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VeriSign Domain Name Price Increase Officially Takes Effect July 1st

VeriSign as announced in December of last year, is increasing the price of .COM and .NET domains at the wholesale level  by 7% and 10% respectively, effective July 1st, 2010. The price increase had previously been approved by Icann (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers). As a result of this increase domain registrations and [...]

Amazon outage June 29th, 2010

Outages at Amazon.com are causing issues throughout the net. This outage seems to also affect Amazon affiliates which rely on the content feeds from Amazon.com. It is being estimated that Amazon could be losing roughly $1.7 million per hour of downtime.

Five WordPress Plugins Tested on Hostwire Blogs

One of the great aspects about WordPress is its ability to do exactly what you want it to do with very little programming knowledge. Think of an interactive application you’d like to feature on your blog, and there is bound to be a plugin that will magically execute it. At the same time, it is [...]

How to Install WordPress on HostWire

Once you have created a Hostwire account that is pointing to your newly registered domain name, you can have your blog up and running with just a few clicks. First, login to your account with the information that was emailed to you. It will look something like this: A new client account has been created [...]

Writing Prompts for Bloggers

As creative people, it is easy to get distracted by this or that project, or worse, by the dwindling zeroes in your bank account. This week’s prompts will focus on consistency and discipline in your blogging. Writing Prompt #1: Think of the things you DO have and write about them. For example, maybe you don’t [...]