Archive for November, 2008

Migrating from Konqueror to Firefox

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

Konqueror has been my web browser of choice for many years now. I still think the font rendering looks amazing, the web shortcut features are brilliant, I can customise the tab behaviour to behave exactly as I want it to and of course it's seamlessly integrated with KDE. Things ...

Dedicated Hosting: What hardware kit do you need?

Friday, November 21st, 2008

Managed or unmanaged hosting Server Hardware Kit; what you need and why? Now you’ve decided on having your own dedicated server what are the things you should look for? Well, as with picking your operating system or what software your site uses, your hardware choice should be based on what your ...

Why use a UK Web Hosting Company?

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

Although the world wide web and the internet is a global community, there are benefits to listing your site  within a specific geographic area, in this case the UK, rather than an international one. So, why should you use a UK based web hosting company? Local customer service and support International web ...

VPS Hosting Rules and guidelines

Friday, November 14th, 2008

General ByteHouse VPS Hosting Rules 1. The VPS hosting service is at all times a fully managed hosting service. Our support team pro-actively monitors, supports and is responsible for the overall VPS node(s). 2. Individual processes running within the VPS containers are not the responsibility of our support team.  Furthermore the support ...

Too Manage or not to Manage that is the question . . . .

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

What to look for in purchasing the best dedicated hosting plan? Managed hosting or Unmanaged hosting; what’s right for you? Ahh, the slings and arrows of a multitude of question. This is the second in a five part serious outlining how to purchase the best dedicated hosting plans for your needs. Managed ...

Purchasing the best dedicated hosting plans for your needs – a five part series.

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008

What is a dedicated server? How does it work? A dedicated web hosting server or dedicated hosting service is a hosting plan where the client leases an entire server that is for their exclusive use.  This is a far more flexible arrangement then a shared hosting or a VPS hosting platform ...