Static site hosting on the rise Static websites have recent years gained popularity again and many new static site hosting providers have popped up. Advantages of static sites and some primary reasons to go static are that sites are less exposed to malicious attaks, and easily and cheaply can be distributed through a content delivery […]
Back in 2016, I moved a couple of websites to the hosting provider FranTech Solutions using the BuyShared (affiliate link) brand for their shared hosting services. FranTech Solutions is a Canadian based company, mostly known for its VPS brand BuyVM. Since I have been a customer for more than four years, I decided it was […]
Yesterday, I stumbled across what is probably one of the simplest to use static web hosting services I have encountered so far. The service is called Tiiny Host and is a simple, free, and semi-anonymous temporary static website host. The service offers the possibility to publish tiny static websites that will remain online for up […]
Recently my web hosting provider BuyShared (also known as BuyVM and Frantech) started using the SMTP provider MailChannels for outgoing e-mails. This is a neat feature that increases mail deliverability. Before switching to MailChannels, BuyShared routed outgoing mail through a local SMTP server. Due to more advanced and strict spam filters and policies by most […]
BunnyCDN (affiliate link) is a low-cost unmanaged content delivery network (CDN) service. Setting up the service and implementing the CDN into your website is an easy procedure, especially if you already understand the basics of a CDN. BunnyCDN is one of the cheapest available CDN providers charging $0.01/GB for US and European traffic, and $0.03/GB for Asian and Oceanian […]
Spam is a well-known problem for all Internet users, especially technical administrators of Internet services. I own several domain names used for different purposes. Most of my domains are not supposed to receive e-mails. However, spammers don’t care and will still send spam mails to these domains. Even without Mail eXchange (MX) records a domain […]