http://blog.xaviermedia.com All you need to know as a web site owner, blogger or webmaster Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:44:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Most web hosting companies offer catch-all email addresses for all their customers and at first it may seem like a fantastic service. With catch-all you don't have to setup forwarders for each and every email address you need since all email sent to your domain will be forwarded to the ... http://blog.xaviermedia.com/2008/07/19/why-catch-all-email-is-a-bad-idea/ Until the 31st of July 2008 you'll get a free .com domain name if you purchase annual shared hosting plans from eXavier.com. The promotional pricing will be applied automatically in the cart for you ... http://blog.xaviermedia.com/2008/06/12/free-com-domain-with-annual-hosting-plan/ I read a guest post in the Entrecard blog about how to recover your data (i.e. posts and files) in case you lose your blog in a hard drive crash, server fire (like in the case with ThePlanet.com) or in a hacker attack. The article gives you some good advice, ... http://blog.xaviermedia.com/2008/06/08/back-up-your-data-before-its-too-late/ WebHostingChoice.com is another web hosting directory, but it's much more nice and clean in the layout then any other hosting directory I've ever seen before :D . Most web hosting directories are packed with ads, usually so many ads that the content and the comparisons are hard to find, but ... http://blog.xaviermedia.com/2008/03/24/web-hosting-choice/ We have some news from the hosting part of Xavier Media at eXavier.com. .ws transfers If you've registered a .ws domain, the Web Site domain, at someone else you can as of now transfer it to eXavier.com for as low as $9/year. Upgraded hosting plans We've upgraded the hosting plans so now you got ... http://blog.xaviermedia.com/2008/03/18/news-from-exaviercom-upgraded-hosting-plans/ As you may have seen on Twitter we moved our blog (blog.xaviermedia.com) to another server yesterday due to poor response times at the old server. So how did we know that the response times where poor? I'm using a service called mon.itor.us where you can setup web site checks to ... http://blog.xaviermedia.com/2008/02/25/why-you-should-monitor-your-sites-and-servers/ Here's a contest where you can earn some money both during and after the contest even if you're not the winner of the actual contest :) The contest is really simple: Join our affiliate program at Share-a-sale Blog about eXavier.com (you decide on your own how much you would like to write ... http://blog.xaviermedia.com/2008/02/01/new-contest-win-50/ Looks like Dreamhost had a Nightmare. If you look at the source posts for this comic you'll see that Dreamhost is actually publishing a picture of some poor guy and claiming it was all his fault. It can't be fun to be that guy :( I'm starting to think that ... http://blog.xaviermedia.com/2008/01/15/dreamhost%e2%80%99s-nightmare/ People are getting smarter about online security. More and more of them are looking for the padlock icon and “https” prefix in the address bar of their browser before submitting personal information online or placing an online order for products or services. If your Web site doesn’t have an SSL ... http://blog.xaviermedia.com/2008/01/13/ssl-certificates-you-need-it/ Merry Christmas and Happy New Year everyone! We at Xavier Media hope to see you all soon again after the holidays and we're planning some new cool services for you all during 2008 so keep visiting our sites. You have still time to ... http://blog.xaviermedia.com/2007/12/25/merry-christmas-and-happy-new-year/