Unfortunately the answer is yes. Any address and contact information that you give during the registration when you purchase your domain name will be available to the public and can easily be looked up by anyone in the world. This usually includes your name, address, phone number and email. These people can find your information […]
Domain names can be purchased at any accredited domain registrar. A domain registrar is a company whose main purpose is to register domain names for people. Most hosting providers can also obtain a domain name for you, but domains can be more expensive this way, due to the added overhead. There are several very popular […]
Every server in the world that has access to internet has at least one IP address to a computer, this is like a phone number. An example of an IP address is 74.125.45.100. Instead of having to remember a list of numbers, domain names allows us to assign a name to those numbers. Without domain […]
The most common reason for account suspension are : Exceeding your storage and bandwidth limits. Frequently using up lots of server resources (eg. CPU and memory) Other reason for account suspension are : Spam email messages being sent from your account. Hosting and linking to material that infringes the rights of a third party […]
It depends on whether you want each site to have its own domain name or not. If you dont mind, you can usually put as many sites on an account as you want using subdomains. Depending on your hosting plan’s features, you may be able to host multiple websites on your account by default. Otherwise, […]
Some of the hosting provider will suspend your account if you go over your disk space limit or monthly bandwidth quota, while others will let you off with a warning. But you should be aware that some companies will charge you expensive overage fees for exceeding their limits. When that happens, you may have a […]
The reason providers can offer their “Unlimited Plan” for a cheap price is because they are overselling. The companies know that most customers are not going to use very much space and bandwidth. For those that do, the company is either large enough to afford it, or it is not. You should be on the […]
The amount of disk space and bandwidth that you need for your website will depend on a variety of factors. If you plan to host a lot of big downloads like video, sound or picture, all these can quickly consume your disk space and bandwidth. When you are first starting out in the world of […]
The smallest unit of measurement on a computer is the bit. There are almost always eight bits in one byte. These two terms are commonly confused with each other. To compound the confusion, the abbreviation for bit is a lower case b, while the byte is abbreviated with an upper case B. Making things even […]
The Control Panel is an essential part of a web hosting account. You would not be able to do very much without some sort of Control Panel, even just a basic one. To log in to your control panel, go to your we browser, enter your cPanel URL (eg. www.blablabla.com/cpanel) and insert your cpanel username […]