Website Monitoring is NOT Provided by Your Web Hosting Company
Many people don’t realize that if their website goes down, normally no one from the hosting will call them to let them know about it. In fact, many times I have alerted a web hosting company of a server error before they even knew about it.
So what’s the best way to monitor whether or […]
11 Things That Make a Web Hosting Company Suck
Does your web hosting company suck? Plenty of them do and I have had the misfortune of running into them over the past decade as I have used numerous different web hosting firms for both personal, business, and client websites. Maybe I am just a difficult customer because I actually expect a company to deliver […]
What You Need to Know About Web Analytics
A critical component of monitoring your success is web analytics. This is the software often provided by your web hosting firm that tells you all about your visitor patterns. By viewing your web analytics, you can see who has come to your website, where they cam from, how long they stayed, and more. This is […]
Help! My Website is Down!
You sit down at your desk and open up your web browser to check out your pride and joy (which is set up as your default home page) and nothing happens. You hit the refresh button, and still get nothing. You start to wonder if others are trying to access your site and how much […]
Choosing a Domain Name
Choosing a domain name is a very critical part of starting an online business. My personal belief is that naming a company should go hand in hand with selecting a domain name because the ideal scenario is to have both be the same. As online buisnesses have continued to develop over the past […]
Web Hosting Platforms
In general, there are two different platforms that you will be running your website on. It will either be Windows (Microsoft) based or Linux (Unix) based. You must do your research and know what kinds of tools or applications you will be using to build your website and also what languages your developer or designer […]
Welcome to Maxim Web Host!
We are your one-stop destination for web hosting information. We are a continual work in progress and you can play a role in our development by asking questions. We will credit you with the question providing a link to your website (certain restrictions apply). Look forward to much more as we grow.
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