Web Hosting

Various aspects of hosting for the web are discussed here, from shared to VPS to dedicated (and multi-server dedicated).

Live Script Run Times for Swinny.net

04 Nov 2021

Here is a summary of the time it takes the Swinny.net server to run a PHP script to deliver a web page, over the last few weeks. The site was ...

NorDevCon 2016

28 Feb 2016

Lots of interesting topics covered at this year's main tech conference for Norfolk. More topics could be covered as it was spread over two ...

Inspiring talks on "Digital Creativity"

10 Dec 2015

Hot Source Norwich provided a wide diversity of speakers at the NUA (Norwich University of the Arts), on the topic of "Transforming our worlds ...

Sending email in a secure, IPv6 world

23 Oct 2015

This is a guide to updating your Linux server for SSL-enabled, IPv6-happy email transmission using sendmail! Here are the things you need ...

PHP-MySQL webserver, post El Capitan

23 Oct 2015

Apple is very supportive with the buying public by releasing free upgrades for its operating systems. These upgrades usually go through without ...

Switching a website to SSL

07 Nov 2014

It was once accepted that only websites handling financial data (such as customer credit card details) would need to implement security and ...

Automated Chromakey in PHP

27 Jun 2013

This is an experiment in removing a photograph's background automatically, as long as the background is reasonably uniform. To create such ...

Efficient, minimal MySQL backup

22 Apr 2013

When someone asks you about what you do to backup your website's database, you'll probably have one of these responses: "I don't think ...

Cloudflare for Better Web Performance?

13 Dec 2011

There is a company that offers a firewall service fir your web hosting, and it does this using the so-called 'cloud'. Furthermore, its starter ...

Rackspace Ups and Downs

06 Jan 2011

You pay a lot of money for Rackspace managed hosting. You pay for decent hardware in a top-notch data centre, with great Internet connectivity ...

Google In-Page Analytics: analyse as you browse!

16 Oct 2010

Google Analytics has been at the forefront of website analytics, ever since it acquired Urchin Stats and made it free of charge. There have ...

Geo-targetting your website

16 Oct 2010

Does your company have a local presence in many different countries, or do you run a site where it makes sense to keep visitors from different ...

Like Driving a Car

26 Aug 2010

When trying to work out what to expect from the various web hosting platforms, consider an analogy with car ownership. Cloud Computing is ...