Optimize MySQL tables for better performance

A web applications like Wordpress will produce a lot of overhead on your database tables. Each overhead will make your database a little slower because more memory (RAM) is used. This PHP tutorial is for the beginning webmaster and also useful for the professional webmaster, which host his websites on a VPS or dedicated server.

Start a hosting business with DirectAdmin

There are thousands of hosting companies on the Internet and maybe this article will help you to start your own. Many companies offering web services are hosting reseller of other (bigger) companies or have partnerships with hosting companies. Maybe you have ever thought to offer hosting services by yourself, with a dedicated server or a [...]

How-to choose a WordPress Hosting Provider

If you’re using the popular blog tool WordPress, you’re probably looking for the best possible WordPress hosting provider. Choosing a host might be hard because the are a lot of them. I advise you to take your time and make sure you’re choosing the best option. WordPress doesn’t require a lot of “special” server features, [...]

Website Monitoring Services: Reviews and Facts

There are so many possibilities why a website went off-line, all of them have one in common: Your visitors can’t access your site and maybe they will never come back! Possible problems why a website might be off-line: Web server or network is down – A very common problem, there is so much computer technology [...]

Create custom website backups using CRON

Several weeks ago I was looking for some alternative hosting for Media Temple and found WebFaction. While searching the net I found a few reviews and all of them are very good. Because their shared hosting package look different from others, I took an account. Why Webfaction? Webfaction is a 100% web hosting provider offering [...]

Sending e-mails via SMTP with PHPmailer and GMail

Using the SMTP server from Gmail is a good choice for mail application with less than 500 recipients a day. This tutorials shows you how to send mail messages via SMTP using PHPmailer and Gmail.