Many weeks back after much deliberation, I decided to give CloudFlare a shot. As they describe themselves… CloudFlare protects and accelerates any website online. Once your website is a part of the CloudFlare community, its web traffic is routed through our intelligent global network. We automatically optimize the delivery of your web pages so your visitors get the fastest page load times and best performance. We also block threats and limit abusive bots and crawlers from wasting your bandwidth and server resources. The result: CloudFlare-powered websites see a significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks….

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Creating content for the Internet is a challenge. On the one hand, without constant content creation, websites lose traffic and become irrelevant. On the other side of the equation, some unscrupulous webmasters and bloggers regularly seek fresh content from other sites, recycling it on their own pages. Not only is this blatantly unfair, but it could be costing the copyright owner lost revenue from advertising and sales. Fortunately, there are a few different steps that content owners can take to make certain their material is not used without permission. Taking a Proactive Approach “With the size of the Internet ever…

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Small business owners have special considerations when looking for a company to host their website. Is the web host dependable? Are their prices affordable? Do they offer sufficient support for small businesses? Can they reliably support a shopping cart or other tools needed to communicate with clients? Perhaps most importantly, are they adaptable enough to handle changing business needs and the growth of the business? What if the need develops for multiple domain web hosting? There are many web hosting companies offering services to small businesses, but each web host is unique in not only the services but the level…

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Are you constantly sharing files with your friends, site visitors etc? If so, then you already familiar with Rapidshare, Mediafire, DivShare and other file sharing sites. However, uploading to a single file sharing service has its negative points. For one, the site may be blocked on certain internet connections. Visitors from the same IP cannot download together across many services and lastly, users may not like the site you are using! Lastly, you may not make some money on the side. This is where Gazup comes in. Gazup! is the leading website for social file mirroring online. You’ll be able…

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Do you want to share videos or photos with your friend? One option is send all your files via email. The result is clogged inboxes and a good likelihood that emails may bounce or land in spam. Or you can use a file sharing service. We’ve all heard of ZIP files and I’m sure many of you have heard of RAR files as well. Here is where rarhost steps in. rarhost is a unique new file hosting site, only for winrar .rar archives. It offers much more than just basic file hosting; the system has advanced information about each rar…

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Take it from Microsoft to jump into the fray for Online Storage and then show why they can attract customers / users. In an announcement on the Windows Live SkyDrive blog, Microsoft announced some updates to their online storage service. Space has been increased five fold from 5GB to 25GB of free online storage Control your data. Move or copy it between folders, download as a .zip or copy your photos to Windows Live Photo Gallery Synchronize your Internet Explorer browser across computers Share your files and photos with your friends easily New look and feel Several more countries added…

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BlogFlat is a new hosting site aimed to provide quality blogging services for everyone for free. It is powered by WordPress MU. From the about page, here is what you can get: Your own subdomain (name .blogflat.com) Tons of nice WordPress themes More tons of useful WordPress plugins Customizable CSS code Your own e-mail address (name @blogflat.com) SEO tools There is still a lot that can be done to improve BlogFlat. Would love to see a detailed list of themes that are available. I haven’t signed up yet simply because I don’t need yet another blog. Have you got your…

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DivShare, the free file hosting site did come with a bang. It did expand quickly due to its easy integration with WordPress as well as Facebook. However, four days back, in a post at DNForum, DivShare has been put up for sale. It seems more like an auction as the price has not been mentioned and the user has been requesting quotes via PM. Techcrunch caught on the story, which was originally posted at sitesfs and the news of this has spread. Techcrunch states that the developers of DivShare are silent about the sale. I haven’t used DivShare much, infact…

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This tutorial is for those of you who have the cPanel as your hosting control panel. cPanel’s File Manager is a very powerful and versatile tool to use to upload your website. A very useful feature offered by it is the ability to extract zip, tar and gz archive files. This article with guide you on using the file manager to upload your entire website “quickly”. Step 1:- Creating a ZIP archive You will need an archiving program to create a zip file of your website. I will use WinRAR. First enter your website folder on your computer e.g. my…

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The only reason I haven’t been using Flickr so far has been the lack of ability to have subalbums or subsets. However, yesterday Flickr launched “Collections”. You can now create your sets of photographs normally and you can create a main set (collection) which will include certain sets. You can create your hierarchy as deep as five collections. However, this feature is useful only for Pro users who have the ability to create unlimited sets. I’ve long since considered moving my photos to Flickr, but the only thing that stopped me so far was this. I’m going to get myself…

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