The kind of access you get to the internet often varies significantly depending on your location, and sometimes, it doesn’t matter how fast your internet connection is access to some websites will still be slow. Speed is one of the most important factors to consider when connecting to the internet, and it is important to know that the fact that a particular website is taking ages to load doesn’t necessarily mean your internet connection is slow. Based on constant research, and my experience with getting slow internet connections to be faster, I have discovered a lot of great ways to…

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Ever since I activate GPRS on my Nokia N73, I’ve kept myself busy hunting for various applications to install and run on my mobile. The purpose has always been to keep me connected even when I am on the road. After a good deal of testing and trying, I’ve zeroed in on a few must have applications for any avid mobile user (with an internet connection of course). Opera Mini Opera Mini is the highly popular Opera Browser ported to the mobile platform. Opera has always been my number one browser of choice and Opera Mini was the first application…

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Two weeks back I took you through the different types of hosting. Over the next few articles I’ll cover Control Panels, Hosting Basics, Choosing your host and try to explain the various concepts that surround this industry. To recap the earlier article, hosting can be divided according to price, by domain or size. Considering size, hosting can be primarily classified as Shared Hosting, VPS and Dedicated Hosting. The primary factors in any hosting plan is the disk space and the bandwidth you are allotted. Based on various hosting plans you can have disk space allotted from anywhere between 10MB to…

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