Part of my job in looking for the latest and best new hosting and domain name deals for everyone is to also keep a look out for failing hosting companies and as such avoid advertising or recommending their services. YucatecHost seems to have only been around since 2013, with the original domain name registration date […]
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Media Temple Adds Parallels Plesk 12
[frame align=”left”] [/frame]Media Temple announced on Monday this week that it has added Parallels Plesk 12 to its VPS control panel offering. As such all VPS customers currently on Plesk 10 and Plesk 11.5 are encouraged to upgrade for free to Plesk 12 by the end of the year. As part of the new features […]
3 New Bing Ads Geotargeting Features Now Available
Bing has announced some great new targeting features which have been implemented into Bing Ads. These new features allow you much more control over your visibility and target radius for your Bing Ads. First, new map features give advertisers a way to visualize where they are targeting on the map. “You can also add/remove targets […]
Building An Adult Website
[frame align=”left”][/frame]Adult websites. Porn. XXX. However you call it it’s still one of the greatest moneymakers on the web. It still gets more traffic than most other web-based industries. So if you’re considering starting an adult website, it is certainly no wonder why. With some business acumen, a bit of ethics, and certain knowledge of […]
Push Email for IMAP Supported On All Our Servers
Email is still an irreplaceable communication channel when it comes to business relations. So, in today’s fast-paced everyday life where every second counts, if you fail to receive an important email on time, you could run the chance of missing vital opportunities for you and your business. Technically speaking, a constant connection between the mail server and the mail […]
Google Alerts Get A Fresh Redesign
Google Alerts always seemed to have a rather primitive design to it – and that may very well have been the cause behind it never really gaining the popularity that it should have. Google has taken note of this and this past weekend have released a brand new design for the Google Alerts site. The […]
Say Hello To Icecream Apps!
I usually don’t showcase new software developers on here however Icecream Apps is a freeware developer whos goal is to provide free replacements for popular paid applications. Currently their focus lies on Windows based applications, however Mac versions are said to be available “soon”. In the meantime Icecream Apps opened their doors with three freeware Windows […]
New Domain Names for July 2014
Hot on the tail of my last announcement regarding SiteGround’s introduction into the world of the new domain name extensions comes my list of the next set of domain name extensions being released throughout the month of July and the first week of August. As usual you can register these new domain names at either Namecheap, 1&1 or GoDaddy. July 08: […]
GoDaddy Partners with PayPal, Launches Get Paid
[frame align=”left”] [/frame]GoDaddy has launched a new service, called Get Paid, for small businesses to accept payment from anywhere, and has partnered with PayPal, Dwolla, and Stripe to ensure customers can accept all types of payment, including credit and debit cards, electronic checks and mobile payments. According to GoDaddy’s Monday announcement, Get Paid allows users to […]
cPanel & WHM Announce New Browser Compatibility
Following in the footsteps of Bing & Google who have recently announced their own browser compatibility changes which drop support for IE8 on behalf of Bing, and IE9 on behalf of Google. cPanel has acknowledged that continuing to test for, and develop against, older browsers slows down the entire development process – and in an […]
New Canadian Anti-Spam Law
Being based out of New York City I don’t often mention my Northern brothers up in Canada – however the new Candian Anti-Spam Law which goes into effect on July 1, 2014 is something I definitely needed to mention – if only because I wish it was something we put into effect here within the United States […]
Google Launches Invite-Only Domain Name Service
Around 3pm yesterday afternoon Google quietly launched an invite-only beta of a domain name registration service called Google Domains. Following up with the concepts of Google My Business, Google Domains plans to extend upon that initiative of getting small businesses online. Google’s goal during the beta of Google Domains is to collect some input on […]
Bing Announces Plans To Make Things Faster
Microsoft researchers and colleagues from Bing have been collaborating with others from industry and academia to examine datacenter hardware alternatives, and their work, a project known as Catapult, was presented in Minneapolis on June 16 during the 41st International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA). Confused yet? Hold on. Their paper, titled A Reconfigurable Fabric for Accelerating Large-Scale Datacenter Services, describes an […]
1&1 Launches WordPress Optimized Hosting
[frame align=”left”][/frame]With competitors like GoDaddy, MediaTemple, Viper Hosted and more jumping into the WordPress dedicated hosting scene 1&1 wasn’t about to be left out – and so yesterday 1&1 announced the launch of their WordPress optimized hosting solutions. 1&1’s WordPress solution offers a custom dashboard allowing quick and easy WordPress site installation along with a […]
InMotion Upgrades Shared Hosting Plans
[frame align=”left”][/frame]InMotion Hosting has secretly been hard at work upgrading all of their shared hosting plans with a whole slew of awesome new features and I wanted to take a moment and outline those changes here. SSDs Solid-state drives are now available for new customers. SSDs can be used for databases, CMS applications, and static […]
Bing Drops IE8; Google Drops IE9
There’s always been a push to get people to utilize the latest browser versions – and usually the biggest push comes when one of the big guys drops support for an older browser. Today older versions of Internet Explorer seem to be getting kicked to the curb by Bing & Google. In a post on G+ […]
Lets Reset The Net!
Today marks the one year anniversary of the start of the award-winning reporting that has revealed how the National Security Agency (NSA) was secretly invading the privacy of hundreds of millions of innocent people. Federal government senior officials lied and misled Congress, the courts, and the public, about the scope of NSA’s mass surveillance operations […]
Is Your Host Really Using SSD’s?
It seems that whenever a new technology gets introduced into the hosting industry there’s a fair share of providers who choose to make claims about the use of this new technology without actually integrating it into their infrastructure. Such has been the case as SSD’s first got introduced into the hosting marketplace. SSD’s offer a […]
New York City Launches First Phase of .NYC Domain Names
Being based in New York City I am pretty excited for the launch of the new .NYC domain name extension. New York City real estate has always come at quiet the premium and the new .NYC domain names should give all New York City based business owners a sot at some distinct NYC real estate […]
Yahoo Mail Forces Users to Upgrade Browsers
Yahoo Mail users who are not using the latest versions of their browsers will start to see a notification message upon login asking you to update your browser to experience the full new Yahoo Mail interface. Those who choose to not upgrade by June 5th will be forced to utilize the classic Yahoo Mail interface. […]