Working on Site Accessibility & Dedicated Web Hosting Provider Lookout

July 5th, 2006 I have been looking for a unmanaged dedicated web hosting provider for the last 7 days or so. I performed sucks tests (search in Google for "xyz sucks"), went to web hosting forums, asked questions to the provider, analyzed their plans with a fine tooth comb.

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 3rd, 2005 According to Hosting-Review, an independent provider of web hosting reviews, the Top 10 Web Hosts (updated August 2005) are: BlueHost IX Web Hosting Powweb Lunarpages iPowerWeb Yahoo Hosting StartLogic Host Excellence Bluefish Hosting Site Build It Link

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

July 16th, 2007 Some of you have come to me saying WordPress recommends BlueHost and so why it isn't working well for them, their implicit expectation being that because WordPress recommends BlueHost, it must be the best for WordPress. That is far from truth.

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 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.

May 29th, 2008 I am a long time LayeredTech dedicated server customer. Today out of the blue LayeredTech increased the price by 26%! None of the "service improvements" directly benefits average customers like us: Implementation of a new enterprise-wide management system to integrate all client touch points and improve response times.

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.

August 28th, 2006 I faced serious hacking attempts from a server owned by my dedicated web hosting provider, LayeredTech. More than 23, 000 brute force attempts were made on ssh server alone.

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.

August 20th, 2007 My old IP addresses are presumably having some issues according to my dedicated web hosting provider LayeredTech. So on their suggestion we will change our IP addresses this weekend.

August 28th, 2007 This is a news to me! I am using LayeredTech dedicated server for over a year and just today while browsing their new encompass console I found they have three nice buttons labelled Reboot, Power On & Power Off. Obviously I tried and it worked.

April 17th, 2006 WordPress.com suffered a hardware failure yesterday bringing all the hosted Wordpress sites down including famous blogs like scobelizer. The message from Matt: Once More We had a pretty bad hardware failure yesterday, and though it took longer than we liked everything was restored and has been running the past 6 hours or so just dandy.

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.