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What Type of Web Hosting is Best for Me?
In today’s market, a business of any size needs a website. Often, it is cheaper to outsource the hosting of that website to a third party rather than trying to do it in house. However, when determining the best hosting solution, price should not be the main factor because businesses have different needs which require [...]
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Interview with WestHost PHP Contest Winner
The PHP contest has officially closed and the winners have received their prizes; if you didn’t win or are just finding out the contest happened there is still great content and code created to view and use for inspiration on your own PHP projects. We loved contributing to the greater good of the PHP Web [...]
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Black Friday & Cyber Monday Promotion Leaked
It’s here, the biggest shopping day of the year, Black Friday. Equally as important for us is the largest e-commerce day of the year, Cyber Monday; the Monday following Thanksgiving. We’ve decided to join in the Black Friday deals this year by providing some huge deals for all our hosting products. We normally don’t leak [...]
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We’ve Gone Rebootless
Thanks to our team (and the ladies and gents at Ksplice) we’ve deployed Ksplice on our shared hosting servers and will include it for free on our new line of dedicated servers coming later this week! What is Ksplice? Ksplice gives us the ability to apply important kernel security updates released by CentOS/Red Hat Linux [...]
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Hosting Companies Unite to Provide Relief for Haiti
HostingforHaiti.com As many of you know, beginning January 12th, a chain of earthquakes devastated Haiti leaving its people in a famine of essential supplies and support personnel to assist. Although normally fiercely competitive, WestHost has joined VPS.NET, midPhase, HostGator, SingleHop, Laughing Squid, HostDime, iWeb, Site5, SoftLayer, Blue Box Group, Webair, and more in a community [...]
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Defining Web Hosting Reliability – If a tree falls in a forest…
You may have heard the philosophical question, “If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it really make a sound?” I presume if no one is around, then it does not make a sound. Why? In the late 1800s a science magazine defined sound as a “vibration, [...]
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Lance Weeks – Client Services & Sales
We would like to congratulate Lance for his outstanding contributions in client service excellence! Lance has not only been a valuable asset to our Sales team but he has also been instrumental in maintaining some of our social media campaigns. Clients who have had the pleasure of working with Lance have commended him on his [...]
WestHost End of Summer Party
To celebrate the new season at WestHost, we recently held a party at Von’s Park in Providence, Utah. This was actually held just five days after I started working here at WestHost. In a sense, I was like some of our newer clients—trying to get better acquainted with WestHost and its employees.
HostingCon 2009 – Washington DC
A few of us attended this years HostingCon in Washington DC. HostingCon is an annual event that gathers Web hosting professionals from around the world. During this three day convention, participants network with hosted services professionals to gain greater knowledge and learn of new resources within the industry that can help improve the services they [...]
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