively easy to use. That, however, does not mean you are guaranteed to get quality performance out of the blogging software. WordPress can be...

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How to Backup Your Blog’s MySQL Database
Thursday, April 26th, 2012Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE Most blogging web apps, such as WordPress, use databases to store their data. This means that while the words you type appear in HTML format when someone accesses the site, the information itself is actually stored in a database such...

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ThemeChilly Launches WordPress Theme
Wednesday, April 18th, 2012THN News  
PRESS RELEASE (The Hosting News) – ThemeChilly (www.themechilly.com), sister concern of ZNet Technologies (www.znetcorp.com), launches CloudChilly – an exclusive WordPress theme for web hosters, cloud hosting providers & hosting resellers. CloudChilly (www.themechilly.com/themes/cloudchilly) is fully compatible with WordPress latest version – 3.3 and...

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Speed Up Your Site with a WordPress Cache Plugin
Saturday, March 10th, 2012Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE Under a normal server load, WordPress is a fast and easy tool to publish blog posts and news articles. When the traffic gets thick, however, WordPress tends to get bogged down, and that can bring your website to a crawl....

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Security Firm: Injection Hit 200,000 Sites
Thursday, March 8th, 2012THN News  
NEWS (The Hosting News) –WordPress represents one of the largest online blogging platforms, used by a variety of companies and entities for the purpose of maintaining their web presences. Not surprisingly, the platform itself has also long been a common target...

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Will Any CMS Suffice for Blogging?
Monday, January 30th, 2012Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE Do a quick search on the web for content management systems and you will see that there are thousands out there, and most of them are free. Almost all of them have the basic features necessary to run a blog,...

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Nexcess Announces UK WordPress Hosting
Monday, January 16th, 2012THN News  
NEWS (The Hosting News) – Nexcess, a United States-based managed web hosting company with specialized services in WordPress web hosting, has announced a new line of UK WordPress hosting solutions to be made available effective immediately. This decision was made with the intent...

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How Important Are WordPress Plugin Updates?
Thursday, January 12th, 2012Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE In a previous post, we looked at WordPress plugins and asked how many plugins were too many to have on one blog. Another question that many may ask is: “How important are WordPress plugin updates?” WordPress is updated frequently enough,...

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