July 19th 2023 Understanding modern advertising offers Due to the impending closure of his current host, Robo is compelled to look for a replacement and finds himself digging through the hosting offers available today, the language used, and what each feature (or carrot) means. Going through the temptations being presented by hosts to attract new customers, he's quick to realise that a free domain isn't that enticing unless he's just starting out, otherwise why would he need another domain? ...Continue Reading

July 12th 2023 Issues at resell.biz Jeremy started off this thread at the beginning of the month, reporting problems making chages to a couple of domains he'd just registered at resell.biz. Logging in the next day he found his account locked and trying to reset it gave him an error about a suspended or inactive account. He tried emailing and a web form, but without receiving any replies. Their phone number was just ringing and then diverted to a message saying they don't take calls any more ...Continue Reading

July 5th 2023 Learning Linux system admin from a web hosting perspective Firided is very interested in working in IT and has found an internship with a small company building websites. They rent VPSs and install Linux from scratch, managing everything manually without any control panel. He's joined and the company is offering training at the end of which there is the prospect of becoming a member of their team if he proves competent. Many have entered the hosting and server admin field via a ...Continue Reading

June 28th 2023 CentOS Stream will be the sole repository for public RHEL-related source code News hit the forum in the past few days of a new announcement by RHEL to control the distribution of source code. While people got their head around the news, and potential implications, one concern was that we could be looking at a possible closed source RHEL monopoly. AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux were amongst those quick to react, announcing that they were looking into the implications of the annou ...Continue Reading

June 21st 2023 Hosting Solutions for Woocommerce Site Mike's company has a Woocommerce site that is very sluggish and at times unresponsive. They've tried multiple themes and are certain theme choice is not to blame. The site is currently running with 2 CPU cores and 2GB dedicated RAM. they've tried optimizing and compressing code and using services such as Pagespeed and GTMetrix to improve the loading times. No matter what they've tried it only makes a marginal difference. As soon as you op ...Continue Reading

June 14th 2023 A piece of WebHostingTalk history It was the year 2000, when WebHostingTalk.com was still in its infancy, when Matt Lightner (founder of Site5) started a thread about an announcement he'd spotted on a site called "VDI" saying that VDI Cpanel3 was now public, and available at a price starting at $249 USD per month per server. We won't spoil your read of the thread by summarising the posts - Suffice to say that much has changed in the 23 years since that first announce ...Continue Reading

June 7th 2023 How to check a webhost's network? We'd expect most webhosts to have network uplink(s) of at least 1Gbps, but Haviv is asking if there are some webhosts who have more than that. He's looking for tools or methods to check the quality of a webhost's network? Would a tracert to the website say something about it? Maybe some other commands? Is there something else that the end user can check? There are already several ideas posted in the thread, but there must be plenty more ways to ...Continue Reading

May 31st 2023 The meaning of "unmetered" network Zoner would like to know what it means when a provider says "10GBe unmetered", or whatever the bandwidth limit might be. What does it mean to the provider, and what does it mean to the customer? He suggests that it could mean that the provider will place usage limits somewhere in the fine print of their terms and conditions opr acceptable use policy, or it could mean that the provider will provide "as is" networki ...Continue Reading

May 24th 2023 WordPress: Standard theme or custom theme? WordPress themes tend to fall into 1 of 3 categories - Those shipped with WordPress, mass produced themes which might be free or low cost and generally found on template sites, and custom-made themes which might cost hundreds or even thousands of dollars. Which load faster? One of our members has been trying out a lot of WordPress themes, both paid and free, and has noticed that they seem to slow down the overall website speed. After c ...Continue Reading

May 17th 2023 General hosting questions Robiro, a WHTer since 2010, has been out of the hosting game for a number of years and is now looking at reseller hosting (probably) to host some sites. His 4 main points that he'd like some feedback on go like this: Firstly, he has a few sites which target German speaking audiences whilst most of the others target US markets. He wonders if geotargetting is still a thing and, since he hopes to only need a single reseller account, would he be OK hosting ...Continue Reading