Web hosting has evolved significantly since its early days, when it simply involved renting server space. Today, it’s a vibrant and competitive industry that provides a wealth of tools, features, and services to meet the needs of websites of all types and sizes.

Regardless of whether you own a small business, an eCommerce website, or a large enterprise platform, enhancing your knowledge about modern web hosting options will ultimately empower you to make more educated decisions.

Here’s a look at the essential tools, services, and technologies that make up the web hosting universe — and how to select the best one for you. Read More

To see why the Internet and open source are a good fit for each other, we first have to look at the origins of the Internet as we know it today. Before the mainstream explosion of the web in the 1990s, the Internet was still very much the domain of universities, colleges, laboratories, and governments. It was still mainly under research, which gives us our first clue because the scientific community has long valued the open cooperation of its members. Initially, all software was open source simply because nobody had the idea of charging money for it.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, widely recognized as the father of the World Wide Web (before this, there was just “internet”), created the first web server while working at CERN running his HTTP protocol. His system was NeXTStep – a derivative of Unix and the BSD operating system. The web browser which first popularized the World Wide Web was Mosaic by NCSA, built on a Unix system and released as open source.

So there was open source and Unix at the very beginning. Both of the major web browsers in use today, Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox can trace their roots directly back to the Mosaic web browser. Read More

Having a dedicated business email comes with an array of benefits. You can communicate more effectively, get generous disk space, schedule team tasks and appointments, meet with your team members, and collaborate seamlessly. It also presents a more brand-centric, credible and professional image of your business.

cPanel-based hosting offers one of the simplest, easiest and quickest ways to set up as many email addresses as you want in minutes. Use them to your advantage in sharing data and information whenever and wherever you are, and stay connected with your colleagues and customers.

Here are the five simple steps to set up a new email address in cPanel for your website and get one step closer to the many advantages it offers!

Step 1: Log in to cPanel

cPanel is a comprehensive tool for web hosting that is available with a vast majority of web hosting plans and offers simple functions and menus for managing your website like a pro. Getting on to the cPanel dashboard is the first step if you haven’t already. To do so,
1. Access the user dashboard of your website by typing http://www.yourdomainnamehere.com/cpanel or http://www.yourdomainnamehere.com:2083
2. Enter your username and password
3. And done! You will arrive at the user dashboard with a handful of icons and menus that you can use for various actions, from setting up email accounts to filtering your website against spam, etc. Read More