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cPanel vs Plesk: Control Panel Comparison

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When it comes to web hosting control panels, the choices and options are far too many. We have open source and free options, as well as proprietary ones. cPanel, Plesk, VirtualMin, InterWorx, DirectAdmin, you name it!

As such, it often gets tough to decide which web hosting control panel one should opt for. On one hand, as an end user, you need to know which control panel will make your life easier in the long run, on the other hand, as a web hosting provider, you should be aware of the pros and cons of the web hosting control panel that you are offering, so as to be able to serve your customers in a better manner.

cPanel and Plesk are two of the biggest names in this field, and each of them has a loyal following and user base, as well as a long list of advantages and disadvantages. So, which one beats the other? In this post, I will offer a comparison of cPanel and Plesk.

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Great Web Hosting Deals – Halloween 2015

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It’s Halloween weekend so I decided to share some spooky/scary web hosting coupon codes. Check out these Halloween web hosting deals and the not so spooky coupon section for more deals going on now too. Have a happy Halloween everyone!

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When is Your Web Host Overcharging You?

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Since web hosting is a saturated market, pricing tends to be competitive and you can get great deals for prices that won’t break the bank. In fact, more and more web hosts offer deals to attract new customers, and go as far as offering 50% off or more in discounts.

Yet, customers being over-charged is also a harsh reality of the web hosting industry. At times, web hosts compel their clients to pay for unnecessary services, whereas at other times, the pricing for general products such as domain names and SSL certificates is enhanced.

So, how do you figure out if your web host is overcharging you? In this post, I will provide instances of common cases wherein web hosts force their users to pay extra and indulge in unnecessary expenditure.

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What is an Acceptable Amount of Downtime?

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In the long-term achieving zero downtime is considered a myth. In order to remain in a healthy environment servers will need to go through maintenance, as it’s also a way to avoid drastic downtimes in the future. Businesses and web hosting companies need to be able to schedule maintenance to avoid and minimize any unplanned downtime or outages. In the grand scheme of things, even the largest organizations in the world are sometimes hit with outages, server issues, and maintenance that hinder their ability to achieve zero downtime.

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What to do if Your Web Host is Acquired by EIG?

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Looking at the rate with which EIG is purchasing one brand after another, one can only wonder: how exactly does one stay aloof from the EIG juggernaut, and opt for a web hosting firm that will manage to remain independent? In this post, I will attempt to answer this question.

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Site5 Acquired by Endurance International Group

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Well, another quality web hosting company has been purchased by Endurance International Group. According to to their latest earnings report EIG bought Site5 and it’s assets, in full.

Quoted from their 2015 second quarter earnings report:

During the quarter, the company acquired assets of Verio and Site5. The total cash consideration for these acquisitions is expected to be approximately $36 million.

It’s time to add another couple of web hosts to the long list of EIG hosting companies

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Technical Tips: How to Look into The Security and Performance of a Web Host

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A big thank you to Shawn Purdy for providing his technical expertise in this interesting guest post for Review Hell readers. In this topic we will focus on security and performance. What we will cover in the article you can check fairly easily. It will help you determine if a host cares about its servers, or its clients.

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Endurance International Group (EIG) Hosting

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I’ve been meaning to create this post for quite sometime because I knew it would be helpful to have a page dedicated to the subject of EIG hosting for visitors to reference: including their background, what hosting brands they own, noteworthy outages, and trends of reliability/support. I have included some of my own opinion, however I feel that if you read through this whole post, follow the sources that I have referenced, and think about the whole EIG story things do add up.

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Semi-Dedicated Hosting: A High Performance Shared Hosting Solution

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Semi-dedicated hosting is a unique type of shared web hosting plan that offers increased performance and reliability to web hosting customers that require more power and resources than standard shared hosting plans provide. The main difference is semi-dedicated hosting plans have significantly fewer hosting accounts on a shared server. This means more server resources per account which increases speed, performance and overall reliability.

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Why Your Email Problems Might Be Your Host’s Fault

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Has this happened to you: your emails seem to be shooting off into the netherworld, never to be heard from again. That is, they’re not getting any responses. Days go by and you realize there’s a growing list of people you’re still waiting to hear back from…such a strange coincidence, they should all ignore you at once.

But come to find out you’ve been blacklisted! Rather, your email server has been blacklisted. It’s been identified as a vehicle for spam, and there you were sending your important business emails to important clients, none the wiser.

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