Derek Vaughan

Author Website: http://www.HostMySite.com
Bio: Derek Vaughan has been actively marketing on the Internet since 1995. He has worked for such hosting companies as Affinity Internet Inc. and Aplus.net and was the Chief Marketing Officer for TechPad Agency. Currently, he is the Vice President of Marketing for HostMySite.com. Derek is a prolific author whose insight in Web hosting has made him one of the recognized figureheads of the industry. Derek's blogs are provided courtesy of the dedicated server experts at HostMySite.com

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Reseller Web Hosting Options

Nov 19th, 2008 | By Derek Vaughan | Category: Industry Experts, News Bytes

There have been a few developments recently in reseller hosting that focus the spotlight on some of the differences between different resellers and their approaches. Here are three resellers that have quite different approaches, but all offer solid products and services if you line up with the right one for your needs.
First on our list [...]



Website Hosting and Bandwidth Abuse

Nov 5th, 2008 | By Derek Vaughan | Category: In the News, Industry Experts

A seldom reviewed aspect of running a website hosting business is the process of carefully monitoring and reacting to how users absorb hosting resources such as bandwidth and disk space. Having worked for or within many dozens of hosting firms, I can definitively say that every single hosting company faces a challenge in this regard. [...]



High Score and a Vote for Obama

Oct 16th, 2008 | By Derek Vaughan | Category: In the News

It has been reported in a variety of popular media outlets that United States presidential candidate, Barack Obama, has purchased advertising in nine Electronic Arts video games prior to this November’s election. This marks the first time that any person running for the presidency has used in-game advertising to sway the electorate. You can see [...]



Why Doesn’t Google Want Ads on Some Keywords?

Oct 3rd, 2008 | By Derek Vaughan | Category: Marketing

For those of you that don’t know this - I was a beta tester of the original AdWords system at Google. Prior to AdWords and its auction process, advertisers would simply petition a Google sales representative each quarter for advertising inventory on a bundle of keywords. The process was utterly messy and unfair. Even when [...]



Plesk, PHP and 301 Redirects

Sep 11th, 2008 | By Derek Vaughan | Category: Hosting Articles, Industry Experts, Web Hosting Info

From time to time I like to try out new technologies or explore established web publishing techniques that I just haven’t tried yet. And so it was that I had set up a dedicated hosting server, loaded up the Plesk control panel from Parallels, and launched a test website.
In the process of learning how to [...]



Google Launches Chrome Browser

Sep 2nd, 2008 | By Derek Vaughan | Category: In the News, News Bytes, Search Engine Marketing

In yet another salvo across the bow of Microsoft, Google has launched its own web browser. The new product is open source and was actually released somewhat prematurely due to the release of an online comic book which Google created to explain the reasoning and features behind the new browser.
The Google browser is named ‘Chrome’ [...]



Grid Computing, Backups and Hurricanes

Aug 29th, 2008 | By Derek Vaughan | Category: Future Trends, Web Hosting Info

A while ago I had written an article about web hosting data center operators preparing for hurricanes. You can read a copy here: http://www.hostpapers.com/article/228.
So now we are once again in the throws of hurricane season with the latest hurricance - named Gustav - poised to hit the Gulf coast almost exactly three years after Katrina [...]