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Es ist Zeit, über Domainnamen zu sprechen. Die hier aufgeführten Daten entsprechen dem Stand von heute: 19 Oktober 2018. Die Zahl der Top-Level-Domains wächst von Jahr zu Jahr. Es gibt 1,578 Top-Level-Domains, davon 312 sind Ländercode. Innerhalb dieser 312 Ländercodes, 19 von ihnen werden von Google als generisch angesehen: .ad .as .bz .cc… weiterlesen »

The price of a cPanel license for a dedicated server is more than twice of that virtual server. While this price difference cannot be explained (it could be for the support of the non standard hardware?), some hosting companies have noticed this and to lower their cost they are installing a virtualization layer on their… weiterlesen »

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… weiterlesen »

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… weiterlesen »