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Best Green Web Hosting Companies Reviewed!

max — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:11:57 +0000

I personally do not use green web hosting due to the fact that there’s no green hosting companies that can provide dedicated servers that match my requirements but if you are looking for a cheap shared hosting for your next web project, you might want to consider the Top 7 best green web hosting companies from our sister blog Keetsa:

Host	Price/Month	Domains	Bandwidth	Disk	Links
Good Avocado	$4.99	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited	Good Avocado
HostPapa	$5.95	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited	HostPapa
Ethical Host.ca	$7.00	1-30	1-6 GB	1.1GB	EthicalHost
ThinkHost	$7.95	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited	ThinkHost
HostGator	$7.95	Unlimited	6,000 GB	600 GB	HostGator
DreamHost	$9.95	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited	DreamHost
SolarEnergyHost	$9.95	Unlimited	3-10 GB	10GB	SolarEnergyHost

(The above chart lists green hosting companies in the order of price per month.)

via keetsa eco-friendly blog, Zedomax Blog Network

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Best Green Web Hosting Companies Reviewed!

Is your blog hosted on a shared server? You are not serious then.

max — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 00:22:40 +0000

Is your blog hosted on a shared server such as BlueHost, Dreamhost, or whatever? Then you might be in for some surprises later down the road if you ever get more than 500 visitors per day. You can check how many websites are hosted on your shared server by entering your domain name at myIPneighbors.com.

I bet you though if you are on a hosted server, you will most likely find at least 10 other websites. Yes, this is bad.

When I first started blogging, I also started on a cheap $100/year hosting from bluehost.com. No shared hosting will ever be as good as a dedicated server so if you are serious about making money blogging or handling massive traffic, you should get a dedicated server.

I remember Zedomax got digged, bluehost went down like that! and never came back up until I transferred everything to a dedicated server.

But then, amazing thing happened after switching to a dedicated server. Since your website runs faster and doesn’t ever go down (unless you got digged AND stumbled again at the same time…), Google indexes your site faster and you get more search results on Google. It’s common sense that if your site has uptime of 99.9%, Google-bots and other search engine bots will crawl the site more faster.

Sometimes, I find that search engine robots are the ones gobbling up most of your bandwidth. You can always edit your robots.txt file and not let them crawl, but then you lose SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and eventually get no traffic from major search engines.

Here’s a summary of Zedomax traffic ever since its beginning in August 14th, 2006:

As you can see, well, as you can’t see also, I’ve upgraded my server numerous times due to diggs, stumbles, DOS (Denial of Service) hacker attacks, and whenever I made a new site.

You should really pay attention to how much traffic will be coming to your blog everyday to make sure your web hosting service can handle it.

Believe me, I tried these following shared hosts and they were all terrible when it came to traffic more than 500 per day:

BlueHost – The most reliable of the shared hosting I’ve tried.

DreamHost – They give you SSH2 access which is good but again, they host WAY too many websites on their servers. Result? I paid $100 for a year of hosting that I never used because my site kept going down. DreamHost is worst because they lock your site automatically when you exceed the maximum allowed bandwidth. Bluehost is much nicer in my opinion as they don’t have that system. Don’t fall into their “green” marketing scheme, when it comes to your website, you want it done right.

Lunarpages – Similar to BlueHost

I’ve tried many other ones for my previous job at Comfile, but I won’t list them all here, they all really suck in my opinion.

So, what is the best dedicated hosting?

Well, I’ve only tried 2 so far.

Aplus.net – These guys are pretty reliable until one day they had some type of packet-loss problem and ALL my 20 or so websites were down for more than 5 days!!! The funny thing was, Aplus.net itself was fine, it’s just all their customer’s servers were down. They put themselves in front of their customers. That was the end of doing business with them.

That’s when I moved everything to Cari.Net, which I already had couple sites running on. The most annoying thing is that Aplus.net seems to have customer service centers overseas. Not that I have anything against saving Aplus.net’s money, but when you are in America, you want to talk to someone in America, and want to get things done fast. Another thing about Aplus.net is that they are way too big a company now that they don’t care about little guys. All they are about is making money and who pays them more. This is an honest review of my experience with them and I am not being bitter about it, it’s the truth.

Cari.net – Right now, I am running all sites on Cari.net due to their reliability through my actual experience. I will probably try other hosting later down the road or even run my own servers but Cari.net is also priced much better than most hosting companies out there.

In my opinion, you should stick with a small to medium sized dedicated hosting company that cares about you. You want a simple host that you can call anytime anywhere without knowing your stupid registration number or get man-handled by stupid receptionists who redirect you 3 times before you get the dedicated support team.

Another thing you should think about is that the hosting company should only provide “dedicated hosting”. If they provide both, you are probably going to run into bunch of bs such as the company not providing enough support for dedicated server customers.

In all, I did learn a lot about Linux, servers, scripts, and everything you need to know about running a website through various server upgrades. If I didn’t do that, I’d probably have to pay a lot of money right now just to make new websites.

So, if you are going to make more than 1 website, get 1 dedicated server and bunch of dedicated IP addresses.

This article inspired by AhTim and LiewCF

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Is your blog hosted on a shared server? You are not serious then.

DIY Server HACK – HOWTO fight/stop DoS(Denial of Service) Attacks using open source code (D)DoS-Deflate!

max — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 12:12:44 +0000

Here’s HOW TO fight/stop DoS(Denial of Service) Attacks using open source code (D)DoS-Deflate!

Recently, Zedomax.com has been receiving DoS(DenialOfService) attacks from various different sources.

We first thought it was too much traffic but it turns out it was some type of DoS attack. How did we find that out?

Well, after we installed a free open-source (D)DoS-Deflate, a free script that installs easily on your linux server.

This thing basically tracks which IPs are sending DoS pings and block them out automatically.

Well, after we thought it was just too much traffic and uninstall it, the hackers came back.

I am some of you hackers are reading this.

Maybe if you can crack this DoS script, you might be able to DoS us again.

P.S. When I used to work at Comfile Technology in Korea, I accidently developed this Lantronix X-Port that could be hooked up to ANY DHCP network and permanently bring down the network. Well…it just happened by accident. Maybe I can sell it as a internet security test tool for web servers…

Here’s simple instructions to (D)DoS-Deflate and prevent AND stop DoS attacks!
(You need shell access, most likely you will only have this on a dedicated server and I know Dreamhost and some hosts let you access shell)

“My server went from 44.0 Load to less than 1.0 Load instantly in about 5 minutes since installation.” I know a lot of you probably fighting the same thing and manually controlling the firewall but this thing makes that automatic.

Installation

# wget http://www.inetbase.com/scripts/ddos/install.sh
# sh install.sh

Uninstalling

# wget http://www.inetbase.com/scripts/ddos/uninstall.ddos
# sh uninstall.ddos

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DIY Server HACK – HOWTO fight/stop DoS(Denial of Service) Attacks using open source code (D)DoS-Deflate!

Wagg It – Blog Voting Community

max — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 18:28:12 +0000

We have been messing around with Pligg, a digg-like social CMS (content management system).
First we made wagthis.com hosted on Dreamhost but after running for a month the shared server seems to go down a lot.
Since then, we made a new one with better hardware on wagg.it.
(It took us like a month to register the domain name through a european registry but we were finally able to get it working…)

It’s a blog voting community where you can submit your blog posts and other bloggers can vote on posts. It’s still experimental at this point but check it out and if your blog post in on there, make sure to wagg it!

Check it out and leave your thought on how we can make it better.

You might have notice the Wagg It widget on our posts, you can get one too here:

(Help us promote our new blog voting community if you have a blog.)

Add Wagg It button to your blog

Social Bookmarking Plugin for Wordpress

Go Wagg somethin’

Wagg It is a user driven “social blog content” website. What the heck does that mean?
Well, every news on Wagg It is a blog post submitted by waggers (that would be you).
After you submit your content from a blog, other people read your stuff and wagg on it. (Like your dog waggs whenever he/she sees something new)
If your story gets enough waggs, it gets promoted to the front page for all other waggers to see. What can you do as a Wagger?
Every wagger can wagg(help promote) on stories and submit new stories from any blogs.(Think of it as Technorati except you can vote on it.)
Want to share a video or news story with a friend? Wagg it!

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Wagg It – Blog Voting Community

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