Top 10 Web Hosting Providers (Updated August 2005)

July 29th, 2007 Inspired by Steve Pavlina's article, I have decided to take a 30 day program to exercise every day for at least an hour from August 2007. While it may sound simple, even obvious to many, it isn't so simple for someone with 110 Kg (kilogram), not to mention my work schedule which keeps me busy for 15-16 hours daily.

July 7th, 2006 Dreamhost, why suckst thou thusly? My configs error free, all see. My width of band a mere mirage.

June 30th, 2006 I am working to transition my server to dedicated web hosting. My Westhost VPS account is crumbling under traffic and no amount of optimization is being able to handle anymore the heavy traffic I am getting.

August 12th, 2007 One of the main challenges of managing multiple dedicated web / database servers is the ability to centrally monitor and manage them, automate tasks which requires out-of-band access like rebooting the server or find out if the server is dying and arrange for replacement ahead of time etc. Unless you are a very big web service provider, chances are you are using dedicated servers from one or more of dedicated web hosting providers.

July 13th, 2007 Any growing business has to eventually move to high end web hosting solutions like Colocation, Dedicated Web Hosting, Managed Hosting or Fully Outsourced solution. Let's look at the advantages and disadvantages of each solution.

August 26th, 2005 One of the strong security concerns in shared hosting environments is whether your sensitive data like MySQL server login/password or other login/password is actually safe from other users sharing the same web hosting machine. Few shared hosting providers do not provide telnet/ssh.

February 10th, 2005 I had tried several web hosting providers before settling down. Recently I was checking to see if something better have come up.

July 12th, 2005 In this article I cover the hard questions to ask (checklist) while choosing a shared hosting provider. These questions are gathered over the years and through hard experience with different shared hosting providers.

July 5th, 2006 I prepared a list of questions to ask potential unmanaged dedicated web hosting providers for my sites. Note: I have collected some questions from the web (forgot the url) and added my own.

September 25th, 2006 Many would think at this point I am talking about better AJAX support in the core. While we do need better support for AJAX and I am not talking about DWR, I don't think that's what ails Java in its quest for being.

June 22nd, 2005 Sun Developer Network is sponsoring 2005 TopCoder(r) Open Competition. You can program in any of the languages - Java, C++, C# and Visual Basic.

December 19th, 2004 I went to a website in search of a blog and I got: Get Hosted! Account Cancelled! The previous webpage was shutdown due to hosting issues. If you need hosting also here is some info.

March 30th, 2009 There are so many web hosting providers these days, all claiming to be the top of the line and with lucrative packages, you are bound to get confused. So we have started this series where we will review a web hosting provider a month based on our personal experiences.

July 19th, 2005 News Corp is bolstering its newly-formed internet unit by spending $580 million on Intermix - the company behind free blog hosting provider myspace.com. Intermix owns and runs about 40 websites but currently the best performer is myspace.com.

March 11th, 2006 I am looking for dedicated web hosting solution. Can you please provide me with some recommendations within manageable cost? I am slowly but surely outgrowing my WestHost VPS.