I have received the link from the Fantastic Lord Matt about Godaddy shady domain deals:

Lord Matt Emergency Notice: This is an emergency post made by Lord Matt on a server not quite ready to run his blog but placed here out of fear of reprisals from godaddy.com - if you have been “shafted” by godaddy over your dot uk domain names this page will show you what you can do to stop your domains being lost. I am not a solicitor so for solid advice on matters of law please talk to an expert.

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Bluehost has recently revamped their web hosting plan offering customers opportunity to host unlimited number of domains in one account and at the same time increasing disc storage to 300 GB and bandwidth to 3000 GB.host unlimited number of domains in one account.

Although Bluehost is not the first  provider to offer unlimited domains in one account, they were among first providers to offer multiples (6) in one account.

If you have purchased your web hosting with Bluhost more than one year ago, you may be interested to learn how to move your account to a box with PHP5 .

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Web Hosting Review Blog was hacked about 6 days ago. This website is powered by WordPress and although I’ve seen many other blogs being hacked, I never thought that it will ever happen to me. But it did. Here are two simple rules for you to follow should the security of your WordPress be ever compromised by a hacker.

1. Keep Up With Updates: WordPress and Plugins. Do not wait for update to be available through “Fantastico” upgrade your WordPress regularly!
2. Make a full backup of your websites at least every week if you are regular blogger, it is lass painful to loose a week worth of posts comparing to a year worth of posts. (Of course if you post 10+ posts per day you may consider backing up your websites even more frequently).

You can can probably find millions of tips on how to make your WordPress installation more secure, none of them will absolutely guaranty your perfect protection. The fact of the matter is that WordPress is one of the most popular blogging platform and it will continue to be the primary target of all sorts of jerks who have nothing to do with their time.

If you are looking for a web host for your WordPress take a look at what visitors had to say about Bluehost, Hostmonster and Lunarpages.

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If you have have purchased your web hosting plan with BlueHost before the PHP5 was introduced chances are that your websites are still on the service that offers support for PHP4 only. With increasing number of applications that require support for PHP5, you may consider upgrading to PHP5. Bluehost makes this upgrade a breeze. Here is a short guide for you what you need to do before requesting upgrade to PHP5.

1. Login into your Bluehosts cPanel. Then locate and click on “Backups” icon:

2. Click “Generate or Download Full Backup” button:

3. You will be given several options on how to create and where to store your backup file, if you are not familiar with any of the options the safest choice will be to select “Home Directory”

this will save the file on your server and you will be able to download it to your computer. After the backup is complete you will receive an e-mail notifying you that the file is ready for download.

4. Follow step 1 and 2 and- you will see the link to your backup file- click it to download it to your computer.

Above steps can save you a lot of trouble should something go wrong during the upgrade.

After you have safely saved your backup file create a support ticket at Bluehost Helpdesk requesting the upgrade to PHP5, to save you an extra step provide the password or last 4 digits of the credit card on file for your account. Bluehost will advise you that the upgrade may take somewhere from 24 to 48 hours to complete, in my case it took less than 4 hours during which my websites were partially down.

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