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Amazon late Friday disabled a website used by a propaganda arm of the Islamic State that celebrated the suicide bombing that killed at least 170 people in Kabul on Thursday after The Washington Post reported the extremists relied on the company’s technology to promote extremism.

Nida-e-Haqq, an Islamic State media group that distributes Islamist content in the Urdu language, had been using the company’s dominant cloud-computing division, Amazon Web Services, to host its content, despite company policies against working with terror groups.

Some of that content included messages about the Islamic State-Khorasan offshoot that claimed responsibility for the lethal attack, said Rita Katz, executive director of SITE…

Every business needs a website to be successful and have maximum reach. It allows you to connect with users by using various marketing tools and build a strong online presence. 

One of the key components in building a website is having a reliable and excellent web hosting provider. Each hosting service offers several features that ensure your website is up and running, all day long. 

As a small business owner, any sort of downtime, security glitches, or low page speed can affect your business performance and even cost you money. A web hosting provider allows you to store all your data such as images, content, documents, themes, audio, videos, and so much more that make up your website. 

Many of us are unaware of how essential a good web hosting service can be. To put it lightly, it…

The trade report from Reports Globe on the Global Web Hosting Services Market aims to facilitate an in-depth understanding of the market’s definition, potential and scope. The report is organized after extensive research and analysis by experts. It consists of an organized and methodical explanation of current market trends to help users make an in-depth analysis of the market. The report includes a comprehensive assessment of various strategies such as mergers and acquisitions, product development and research and development adopted by the major market leaders to remain in the global market.

If you’re not familiar with shared hosting vs. VPS hosting, or unmanaged vs. managed VPS, then you should read through this section. Keep in mind what your goal is with your website or websites, and why you need a virtual server. You may, in fact, need a dedicated server.

What Is VPS Hosting and When Do You Need It?

Virtual private server (VPS) hosting is an upgrade from shared hosting. With a shared hosting plan, your website lives on a server with many other websites. It’s an effective solution for small and new websites that don’t require a lot of resources for files or high traffic. On a VPS plan, you still share space with others, but you aren’t sharing resources—you have your own RAM, storage and CPU power.

When your site grows after years of content, ranking…

The benefits of a dedicated server may be worth the added cost, so you may not even need to read this section. If you’re on the fence and wondering whether it’s worth increasing your monthly cost tenfold, then you may want to keep reading to see what you’re getting with your own server.

Server Uptime Guarantee

You’ve likely seen web hosts boast 99.9% server uptime. That’s nearly 100%, so it has to be good, right? No server is going to be up 24/7. Web hosts have to perform maintenance, and so occasionally servers will be down. Hosts will tell you when the server will be down, and that downtime doesn’t count toward the guarantee.

However, if your server is down at any time other than the scheduled maintenance, you’re likely entitled to a portion of your monthly fee…