Archive for the ‘Web Hosting FAQs’ Category

Plesk Power Pack

Saturday, January 29th, 2011

Plesk Power Pack Plesk's power pack is a set of high quality easy to install addons for the Plesk Control Panel. They are a collection of popular applications that utilise the Plesk application vault to easily instal and setup the applications.  It comes with an easy to use interface to manage ...

Ranking up with Google

Monday, October 25th, 2010

A frequent question that we get at bytehouse is; "How do I rank up with Google?" There are two easy steps that are often overlooked; Tell Google about it: Add URL page Get other websites that have relevant topics to link to yours - the greater the relevance to your site, the higher ...

Secure FTP (SFTP) versus FTP

Friday, June 25th, 2010

When to use SFTP versus FTP So, when to use FTP versus a secure FTP; we start with the basics by giving you an understanding of File Transfer Protocol, FTP, and the different File Transfer options available to you with ByteHouse's hosting packages. FTP - File Transfer Protocol Ye old faithful, this is ...

Managed hosting and how to determine your hosting requirement

Monday, October 19th, 2009

Issues to look for in Managed Hosting providers Assessing load factors and resource requirements, how many people are going to visit your site and whether the hosting package you've signed up to is going to be able to sustain the load of enquiries you believe you're going to get is an ...

URL Re-writing in apache for multiple domain names

Friday, May 15th, 2009

Quite often a website should serve multiple names but should rewrite (or display in the location bar) only one of them.  This situation arose at Bytehouse the other day where we had multiple domain names pointing to our webserver but we wanted all of them to display www.bytehouse.co.uk regardless of ...

What is FTP?

Friday, February 27th, 2009

What is FTP? FTP which stands for File Transfer Protocol and is most commonly a method of transferring files over the internet.  Believe it or not you're most likely using FTP without realising it. FTP is most commonly used to download files from the internet, and is the back bone of music ...

Bandwidth calculations and how web hosting companies estimate them

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

Estimating Bandwidth Web hosting companies calculate your bandwidth usage by using one of three different methods. Per use capped 95% use Each method is quite different so make sure you understand what your needs are with how they compare in your webhosting hosting plans. So first things first, a bit of a basic grounding; data transfer ...

The basic terms of webhosting

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

Basics of Webhosting Looking around webhosting companies can sometimes be a little confusing, like all industries we tend to create our own little list of insider terms and phrases which scare people away. Well, I thought the best way to kick off our blog is by explaining what these terms ...