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Headsetoptions.org and Mandarinmusing.com will now be providing you web hosting along with web design services. Currently, we are hosting premium WordPress powered sites as part of our design services that includes free WordPress support and theme upgrades for the life of hosting!

But for those who are new to web hosting, check Siteground. This website has been around for a while and offers high quality, affordable, secure service. Their professional services package includes web hosting, ecommerce hosting, reseller hosting, domain names and web design. Find out what hosting is suitable for you by chatting with a sales representative to assist you live and get going within minutes. Siteground also …

Headsetoptions.org and Mandarinmusing.com have been providing Web Design, SEO, WordPress Themes and WordPress Customization services to promote bloggers and businesses create their unique brand images. We now offer premium Web Hosting for just $10 a month!

Reliability, disk space, bandwidth, upload/download speed, FTP access, operating system and programming tools, security and backup, and most importantly pricing and support are the key factors you must thoroughly do your homework in before you even go to the next step. Read this article as a beginner’s guide to choose a web hosting company.

Read web hosting reviews, both good and bad. You need to know …

Headsetoptions.org is not the best domain name for our site, simply because it sounds more stereophonic than anything to do with web design. So why did we choose that? Well, because the primary intent for this site was not design. What you need to learn from this is think ahead of time, and base your domain name on the concept and content of your site.

So where do you start? First, find a good domain name and check it’s availability, then choosing a good web host provider to house your domain. And if you are not feeling too creative, consider how …

When a client of mine upgraded to WordPress 2.5.1 from WordPress 2.5 she encountered an issue where the database will not upgrading, resulting in the “WordPress 2.5.1 is available! Please update now.” flashing in her dashboard and every other admin pages. On initial search of the WordPress support forum, we found the following strings that pointed us in a certain direction:

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/172004
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/168964

Neither strings suggest solutions that are easy or safe, however, I urge you check these posts and then search your install via file manager/FTP/WebFTP to ensure you do not have files with the following extensions anywhere within a writable …

As you might have noticed, a few of our sites on (mt) went down last night due to an upgrade that went wrong; we are back now (12/01/2007, 2.03 PM EST) and hopefully did not lose any data. It seems like most of the hosts no longer offer uptime guarantees, clever move on their part. I love (mt) but am looking to upgrade, (mt) DV or other VPS maybe. Any suggestions?

I try not to write such posts, but the frustrations expressed by my clients who host on Yahoo! Small Business compels me to point out the obvious shortcomings. This non-exhaustive list is in no particular order, it’s just the top 4 reasons why I would not recommend/host any site on Yahoo!
One-Click-Install
A client recently used the one click install feature to add WP to her site, within days it was hacked and she lost everything she had moved from another CMS (luckily she had backups). The problem was the defunct version of WP that Yahoo! installs, WP version 2.0.2, which beats …

Generally, when it comes to choosing a product or a service, we compare prices and read reviews. Low pricing need not necessarily mean bad service and here’s a tried and tested web hosting service that will cover your Web Hosting Service Provider checklist!

MaiaHost.com offers a single domain php hosting package starting from as low as $3.95 per month with one domain name, with 1GB hosting space and 20GB monthly traffic. It also offers a Maia multiple package with 5 domains, 2GB server space and 30GB monthly traffic at just $6.95 a month. What’s more? A bonus of Joomla Hosting and Wordpress hosting with Fantastico to set up your …