The most recent Web Hosting articles from Personal Computer World

Make your website work

Nigel Whitfield — 2008-03-06T00:00:00.000Z

Nigel Whitfield, Personal Computer World, Thursday 6 March 2008 at 00:00:00

Nigel Whitfield explains everything you need to know about building a website but were afraid to ask

One thing often said about the internet is that it’s egalitarian, in that anyone can set up a site or start an online store, and compete with everyone else....

Lapsed domain names 'bought in seconds'

Clive Akass — 2007-11-22T00:00:00.000Z

Clive Akass, Personal Computer World, Thursday 22 November 2007 at 00:00:00

Don't forget your £5 renewal, warns domain registrar

Website owners have been warned to keep their registration up to date because lapsed domain names are being snapped up within 10 seconds of becoming available....

Hands on: Indices and mapping

Nigel Whitfield — 2007-10-18T00:00:00.000Z

Nigel Whitfield, Personal Computer World, Thursday 18 October 2007 at 00:00:00

How to control the way your site is indexed by search engines

Last time round, I started exploring how search engines index your site, with a look at some of the more basic aspects adding keyword and meta tags to your...

UK 'running out of web addresses'

Clive Akass — 2007-05-16T00:00:00.000Z

Clive Akass, Personal Computer World, Wednesday 16 May 2007 at 00:00:00

We've gone through the dictionary says UK2 head

Registration of new web addresses has dropped off because of a shortage of names, according to the head of one of Britain's biggest resellers of domain names....

PayPal rings up new payment system

Martin Lynch — 2007-03-28T00:00:00.000Z

Martin Lynch, Personal Computer World, Wednesday 28 March 2007 at 00:00:00

etailers can host it on their own site - and take major credit and debit cards

PayPal UK has announced the availability of a new payment system for online retailers that promises to give them more control....

Pipex suspends executive in 'spying' case

Clive Akass — 2007-03-26T00:00:00.000Z

Clive Akass, Personal Computer World, Monday 26 March 2007 at 00:00:00

Embarrassment as company puts itself (and possibly Wimax) up for auction

Broadband provider Pipex has suspended an executive in a row over alleged industrial espionage. The company faced legal action by Rackspace, a US-owned web-hosting company....

Why websites go down

Clive Akass — 2007-02-26T00:00:00.000Z

Clive Akass, Personal Computer World, Monday 26 February 2007 at 00:00:00

Cheap-skating companies make no allowances for hardware failures, say experts

Companies are not putting enough resources into maintaining resilient websites, according to experts at a NetEvents forum. Steve Broadhead, of Broadband Testing, said he found alarming levels of downtime at...

Remember: backup is not archive

Guy Kewney — 2007-02-07T00:00:00.000Z

Guy Kewney, Personal Computer World, Wednesday 7 February 2007 at 00:00:00

When it’s time to free up some space on your hard drive, remember the key word is archive, not backup

Imagine you’re sitting at your PC and suddenly realise that you’re running out of disk space. You’ll need to delete some files, but don’t want to lose them forever....

ISPs to pay less for BT lines

Clive Akass — 2006-11-13T00:00:00.000Z

Clive Akass, Personal Computer World, Monday 13 November 2006 at 00:00:00

Cuts could mean lower bills for end users as BT ramps up 21st Century Network

BT Wholesale is to cut the prices independent service-providers pay for broadband lines in a move that seems certain to reduce the cost of access for end users....

Web watchdog says it's winning the UK battle

Martin Lynch — 2006-10-25T00:00:00.000Z

Martin Lynch, Personal Computer World, Wednesday 25 October 2006 at 00:00:00

31,000 websites shut down over 10 years

The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) is celebrating 10 years of battling illegal online content, most of which relates to child abuse....

Review: Buffalo Terastation Home Server

Cliff Joseph — 2006-10-16T00:00:00.000Z

Cliff Joseph, Personal Computer World, Monday 16 October 2006 at 00:00:00

The extra reliability of Raid 5 will appeal to business users

Buffalo’s second entry in the Nas category is really quite impressive. The Terastation’s resemblance to a small bank vault is surely intentional – Buffalo wants you to feel that your...

Junked email ham 'worse than spam'

Clive Akass — 2006-10-12T00:00:00.000Z

Clive Akass, Personal Computer World, Thursday 12 October 2006 at 00:00:00

Tracking down false positives wastes more time than junk email, says web hosting firm

Some anti-spam filters are a case of the 'cure' being worse than the disease, according to web-hosting firm Strato. People spend more time checking out their junk-mail folder for legitimate email,...

Small businesses failing to use blogs

Martin Lynch — 2006-09-29T00:00:00.000Z

Martin Lynch, Personal Computer World, Friday 29 September 2006 at 00:00:00

They are missing out on a chance to drive traffic to their sites, says Fasthosts

The vast majority of businesses in Britain are failing to capitalise on blogs to drive business to their web sites....

Broadband sign-ups fall amid market confusion

Clive Akass — 2006-08-03T00:00:00.000Z

Clive Akass, Personal Computer World, Thursday 3 August 2006 at 00:00:00

People play waiting game as operators fight price war

The number of broadband lines in Britain has increased by 730,000 in the past three months – the lowest figure for any similar period over the past two years....

Starter pack for web traders

Martin Lynch — 2006-07-18T00:00:00.000Z

Martin Lynch, Personal Computer World, Tuesday 18 July 2006 at 00:00:00

Serif's low-cost Web Plus 10 offers improved ecommerce tools

Serif, the producer of low-cost web publishing and graphics software, has taken the wraps of the latest version of its web design software, Web Plus 10....