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Common Hosting Issues

Dealing with common hosting issues isn't as easy as it sounds; caps of data storage, and the network capacity can jeopardize the growth of a hosting company to a great extent. There are several challenges with integration, and infrastructural expansion that need to be considered as well.

Ensuring that Your Hosting Firm Doesn't Get Charged for Hosting Objectionable Sites
Presence of any objectionable site on a shared server can pose serious threats to not only all the other websites hosted on that server, but even put the web host in legal trouble.

Top Reasons to Review All the Policies of Your Web Hosting Provider
It's very important to review the policies of your web hosting provider, and read the fine print to find out any hidden surprises that may haunt you after a few months.


Amazon's EC2 cloud computing platform has been gaining widespread popularity with every passing day, but find out more about the data capacity issues in cloud computing as well before you make a move!

Sub-Par Customer Support Can be Devastate Your Hosting Empire
Gone are the days when customers cared just about the price of hosting packages, and the features; today, customer support can make or break the game, and sub-par support can mean disaster for your hosting empire.

Tete-a-Tete with Some of the Latest Hosting Scams
This article throws light on some of the latest web hosting scams that have stormed the hosting industry over the past 12 months, and spotlight on lesser known facts about some of the famous web hosts.

How to Examine the Authenticity of Web Hosting Review Sites?
There are hundreds of so-called web hosting review sites out there, but how do you really examine their authenticity? Well, here's how you can go about finding a host, and cross-checking the authenticity of recommendations given by a hosting review site.

Ideas to Deal With Data Capacity Issues
Dealing with data capacity issues isn't as simple as it sounds, especially if you run a web hosting company with your own infrastructure rather than just reselling hosting space. Here are some ideas to deal with capacity issues in the web hosting arena.

Importance of Network Security Penetration Testing
If you run a web hosting business, network penetration testing is of great importance to ensure good security levels of your server, and in turn safeguard the data of your customers; here's more to it.

Importance of Providing Malware Help to Your Customers
What do you do when one of your customers report an attack on their website – do you offer any malware help or simply tell your customers that there isn't much you can do about it, and ask them to contact their web developer, or check the error logs on their own?

3 Things that a New Web Host Can Learn from HostGator
Top web hosting providers like HostGator have definitely got a great rapport, but they're also known for a few small things, which can actually cause big damages to reputation of small hosting firms. So, here are 3 lessons that a new hosting firm must learn from them.

3 Mistakes That Can Kill a Web Hosting Business
New web hosting firms need to learn a lot of things, but definitely not the harder way after committing mistakes that ruin their rapport in the market. Here are 3 things one can learn from GoDaddy.

Malware threats are on the rise again, and this time the Blackhole exploit...
Malware threats to serve the Blackhole exploit kit have become a serious threat; so, let's see how to face the terror of the Blackhole exploit kits, and minimize their impact.

Top Reasons Behind Failure of Hosting Companies
Did you know that more than 50% of the US and Canadian hosting businesses run into losses, and as per the latest figures, only a handful of them actually make it into the big league; here are the top reasons behind the failure of majority of the hosting firms.

Tips for Handling Dynamic Websites during Hosting Migration
It's not easy to deal with dynamic sites, especially during the migration, so here are 5 resourceful tips that can help you out in the process.

Importance of Ensuring 100% Customer Satisfaction as a Web Host
You need to keep your existing customers happy with the quality of services, alongside generating more business. Unless you manage to keep the customer satisfaction rate very high, you can't really hope to gain lot of popularity in the highly competitive hosting markets.

Amazon EC2 Problems
When you consider the rapport of EC2, Amazon's problems like the recent outage have been the only glitches that have harmed their reputation; otherwise Ec2 is extremely popular in the market today; here's an insight.

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