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04-Apr-2012
POP3 vs IMAP - A Beginners Guide
Should you use POP3 or IMAP? It's question we're often asked here at Domainmonster.com, so lets discuss the two protocols and the advantages of each. The first thing you need to do before making a decision is to understand what POP3 and IMAP are and of course the diffe...
10-Feb-2012
Web Hosting - How do I know my files are secure?
So you have bought your domain through Domainmonster.com. You’ve got a hosting package from a different hosting provider and you’re ready to go live! Then, at the crucial moment, the ...
19-Sep-2007
Proxy Servers
A proxy server is a server which serves client requests by forwarding them to other servers, and then forwarding the responses back to the client. Because the proxy server handles all the communication between the client and the other servers, the proxy server may modify the ...
08-Aug-2007
Publishing your Website
You've designed your website, got your Domain Name – how do you publish it to the internet? You need to purchase some web hosting. There are many artic...
08-Aug-2007
Streaming Media on your Website
Adding streaming media to your website can be very useful. Although gratuitous use is not recommended, band websites might wish to feature streaming audio, or you might want to have a video advertisement available to your customers. There are a few requirements you ...
06-Aug-2007
The Costs Involved in Using ASP
ASP (Active Server Pages) is the Microsoft server-side scripting engine, which runs on Windows servers. While using ASP scripting for your website can be extremely useful, particularly if you are fea...
06-Aug-2007
Dynamic Web Pages: ASP vs. PHP
Using server-side scripting for dynamic web content is extremely important and useful. But choosing between the many available platforms for creating this content can be a daunting task. This article will focus on the definition of dynamic web content and the purpose of serv...
30-Jul-2007
The Benefits of PHP Includes
If you have only a small website of seven or eight pages, it will be easy enough to just put your navigation list on every page manually. However, if you need to change something, you'll have to go back to every page and make your changes. This can be very time consuming eve...
18-Jul-2007
Organise Your Site with Subdomains
A subdomain is any domain which appears to the left of a second-level domain in a URL. For example, the "things" in "http://things.mystuff.com" is a subdomain, as is the "www...
12-Jul-2007
Why Do We Write in PHP
Dynamic web applications in a dynamically advancing world During the last few years, dynamic web applications have become as commonplace as cellular phones, palm-size computers and laser shows. These hitherto unimaginable things have ceased to be amazing. We have s...
11-Jul-2007
How to Update Your Web Site Using Server Side Includes (SSI)
Copyright 2002 Herman Drost Recently a person asked me if I could replace 125 web pages of her web site with a new drop-down navigation system. If she had to do this manually, she would have to change each page and upload it separately to the server. This would take ...
09-Jul-2007
Pros and cons of shared hosting
Author: Olga Elizarova There are a lot of various types of web site hosting. They can be classified by different indexes. There is Paid and Free web hosting; Linux/Unix-based and Windows-based (and other but they are no that popular); shared, dedicated and ...
09-Jul-2007
Without Multiple Domain Hosting, Your Web Host Is Making You A Fool!
Author: James Clark If your web host only allows you to host 1 Domain Name with 1 hosting account, please read on to learn why you have been taken advantage by your web host! Also, if you own multiple websites and...
09-Jul-2007
The Pricing Of Web Hosting
Author: Ron King Get What You Pay For Why bother paying for hosting when there are plenty of companies offering free hosting? Well, in web hosting, when you pay nothing, you often end up with nothing. Most free web hosts offer limited services. ...
09-Jul-2007
Dedicated Or Shared Web Hosting?
Author: Ron King To have a website, you have to have a host. The 2 principal options available for web hosting are shared and dedicated packages. A website that uses dedicated hosting has the server all to itself, while a shared host is split amongst multip...
09-Jul-2007
Hosting: Estimating Your Needs
For the web hosting newcomer, there are two major factors you need to consider when buying hosting: your storage space allocation, and your Hosting Server Website Design
09-Jul-2007
Hosting: Server Load
As a customer of a hosting company, you will notice that on your control panel, under "Server Status", there is usually a number labelled as "Server Load". This number gives you an ...
09-Jul-2007
Hosting: Overselling
The practice of overselling is rife in the web hosting industry: that is, most web hosts will sell more storage space and Hosting Scams Server
09-Jul-2007
Unlimited Bandwidth
If a hosting company claims to offer "unlimited bandwidth", steer clear. Such an offer is dishonest and you will probably end up wishing you’d read the small print when you are g...
09-Jul-2007
Security, SEO and Shared Hosting
Shared hosting is the only option for many small-to-medium businesses. You don’t need to manage a server, as you might with dedicated hosting, and shared hosting offers most of the features of a...