CatN Hosting for Beginners
By Joe Gardiner Friday, 15th October 2010
Let’s imagine a USB thumb drive. You’ve probably used one, and you can just plug it into your computer and copy files onto it. The great thing about a usb thumb drive is that you can carry it with you and you can view your files on a computer anywhere as long as you have the thumb drive with you.
Now imagine all the files that make up your website are on that thumb drive and instead of carrying it around with you, you give it to a company who plug it into one of their powerful computers that is connected to the internet. Now you can view your website files from anywhere as long as you’re connected to the internet.
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Vhosting: an alternative to WordPress multi-site
By Joe Gardiner Wednesday, 1st September 2010
With the release of WordPress 3.0, multi-site functionality allows a network of sites to be managed by a single WordPress dashboard. Unfortunately some of our clients are having difficulties setting up a multi-site network, and WordPress.org codex is not always beginner friendly.
Vhosting offers an alternative by allowing multiple sites to be hosted on your single vCluster IP address. You can then use independent WordPress installs on each of these sites, decentralising a network and allowing you to manage each site manually.
We already have a guide for “vhosting” and “multiple domains on your vCluster“, but you can follow the instructions here as well to setup multiple WordPress installs on vhosts. read more…
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Pointing your Domain Name at a vCluster
By Joe Gardiner Thursday, 22nd July 2010
Welcome to a short guide on how to point an external domain at your vCluster. After following these steps you will be able to use an externally registered domain to point to your vCluster.
Firstly, make sure you have an external domain and a CatN vCluster. An external domain is one you have registered seperately like a .co.uk address or a .com one. For example…
www.olliearmstrong.co.uk
…is an external domain. There are many places to register one of these domains and a Google search will reveal multiple registrars that you may use. You will probably want to choose the cheapest one that offers the best service and value for money, and for that I can recommend:
livetodot.com
Visit them and buy a domain if you don’t already own one. This will also be the registrar I will provide screenshots for.
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Cloud provider sign up check list
By Joe Gardiner Friday, 16th July 2010
With a plethora of cloud hosting services available to the market it is becoming more difficult to find a provider that suits your specific needs.
I decided to put together a list of questions to help you analyse exactly the service a cloud provider can offer you, to help your move to a cloud platform go as smoothly as possible.
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How do large web sites benefit from cloud provisioning?
By Joe Gardiner Wednesday, 14th July 2010
A cloud hosting platform offers many benefits. These are often reduced to four main categories, Cost, Stability, Security, and Scalability. You can read about these categories in more detail in a previous blog post…
For large websites arguably the two most important benefits are scalability and cost, and in a cloud environment they are closely linked. The nature of a cloud platform allows resources to be allocated and removed as a sites demand scales, which is reflected in the expenditure required from the business as quantities of resources are consumed. read more…
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