At Hosting Nation we have a number of clients who use WordPress. 10 Plugins You Can’t Live Without is an  article from Website Magazine regarding 10 plugins that “should always deserve consideration.” It is a pretty useful list.

To set up the new version we may have to eliminate our last 10 restore points from version 2.0 as they are not compatible. We will try to keep what we can.

This migration will take place on Monday, February 27th starting at 11am PST.  Please note that no action is required by our customers.

In shared hosting, the most common reason for downtime is a single account slowing down other accounts on the server. CloudLinux helps control this by isolating and controlling resource spikes. ?CloudLinux utilizes a technology to set resource limits per user. This ensures an user account can never use more than the resources given to them.

We have deployed CloudLinux on our latest server, fayrfax.hosting-nation.com and it has worked well. Look for it to come to other servers later in the year. If you have any questions about CloudLinux at Hosting Nation, contact info@hosting-nation.com.

I get to chat with customers on Twitter, Facebook, the blog and the forums, and a lot of my interactions have been about pricing: “I used to get X server for Y, but now it costs Z.” The trouble is that it’s tough to compare many of the offerings apples-to-apples.

If you were to create an apples-to-apples server comparison, you’d see that a SoftLayer server is the equivalent of a server from The Planet with a KVM, a private network, additional geographic network points of presence, increased network capacity, the ability to select where you want your server provisioned, faster provisioning, seamless integration with cloud solutions, and a lot more automation… And these are just the differences that came to me as I was writing.

And after having the type of service Softlayer provides us and our customers, using a “low cost” server datacenter isn’t quite the same. And let me tell you that KVM can be a godsend sometimes. Softlayer has our business because they do it right.

One year later, the video titled “Dave the Dog goes Crazy!” has come back with a vengeance. Daily views on YouTube have gone up to by the thousands. Dave’s recent fame really set in for Hosting Nation on the morning of April 28th, when Inside Edition – a popular current events program broadcasting across North America – phoned to ask if they could use the video in their lead out for today’s program.

“We had no idea this was coming.” said Erik Weisner, the lead developer at Hosting Nation, who answered the phone when Inside Edition called. “It’s great that this video is generating so much attention. We hadn’t seen anything for a year, then out of nowhere, there’s all this interest – it’s great.”

Dave the Wonder Dog is part border collie, part black lab and all crazy.   Crazy how?  Peep the video below and see for yourself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D28hhaU9RU

PS.  If you like the video, you can join us in our efforts to raise funds for North and Central Vancouver Island BC SPCA Organizations.  Please visit http://www.spca.bc.ca and dontate today.

We are now located at #10-1176 Frankin’s Gull Road

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We hope you will join us in this new stage of our business journey.

Our first entrepreneur is Robbin’s Wreaths.  The small local business has been trying to build a website to market their hand made wreaths to the online market.  $10,000 later, they still have no website. Read the complete article online at the Oceanside Star or watch the first episode online now, free!

Hosting Nation wants to hear your tales of website woe. Submit your stories at www.extremewebsitemakeover.tv and you may win a free website makeover worth $6,000.