Web hosting. You can’t have your own website without a host. To start off, you gotta know the web hosting market before choosing one. It is important to know which is good and which is not. You gotta at least know the 7 important factors of choosing a webhost. There are also news sites out there dedicated to help people look for a webhost, like TheHostingNews.com.

They provide daily hosting news about

1. dedicated web hosting server reviews
2. hosting automations
3. hosting billing
4. private label resellers
5. reseller webhosting
6. hosting service addons
7. priave label exchange
8. blog web hosting
9. co-location servers
10. datacenters

I believe that the site will help people who are new to the web hosting scene. If I were a beginner, I would take the time and check out what sites like thehostingnews.com has to offer. The effort taken by the author to compare hosting plans is very much appreciated. It helps reduce time. One can also find hosting interviews done by the author. Every piece of work that brings value to the readers are pretty much appreciated.

Two of the latest addition to the site’s content are web hosting statistics and web hosting events. The best place to learn new things and discuss the future of the industry is from events. There are also people who attend events solely for the purpose of building networks. It is only at events, where we can speak directly to webmaster, SEO and SEM gurus. And thanks to TheHostingNews, you can keep up with events in your area.

The Hosting News
Dedicated servers and reseller hosting news

Now here’s a cool online based blog backup system by Techrigy. Blog backup is very important because in the event your content is lost, having the ability to restore it is critical. Furthermore, being able to store your blog backup anywhere, export it, and transfer it to any platform provides security and convenience. The project is currently in beta testing and have several limitations like :

50 MB limit

I have just fully backed up 3 of my blogs and they take up only 1.63MB of space. The total number of articles are less than 300. Don’t panic if you hit 50MB. To get more space allocation, all you need to do is just send them an email at morespace@techrigy.com.

The famous 10

If you use any of the below blog platform, you qualify for free backups.

1. Blogger
2. WordPress
3. TypePad
4. Friendster
5. LiveJournal
6. Serendipity
7. Windows Live Space
8. Movable Type
9. Terapad
10. Vox
11. Multiply

Switch Blog Platforms

Want to move to a better blog platform? Do it easily using the ‘Restore’ feature. If you are using Joomla and want to migrate to Wordpress, here’s a nifty script modified by me.

Images & Videos

Look out for the image and video backup support. They will be out pretty soon.

Blog Backup Online
Secure, store and transfer blogs

It’s rar host. Some of the features worth mentioning are :

• Maximum per file is 150MB, but unlimited if you split it up.
• People who download the file are allowed to check out the content before downloading, making sure that the rar file contains what is wanted
• The file is allowed on the server for as long as 60 days of inactivity
• They also allow file management like deletion and checking the download count for users who register. And the registration is free.
• They even have a statistics page that allow users to check out the server’s file statistics and information.

Rar Host
free file hosting for .rar files