Today almost every web hosting provider offers support for PHP. However if you do not know for sure if your web host offers PHP, there is very easy way to find out.

With your favorite text editor (such as Notepad) create a new document then copy and paste following line of code into the document you have just created:

<?php phpinfo(); ?>
 

Save the file and name it phpinfo.php and upload it via FTP to the root for your domain. Then point your browser to that file (should be something like www.yourdomain.com/phpinfo.php).

If your web host offers PHP your browser should open a page that will tell you the version of PHP as well as some configuration info.

If your browser opens a blank page your web host may not be offering support for PHP or it is not enable for your particular account. You should then call your web hosting provider to find out for sure.

As the name of this web hosting provider suggests, FatCow has taken some what different approach to marketing of their services. First time visitors to FatCow Web Hosting, will have difficult time to resist a chuckle or two as they read through “nutrition fats” and “cowbells and whistles”. FatCow Web Hosting has been in business since 1998.

Currently FatCow is offering two products The Original FatCow Plan and The MiniMoo. The MiniMoo is a domain parking solution with “coming soon” page an e-mail account. The Original FatCow Plan on the other hand is a competitive hosting solutions at $88 per year and new clients receive their first year of hosting with FatCow at a 25% discount ($66 per year). Below is a highlights from the “cowbells and whistles” of The Original FatCow Plan:

• 1,500 GB of Disk Space
• 15,000 GB/mo of Data Transfer
• Easy-to-use Site Creation Tools
• Easy-to-install Blogs and Forums
• Wizards to Add Open Source Apps
• E-store Builder by ShopSite
• Free Google and Yahoo! Credits

It also appears as FatCow is already taking the advantage of Google IPS providing easy access to Webmasters Tools.

If you have used or are currently using FatCow Web Hosting feel free to leave your feedback and ratings when commenting.

It certainly looks that way. According to Webmaster Central Blog web hosting providers can begin to use Google’s API for such purpose. Evidently several of the web hosing providers are already on board: iPOWER, StartLogic, PowWeb, and Strato.

The first web hosting provider to ever offer this sort of thing was Go Daddy.

Using the Google Webmaster Tools can be very beneficial in your efforts to make your website more visible on Google. It provides some very important statistics along with potential problems a website may have that may prevent it from being regularly crawled and indexed.