What Is Webhostingtalk.com?

Webhostingtalk.com is a hosting-based community board that attracts both average website owners and industry experts. It is a site that provides a soap box for people to ask for hosting help, and for others to provide answers to questions posed. There are no hidden agendas because the site is unaffiliated.

It may be true that some members may favor different hosting solutions, and some may be directly associated with certain hosting services, but if you ask a question you will receive a wealth of impartial, reliable advice.

You can view most forums without registering, but to post you will need to sign up. This is a simple, unobtrusive process that involves no more than providing a username, password, and date of birth.

What’s Being Discussed?

The web hosting main forums (at time of writing) include the following categories:

• Web Hosting (general)
• Dedicated Servers
• Colocation and Data Centers
• Cloud Hosting
• Speciality Hosting and Markets
• VPS Hosting
• Reseller Hosting
• Managed Hosting and Services
• Hosting Security and Technology
• Programming Discussion
• Hosting Software and Control Panels
• Running a Web Hosting Business
• Ecommerce Hosting and Discussion
• Domain Names
• Web Design and Content
• SEO/SEM Discussions

As you can see, webhostingtalk.com covers all the hosting bases and then diversifies into other aspects of website design, implementation, and management. It is a multi-faceted community of highly active users. Posts are regular and topically relevant. Search for related subjects and you won’t be left with a series of results from 2008, this is a current forum with committed participants.

Using Webhostingtalk.com to Find Truthful Hosting Reviews

Webhostingtalk.com makes an excellent research tool for locating a quality web host service. There are a multitude of hosting reviews, including popular large-scale providers and smaller companies, to select from. The site moderators ensure that all reviewer’s domain Whois data is validated, so no fake reviews are posted.

As a tip, it is best to use a Google operator-based search rather than rely on the actual webhostingtalk.com search facility. So to search for a specific host review on the site you would type the following into your Google search box:

site:webhostingtalk.com webhost review

(Note: Replace webhost with the name of the actual host you are searching for)

A search, for say, MDDHosting hosting reviews on webhostingtalk.com via Google would look like this:

Another tip would be to make use of Google’s date range feature when searching for larger hosting companies, such as Hostgator. There will be hundreds of reviews for a company like Hostgator, so search for results from the past year, or use the custom date range feature and input your own date fields. Like this:

Remember to search through the entire search results, not just the top results. Your ideal solution may be hidden on the second page. The same goes for the actual threads. As more people reply and post, the answer you’re looking for may appear a few days after the original question/query was posted. So read the entire thread, not just the first few replies.

One final tip when it comes to reading hosting reviews on webhostingtalk.com. You can get some insight into a posters reputation and reliability by looking at the total number of posts they have amassed and the quality of said posts. You will soon develop your own trusted circle of favorite posters.

Remember It’s Not Just About Hosting Reviews…

Webhostingtalk.com provides in-depth general hosting advice. So if you have a question about Cloud hosting or server security, for example, you can find numerous posts on these subjects.

• Cloud hosting: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/forumdisplay.php?f=156
• Server security: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/forumdisplay.php?f=5

Webhostingtalk.com even provides job seekers with an ideal place to boast of their talents and search out that perfect career.

• Try the employment subforum: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/forumdisplay.php?f=136

Webhostingtalk.com provides webmasters, interested in hosting solutions and other aspects of website management, with a community-focused platform to ask questions, research topical subjects, and offer helpful, impartial advice. Why not go see what all the fuss is about?

Webhostingtalk.com – Your one stop place for hosting!

This article is written by Borko Simms who is always glad to help fellow webmasters with choosing reliable web hosting services.

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Now ten 2x 5620 Xeon machines have been ordered, eight with 12GB RAM and two with 24GB RAM. In total, The Pirate Bay will be using 17 machines.

The future of The Pirate Bay looks amazing and very fast!

For more information you can see the specs over at TorrentFreak.

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Me neither, until I came across a report by MIT which states that they are easily spending $30 million per annum on electricity. This is to keep their servers up and running. First they have to power the servers. Then comes the technology that runs them and all the cooling and networking systems in between. A tall task with an even taller bill.

This report suggests a way in which these companies could save on their electricity bills.

It doesn’t offer a green solution of cutting back, rather it suggests that they constantly change which servers power their machines on a daily, even hourly basis.

So for example, the cost of electricity could rise in the US for any given reason so they shift the workload to servers in Belgium where the electricity is cheaper on that particular day.

While this would be a costly investment to begin with, it should pay off. After all, the total energy usage by the internet’s servers is set to go up four times within the next decade. Time for the big lads to make a big decision I think.

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