The Whir has contacted some of the speakers presenting at the HostingCon 2008 conference taking place this week in Chicago and who should they have contacted but our favorite SVP of SuperbHosting.net himself, Curtis R. Curtis! This year, Curtis is moderating a session, titled “Search Marketing Tools for the Hosting Industry”, in which a panel [...]
One of the control panels offered at SuperbHosting.net, cPanel, will be holding their third annual cPanel Conference in Houston, Texas from June 11th, 2008 through to June 13th, 2008. A brief excerpt from the 2008 cPanel Conference page:
The conference this year promises to be more in depth, including more advanced topics than the previous years. [...]
Each year, old technology is replaced by new, bringing us faster, better computers and servers (among other things, of course). SuperbHosting.net has now released some new dedicated servers, and with that, updated our pricing and the way we name our servers. Gone are the old Solo, Prime, Edge, Pro, and Extreme servers that were a part [...]
I’d never actually heard of the term domain tasting until recently; a Slashdot article was forwarded to me about domains disappearing after individuals had done some searching for them. There’s a bit of a dispute between those who practice the art of domain tasting and those that are against it, with questions surrounding the legitimacy of [...]
The average person has little or no difficulty starting their computer, opening up their preferred web browser (likely Internet Explorer or Firefox, based on statistics), and surfing to their favourite websites. There is little understanding about how or why it works, it just does, and that’s good enough for the average user. However, once you [...]
Featuring one of the processors that Superb offers in our dedicated servers, the Intel Woodcrest, this is a great article that compares three of the major server CPU manufacturers. In four years, AMD’s Opteron gained a 48% share of the US and a 36% share of the worldwide four socket server market. The response by [...]
You may already know what dedicated hosting is but may be trying to decide if you need it or if shared hosting is enough. While there is a 3rd alternative; virtual private servers, they are simply an upscale, more flexible version of shared hosting.
For those who are not clear about the difference. Shared hosting [...]
There are always new (and exciting) challenges facing IT professionals, and there are always new (and intresting) ways to address these challenges. With land and construction costs always increasing, especially in the more densely populated areas, building new datacenters is becoming less and less cost-effective. However, it’s not always easy to retrofit an existing site [...]