Category Archives: Webmaster News

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 […]

Unlimited Storage Under $3/mo from SOS Online Backup

[frame align=”right”][/frame]Online backup solutions are a dime a dozen these days – and chances are you’re using more than one of them yourself. Truth be told – I have backups split amongst a wide array of services: Dropbox, Onedrive, iCloud, Google Drive and SOS Online Backup – however only one of these offers me unlimited […]

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. […]

Namecheap Launches SSD Business Hosting

SSD’s are hitting the industry hard with more and more hosting companies offering SSD options these days. Namecheap has just hopped onto the bandwagon themselves by announcing that they have recently updated their business hosting product to be fully SSD powered. The new SSD plans are available in both Namecheaps’ US and Europe/UK data centers. SSD […]

Time To Reset The Net!

There has been a new campaign making its rounds across the internet lately called “Reset the Net” – and I personally fully support it. The campaign arose as a response to the shocking revelations of government surveillance exposed by whistleblower Edward Snowden in June last year. The Reset the Net event looks to commemorate the first anniversary […]

StatCounter Browser Statistics for 2014 Released

StatCounter has been around for a while now, focused on offering in-depth traffic information about your website completely free of charge. Over the years StatCounter has developed quiet the network gathering data from over 2.5 million members with over 50 million page views each month. So naturally they have huge amounts of data about the different technologies used to access […]

GoDaddy Invades Europe

GoDaddy has announced yesterday its continued expansion into international markets. After beginning this international expansion fewer than two years ago and a recent successful release across Latin America, GoDaddy is now extending its offering more broadly across Europe. Not only will the company’s services become available in these European nations, but they’ll also come in 14 new […]

PDF Eraser Added to Free Webmaster Resources Directory

If you’ve been paying attention you probably noticed that I have been trying my best to keep the Free Webmaster Resources Directory updated with new listings. Earlier this month I added PlainEdit.NET and Sublime Text to the directory; and today I would like to introduce you all to yet another new addition to the Rapid […]

Audefy Disappears, Reminder How Important Backups Are

Yesterday I decided to recirculate a message across the Rapid Purple social networks reminding people to always maintain a personal backup of your files – whether that be your website, your NAS, your file server, or even just your home computer. This morning I found a perfect example to share with everyone of just how important […]

99% Of Guest Bloggers Today Can’t Write

There’s been quiet alot of talk going on lately about guest blogging and what’s to come of it. Google made a clear stance against the current state of guest blogging; and the recent hits on both MyBlogGuest, and more recently PostJoint are evidence of that. All this has created quiet the stir amongst the SEO […]

DynDNS No Longer Free

DynDNS used to be THE free DNS service everyone was always recommending. Unfortunately Dyn has recently announced that it’s free service will cease on May 7th, 2014. This means anyone using their free DNS hosting has to upgrade to a paid version or will get cut off. Their paid version costs $25 per year just for […]

Some New TLD’s to Brighten Up Tax Day

In an effort to take your mind off the IRS, here’s some new fun TLD options, available for general registration as of 4/15: .gift, .pics, .photo, .guitars, .link. Two more batches of new TLDs arrive later this week, so be sure to stay tuned. Here’s a sneak peek: .marketing on 4/16 and .pink on 4/17. […]

SiteGround Launches V2.0 of their Staging Tool

[frame align=”right”][/frame]SiteGround has always done a great job at making themselves stand out from the crowd by offering a very unique set of tools built upon a very unique infrastructure. Starting from multiple data-centers spread across multiple geographical locations, down to their innovative shared hosting server security setup which isolates shared hosting accounts from each […]

World Backup Day 2014 Is Here

World Backup Day is amongst us once again, and today – it is our duty as webmasters, business owners, cellphone users, and well – data owners – to backup all our files. Granted you should already be maintaining backups on a regular basis – however if you’re not today is the perfect day to start […]