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Interesting… not a Top 10 list, but a Top 13 one instead. Web Hosting Unleashed has published a list of Top 13 Worst Web Hosting Companies.

Interestingly RegisterFly.com came up tops. Why does this name seem so familiar? Hmm… now I remembered, they are hosting the scam HYIP site WinliFund.com.

On a related note, I’ve been asked by a friend to check out yet another online investment site, very much similar to WinliFund.com; JinliCapital.com. Wow, RegisterFly.com hosts them too! And yeah, JinliCapital.com is definitely yet another HYIP scam targetting Malaysians.

Gaman at Sabahan.com has an interesting writeup which covers this area. The post is in Malay. Basically it translates to A Discussion On Internet Investments and Get Rich Quick Schemes. Worthy reading if you understand Malay.

I’m inspired to write this after reading PapaJoneh’s post about his hosting woes. Mind you, I’m not claiming that these are the be all and end all things that you should consider when committing to a web hosting deal. At the very least though, they’re a reasonable skeletal guideline.

I’ve summed up the main criteria to be considered in order to choose the right hosting provider into the following:

• Infrastructure
• Expertise
• Feedback
• Features and Goodies
• Pricing

Read the rest of Five Things To Consider When Choosing The Right Web Hosting Provider »

A huge majority of web hosting companies use Linux servers to host their clients’ web sites. There are plenty of good reasons why Linux is the preferred operating system for a web hosting server, among which are:

• Linux is a stable and secure operating system
• There’s a wide variety of Linux distributions to choose from; including free community supported ones, as well as those which offer support contracts
• Linux supports a huge variety of hardware platforms and devices
• The Linux kernel undergoes a constant improvement and enhancement process
• Linux is open source, thus making the code underlying it probed by thousands of eyeballs dedicated to making it better

One feature that makes Linux servers particularly useful is that you can perform remote administration on it via SSH. SSH is a command line interface that provides a secure and encrypted way of connecting to a remote server.

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