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Not all web hosting servers are alike, some are faster

Not all web hosting servers are alike, some are faster

As Internet adoption continues to ramp up at a brisk pace around the world, people want faster websites and search engines do too. With WordPress running nearly 22.4% of the Internet (at the time of this post n 2014; in 2021,...

Why ads now after 15 years without

Why ads now after 15 years without

short version: this website needs an upgrade, and that means extra monthly costs for web hosting. long version: I’ve been blogging since June 1999, having started journaling online before it was blogging. I’m an early adopter like that, love experimenting...

Where can you get 100% uptime web hosting?

Where can you get 100% uptime web hosting?

When a service declares a 99.9% uptime guarantee might sounds kinda impressive. But do the math, and it turns out that 99.9% allows for 43 minutes of downtime per month or over 8 hours in a year, while 99.99% uptime...

where you can get free website hosting

where you can get free website hosting

There are still a handful or so companies that provide free website hosting with FTP, even in the aftermath of very popular early-’90s personal website hosts like Geocities / Fortunecity / Angelfire / Tripod. It is harder to find a...