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Freenom® tarjoaa ilmaisia verkkotunnuksia eri maista: .TK, .ML, .CF, .GQ, ja .GA. Valitettavasti: He voivat keskeyttää minkä tahansa ilmaisen verkkotunnuksen milloin tahansa, jopa antamatta sinulle syytä. On erittäin suositeltavaa siirtyä pois niistä mahdollisimman pian. Jos siirrät palvelinta tai sinulla on odottamattomia käyttökatkoksia: your domain will be… Lue lisää »

A customer just deployed the new image format: WebP. Valitettavasti: it is not supported by many browsers (as of today), 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 more… Lue lisää »

It is time to talk about domain name. The data here is correct as of today: 19 lokakuu 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 .cc… Lue lisää »

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… Lue lisää »

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… Lue lisää »

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… Lue lisää »