In last years many new Content Delivery Network (CDN) companies have been launched and pricing for content distribution is very competitive nowadays. There are still old CDN companies like Akamai that charge top dollar but offer very good and quality service. If you can afford to pay top-price, go for it. However, the small content delivery companies like ValueCDN charge as low as $0.07 for 1GB of content delivery. This is very competitive bandwidth pricing from multiple locations world wide and it really speeds up file delivery.

Using content delivery network company you will speed up your web… Read the rest of this entry »

We have been testing out many WordPress plugins and solutions for WordPress blog hosting. To our surprise there are still many great plugins out there that can easily boost your WordPress powered blog and lower the hosting expenses. Why pay more for expensive hardware upgrades if you can increase the performance of the current server?

Let’s look at eAccelerator WordPress Object Cache plugin that will boost your WordPress  blog performance if you are running it on a dedicated server platform and have full access to server config. This plugin requires that you have access to server and configure… Read the rest of this entry »

A few years ago when people ran LAMP servers without control panel software it was somewhat hard to configure new web sites from the shell. Nowadays, over 95% of hosting companies use commercial control panel software or have their own control panel software to configure new domains and edit existing account settings.

Trust me, Cpanel is going strong with a really large market share and it’s quite good for hosting multiple domain names. You have multiple choices:

1. Add-on domains
You have a main site account and you can add on domains that will reside under your homedir as… Read the rest of this entry »