Welcome to the Web Hosting News Report, your roundup of last month’s top web hosting news stories all in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know about:
Entrepreneurs and bloggers have more options than ever to host a website cost-effectively. However, it can be tough to compare the plethora of options available. You may turn to online reviews only to find that the reviewer is an affiliate marketer and benefits from getting more signups for that host.
After years of dominating the hosting industry with their cloud hosting services, Amazon and other large hosting companies are losing their grasp on businesses.
Here are the 3 major reasons businesses are leaving AWS and other large hosting companies, and where they’re headed now:
Welcome to the Web Hosting News Monthly Recap, your roundup of last month’s top web hosting news stories all in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know about:
2016 was a rough year. We saw the record for the largest and most powerful DDoS attack shattered not once, but twice. Data breaches hit record highs, increasing more than 40% vs 2015. And, Carrie Fisher died. You wouldn’t be alone in thinking that it can’t possibly be worse, but it can. And when it comes to server security it likely will be worse.
Pat Flynn, from Smart Passive Income, had his server hit with a DDoS attack that took down nearly all of his websites for an entire week. The earnings he lost? Nearly $12,000, but that’s only part of what this attack cost him.
Hosting is a large part of our world today, and many people’s websites and businesses couldn’t survive without it. Choosing the right host is very important. That’s why you need to consider the points below in order to see if reseller hosting is the right option for you.
Being an entrepreneur and blogger, I’ve set up many websites and I’ve done it many different ways. I’ve often used all-in-one services such as Squarespace, but when it came time to set up a site for my latest business venture, I wanted to set it up the old-fashioned way.
Here’s what I learned along the way, and how you can do it for yourself:
With many Linux server distros coming and going in 2016, is tough to know which are worth our time. Even sites like DistroWatch only tend to review and cover changes to the big distros as they don’t have the resources to review them all. So, there are only a handful of small new distros worth keeping an eye on at any given time. These two Linux server operating systems are promising niche distros. Focusing on doing one thing and being the best at it.
Choosing a web hosting provider for your dedicated server can be tough, even if you’ve leased a server before. You may search on forums looking for advice, only to find that much of it is anecdotal. You may also look on Google, but many of the articles offering advice during this time just rehash what you already know.
That’s why we created a list of points that will (actually) aid you in choosing your next hosting provider: