Some of you might have already heard the news, but to me it’s still unbelievable. Frequent visitors of this blog might remember seeing a rewiew I did a few months ago about all the old free hosts and how most of them no longer exists. Geocities was actually one of the few that was still [...]

An email I received from tripod this morning:
Dear User,
As announced on the 26th of November 2008 the portal and webhosting activities of the Lycos Europe GmbH will be discontinued. Unfortunately, the free hosting service Tripod is effected. For this reason we are hereby terminating your Tripod Account as of 15th February 2009. Until the [...]

Looking for a web host for your website? Ever feel like some of the things being promised are far fetched? Check this list to see if your host has done this to you! And if they have: run, don’t walk.. get far far away! There are plenty of web hosts in the market to not [...]

The Wall Street Journal reported last night that Google is close to offering a website ranking service that would compete with Alexa as well as the paid offerings from Comscore and Nielson Online. Google’s service will of course be free and instantly sent shares of ComScore (SCOR) down in late trading. This is particularly interesting [...]

I’m not sure what’s going on with the internet tonight, but some of the most popular sites around seem to be down! On top of that, host-tracker, one of the larger up-time tracking/monitoring sites is also down (so I didn’t even get an alert about some of the other sites). As of 10:30pm on Sunday [...]

Netcraft recently released their October statistics and the results are startling. Apache now has less then a 10% lead on Microsoft’s IIS — the smallest gap between the two since IIS was launched in 1996! From my personal experience, I was always under the impression that Apache was the dominant platform for serving content on [...]

While browsing a web hosting forum yesterday I noticed an interesting phenomenon. Unlimited and unmetered hosting is becoming a big taboo in the hosting world. In fact, most web hosting and webmaster forums have begun banning all posts about such plans.
First a little background, including the difference between unlimited and un-metered.
Unlimited space and bandwidth is [...]

With T35 Hosting celebrating our 10 year anniversary this year, I was digging through some old boxes to find something cool to put on the site. To my surprise, I found the original web hosting business plan! Thumbing through it brought me to the largest section: “The Competition.” Quickly skimming down [...]