I'm currently in the process of transferring a number of web sites from shared hosting to my virtual server account. I started out by downloading and uploading the files, but this proved to be cumbersome and slow. Uploading across an...

 

In this post this post I talked about how I use an external DNS supplier as part of my web hosting provision. One of the major advantages that this provides is the ability to do near-instantaneous switching between hosts. This...

 

For our hosting we made the step-up from shared hosting to a virtual dedicated server on the premise that it would give us greater control. Included in this was the desire to be able to specify DNS settings directly. The...

 

As I mentioned in this post we've started to use virtual dedicated server hosting. This is great in the sense that it puts you in control of all aspects of your hosting setup. But it also means that you have...

 

For a number of years we have provided hosting packages as a service to our web development customers. These were originally operated on a reseller package based on shared Linux hosting. Mostly this worked very well but occassionally it could...