Hosting your videos on other sites to speed up your own site

As a part of the process of optimization and enhancing the speed of your website, you should look to see what are some of the major media content that you can offload. Serving video files off your server can be heavier than serving plain vanilla HTML files and take far more bandwidth; and if you [...]

Hostmonster users – How to get an update of server status

Hostmonster (click here to learn more) is a popular hosting service used by individuals to host their blogs and other sites (although I have not heard of too many professional sites with huge number of users using WordPress as a hosting service). I use WordPress for my sites, and it runs fairly well, with easy [...]

WordPress Optimization Tool: DB Manager

Part of the process for optimizing your WordPress account is by checking all your database queries, determining the frequency at which they are called, and whether your database server is getting called too often. But it is not easy to do this unless you have a tool that will provide you this information. One such [...]

Paid Hosting: Shared vs. dedicated servers

A majority of the people who go in for setting up their own hosting accounts go in for shared hosting, where there are a large number of people sharing the same server (typically on a Linux machine). Shared / virtual hosting packages are the default web hosting accounts for beginners and intermediate web site owners [...]