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It is time to talk about domain name. The data here is correct as of today: 19 Oktober 2018. The number of top-level domains keeps growing year by year. Daar is 1,578 topvlak domeine, of which 312 are country-code. Within those 312 country-codes, 19 of them are considered generic by Google: .ad .as .bz .cc… read more »

Die prys van 'n cPanel-lisensie vir 'n toegewyde bediener is meer as twee keer van daardie virtuele bediener. Alhoewel hierdie prysverskil nie verklaar kan word nie (Dit kan wees vir die ondersteuning van die nie-standaard hardeware?), some hosting companies have noticed this and to lower their cost they are installing a virtualization layer on their… read more »

It is always easy to find a cheaper hosting company, but there is a ceiling to how low it can go before compromising either: the uptime or your data. This is a TRUE story. Recently a (very cheap) hosting company had a disk crash: the server was offline for 6 days to go through the… read more »

It is quite amazing that some (many?) hosting companies are still charging for Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificates, whereas those are now free: either with WHM/cPanel using Let’s Encrypt (and the renewal are free & automatic!) or using a third party like SSL For Free. The word needs to go out that SSL is not an… read more »