When you see companies offering ASP Hosting services, this refers to a variant of Windows web hosting, based around the Active Server Pages scripting language.  Think of it as Microsoft’s early equivalent to popular open-source scripting languages like PHP.  It works with IIS and, although it has been overshadowed in prominence by ASP .NET, continues to be widely used today.
If you’re starting a site from scratch, you may want to steer clear of ASP hosting, since ASP has been largely phased out.  Now referred to as Classic ASP, it’s not …

When you’re putting together a web store, certain factors will play a part in your hosting setup.  More than just housing your site, your choice in web hosting can affect both your sales and eventual success.  What are some of these things that you should be considering?
1. Growth Potential
Is your e-commerce site geared towards a very niche market or is it something that will need to handle a large volume of users over the long haul?  For strictly targeted e-commerce sites, a cheap web hosting account might prove enough, even …

Domain names are among the most sought-after properties on the web.  Because of their value, businesses are always on the lookout for good ones that they can add to their portfolio.   As a guy who runs a website, you should be aware that domains get lost everyday when their owners fail to pay it the proper attention.  If you let your domain registrations pass without taking appropriate action, the same thing can happen to you.
Drop Catching
The process of snatching up domains that expire is called drop catching and you’ve got …

Shared web hosting companies come up with all sorts of gimmicks to entice users into signing up.  Unlimited storage, unmetered bandwidth and all those huge numbers are basically just there to make you think you’re getting an immense amount of resources for so little money.  Truth is, those numbers are easily offset by quite a few things that are actually more crucial to consider when shopping for your web hosting, such as CPU utilization.
I can’t count how many times I’ve seen shared hosting customers complain about their accounts being deactivated …

Your site goes down.  Great…there goes another productive day.   Or does it?  Here are 5 things you should be doing instead of refreshing your browser over and over while you scream cuss words at your computer screen.
Call Your Web Hosting Provider
In an ideal world, your web hosting provider will be giving you hourly updates about your site’s status to keep you happy.  In reality, their employees are just as overworked and underpaid as the rest of the world are.  You’ll need to be the one to take the initiative if …