[1] September 27th 2023 Data center execs discuss alternative power solutions as demand soars At the Datacloud USA event a couple of weeks ago in Austin, Texas, data center executives tackled the topic of power constraints in data center design and operations. One big takeaway from the panel is that hydrogen and nuclear-powered data centers are a possibility for the future. The demand for power in the US market is expected to skyrocket, with consumption projected to reach 35 gigawatts by 20 ...Continue Reading

[1] September 20th 2023 Succession Planning Here's a new topic about something that perhaps many of us don't think enough about, particularly the younger generation (without wishing to sound ageist). Whitecap, a WHTer of some twenty years, has been hosting for over twenty years. His customer base has dwindled down to a handful: about 10. In the past he's had succession agreements with others who could step in and absorb his customers upon his demise, but he no longer has these agreements ...Continue Reading

[1] September 13th 2023 Best hosting for e-commerce websites? One of our new members is currently on the lookout for a dependable and high-speed web hosting provider for his online store, and would love some recommendations and/or details of positive experiences with this type of hosting. He's feeling a bit overwhelmed by the sheer number of options available. Of course, some more details about the site he's planning to host are needed, with the usual questions posted about preferred loc ...Continue Reading

September 6th 2023 Help with 175+ webhosting accounts Redteg has a dedicated server that he's using to host 175+ accounts, with the majority of them running WordPress. All fairly standard stuff. Lately (in the last 2 months) he's been dealing with large load spikes which are causing all of the sites to go down. He employs a server management company but they're currently unable to find the cause and a solution. This has resulted in him wondering if using a cloud setup would be a better optio ...Continue Reading

August 30th 2023 CentOS 7 EOL and Cpanel Like many of us, Udaya is concerned about the upcoming CentOS 7 EOL and how best to migrate a Cpanel setup to an alternative operating system. Cpanel have announced that they will stop supporting CentOS 7 from mid-2024, which might seem a long way off, but better to prepare now and perform a well organised migration at our own pace rather than wait till the last minute. So, have you decided on which OS to move to? Will you use the cPanel ELevate Proje ...Continue Reading

August 23rd 2023 5 times more fiber per data center for AI A Corning executive recently predicted that data centers will need more fiber-rich interconnects for AI. It is estimated that at least five times more optical connections are going to be required in a data center as a result of artificial intelligence demand. Their data center solutions are trying to solve density issues by looking at thinner fibers to allow it to cram 24 fibers in half the amount of space currently required, and als ...Continue Reading

August 16th 2023 Which billing system do you use/prefer? Vlad is new to WHT, and represents a hosting company from Bulgaria. For the past few years they've used Hostbill for their billing system, but he says that it has a lot of bugs. Before that they tried Blesta and WHMCS, but with some similar poor results. So he's asking WHT's hosting members to share what they would suggest based on experience. Which ready-made solution is better and/or do you think it's a reasonable proposition to try ...Continue Reading

August 9th 2023 Best speed and backup solution for a WordPress site Rohit is looking for how to achieve the best speed for a WordPress site, with a good backup solution, and within a budget of $50/month. This is a well optimized WordPress site on a LiteSpeed server with LScache. The audience is mainly from the US with some from Canada and the UK. He asks what would be the best solutions for performance (load time including TTFB) and automated backups with easy accessibility? He's currently u ...Continue Reading

August 2nd 2023 When someone asks for a low resource VPS with high IP allocation How do you react? It seems that many immediately label the request as coming from someone who wants to send spam and decline the request, while others might entertain it under certain conditions like turning off mail ports, rate limiting mail ports, and/or taking a substantial advance payment (often a full year) before considering providing service. The advance payment is designed to separate genuine orders from ...Continue Reading

July 26th 2023 EFF moves to quash subpoena seeking web host's identity In what the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) are calling a victory for online expression, a subpoena aimed at revealing the identity of an anonymous person hosting a website was quashed by a U.S. District Court judge. After a New Jersey man was fired from his job once an anti-fascist Twitter account suggested he was involved with a white supremacist organization, the Twitter account was targeted by him and others who ...Continue Reading