The cloud isn’t new. It’s been around for a really long time. But what we know as “the cloud” really took off back in the early 2000s when Amazon built scalable infrastructure for their own needs and realized they could sell it to others. Microsoft shortly followed along with Google and Oracle. As great as …
Cloudy with a chance of overages – a case for traditional hosting Read More »
Using a version control system (VCS) has a lot of beneficial uses even if you’re not a developer. For example, at NodeSpace, we use git, a popular VCS, to manage configuration files of critical systems, network infrastructure, and our infrastructure as code (IaC). As you might guess, these files are sensitive in their contents and …
You found the perfect domain name for your website and you start building it out. But then, you find another domain name that is perfect for your site. Let’s talk about parked domains, what they are, and how they work. What is a parked domain? You already have a website. Whether it’s a personal website …
IPv6. Three letters and one number have never caused so much fear in the tech world. It actually surprises us how many have yet to implement – nay – refuse to accept IPv6. More concerning, it’s web hosting providers like us – actually, much larger than us – refusing to implement IPv6 like it’s the …
Automattic, the company behind WordPress and Jetpack, has announced that the main Jetpack plugin is now a “build your own Jetpack”. This new approach allows site owners to install only the features they want or need. This is a great approach to customization, as well as site security. Six Jetpack Plugins Jetpack is now available …
Jetpack WordPress Plugin is now 6 Individual Plugins Read More »
PHP is a great language to learn for making websites. It’s also very useful for system administration tasks too, but in this tutorial we’re going to look at it for creating websites. A lot of popular software is written using PHP. WordPress, the CMS that runs the majority of websites on the Internet, is written …
Data centers and green don’t usually go together. Servers are known for being power-hungry and when you consider the amount of power that a data center uses, it’s almost impossible to get to 100% green. While we don’t dispute this claim, we think it’s more marketing than you’re lead to believe. Many “green” data centers …
First off, I’d like to apologize if you tried to access our main website between late afternoon of May 10 and today, May 11. Your browser may have asked you to download a file called “download” if you use Chrome or a Chrome-based browser (like Edge, Brave, etc.) or a bunch of random strings like …
Lessons with LiteSpeed and Caching – How We Messed Up and Fixed It Read More »
Reseller web hosting is a way for you to resell our services to your own customers as your own brand. If you wanted to start a web hosting company, you could get a standard reseller account and then create accounts on our servers for your customers (this is actually how we got started!). But it …
I figured I’d take you behind the scenes of our server build process at NodeSpace. This is how we build all of our servers – from start to finish. While other providers have these elaborate, fully automated methods, we like to take a personal approach by building our servers by hand. Whether it’s a custom …
