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Become your own hosting company

Recently we advised a customer whom was paying US$600 per month for: a server hosting 1 single website (although very popular), and a newsletter with 50,000 subscribers. This was a huge amount: US$7,200 per year! Our solution was very simple: the customer had to sign-up to a cloud provider (Amazon AWS® or Google Cloud™) ja… Loe Edasi »

Own your own server

Shared hosting is great to start and reduce the costs of hosting: you share a server with many other customers, and each customer is paying a slice of the server. However at some stage your website becomes so: big, successful, and popular that you have outgrown a shared hosting service. This is when you canLoe Edasi »

Get free my.qh.ie subdomains !

We offer free subdomains of: my.qh.ie ! To get your free .IE subdomain, simply register here. Once registered, go intoRegistry”, then search forqh.ieand pick up the name you want! 👍 You will then be able to: managed DNS or NS servers, make redirects, or cloak your website. It is a great (ja… Loe Edasi »

The horror story of the .hosting domain extension

The “.hostingdomain extension was launched on November 25, 2014 by Uniregistry® with a starting price of US$30. Augustis 2017: the domain price increased to US$300 (+1000%)… While this case is extreme, it is not isolated, the same company (Uniregistry®) increased the price of other extensions: .AUDIO from $9.33 to $100.00.BLACKFRIDAY from $26.67 kuni… Loe Edasi »

Let’s Encrypt® on cPanel® with CloudFlare®

If the CloudFlare® CDN is activated on the domain: Let’s Encrypt® will be unable to run and renew the SSL certificate on the cPanel® server. This is problematic, especially because Let’s Encrypt® checks the IPv6 record too (and is not able to verify the domain if the server has no IPv6). However there is aLoe Edasi »

Servers that cannot scale

The majority of web hosting companies (the old generation) are selling the belief that their customers are able to upgrade their plan at any moment. However if you think about it: it is not possible, because when a server is built or assembled, it has a certain capacity and limit. Usually the hosting companies justLoe Edasi »

Goodbye Freenom®, hello Nic.ua !

A small company from the Ukraine called NIC.UA LLC is offering free .PP.UA domains to any registrant! The sign-up is very easy and a confirmation code is sent by SMS to activate the domain, or you can also use a robot on Telegram. Note that you can only activate 3 domains per period of 30Loe Edasi »

Freenom®: if you do not own it, you do not have it

Freenom® offers free domain names from different countries: .TK, .ML, .CF, .GQ, and .GA. Unfortunately: they can suspend any free domain at any time, even without providing you a reason. It is strongly advised to move away from them as soon as possible. If you move server or have unexpected downtime: your domain will beLoe Edasi »

The new image format: WebP

A customer just deployed the new image format: WebP. Unfortunately: it is not supported by many browsers (alates tänasest), including the Apple desktops & devices using Safari. While the savings of file size is more than 20% against TinyPNG, the backward compatibility is really more important. So we will have have to wait some moreLoe Edasi »

There are 1,578 top-level domains

It is time to talk about domain name. The data here is correct as of today: 19 Oktoober 2018. The number of top-level domains keeps growing year by year. There are 1,578 top-level domains, of which 312 are country-code. Within those 312 country-codes, 19 of them are considered generic by Google: .ad .as .bz .ccLoe Edasi »

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