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Starting out as a web host | Unpicking Google's mysterious antispam policies | News from around the hosting industry

January 17th 2024 EDT

[1] January 17th 2024 Starting out as a web host MHD is in the final stages of completing his hosting website, and will be offering cPanel and DirectAdmin hosting, VPSs and dedicated servers. He won't be offering unlimited or unmetered services but wonders if this is bad or good from a potential customer's point of view? He wants to fraud screen every potential customer through a fraud screening partner, but asks if this would be off-putting to potential customers. Also being considered ...Continue Reading

HPE about to buy Juniper Networks | Best static site generator | News from around the hosting industry

January 10th 2024 EDT

[1] January 10th 2024 HPE about to buy Juniper Networks Hostrush came across an item from Reuters this week, saying that it looks like Hewlett Packard will end up buying Juniper. It went on to say that Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE.N) is in talks to buy Juniper Networks (JNPR.N) in a deal valuing the network gear maker at about $13 billion. A deal between the two companies could be announced as early as this week, the source said. As a result shares of Hewlett Packard fell 7.7%, while ...Continue Reading

How web hosting has changed | Do you obsess over your pagespeed score? | News from around the hosting industry

January 3rd 2024 EDT

[1] Wishing all of our members, readers and friends a very happy, healthy and prosperous New Year! January 3rd 2024 How web hosting has changed The start of a new year is often cause to reflect on the past, so Phil started this thread on 1st January by commenting that web hosting is a lot different in 2024 than it was a few years ago, and offering a quick review. The biggest change he perceives is that a simple control panel like Virtualmin or cPanel can no longer take care of everythin ...Continue Reading

Old webhosting tech | WordPress page load time optimization | News from around the hosting industry

December 27th 2023 EDT

[1] December 27th 2023 Old webhosting tech Russ wants us to take a trip down memory lane and asks what old webhosting/internet items do people miss? For him it was the simpler times of decent Usenet / IRC and everything just running over a 14,000 bps modem if you were lucky! It didn't take long for other members to jump in with their memories, reminiscing over the old free website providers, chat programs, browsers like Netscape, and who had the shortest ICQ number. If you're lucky enoug ...Continue Reading

DNS abuse | CentOS discontinued, which OS is best now for cPanel? | News from around the hosting industry

December 20th 2023 EDT

[1] Wishing all of our members, readers and friends a very happy and safe Christmas! December 20 2023 DNS Abuse Zoid, who started this thread, is the first to admit that he's not entirely sure what qualifies as DNS abuse, but the ICANN registrars seemingly do as they agreed to police the Internet for such an offence. His understanding is that it has been now codified that registrars ought to suspend domains when one of their hostnames resolve to a service used for an unnamed abuse of ...Continue Reading

Unlimited Reseller Hosting | Is the webhosting field over saturated? | News from around the hosting industry

December 13th 2023 EDT

[1] December 13th 2023 Unlimited Reseller Hosting solver80 is looking for new reseller hosting and is wondering how some suppliers offer unlimited reseller packages. He's found some hosts that offer everything he needs regarding features and hardware, but having no restriction on space would be a bonus. He's curious if there's a catch to unlimited space offers? Of the hosts that he's shortlisted so far, and looking at the best packages they offer, their prices are still below what he's p ...Continue Reading

What brand of server do you prefer to work with? | Reseller Recommendations | News from around the hosting industry

December 6th 2023 EDT

[1] December 6th 2023 What brand of server do you prefer to work with? Gather together a group of WHT's dedicated server and colocation providers, give them a list of popular server manufacturers (HP, Dell, Supermicro, Lenovo, Cisco, IBM, Fujitsu and white label/unbranded) and ask them a simple question: "What brand of server do you prefer to work with?". In the space of 2 days since this thread was created it's had 17 replies (at the time of writing this) and around 1000 reads, ...Continue Reading

Live chat with AI chat bot? | 1.2PB written to NVMe, what would you do? | News from around the hosting industry

November 29th 2023 EDT

[1] November 29th 2023 Live Chat With AI Chat Bot? Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been around since at least the 1950s, but in recent months it has leapt to the forefront of many technical and scientific developments and debates. Love it or hate it, it's here to stay. Many argue that if left unchecked the advancement of AI will put us in danger of it taking control, whilst others are understandably excited about what you can do, or do quicker, using AI. Hence this thread on WHT discuss ...Continue Reading

Getting domain registrant details | Your top colocation provider must-haves | News from around the hosting industry

November 22nd 2023 EDT

[1] We would like to wish a Happy Thanksgiving to all our friends! November 22nd 2023 Getting domain registrant details ev0ok lives in India and claims that a person has committed a fraud by registering a domain with a UK based registrar, creating an identical domain name (presumably with a different extension), and then misrepresenting themselves to be a company who ev0ok was doing work with, and misled folks multiple times. He'd like to know of it's possible to discover the details of ...Continue Reading

Data center temperature rise | CloudLinux pros and cons | News from around the hosting industry

November 15th 2023 EDT

[1] November 15th 2023 Data center temperature rise iRexta is facing what he describes as "a big crisis" at the colocation facilities they use in a data center in India. They've been with them for over a year to be able to service their Asian customers, and have three full racks adjacent to each other. For about two weeks now the temperature near the server racks has increased abnormally to 29-30 degrees Celsius. The technical department of the data center was informed about th ...Continue Reading
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