March 22nd 2023 WordPress performance issues Aincite uses a webhost that runs on Lightspeed and Installatron. So far everything is rather OK but he has been noticing delays when sites are made with WordPress, often 2-3 seconds delay in initial load. On one particular site there are some RSS loading so he figured it could be due to that, but it happens with all the WordPress sites hosted there, with or without caching, and with or without loading external sources. He knows people who have mov ...Continue Reading

March 15th 2023 Which one to choose? WHMCS, ClientExec or HostBill? Andy needs to choose a hosting automation for a couple thousand customers. An import is not an option and will have to done manually. He'll need integration with his local ccTLD registry and a local payment processor for which only WHMCS has integrations (sort of), and to develop integration with the local fiscal service so there's a requirement for an API or some other way to expose the data in the invoices. Cost wise, he t ...Continue Reading

March 8th 2023 Verisign announces another .com price increase Verisign has announced a 7% increase in .com prices to take effect on September 1, 2023. This follows [1]a similar increase announced in 2022. The wholesale price for .com domains will increase from $8.97 currently to $9.59 after the increase and doesn't include ICANN's 18 cent fee. Registrars mark the price up to cover payment processing, technical and support costs, and profit. Under its agreement with ICANN and the U.S. gove ...Continue Reading

March 1st 2023 Serious trouble with clients abusive and illegal sites HyperVMart is having serious trouble, mainly with his hosting providers, due to clients hosting child pornography on their hosting accounts causing their host to suspend an entire server affecting all clients on the server. This has been occurring quite frequently for them and recently they found that one client had changed his old legal domain name to a completely illegal child porn website which got the server suspended ...Continue Reading

February 22nd 2023 Free and paid SSL certificates TTGT points out that, these days, many sites offer free SSL cerificates for clients, but feels it's slower to get SSL certificates from cPanel's AutoSSL, and asks if it's the same for LetsEncrypt. He's also interested in comparing free and paid certificates - Paid certificates come with a warranty but do those make any difference if a site is hacked? The thread goes on to discuss whether paid SSLs are still needed, perhaps forgetting that the ...Continue Reading

February 15th 2023 Offering an email-only service Kikloo provides cPanel hosting to several clients, some of whom just use the hosting account purely for personal email services. He's looking for suggestions of any readymade system available to provide email hosting only. The aim is to reduce costs by not having to spend on cPanel, Cloudlinux, Imunify360 etc. and just provide email services like webmail, POP3 and IMAP as a standalone product. Is there any software like cPanel that he can use ...Continue Reading

February 8th 2023 What's a reseller hosting and why are people so crazy about it? Saad has been going through WebHostingTalk and one thing that he's noticed is that people post lots of questions about reseller hosting. In the past he's been hosting his different websites on different web hosts. He's used managed WordPress hosting, shared hosting, etc., but he couldn't fathom why someone would need a reseller hosting. He's asking to be educated on this type of hosting and, if he has multiple ...Continue Reading

February 1st 2023 Could 2023 be the year of public cloud repatriation? Veteran WHTer "net" found a thought provoking article suggesting that, with cloud costs and complexity higher than expected, many enterprises are making a U-turn and putting applications and data back in traditional systems. The article goes on to assert that this is a topic that we don't discuss as much as we should: public cloud repatriation. Many regard repatriating data and applications back to enterprise da ...Continue Reading

January 25th 2023 Can cloud hosting be used for a web hosting business? It looks like one of WHT's newest members is interested in starting a hosting business because he's asking if it's advisable to use cloud servers like DigitalOcean for his web hosting business. He's already purchased his first DO droplet and completed set up only to discover that DO doesn't support port 25 and so is blocking outgoing email from cPanel. He'd like to know if there's any way around this, and how does he exp ...Continue Reading

January 18th 2023 What would you look for from hosting? A simple one line question can often bring a multitude and variety of answers, and that's what this thread is doing already. The question: If you were to purchase a hosting account what would you be looking for in terms of hardware, software, support? Of course, our resident hosting providers are quick to jump on the hardware element, discussing the latest CPUs, availability, etc. But, once in a while, we see a thread that opens the doo ...Continue Reading