Today is Arbor Day! Though Arbor Day doesn’t get the same amount of exposure as Earth Day, it has been around since 1872. So spend some time today planting and tending to some trees! And then make sure to take advantage of A2 Hosting‘s Earth Month discount that ends today. Use the coupon ARBOR and [...]

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QA testing is one of the most important steps in launching a website. Unfortunately it is one of the most skipped steps as well. A webmaster and his staff can test their own site all they want, but the site is their baby. You really need to have outsiders test the usability of your site. [...]

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A2 Hosting offers IPv6 hosting! Iv6 is an abbreviation for Internet Protocol version 6. We are currently running a dual-stack IPv4 and IPv6 network, meaning IPv4 and IPv6 run side by side. This is important because IPv4 is rapidly exhausting its supply of address space. Address space is the set of all possible IP addresses. [...]

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Ziggs is a social network for business professionals. It is your online destination for helping you build an online brand, marketing yourself on the web, connecting with other pros in your industry and much more. You can find A2 Hosting on Ziggs. Our profile includes a biography, a short interview, links to some of our [...]

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Keep an eye out for the new Twitter search engine Tweetup. There are plenty of ways to search for tweets on Twitter, but Tweetup is apparently going to be the new and improved Twitter search engine. Tweetup is supposed to be to Twitter what Google is to the internet. Tweetup claims that its algorithm will [...]

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On Tuesday I wrote about Facebook no longer having pages that users are “Fans” of, but rather that they “Like”. I shamelessly plugged our Facebook page and asked you to Like A2 Hosting. It turns out that the Like feature is a lot more widespread than originally thought. Facebook has developed a one-click Like button [...]

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Happy Earth Day everyone! A2 Hosting is proud to be your Green Hosting provider. After we all take a few moments today to pick up some trash, concentrate on turning off lights and throwing plastic containers into recycling bins, remember to visit A2 Hosting. We specialize in developer friendly PHP Hosting and MySQL Hosting. In [...]

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I wanted to share a Facebook page that is absolutely blowing up in popularity, and it’s kind of mind boggling to figure out why. The page has hit on something so ridiculous, that it now has over 1 million people who like the page. The page is “I hate it when I’m taking a drink [...]

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Apparently Facebook is replacing the “Become a Fan” feature with a simple “like” button. I noticed the new like button yesterday on the A2 Hosting Facebook page, but today it’s back to a Become a Fan button. This is my formal request, for when the like button comes back, to hit that button. We’re not [...]

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Here’s some interesting news for our eCommerce hosting customers, especially those with a Twitter presence. Last week, Twitter launched their own ad program called “Promoted Tweets”. Promoted Tweets are ordinary Tweets that businesses and organizations use to advertise to a wider group of users. These tweets will show up on top of Twitter.com’s search result [...]

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