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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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Why E-Commerce Users Need Dedicated IP Addresses
Thursday, April 26th, 2012Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE You have likely heard about the exhaustion of available IPv4 addresses and the push to adopt IPv6. IP addresses have a maximum number of possibilities, and to help minimize the unnecessary usage of remaining IP addresses, web hosting providers offer...

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How to Access Web Statistics in cPanel
Friday, April 20th, 2012Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE Web statistics can provide valuable information about your website. Far beyond simply displaying the number of hits a site receives, statistics or analytics software can give you insight into the pages on your site that are most successful, the type...

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Using cPanel for Reseller Hosting
Friday, April 13th, 2012Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE Resellers can often provide a personalized touch to web hosting. Even with plenty of major web hosting companies competing against them, resellers stay in business by offering their web design and consulting clients web hosting from their own small businesses....

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The Benefits of Jailing SSH Users
Friday, April 13th, 2012Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE Yes, SSH users should be jailed, but only within the confines of your server’s virtual prison. SSH, which stands for Secure Shell, is a tool that gives users command-line access to a server. Those technical savvy web hosting users who...

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The Open Cloud: The Push for Standardization
Friday, April 6th, 2012Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE When one thinks of cloud hosting, it is not difficult to imagine an entirely open platform. This is not a stretch, since the Web itself is open and based on open technology (i.e. HTML, Javascript, and others). Nevertheless, this assumption...

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Cloud Hosting for Internal Business Applications
Saturday, March 31st, 2012Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE “The cloud” has become a very popular buzzword in the IT and business worlds. Whether it is in reference to the consumer cloud, such as Amazon’s cloud music player, or the business cloud, such as Microsoft Office 365, the basic...

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VPS, VDS, VM and More: Demystifying the Terminology
Thursday, March 29th, 2012THN News  
ARTICLE (The Hosting News) – Most business owners and IT administrators realize that virtual hosting services are a flexible, affordable and effective alternative to a physical onsite server. However, you might have trouble understanding the benefits and drawbacks of various hosting...

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Fighting the Silent Killer: Spam
Friday, March 23rd, 2012Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE Spam is ugly. In some ways, it may even be uglier than viruses or security holes. Spam is deliberate and calculated. The spammer wants your business but does not have the dignity to approach you through conventional means. Moreover, as...

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Does Web Design Affect Site Performance?
Wednesday, March 21st, 2012Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE When evaluating website performance, users commonly look at traffic, server processing power, available RAM, caching techniques, PHP memory usage, database optimization, and many other aspects of web hosting. But web design is often overlooked when it comes to performance. Does...

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