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4 Essentials For New Online Gamers

posted on 14 February 2012 in Hosting General

Successful online gaming requires more than a bloodlust for orcs and trolls. You need the right hardware and software to make sure that your games run smoothly and you get the most out of what you pa...more info >>>

purity.net for spam filtering

posted on 17 July 2009 in Hosting General

I just want to give a shout out to purity.net for spam filtering. They make server-wide filtering a breeze by delegating the whole process on their own servers (just point MX records to their server)...more info >>>

4 problems with large-scale shared hosting

posted on 1 February 2008 in Hosting General

1. Unreliable serviceWhen sharing a server with 500+ other websites (typical for large-scale shared hosting), you are at the mercy of all those other websites. Dodgy coding on just one of those sites...more info >>>

11 tips on reducing CPU usage on your Windows server

posted on 8 January 2008 in Hosting General

This is far from an exhaustive list, but it should act as a good "to do" list when checking over your websites / server. Websites1. Cache everything that can be cached. This was disc...more info >>>

Server Side Image Manipulation with Graphics Mill

posted on 3 January 2008 in Hosting General

This will sound like a sponsor article, but it's really just a straight-up recommendation. For anything to do with image manipulation, if you're programming in ASP or ASP.NET, Graphics Mill is t...more info >>>

Hosted Anti-Spam Email Filters

posted on 18 December 2007 in Hosting General Hosted Anti-Spam Email Filters

Spam isn't worth wasting your time on. We wasted our time trying out various anti-spam software packages for our own servers - all promising to be quick and easy to set-up. Oh yeah, apart from the 20...more info >>>

Hosting News and Support

posted on 14 December 2007 in Hosting General

We have just launched this new section offering help for other hosts out there who are hosting dedicated servers on a Windows platform. It's not easy starting out and feeling your way around the issu...more info >>>