I am VERY excited to announce that a few weeks ago, HostGator updated their hosting plans. ALL regular hosting accounts (Hatchling, Baby, and Business) now come with Unlimited Disk Space and Unlimited Bandwidth. Prices appear to be the same. Hatchling plan is $8.95 per month if paid monthly, 4.95 per month if you prepay 3 [...]

There are a few different kinds of backups that you can do through cPanel. A full website backup, as its name suggests, backs up your whole website. This includes the webpages you have made, any content management programs you are using along with their settings, any databases you are running, and any emails that are [...]

A friend of mine use to often brag about his “Alexa Ranking”. He was so proud of it … I was happy for him, but I didn’t really understand what it was. And I wondered if Alexa ranings are so good – why didn’t I have one? To sum it up, Alexa (owned by Amazon.com) [...]

Being a full-time webmaster for a wide variety of websites, I have had the oportunity to work with many webhosts and registrars.  I have found that the contents included in a package and level of service can vary greatly.  And you don’t always “get what you paid for.” Although it has problems, HostGator is the [...]

I could barely believe it the first time I saw it. A few years ago my favorite registrar, Yahoo!, (who gets domains through Melbourne IT) upped their domain name price to $34.99 per year. In a betrayed outrage, I began transferring my domains to a registrar much like GoDaddy. A few years later it appears [...]