It’s barely over a year since I moved to a new web host. In early 2021 I finally gave up on my old web hosting company and moved to A2 Hosting. The quality of service has been far superior. Yet a boom in traffic eventually swamped my shared hosting plan, leading to a hasty migration to…
Virtualization 101: Understanding the Hypervisor
When I first got started on virtualization, I was at a loss. The terms were technical and sounded, well, expensive. That led to joy at discovering Windows 10 Pro included one for free, Hyper-V. Three months of pain with Hyper-V led me to this article, so I hope it helps you choose your hypervisor more…
Is Your Web Host Environmentally Friendly?
Green web hosting isn’t just a hype or keyword people throw about. Data centers consume a massive amount of energy; each sucking in enough juice to power between 80,000 to 100,000 homes each year. While that may not sound like much, how about thousands of them around the world? Like everything we do, we tend…
Moving to a New Web Host
Despite many years writing about technology, I often neglect to put some of my knowledge into practice. Web hosting performance is a topic I usually cover, and moving to a new web host is a central theme. Some of the websites I own exist mainly as a platform for experiments. For example, seeing to what…