5 Day Black Friday Celebration!

Our Black Friday Special is the largest promotion we have run to date. While many providers offer discounts on the day of Black Friday, we thought we would take it one step further and celebrate it all week long. Use the coupon code “BLACKFRIDAY2011” and receive 75% off your order on any of our Shared and Reseller Hosting Plans.

Coupon Code: blackfriday2011

Expires: November 25th, 2011

*This promotion is valid for new and current customers and can only be used once.

What’s ‘Black Friday’?
Black Friday is the Friday after Thanksgiving in the United States, which is the beginning of the traditional Holiday shopping season. Black Friday is the busiest shopping day of the year. It is also the time when the most OUTRAGEOUS SALES can be found!…

What is LiteSpeed Webserver?

MonsterMegs Web Hosting is powered by LiteSpeed Webserver. Great – but what does that mean & why should you be interested?

Studies have shown that in today’s fast paced world, visitors make a decision about ‘liking’ a website in the first 5 seconds. LiteSpeed is fast and will deliver your content to your visitors faster than an Apache-Based webhost. Therefore, LightSpeed may increase your ad revenue because visitors are more likely to open additional pages. In addition, LightSpeed may increase the chances that the visitors will come back again.

LiteSpeed is a high-performance, secure, easy-to-use, and Apache interchangeable web server. It supports HTTP/1.1, SSL, CGI, FastCGI, LSAPI, PHP, JSP, Servlets, GZIP compression, chroot, IP level throttling, connection accounting, DoS attack prevention, and instant recovery mechanisms. In non geek speak, it’s a program that runs on the server and listens for requests from visitors. When it gets a request, it responds to it by sending the content the visitor requested. If you have a website, you’ve probably heard of Apache – it’s the most widely used web server in the world. I’d be willing to bet that your current web hosting company uses it to serve your content. So…what sets LiteSpeed apart?

Speed - LiteSpeed is 6 times faster when serving images, javascript, css, and other static content, and 50% faster when delivering PHP based content like WordPress.

Performance - Denial of Service [DoS] attacks are very common and can easily take an Apache hosted website offline. LiteSpeed offers protection from such attacks and is capable of shrugging off most of these attacks.

Interoperability – LiteSpeed is completely interchangeable with Apache. LightSpeed offers .htaccess support, as well as everything else needed by users.

From an administrator’s perspective, LiteSpeed is great. The RAM usage is exponentially better than Apache. LightSpeed has a cache module built in and administration is a snap.

Help yourself out. Help some children out. Move over to MonsterMegs Web Hosting. We offer a 30 day, money back guarantee. We’ll even move your website over for you…completely free, of course!…

What is CloudLinux?

CloudLinux is a revolutionary Operating System that allows each cPanel account on our servers to have it’s own CPU allocations. With a standard Linux installation, a single user can cause issues for everybody else on the server, where as with CloudLinux that account would be limited to their own CPU allocation and would not cause issues for everybody else on the server.

One of the largest benefits of CloudLinux is that it will keep a single account from overwhelming a server and causing slow performance or downtime.  Each and every account is limited to a maximum of 1 CPU Core instead of having free and open reign to system resources, and since we run high end servers with multiple cores this effectively means that it’s extraordinarily unlikely for the server that your account is on to become slow or unresponsive due to the actions of one, or even a handfull of customers.

Detailed Explanation

Now you have a basic idea of what this fancy software does. If you’re content with knowing that it just works, carry on to the next section. If you want some more info, stay tuned. Most of what we’re going to cover can be found at http://cloudlinux.com/docs/index.php but we’ll hit on it here.

LVE – LVE, short for Lightweight Virtual Environment, is the driving technology behind the CL methodology. LVE, developed exclusively by the folks over at Cloud Linux, is a kernel level technology which handles the isolation and resource monitoring that CL is able to provide. LVE brings together technology provided by Apache modules and the Linux kernel.  More reading available here: http://cloudlinux.com/docs/workingwithlve.php

LVE and cPanel / WHM – CL has developed a plugin specifically for use on cPanel / WHM based systems. Installed through yum (CentOS package manager), the plugin allows you to view resource accurate up to the last second, and also allows you to edit default and individual LVE limits.

Installation – Installation is really quite simple for us at least since we’re using CentOS and cPanel. All you need to do is wget their installation script, run the script and authenticate …

MonsterMegs Partners with CloudFlare!

Today we are very excited to announce that we have partnered with CloudFlare, a new and innovative Content Delivery Network Provider. We have provided a small summary of CloudFlare’s service below.

CloudFlare decreases your website loading times and helps protect against malicious threats online. A few of their system highlights are:

• Your site loads faster, uses less bandwidth, and serves fewer requests by filtering out the malicious traffic.
• CloudFlare uses a CDN type delivery strategy to cache static content, reducing load times for visitors all across the world
• Increased security measures. CloudFlare makes use of its global network to identify malicious traffic and filter based on that detection.
• Statistics and traffic reporting provide a better insight into your sites traffic demographic

For more information on CloudFlare, please visit their website at https://www.cloudflare.com/overview.html.

Advantages of the CloudFlare system:

• Site Performance Improvement: CloudFlare has proxy servers located throughout the world. Proxy servers are located closer to your visitors, which means they will see page load speed improvements as the cached content is delivered from the closest caching box instead of directly off our server. There is a lot of research that shows that a faster a site, the longer a visitor stays.
• Bot and Threat Protection: CloudFlare uses data from Project Honey Pot and other third party sources, as well as the data from its community, to identify malicious threats online and stop the attacks before they even get to your site. You can see which threats are being stopped through your CloudFlare dashboard here.
• Spam Comments Protection: CloudFlare leverages data from third party resources to reduce the number of spam comments on your site
• Alerting Visitors of Infected Computers: CloudFlare alerts human visitors that have an infected computer that they need to take action to clean up the malware or virus on their machine. The visitor can enter a CAPTCHA to gain access to your site.
• Always Online Mode: In the event that our server is unavailable, visitors should still be able to access your site since CloudFlare serves the visitor a page from its cache.
• Lower CPU

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Can Web Hosting Really Be Free?

To set up a web hosting company requires a lot of investment; powerful servers must be acquired, high-tech hardware must be installed, sophisticated telecommunication gadgets must be put in place, system security software must be on ground, well-trained staff must be ready for smooth operation and so on. With all these financial commitments by a hosting company, can it offer its services for free?

The internet is currently full of free hosting providers claiming to be the best at what they do. But the truth of the matter is that they have their way of having returns on their investments. If you have ever signed up for a free hosting package, you would notice a lot of advertisements placed on your web pages. In fact, the adverts would be more prominent than your content. At times, you would encounter a lot of pop-up ads, porn-ads, pop-under ads, etc. If your planned site is a hobby site or one for friends and family, free hosting might be okay for you. But if your site is tailored for business, free hosting might ruin it.

Web hosting is now more affordable than before with different packages to choose from; shared, VPS or dedicated. If you can not afford VPS and dedicated because they are little bit expensive, shared hosting is your best bet. With as low as $3.95 a month, you can get one from a reliable company. What are the features you should look out for on a shared platform?

Disk space: Find out the amount of disk space that will be allotted to you. Make sure it would be enough to contain your present and future files.

Bandwidth: This determines the number of people who can access your website at the same time and at a particular period. The higher the bandwidth, the higher the number of visitors that can access your site. Confirm from the service provider the amount of bandwidth that would be allocated to you.

Control panel: Since you are trying to cut down on expenses, you should choose a service provider with a control panel on its …