After web host HIT shut down last week, its wholesale host Fibernet took over for its customers (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — After web hosting provider Heritage Internet Technologies ( www.hitwebdesign.com ) announced last week that it was shutting down, some confusing and potentially misleading messages emerged about the potential fate of sites hosted by the company. In a conversation with the WHIR on Monday, Lane Livingston, CEO of Fibernet ( www.fiber.net ), the behind-the-scenes provider of hosting to reseller HIT, discussed the role his company is playing in providing immediate support to HIT customers, and the potential for Fibernet to support those customers going forward. First and foremost, he says, it is important for HIT customers to understand that the technology underlying that company’s services have always been owned and operated by Fibernet, which operates as a wholesale provider of hosting in many similar relationships – meaning that no HIT customers are in any danger of having their services turned off unexpectedly

If you think Vanilla looks like an awesome forum script, but your not sure if you can get things together as far as installing it yourself – you are in luck.  If you don’t have a web hosting account or you would rather get Vanilla as an all in one package, try out their hosted installs of the script.

Time to take a look at another hosting term you might have heard of but didn’t really know what it means.  FFMPEG hosting is the word up for review today. This is a term that is used to refer to any time of hosting that provides an assortment of of recording, converting and streaming tools for audio and video on the server side

What did I spend my weekend on?  Thought it was about time I listened to your feedback and gave the Web Hosting Show’s web site a little ‘bit of a makeover.  Watch this video tour to learn more about all the great new features and simplifications of the basic look and feel of this very web site. I hope you enjoy, and stay tuned for even more great web hosting tutorials, podcasts, videos and more right here on the Web Hosting Show.  I have some great things in store for all of you – so hope you will jump aboard the Web Hosting Show bandwagon and enjoy the ride.

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Web hosting is a huge business these days, and this is no surprisewhatsoever when you consider how much the world relies on e-commerce.That being said, it is very important that you choose your web hostcarefully. There are plenty of hosts to choose from after you take careof your domain registration, but you need to ensure that you are indeedmaking the right choice

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