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Matt Cutts gave a talk this spring at WordCamp San Francisco 2009 (which he just republished in his blog the other day), during which he gave some great ins

Due to the success of the first Open Session we hosted a couple of weeks ago, we’re hosting another one soon. This Open Session will be held on Wednesday, July 29 at 8 PM CT.Just like last time, this Open Session will be a chance for both potential and existing HostGator customers to come into [...]

Update: This took place and was a big success. HostGator employees answered a ton of questions about backups, VPS solutions, Windows hosting, affiliates, and more. We appreciate people taking the time to come by and ask questions.This upcoming Thursday (July 2, 2009) at 5 PM CT (Houston-time), HostGator is going to be hosting an Open [...]

Some of you will have heard of the ThePlanet.com datacenter explosion and subsequent downtime over the last 3 days. We use ThePlanet.com for hosting our main billing server and our Colorteck.com website. We do not host any clients with ThePlanet (rather we have our own racks elsewhere).Also our live support system has experienced some technical [...]

Read the full press release from CNET here.

Domain names can be tricky. All too often, a domain name ends up with some sort of wacky, unintended double entendre of meaning that may detract from your overall branding message.

6th March – hosting365, an Outsourced IT Services and Internet Hosting provider, has announced a €2 million investment in new infrastructure, which has led to the creation of 20 jobs.The investment has seen the company incorporate blade server and virtualisation technology into its existing facilities in order to offer a range of new services. [...]

30th January – register365 has announced a price drop on .ie domains in response to the IE Domain Registry’s announcement to reduce its charges by 5.8%. register365 has dropped its price on .ie domains from €25.95 to €21.95.Commenting on the price drop, Stephen McCarron, Managing Director, register365, said “We welcome the IEDR price drop [...]

We have some big news for folks who want to learn more about Lunarpages, Lunarpages Dedicated Server Hosting, and all of our many web hosting services - Lunarpages is going to Texas! ;D

By Mitch “The Developa” Keeper

After months and months of hard work, we’ve come up with a solution to increase I/O performance.
What does this mean? It means that the sites will load faster and face fewer CPU warning messages.

Well, some say no news is good news- it’s certainly the case with a server network. But it’s not really been all that quiet. We’ve been keeping the servers fully up to date, managing to patch the recent CPanel updates in record time and many of you have commented on how much you’ve been enjoying [...]

I got to say that our in-house development team has been working SUPER hard on some pretty neat and amazing things, which our shared customer can expect to see in their cPanel before too long.

When looking for a hosting solution for your web site you’ll discover you have the choice of shared or dedicated hosting. This article will briefly explain the difference between them.
Shared hosting is what it says it is. Your web site shares a server with other web sites. You don’t have access to the other web [...]

After many requests from customers needing an upgrade path from shared hosting, we have started plans of rolling out VPS solutions. Although we already offer dedicated servers, it was apparent that many customers did not quite need the resources of a whole server and neither could afford one. So it is now in planning and [...]