I have been lately on the roll revamping this blog but along the way I have managed to miss out on some things that are most important to me and visitors to this blog. I always look for allowing visitors to easily comment on this website. However, I am also extremely diligent in fighting spam. For than purpose there are several plugins installed here. Unfortunately one of them has been acting strange and there were at least several visitors unable to leave the comments. The plugin in question was the one that asked you to answer a simple math question to verify that you were a real person and not some automated bot. The plugin did save me a lot of time that otherwise I would spend sifting through the spam comments.
Unfortunately no plugin is worth keeping if it prevents visitors to comment here. Today I have deactivated the math plugin. I sincerely apologize to every one who had attempted to comment here in the past but could not, I know how frustrating that can be. If you can please try to comment or submit your reviews now.
Newly introduced Windows dedicated plans by Easy CGI Web Hosting offers whooping 2 (two) terabytes of monthly bandwidth. Here is a part of a press release from May 12 announcing the two new plans:
The two new plans, Dedicated X10 and Dedicated X20, offer 100 and 200 gigabytes of disk space, respectively, two and four gigabytes of RAM, and two terabytes of bandwidth per month.
Significantly, all of Easy CGI’s dedicated VPS plans guarantee a limited number of virtual servers for each hardware node, something few other hosting services do. By limiting the number of virtualization clients, each client is assured of a greater share of processor time, RAM, and disk space.
“Customers clearly want more server capability such as more disk storage and memory,” says Dan Richfield, President of Easy CGI, “We’ve always prided ourselves on being flexible about delivering what our customers want.”
Dedicated X10 plan comes with a tag price of $143.96 per month while Dedicate X20 will set you back $223.96 per month. Easy CGI offers equivalent Linux hosting plans at the same price.
Users Reviews
- 10 Positive User Ratings - 4 Negative User Ratings
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Web Hosting Provider: 1and1 Internet (US) Web Hosting
After 20 years in business 1&1 Web Hosting is without any doubt one of the leader in the web hosting industry. With over 7 million customers 1&1 Internet Inc., is home to more than 10 million domains worldwide. With a shared hosting starting at $3.99 per month, 1&1 is leading in providing affordable web hosting solutions. Their Virtual Private Server and Dedicated Server solutions are also one of the cheapest out there – $29 per month for VPS and $99 per month for Dedicated Managed Sever.
Support
1&1 Web Hosting offers 24/7 unlimited pone and e-mail support. They also have an option to offer support through Netviewer, which allows their technical support team to establish a secure connection with your computer and to see where you are in your control panel.
90 Days Money Back Guarantee
1&1’s Money Back Guarantee is certainly one of the longest in the industry. If you are not satisfied with the services you receive a full refund of all monthly and set up fee. The Money Back guarantee contains some limitations, as always you should red carefully TOS before purchasing your services.
If you have used or are currently using 1&1 as your web host please share your experience in the comments. Don’t forget to assign ratings when commenting.
Users Reviews
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Having been in business since 1997, Liquid Web Inc, had earned it’s place among leading web hosting providers. Currently Liquid Web owns and operates at two data centers allowing to provide their clients with fast, secure and reliable services.
LiquidWeb’s Share Hosting Plans
Shared hosting plans start at $14.95 per month. Every shared web hosting plan includes unlimited e-mail accounts, SSH Secure Shell Access, Perl, PHP5, C++, Python, Unlimited MySQL Databases, Redundant Nightly Backups, Full CGI Access, Unlimited Mailing Lists, FrontPage Support.
LiquidWeb’s Virtual Private Servers (VPS)
If you are looking for control and power of dedicated hosting yet affordability of shared webhosting LiquidWeb’s VPS might be just the right soluton for your. Currently LiquidWeb offers two VPS plans:
Virtual Private Server 1 at $60 per month offers following features: 20 GB Storage Space, 200 GB monthly bandwidth, 256MB RAM Guaranteed, 512MB RAM Burstable, 4 IP Addresses, Full Root Server Access, cPanel.
Virtual Private Server 2 at $100 per month offers 40 Gigabytes of Storage Space, 350 GB monthly bandwidth, 512MB RAM Guaranteed, 1024MB RAM Burstable, 4 IP Addresses, Full Root Server Access (Linux), Nightly Off-Server Backups (Linux), CPanel/WHM (Linux) or Plesk (Windows).
LiquidWeb’s Dedicated Hosting Plans
LiquidWeb dedicated hosting plans range in price anywhere from $149 to over $4,000 per month. It is quiet unlikely that an average website will require the power of dedicated web hosting. It should be wise on my part to dedicate and entire article to LiquidWeb’s dedicate hosting.
LiquidWeb’s Support.
While my first encounter with LiquidWeb was over the problems with down time other bloggers had, since then I have heard nothing but good things about LiquidWeb. Travis Stoliker of LiquidWeb, deserves credit and admiration for trying to keep the communication lines open even when faced with the criticism. It is hard to find people like him with other web hosting providers. Liquid Web’s Heroic Support® provides year around access to level 3 engineers via phone or e-mail.
If you have used or are using LiquidWeb as your web hosting provider feel free to leave your feedback and reviews. Click here to visit LiquidWeb.
Over the last several weeks I have embarked on mission to make serious improvements around this blog. I hopes to attract more reviews with a new rating widget, I am now acknowledging every one who took time to review their web hosting provider in a “thank you post” at the end of the week. But there were a few things that needed major updates, which partially where accomplished today.
About Page Updated
The update to “About” page was long over due, in the light of the fact that this blog is now three years old. The About page is not also includes disclosures as well as comments and privacy policies.
Advertising Page
On average, I receive about 10 emails each weeks from potential advertisers inquiring about advertising opportunities on this blog. While I am trying to respond to each email in attempt to find out each potential advertiser’s need, only 1 of every 20 emails is a serious requests. To save myself some time, I have created Advertise on Web Hosting Review Blog page, to which I will be referring most of the advertising request I receive in the e-mail.
Contact Page
Instead of publishing my e-mail as I did in the past, which resulted in being placed on hundreds of “lists” I have decided to streamline all attempts to contact me via contact page.
Link Us Up Page
Link us up is nothing but a shameless attempt to ask other webmasters to link to back to this blog. I am not looking for links on “fashion” websites and blogs. But if you write a blog related to web hosting and link to me chances are I will most certainly acknowledge your efforts in one of my posts.
Reaching Out To Publishers
While attempting to develop long lasting relationships with potential advertisers, I will also intensify advertising for this blog. While I am currently running several PPC campaigns for this blog I am looking to increase the “brand awareness” for this blog via direct advertising on potential publisher’s websites or blogs. If you think your visitors can benefit from information found on this blog, please drop me a line, I do not mind to support your blog as sponsor or advertiser.
Intensified Posting
One of the things that will definitely change on this blog in the coming days and weeks is the frequency of posting. Until now, the posts on this blog where some what sporadic. At times months had passed on and no post where published here. It is about to change. To start of I plan to post 2-4 posts per week, not including “thank you” posts to acknowledge your reviews. So if web hosting industry interests you, feel free to subscribe so you do not miss my future posts.
This past week May 4-7 was some what slower comparing to the week before. However there were two reviews submitted by visitors to this blog. So I would would like to say thank you and a huge shout out to:
Josh Spaulding of Internet Marketing with Josh Spaulding. Josh has reviewed Hostmoster and you can read his review here. Josh had also mentioned he now uses as he calls it “the best web host in the world” LiquidWeb as his host, unfortunately there is no Liquidweb’s profile on my blog, but I hope that Josh will come back to tells us about his experience. I have briefly mentioned on my blog Mark’s trouble with LiquidWeb, and it would be great to have more balanced picture as far as LiquidWeb is concerned.
Gentlemen, thank you so much for taking your time and providing great feedback and sharing your experience.
If you are just stopping by my blog for the first time, review your web hosting provider and I will link back to you next Saturday. Please refrain from one sentence only type for reviews and feedback. And no you do not have to be way to technical, just follow the example of Josh and Brian.
It has been a while since the latest versions (2.5 and now 2.5.1) of WordPress were released. But did you upgrade your version yet? While installation of WordPress is on of the easiest out there. But after you begin toying around with your website, adding new plugins and maybe modifying some parts of your template, upgrading to the new version is not always an attractive idea. You don’t know whether or not your theme will work with the latest version, nor there is certainty your plugins will continue to work. So many of us make a painful decisions to hang on to outdated versions as long as we can. So today I would like to outline some benefits of why you should consider to keep your WordPress up to date. While this article is written in the light of the latest version (2.5.1) of WordPress, some of the points may still apply to no matter what version your are hanging onto.
Security Fixes. Generally WordPress updates patches the wholes as far a security of your website is concerned. If you don’t want to do it for yourself, you should consider your regular readers and visitors.
General Improvements. Since powering this blog by WordPress almost with every major upgrade, there was an improvement in WordPress functionatily.
WordPress 2.5.1 makes it easy to upgrade your plugins. So much so that you can perform them with just a single click without need of downloading and uploading the newest versions of plugins you use on your blog.
Media Files. WordPress 2.5.1 hd improved dramatically how you upload and manage your media files: pictures, video files and audio files.
WordPress 2.5.1 had dramatically improve the “behavior” of WYSIWYG editor, in a way that it is not screwing up your code ans it did in previous versions. For example if you needed to embed a video from YouTube, you had to turn the WYSIWYG editor off in your profile setting while working on the post containing the video. Now you it is enough to just switch to HTML editor right in post editing window.
While all these improvements are great, there are still plenty of challenges users of WordPress are faced with. Particularly if you have never upgraded your WordPress before or need to do it by uploading your own files via FTP protocol. While many web hosting providers offer Fatastico script to install and upgrade your word press, the only how that is keeping up with providing the latest upgrade via Fantastico is Lunarpages. Other web hosts seam to be a little behind on keeping up with the latest versions of scripts available through Fantastico. Of course few hosts, Bluehost, Hostmonster and Fastdomain, have implemented SimpleScripts, allowing users to upgrade to the newest version of WordPress within hours of the release of upgrades.
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