Tag Archives: Launches

WordPress is introducing a new website hosting plan that combines a custom domain name, a generous amount of storage space, and the ability to accept payments on your site for just $5 per month.

It’s called WordPress Starter(Opens in a new window), and hosts your website of WordPress managed hosting along with the promise of unlimited site traffic. In return for your $5 every month, WordPress is offering a custom domain name for free for the first year, as well as 6GB of storage for any photos and images required on your site.

For accepting payments, WordPress is offering three options. The Donations Form block allows you to accept credit and debit card payments for donations, contributions, and tips. The Premium Content block allows you to accept one-time, monthly, or annual payments…

New business owners who have just set up their online business might be wondering why they need to invest more in the location of their hosting server. Does it even matter where the server is located?

And the answer is “Yes.” The web hosting server location matters a lot when it comes to the success of online businesses.

There’s a reason why some companies choose servers located outside of their borders. While sometimes server location may cost a little extra, it can substantially impact the site’s performance and SEO ranking, thereby influencing the overall profitability of an online business. 

So, if business owners think choosing the perfect web host is tough, the choice is about to get even tougher when server location comes into play. It’s crucial to choose a web host…

Ethereum scaling solution Polygon today unveiled a new dedicated network for blockchain hosting called “Supernets” and announced a $100 million fund to encourage developers to use the technology.

Polygon is what is known as a Layer-2 scaling solution that provides developers infrastructure on top of the popular Ethereum blockchain to reduce transaction times and costs caused by congestion.

Blockchain technology is the basis of Web3, the decentralized web, which is made up of distributed peer-to-peer applications that run without the need for dedicated servers or centralized authority. Web3 applications are built out of self-executing programmable smart contracts that govern operations and logic over networks.

This fact can lead to challenges for developers because…

Over the course of the last few years, IDrive, the company best known for its backup service, has slowly been adding more cloud computing features to its platform. It launched a developer-focused face recognition service back in 2019, for example, and then launched IDrive Compute, a VPS hosting service, last year. Today, the company is launching IDrive e2, a new S3-compatible object storage service, which it claims is often faster and cheaper than its competitors, like AWS’s S3 or Backblaze’s B2.

The company kept its pricing structure simple, with a free tier up to 10GB and anything above that costing $0.004/GB/month. AWS’s standard S3 tier starts at $0.023/GB/month, with some of its long-term archival services dropping down to $0.004/GB/month and below, but the use cases…

HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 6 April 2022 – EDNS Decentralized Domain today announces that its decentralized domain naming platform will go online on April 12^th. The platform, the first of its kind built on the Polygon blockchain, aims to break boundaries of internet domain with on-chain decentralized domain technology, representing an important step towards upgrading user experience in the new era of Web3.0.

To encourage global participation in the move towards Web3.0, EDNS announces it is giving 700,000 .meta* domains to the owners of .eth domains, with first-year service fees waived. The project is also launching an ambassador program and a Reseller NFT Membership Program. Today’s announcement came as investors have been snapping up…