[frame align=”left”][/frame]Bluehost has made the jump onto the WordPress Hosting bandwagon and created their own managed WordPress hosting solution build around their proprietary VPS technology. So what does this mean? You get VPS power, NGINX architecture, custom PHP-FPM configuration and integrated caching by W3. Furthermore all plans come with SiteLock website scanning and the SiteLock […]
Category Archives: Internet News
New Study Shows Fake Googlebots Used for DDOS Attacks
Googlebots are an essential part of the Google search engine. Constantly crawling the world wide web looking for new links and websites to ensure that you get the latest …
Happy Sysadmin Day 2014
Alas sometimes the life of a sysadmin runs significantly later than the usual 9-5 of some people – and as such I almost missed this post myself. So, without further ado, Happy Sysadmin Day to all the IT guys and system administrators out there. Enjoy what is left of the one day a year when you […]
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 […]
Google’s Latest Additions to Webmaster Tools
Over the course of the last week, July 13th – July 19th Google has announced some awesome new features they have introduced to Google’s Webmaster Tools. The first is the introduction of a new reporting feature designed to help marketers troubleshoot rel-alternate-hreflang annotations (an attribute that communicates with Google if there are requirements for alternate languages on […]
Wix Launches ShoutOut – An Email Newsletter Tool
[frame align=”left”][/frame]Website builder Wix.com has launched a new tool to allow users to create and send email newsletters from within their Wix dashboard. The new tool, called Wix ShoutOut, attempts to replace a few of the previously available Wix Apps for setting up mailing lists and sending out newsletters by offering all the same functionality from […]
Google Lets You Know When Pages May Not Work On Your Device
Earlier this week Google announced a change to their mobile search results bringing in notifications to let a user know when results include pages that may not work on their devices. For …
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: […]
SiteGround Begins Offering New Domain Names
With all of the new gTLD domain names coming out I’m you’ve probably noticed that I generally refer to a small handful of registrars where these new domain name extensions are actually available for registration. SiteGround has just joined that group offering 31 of the more popular new extensions. As with the introduction of most […]
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 […]
Google Helps You Play With Cookies
No, not those kind of cookies. Although now I really want a white chocolate macadamia nut cookie … Anyway – Google is helping webmasters who use cookies on their websites or mobile applications to meet their European legal obligations to get user consent regarding the use of cookies. So a couple of days ago Google […]
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 […]
Rackspace Redesigns Dedicated Cloud Servers
It’s been a while since I became an official Rackspace partner, and it has been absolutely amazing working with the Rackspace team over the course of these past months. They truly have some amazing ideas and one of those ideas has finally come to fruition. Last week Rackspace announced the launch of their OnMetal Cloud […]
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 […]
Google Updates Products Feed Attributes
If you run an eCommerce website than chances are you’ve had some experience with getting a feed generated to add your products to Google Shopping. Depending on the platform you have this may or may not have been a huge pain in the ass. I’m looking at you ONEighty & SMY Performance. Anyway Google has announced that […]
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 […]
WHUK Upgrades VMware Based Cloud Hosting Plans
[frame align=”right”][/frame]Webhosting UK (or WHUK for short) has announced some serious performance upgrades to their line of VMware based cloud hosting plans. The new plans sport new processor performance with double the amount of RAM and storage space than the previous-generation VMware cloud hosting plans offered, at the exact same great low price. So that means that now, […]
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 […]