DNS is the domain name system which translates domains like www.hostdisciple.com into ip addresses like 69.65.40.67 which is how your computer knows to get to a destination, basically it is the foundation of the internet we know today. You can read more about DNS over at Wikipedia. Without working dns servers website will not [...]

So I was sitting around doing some work when I got a call from a number I didn’t recognize to my GrandCentral number. I use GrandCentral to screen my calls (great for sales guy screening) but this one sounded important. It turned out to be reporter Michael Learmonth from the Silicon Valley insider. He wanted [...]

I have made my disdain for MediaTemple quite public. They launched a product that was suppose to solve web hosting hunger but it turned out to be a huge flop. They had massive outages and still continue to have issues to this day.
With all of that aside I have signed up and canceled multiple times. [...]

What seems like an eternity ago I had the opportunity to fly down to ThePlanet HQ in Houston, TX for an interview. My plane was late arriving but I got to meet some of the staff and tour the data centers. I was offered a job that I wanted but I wasn’t able to take [...]

Many developers are using VPS hosting to get their projects off the ground as it is more cost effective than dedicated hosting but gives you more control and flexibility than shared hosting. There are two main players in the virtualization market one being Xen now owned by Citrix and the other being Virtuozzo made by [...]