Pagespeed Improvements Courtesy of Google
We’ve just finished a significant round of improvements to shared web hosting servers. Starting today, all web servers operating in a shared hosting environment have Google’s mod_pagespeed solution built right into the server. You don’t need to do anything…it’s already there! So what is it? mod_pagespeed speeds up your site and reduces page load time. …
Read more …GoDaddy is down…now’s the time to make the switch at a discount!
GoDaddy is down. The word is out, and right now we want to help you transition to a modern-day host that isn’t necessarily a “domain name company”. Face it, it’s the truth. They’re a domain name company that decided one day to offer website hosting…and through my own interactions with clients have seen too many …
Read more …cPanel Backup Software for Windows, Mac & Linux
We get customers asking us about their website backups all the time. Things like: Do you backup my website for me? What’s the best way to backup my website? How can I automate this process? Like many hosts, we maintain backups both on-site and off-site, but they aren’t easily restorable. The backups Ashworth Consulting maintains …
Read more …Free Incoming Bandwidth
We’ve Lowered Your Bandwidth Costs! At Ashworth Consulting we are constantly working hard to drive down costs for our customers, while simultaneously increasing performance and reliability. Today we are proud to announce significant price reductions to our bandwidth pricing for all current and future Ashworth Consulting customers. Effective immediately, customers will not pay for any …
Read more …DNS tools to help you succeed
We all have our special tools that we use with our website and web hosting, but DNS tools either cost money for a great all-in-one solution, or they are scattered across many separate websites that can be difficult to use. One of the better DNS tools can be found at Web Tool Hub. You give …
Read more …Cyberduck for Windows (public beta)
If you’ve been searching for that all-in-one FTP application for Windows…it’s finally here. Cyberduck just released its first public beta of it’s award winning Mac application. This bad boy connects not only to FTP, but several cloud hosting providers as well, including Amazon S3, Rackspace Cloudfiles and Google Documents. Cyberduck for Windows Public Beta is …
Read more …Email reliability and how to protect your business
It’s easy to choose a managed hosting company that carries with it the best uptime boasted in the hosting industry and think that these things don’t happen, however, the reality is that any web host is not immune to these acts of God that can choose to surprise us at any time. The real question …
Read more …2010 Upgrades Coming Soon!
To ring in the new year, Ashworth Consulting is upgrading its hosting infrastructure to support a highly stable cloud architecture for hosting your websites and applications. In short, this will allow us to scale up your storage and bandwidth needs indefinitely. More importantly, without any downtime for hardware changes during upgrades. This new platform is …
Read more …Don’t Be Hacker Bait With a Bad Password
When you set your password, including on cPanel, or email accounts, be sure to select one that is hard to guess. But what does “hard to guess” mean? Take a look at The Top 500 Worst Passwords of All Time: From the moment people started using passwords, it didn’t take long to realize how many …
Read more …Dedicated & Virtual Dedicated Server Solutions
As it has been for some time, our largest client service offering is shared web hosting and web development, Ashworth Consulting offers a wide range of dedicated hosting and virtual dedicated solutions to suit any need. While a physical dedicated server can be good choice for some high-end applications and websites, this isn’t always necessary. …
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