Hosting Websites

Sending our Jobs to India but not our datacenters or servers

Sep 13, 2009 by Paul White

Today as I was working on my blog, I noticed a google ad that was advertising Colocation and Dedicated Servers.  I just happen to be in the market for such products, so naturally I clicked the ad to learn more.  What I found made ma laugh.  Its obvious that the managers of the datacenter, don't have a clue when it comes to IT. 

Godaddy Dedicated Servers equals Low Open Rates on your Email Campaigns

Sep 10, 2009 by Paul White

After parking some of my larger websites on Godaddy's Dedicated Servers about a month ago.  I have found where Godaddy is weak.  To say the least By Nov 1st I plan to shutdown my godaddy Dedicated Server, and move them to a colocated box with a local Data Center here in Houston.

Using PING times to pick your hosting provider

Aug 24, 2009 by Paul White

Recently I moved a few of my clients to Godaddy.  Even though I hear lots of bad things about godaddy, my websites are running faster than they had been running on HostMySite.  Turns out that this speed increase might have more to do with PING times than the hardware they were hosted on.

The Real Value of a Dedicated Server

Aug 10, 2009 by Paul White

Recently I moved my client to their own dedicated Server.  I can't say enough good things about this.  If you have ever wondered why a dedicated server is good, read this blog.

Godaddy Dedicated Server review and experiances

Jul 29, 2009 by Paul White

So one my clients has recently out grown their HostMySite VPS box.  It was time to migrate them to a larger box.  The choice we went with was a Windows Dedicated Server with Godaddy.  In this blog posting I explain the server we got.  Why we picked certain features, and how the setup is going.  This is a must read for anyone who is thinking about Hosting with Godaddy.

How to get godaddy to work with custom 404 on multiple asp.net websites

Jul 27, 2009 by Paul White

If you have found this blog post, the chances are you have already searched the web for hours trying to figure this out.  Running a single website on godaddy is not a problem.  but once you start running multiple asp.net websites on your godaddy hosting account, and they all use custom 404 handling as part of URL rewriting you will run into problems. Here is how I made it work.

Hosting with Godaddy the good the bad and the ugly

Jun 27, 2009 by Paul White

For those of you who are considering using Godaddy for Hosting your website, I have written a detailed blog to help shed some light on the good, and bad and the ugly about doing business with godaddy.  Searching google you will find plenty of negative reviews on their hosting and support.  This is an unbiased writeup that is written from my point of view as a developer that has built websites for over 8 years.

How to spot a Fake Developer

Jun 26, 2008 by Paul White

If you are in the market for a website, you will most likely approach several developers looking for quotes.  This is fine, but most clients don't know enough to see a fraud, or see a value.  They rush to the lowest bidder and then wonder why things don't turn out the way they wanted.  Here are several things to look for when building a new website.

Dictionary attack IP list

Mar 31, 2008 by Paul White

This is a list of IPs that tried to send email to users that don't exist on one of my client's sites.  SmarterMail can be setup to reject these IPs after X failed attempts.  Feel free to add these to your blacklists.

How to stop Real Player from downloading your videos with ASP.NET

Mar 11, 2008 by Paul White

Coming soon!!  Even though you can never block computer savy people from downloading your videos. The latest Real Player makes it so easy that even a computer handicaped person could download videos from your members sites.  After some hacking I figured out how to bock Real Player from stealing your videos.  All I am going to say is it involves an Http Handler, and an ISAPI entry to manage your .MPG extensions.  I should have a full write up on how to do this within a few days.