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As an initiation into the world of web hosting, my managing editor threw down the gauntlet, challenging me to build a website in just one week. The goal? To familiarize myself with the intricacies of web hosting and website building. 

1. Choosing a web hosting provider is easy with expert help

Every website needs a web host. Why? Because nobody would be able to access your website online otherwise. Web hosting is the space that houses your website, and premium ones come at a cost.

How to know which one to use is a task in itself. Thankfully, my editor is an expert at web hosting and has already given loads of advice on the buying guides. So, I used our best free web hosting page and selected my editor’s top pick, which is Infinity Free.

InfinityFree is a web…

Kevin Jackson was vacationing on the other side of the country when Liquid Cargo was hit with a ransomware attack in 2017.

The moment he realized he isn’t immune is seared into his memory.

It was close to midnight Friday, Feb. 17, to be exact, and the start of a holiday weekend before President’s Day the following Monday, meaning the now anxiety-filled Liquid Cargo and U.S. Container Depot president had little hope of resolving the situation quickly—or of fully enjoying his stay in California.

The entire ordeal disrupted Jackson’s West Palm Beach, Fla.-based bulk transportation and logistics operations for nearly two weeks, and cost him five bitcoins—at the time a nominal ransom, especially by today’s standards—to unlock the encrypted data, restore their systems, and…

Don’t trust VPN? You’re not alone. Stories about rogue providers injecting ads into your web traffic or selling your browsing history should worry anyone who’s paying attention.

But what if you could bypass these dodgy vendors entirely, and get your own personal VPN server direct from a web host?