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HostGator Sold to EIG For $225 million USD

June 30, 2012

Here is a big news for all Hostgator customers, (Even ShoutMeLoud is hosted on Hostgator). Hostgator is sold for $225 million USD to Endurance International Group. According to reports, Mr. Hari Ravichandran, CEO of EIG, offerd $225 million to Hostgator CEO, Brent Oxley and he accepted. This news came out as a shock for Hostgator users and people are already discussing about the same in Webhosting forum. Some background about Endurance International Group: EIG is a business group, which ...

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Free Online Data Storage Sites : Prevent Data Loss

February 27, 2012

Let me start this post by asking a simple question: How many of you use local HDD or such local storage to store your data? Have you ever thought of leveraging the power of free online data storage sites to store your data and get the freedom of accessing it anywhere. If you have been not been using cloud storage feature of many free services, you are running a step behind with latest technology. In this article, ...

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Why is Backing Up Your WordPress Blog Important?

July 11, 2011

Do you have a blog on WordPress.org or any self hosted website? If yes, this article is for you, for others browse our archive.. Well, I learned the lesson that backing up your blog is important in a hard way. I’ll explain. It all started with me wanting to change my hosting. I told a friend of mine and he did it. What I later found out was that some of my posts went missing because ...

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How to Prepare for a Blog Emergency?

July 5, 2011

We’ve all heard about what’s happened and is still going on over in Japan. It’s got to be a nightmare for the people and the families of those who live there. I’m not going to point any fingers and say they should have been better prepared, because in any disaster, you really can’t prepare 100% for it because you don’t know what will happen exactly. But we can take some pointers from the aftermath of ...

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How to Use Gmail Backup to Take Back up of your Gmail Account Locally

February 28, 2011

Just now we posted about Gmail glitch deleted 150K account and this must have created a buzz among all Gmail users. If you are a Gmail user, backup is the best solution for now to make sure in future if your Gmail account is deleted or get hacked for any reason, you can always restore it back. In this tutorial I’m showing you how you can use a handy tool call Gmail backup to take ...

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My Valentine’s Day Date With WebHosting Customer Care

February 27, 2011

Valentine’s day is a day which every one wait for and so did I. Though my story of Valentine day was different from everyone out here and I’m sure no one would like to have a date like I had. This day I can’t forget in my blogging career. Though I have been blogging in my native language since 2004 on a blogspot domain and recently (Jan 1 2011) I started a technical blog called ...

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VaultPress Review : WordPress Premium Backup System

August 30, 2010

Backing up your blog timely is one thing which everyone should be doing every day. Though, it’s good to have an automated sustem and we have already shared ways to backup WordPress. Today, we are extending the list with VaultPress review, which is a premium backup service from WordPress parent company AutoMattic. 5 months back I posted about Premium Back service from AutoMattic, Automattic is the same company behind WordPress. I got the golden ticket ...

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