In our increasingly globalized world, small businesses need an active communications network to span the geographically distributed regions of the organization. But the business applications required to achieve this are a costly proposal in our current economic climate. This is making it progressively difficult for young organizations to compete with huge corporations who hold seemingly infinite budgets.... 

These days, it’s becoming more and more imperative that websites perform quickly and efficiently due to the norm in decreased page load times. Gone are the days when it was somewhat acceptable for a website to load slowly because of slower internet connections and less powerful computers/devices. However, users these days are very likely to leave your website if it doesn’t perform quickly... 

My business has grown too fast and I need to stop accepting new customers while I work on acquiring more staff and servers. What is the best way to explain that to potential customers and still maintain a good reputation? Congratulations on your growth! Your problem is one that many companies would like to have. The best way to deal with this situation is to be honest. Stopping new orders while you... 

(Ping! Zine Issue 46) – Ask any Webmaster, and they will tell you that one of their worst nightmares and biggest fears is the loss of their most important information. All it takes is one malicious or unfortunate incident, such as the infiltration of a hacker or the crashing of a server, to wipe out every piece of vital information that is stored in your MySQL database. It’s always been said... 

(Ping! Zine Issue 46) – Is the web hosting industry in danger of being subjected to new governmental regulations and having new regulatory and compliance demands imposed on web hosting providers? The PROTECT IP Act, an acronym for “Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property” could very well make web hosts complicit when copyrighted material is... 

(Ping! Zine Issue 46) – There are a myriad of reasons why you might be looking to move your WordPress site from one host to another. Perhaps your current host has terrible customer service and you’ve felt the pinch every time there’s been a blip on the radar. And, if the technical support is also outsourced, this compounds the issue at hand. Perhaps your site goes down frequently and the... 

(Ping! Zine Issue 45) – Ask any Webmaster, and they will tell you that one of their worst nightmares and biggest fears is the loss of their most important information. All it takes is one malicious or unfortunate incident, such as the infiltration of a hacker or the crashing of a server, to wipe out every piece of vital information that is stored in your MySQL database. It’s always been said... 

(Ping! Zine Issue 45) – One of the primary keys to success in any profession is that of efficiency. By automating the most mundane, and redundant tasks, a professional will be able to focus on less stressing, and generally, more profitable elements of business. For Webmasters, the concept of task automation is particularly important, as there are a vast number of tasks that are absolutely imperative... 

(Ping! Zine Issue 45) – Have you ever wondered how much a domain name is worth? Well, an economist from Maastricht University, The Netherlands, has come up with an idea that could possibly reshape how the hosting industry looks at domains as an investment. Based on estimation techniques from real estate finance (yes, domains are “virtual land”), he crunches data from more than 200,000 real... 

(Ping! Zine Digital Issue 07) – To start with, no one package will have everything you need to truly unlock your site’s potential. However, there are a number of free and purchased sites and software that can give you a look at the bigger picture. Referring Links and Keywords is a basic component to all analytical software. However, your software package should include an unlimited/user defined... 

(Ping! Zine Digital Issue 07) – Servers are an ever evolving necessity in the web hosting industry. The hardware landscape has changed dramatically over the past couple of years. With a lot of exciting advances and much more affordability, now is the perfect time to buy new hardware, or upgrade your existing infrastructure. There is a lot to consider, however, when looking at new hardware. First... 

(Ping! Zine Digital Issue 07) – In the world of Business and Ecommerce Web Hosting, there are partners and then there are the other 200 million websites that pop up in Google when you do a basic search for “web hosting”. Your business means more to you than high bandwidth offers or empty uptime guarantees, so you should find the kind of hosting company that does more than just host your website... 

(Special cPanel Edition) – When building a new shared server, one of the first decisions you must make is choosing a PHP handler to serve your PHP requests. A PHP handler is responsible for taking a request for a PHP script and loading the appropriate libraries for execution. For a long time this was handled through mod_php, also known as DSO. With recent versions of cPanel, suPHP is the default... 

(Special cPanel Edition) – cPanel has a long-standing reputation as a top-notch web hosting control panel software provider. We create innovative products as well as actively participate in the growth of the web hosting industry as a whole. Our dynamic nature really shines in our unique product feature request process. Each product feature evolves through a series of exchanges with our valued... 

(Special cPanel Edition) – Since 1997, cPanel has been accruing a loyal following of developers looking to extend the functionality of cPanel software.  While there are some commonly known applications among cPanel & WHM administrators like CSF and Fantastico, the rapidly growing assortment of applications available for cPanel & WHM began posing its own problem — how do server...