Tag: HOSTING

DDoS attacks aren't entirely uncommon nowadays, but the scale of the attack against WordPress.com is truly staggering. CEO Matt Mullenweg told TechCrunch that the attack has affected all three of the company's data centers -- which are located in Chicago, Dallas, and San Antonio. The sites were being blasted by tens of millions of packets (and multiple Gigabits) per second. Mullenweg says the ...

What you see in the screenshot isn't Shotty; it's Shotty's home page. This used to be tacky, but I haven't seen it in a while. Shotty took a Windows 7-style window frame and created their whole site to resemble an application. This is a great metaphor for a screenshot application, and the execution is perfect. The buttons change correctly when you hover them, etc. It's very, very cute. Having ...

Migratr does exactly what its name suggests -- if you insert an 'e' before the last letter, anyway. It migrates your images from one image-hosting site to another. Other than sounding a bit like an angry person looking for their cheese grater, and moving images around the Web, that's about it. It preserves meta data, descriptions and tags -- and even album organization. What I can't tell you is ...

There are plenty of places that will host your files for free. Many of them, however, have bandwidth limits or size restrictions, or are just too darn complicated to bother with. s4ve.as offers the basics I want from a free host and is dead simple to use. As Jay mentioned to me, it's kind of like a beefed-up Senduit. While Senduit offers customizable time-before-self-destruct, it's got a 100Mb ...

Google has announced that it will work with hosting companies to offer AdSense, site search, AdWords for search and webmaster tools for your hosted websites. This is great news if you love your web host, but you want to simplify the process of monetizing your site and offering search to your users. Hosts can now integrate Google Services for Websites into their own control panels, so you should ...

Some things are best kept simple, and that's exactly the way Share1t.com approaches its file sharing service. The Share1t home page is totally uncluttered, with nothing but a thin information header at the top, banner ad in the footer, and a nice, big browse-and-upload form right in the middle. After uploading your file, you'll be given a truncated URL, HTML and BBCode for embedding your file, ...

Hosted With.Us is a free web hosting that vies you 100GB of storage and 100GB of monthly bandwidth absolutely free. If that sounds too good to be true, here's the catch: You have to include a Hosted With.Us footer on any web page you create. That wouldn't be so bad, but the footer includes an absolutely obnoxious advertisement. You know, those ads that ask if you'd like to meet lonely girls ...

If you were a large company that subsists on customers paying monthly or yearly subscription fees, what's the worst possible thing you could do? While a number of things come to mind, automatically billing customers for a year in advance by mistake has to come in at the top. Now, how about when you're a hosting company that has a reputation for being a little too casual, a little bit ...

Whenever you go to purchase something online, do you pause when you come across a field for a coupon code or promo code, and think "I need to find one!". Us too. Well, it turns out that if you're going to sign up for a hosting account with Dreamhost, it's really, really easy to find a promo code just by doing a quick search. There actually seems to be millions of them! It turns out that any ...

Customers of the LA based web hosting company Media Temple just got access to a special account center designed especially for the iPhone. This new Media Temple iPhone AccountCenter web hosting control panel allows Apple iPhone users to: Buy a domain Rebooth a server Add emails Pay bills Get support Now how much more convenience can you get from your web hosting provider? ...

Some exciting news has come down from the DivShare front. They are offering a chance for users to upgrade for free to the newly formed DivShare Direct plan. Divshare is an online storage platform. Users can upload images, video and audio files, and have a direct link to them, as well as an embed code for insertion into social networks, websites, or blogs. The DivShare Direct plan lets users place ...

With lots of competition in the market for online storage of images, text, audio, video, OneDump enters and tries to sneak in with a simplistic approach. OneDump offers free unlimited storage for all types of files, from audio, images, and text, but what makes them different is their straightforward approach that makes it easier to upload and share files. OneDump not only lets users host files but ...

There are a lot of file sharing/hosting/storing sites out there. A lot. So one of my first predictable questions for DivShare co-founder David Altschul was of course, "Why use DivShare?" His answer: "DivShare sets itself apart from other free file hosts in a number of distinct ways, most notably in that we offer unlimited uploads and downloads, no waiting lines for files, auto image galleries, no ...

Files-Upload will let you upload up to a 1GB file unlimited times and unlimited storage on their site, and you can do it using your favorite FTP program. The catch here is that your files will only be retained for 6 months since the last download of that file. If you don't feel like downloading files every six months, you will lose files. Files-Upload offers a free subdomain ...

Ingredients: 1 Cup SQLyog (community edition) for exporting/importing (substitute: phpMyAdmin) 1 tsp. favorite FTP client (FileZilla, CuteFTP, WSFTP, CoffeeCup, iFTP) 1 whole fresh WordPress install, unzipped and ready to upload (get it here) 1 new host (Dreamhost is a good host) 30 mins to complete a dash of know-how (provided below) WordPress (WP) is a piece of cake to install, ...