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Fortune 500 Companies Drool Over Linux Servers

By Jake Neeley | Published: December 24, 2012

The Linux Foundation, in collaboration with Yeoman Technology Group, conducted an invitation-only survey of 1893 enterprises using Linux showing that Linux servers are well-loved at Fortune 500 companies. The data pool was compromised of the Linux Foundation End User Council, private companies and government institutions selected by the Linux Foundation and Yeoman Technology Group.

Everyone wants to know the secret sauce of successful companies. However, some companies don’t like the idea of sharing what’s behind the scenes. While others think there’s no such thing as “the secret sauce.” So what’s the point of having this kind of survey?

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Five Great Ways to Monetize Traffic on YouTube

By Jake Neeley | Published: December 21, 2012

Make Money on YouTube

According to recent statistics released by YouTube, over 800 million unique users visit the site each month and that traffic from mobile devices had tripled since 2011. These statistics are quite endearing for most marketing executives, either big or small, as it offers a cheaper alternative to advertise to a global target audience. In addition, most of the site viewer’s fall under the ‘favored demographics‘ category that gives the site an inherent advantage to attract entertainment advertisers.

However, while there is a lot of buzz and interest regarding this emerging advertising platform, uncertainty and lack of information hamper most people from monetizing their traffic on YouTube. To shed light on this pertinent issue let’s look at some of the ways one can benefit from their YouTube videos.

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Several Ways SMBs Can Benefit from Using Yammer for Their Employees

By Jake Neeley | Published: December 19, 2012

Yammer is a social media tool specifically designed to help businesses of all sizes increase productivity and connect employees with one another. It is a convenient, secure way for you and your team to communicate and share relevant experiences and knowledge. There are several ways Yammer can be a benefit to your business.

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Five Ways Oracle has Improved MySQL Database Since Acquiring it From Sun

By Jake Neeley | Published: December 18, 2012

Oracle Imporves MySQL

Oracle’s acquisition of Sun systems – and MySQL – in 2010, left many web developers wary of the MySQL path. At the time Sun had major concerns with their hardware sector, but the MySQL application was becoming ever more popular.

Currently, MySQL is a significant tool in the management of website database information, and is usually integrated into the cPanel hosting platform at WestHost. Until recently, Oracle has simply continued to offer MySQL and allowed existing developers to continue updating it’s useful features, but made no significant changes to the open source database management application. However as of September 2012, Oracle finally announced a new Development Milestone Release (DMR) of the MySQL Cluster 7.3, with more than a few new features. The following are five important changes Oracle has made to the MySQL database, which every web developer should know:

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Five Reasons Why Facebook May Go the Same Way as MySpace

By Jake Neeley | Published: December 11, 2012

Facebook is an enormous company, and its success has made it a household name, even turned into a movie. Although large, they’re not exempt from failure; a quick look at the past will show that even a monolithic company may one day find itself at the bottom of the barrel. We’ve taken a quick look at five of the reasons a company, such as Facebook, may one day fall.

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Five Alternative Platforms to YouTube for Uploading and Sharing Videos

By Jake Neeley | Published: December 7, 2012

YouTube Alternatives

YouTube is the world’s most popular video sharing site, but they have been increasingly hard on users for posting content. As such, you may be in search of other ways to market your videos. Luckily, there are a number of sites that are a viable alternative to YouTube.

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Top 10 WordPress Plugins for Internet Startups

By Jake Neeley | Published: November 30, 2012

WordPress Plugins for Startups

WordPress is one of the most popular content management systems (CMS) with a market share of over 50%. Most online publishers and entrepreneurs prefer this blogging platform because of the well-known ability to extend features through a huge collection of cheap (mostly free) plugins. “WordPress is used by 17.2% of all the websites, that is a content management system market share of 54.8%,” said W3 Techs, Web Technology Surveys.

Here are our top hand-picked plugins that will spice up your blogging career and give your WordPress website hosted on our servers a much needed ‘boost’.

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5 Reasons Why PHP Scripting Language Smokes ASPX in the Web Development Arena

By Jake Neeley | Published: November 30, 2012

PHP v. ASPX

Many web developers, especially new ones, are often faced with the choice of using either PHP or ASPX. While many reasons have been advanced in support of one or the other, here are the top five advantages of PHP.

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Five Wireframing Tools to Help You Prototype Your Website

By Jake Neeley | Published: November 29, 2012

Wireframe Tools - Website Design Tools

Before building any product, designers first produce a prototype (or a wireframe, as some call it) of how the real thing will look. As a website designer, you should also build a prototype of your website before finalizing the code and releasing the actual site on WestHost servers.

Check out these 5 wireframing tools for prototyping a website.

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Four Benefits of Joomla 3.0: Optimized for Mobile Phones

By Jake Neeley | Published: November 27, 2012

Joomla Design Mobile

If you own a website that runs in Joomla, you will be pleased to know that the company just released the first mobile optimized Content Management System (CMS) 3.0.

“The Joomla 3.0 release opens the mobile door for all Joomla websites making them look, feel and operate equally well on all viewing devices (smartphone, tablets and traditional desktops),” said Nick A of Joomlapolis. “Joomla is used by 8.9% of all the websites whose content management system we know. This is 2.8% of all websites,” according to W3 Web Technology Surveys.

If you are still in the process of planning a mobile responsive site with Joomla (which can be easily install through Softaculous on WestHost hosting plans), here are the top four benefits of using Joomla 3.0.

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