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Leveraging the Power of Social Media
Saturday, May 19th, 2012Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE Many hosting users who are new to e-commerce often approach it with the mistaken belief that launching a website will automatically draw in customers. Perhaps they heard a voice calling them in the night, “If you build it, they will...

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Backing up Your Cloud Data
Thursday, May 17th, 2012Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE One of the major concerns IT professionals often express regarding cloud computing is that their data is left in the hands the cloud service provider, often without any manageable offsite backup solution. Furthermore, some cloud providers rely on proprietary technology...

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5 Tips for More Secure Passwords
Tuesday, May 15th, 2012Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE Keeping a website and server safe from attackers can be an exhausting job. Unfortunately, one area that web hosting users often overlook is password security. A website is much easier to hack if the password is weak, and far too...

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4 Alternatives to Cloud Webmail
Monday, May 14th, 2012Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE Cloud email has become increasingly popular over the years. Many users like the idea of being able to access their webmail from anywhere. They also like the services that many cloud webmail services provide, particularly the spam filtering. Despite its...

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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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Overview of the Open Compute Project
Thursday, May 3rd, 2012THN News  
ARTICLE Facebook has developed a reputation for changing the way we understand communicating and sharing online. Last spring, the social media giant also changed the way we think about server hardware and the data center industry with the introduction of the Open Compute Project. The...







The Company You Keep: Shared Hosting Security
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE You have probably heard the myriad of expressions that describe this phenomenon. Phrases such as, “in the wrong place at the wrong time,” “guilty by association”, and “judged by the company you keep”, all refer to a very real life...

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5 Ways to Save Money on E-Commerce Hosting
Monday, April 30th, 2012Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE When it comes to e-commerce hosting, you could end up paying a lot more than the just the price of hosting service. There are often fees for using a dedicated IP address, a fee for the SSL certificate, fees (sometimes...

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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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