Selfless Mind Sponsors BBC Question Time Watch-Along

Selfless Mind is pleased to announce that it is providing BBC Question Time Watch-Along, a once-monthly evening of politics and twitter with appearances from comedians and political speakers, with a Mercury hosting package.

If you’re in London and enjoy Twitter and politics you should get yourself along to Dimble Dance in company!

For quality UK hosting consider Selfless Mind Hosting where we aim to offer you a better than best service.

The Features of PHP Hosting

PHP hosting features enable dynamic sites where it is possible to run scripts to produce the web page content based on data stored in a database or in reaction to the conditions at the time of a site visitor.

Typical scripts are blogs, and forums. These save the information including weblog post content in a database, and PHP scripts are utilised to extract the information, and construct the web page. Read More…

Questions to ask a potential shared hosting provider

Choosing the wrong shared hosting provider can be a nightmare. Crappy policies, frequent outages, and not getting enough storage or bandwidth for your money can all make your life difficult. By asking a potential host some relevant questions you can avoid that hosting nightmare and instead settle with a reliable host that provides good value for money with both services and support.

How much space does your package offer?

While most shared hosting providers will have a clause in their terms & conditions stating you cannot use the space to store audio and video files, most don’t enforce this for small amounts but if you intend hosting your own photo gallery and you link to your hi-res images, you’ll start eating into your allowance so check if there is any charge for going over and what the difference is between the next package up. At Selfless Mind Hosting our hosting packages come with either 2Gb, 8Gb or 20Gb and if that’s not enough we can tailor a package to suit you.

How much data transfer does your package offer?

Some shared hosting providers offer unlimited bandwidth, very often there is a catch in the small print, so check it carefully as often going over even by one Megabyte or two can be very expensive.
At Selfless Mind Hosting our packages come with 20Gb, 80Gb and 200Gb per month as standard but if you think you might go over, let us know and we can work something out.

Will your shared host offer Unix or Windows?

Nowadays more and more people want to run a Windows server, usually there’s not much difference in price but you’ll find things like database add-ons are chargeable, this is down to a licence from Microsoft being required, Windows isn’t open source!

At Selfless Mind Hosting we understand everyone’s needs are different, that is why we offer both Unix and Windows environments.

Do you use in-house servers and tech support?

At Selfless Mind Hosting our servers are housed in one of the UK’s most state-of-the art data centres. There, a dedicated team of engineers and technicians monitor things 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to ensure that when something goes wrong, which it has a tendency to do, they can spring into action ensuring that any downtime is minimal.

Once you have the answers to all the questions above, you can confidently compare hosting providers and choose the one that offers the best value for your money.

7 Ways To Speed Up Your WordPress Site

WordPress is not only one of the best website CMS programs it’s also one of the most resource hungry ways to create a website. With its multiple CSS, JavaScript and PHP files and a heavy reliance on calls to databases a WordPress site can easily become bloated and slow. Web masters who use WordPress need to look at how they can decrease their website‘s page load speeds. Here are a few ways to help you.

How do I find out how fast my website is the first place?
To see how your site is performing and to get a list of recommended changes I would start with looking at “Site Performance” within the Labs section of your Google Webmaster Tools.
To check out your site on spec you can also install Google’s page speed plug-in for FireFox here http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/download.html. This site within Firebug (also required) and gives a page a score out of 100 along with what you need to improve.

Before we get started, a word of warning.  BEFORE you make any changes to your site you must make a back up to cover yourself in case anything collapses. It literally takes a couple of minutes to do and will save you some serious heart ache! Read More…