Category Archives: Service News & Alerts

WordPress.com Revamps Analytics – Shows You Ideal Time For New Post

When it comes down to running a blog you’re audience is everything. Determining your target market, their favorite content, when their reading – these are all crucial in the success of your blog or news site; however for the average beginner blogger gathering and analyzing this data is generally out of their realm. This has […]

Yahoo Shutting Down Maps & Other Services This Month!

Yahoo made some big announcements during their Q2 2015 progress report – and some of this news is sure to leave a few people I know pretty disappointed. A slew of services that have a hardcore following are being phased out by the end of June 2015 – so if you’re an avid user of […]

HostGator Integrates MOJO Marketplace into Shared Hosting

HostGator has announced a partnership with MOJO Marketplace today in an effort to provide customers access to premium graphics, themes, templates, plugins and extensions for most major scripts, quickly and easily. To be honest – the partnership isn’t much of a surprise. Both brands are owned by Endurance International Group (EIG), and templates and web hosting […]

Host1Plus Launches DDoS Protection Service

Earlier this week Host1Plus has announced the implementation of DDoS protection for a wide customer audience in all available VPS locations, except Frankfurt, Germany. As DDoS attacks are on the rise and tend to quickly evolve into complex security threats, the protection from such attacks is of the most importance. The collaboration with Staminus has […]

DreamHost Launches DreamPress 2

Hosted on virtual private servers, DreamPress is a super fast and highly reliable managed WordPress hosting service offered by DreamHost. DreamPress 2 kicks things up a notch by including SSD drives, PHP 5.5 with OpCache & HHVM (Hip Hop Virtual Machine). For those of you who don’t know, HHVM is Facebook’s faster replacement for PHP and as […]

Stablehost Launches PingThat Beta – Website Monitoring Made Awesome!

StableHost has been around for quiet a while now and they’ve built up a reputation for themselves in the web hosting community as a no-nonsense hosting company with a huge focus on support & performance. Well continuing with that focus the team over at StableHost has began building a simple, straight forward, website monitoring platform […]

Starting Your Own eCommerce Business Just Got ALOT Easier!

When it comes to getting into eCommerce there’s one of two things you’ll be doing; selling your own product or selling someone elses. When it comes down to selling someone elses product you generally have to worry about sourcing your product, maintaining inventory, handling your invoices and so forth; and all of this becomes quiet […]

Twitter Introduces Curator Tool to Help Find & Display Content

When it comes to using Twitter for business or marketing purposes – sharing just the right content at just the right moment is absolutely key. A hot Twitter topic can gain tremendous popularity within mere minutes and be forgotten about an hour later. Keeping up with all of that content at such a fast pace […]

Volusion Launches New Mobile App

Volusion has launched a brand new mobile app available on iPhone and Android devices today! The new Volusion mobile app features a brand new interface design, along with some powerful new features such as the ability to add and edit your stores products! Furthermore iPhone 5s and iPhone 6 users will appreciate the integration with […]

JotForm Launches Fillable PDF Tool

JotForm has always been packed with awesome features and tools that make creating, sharing and utilizing forms an absolute dream. Their latest feature is no different as JotForm releases their Fillable PDF Creator allowing users to export their forms to a PDF, email it to their users, and get the responses within their JotForm account. […]

Imgur Pro For Everyone!

When it comes to uploading and sharing photos online Imgur has been “the home to the web’s most popular image content” since roughly 2009 when Alan Schaaf founded the site. Since then Imgur has ran two monetization models: the free membership allowed you to utilize the site while viewing ads; while the premium version offered […]

Amazon WorkMail Getting Ready to Take On Google & Microsoft

Amazon has quietly been working on their very own corporate email and calendar service called WorkMail which is finally being given some publicity. The service is focused highly on security and ease of use and will obviously be powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS). WorkMail is designed to be fully compatible with Microsoft Outlook and other e-mail applications […]

Web Listings, Inc – Scam Alert

I had wanted to write this post the first time I had gotten a Web Listings, Inc letter in the mail and somehow it slipped my mind then. Luckily I own a fair share of domain names and so, sure enough, I got another letter from Web Listings, Inc a few weeks back. So finally it pissed […]

YucatecHost Disappears Without Warning

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 […]

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 […]

Hawk Host Raising Money for Cancer Awareness

As mostly everyone knows, October is Breast Cancer Awareness month – and to help the American Cancer Society fund research, awareness, and countless other critical activities – Hawk Host is launching a brand new coupon code which will not only save you money, but help raise money for the American Cancer Society. Coupon code [coupon code=”hawkhost-beatcancer” /] is […]