Back in December I posted this feedback article, wanting to know just how much traffic warranted a jump to a dedicated server. Actually, I was just chomping at the bit to put my site on a new box after browsing inexpensive dedicated servers, and I had become tired of excessive resource usage shutdowns and increasingly [...]

Almost all of us started with a cheap, shared web host. The shared hosts offer a fantastic service for little money. They offer the novice webmaster a managed environment with niceties like web-based administrative interfaces (cPanel, Plesk, etc) for managing their site(s) and services, script based installation of site software via Fantastico, and ftp and [...]