Posts Tagged ‘Future’

Green Hosting for the Future

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

I guess that you’ve already read thousands of articles and blog posts about this issue. Nevertheless I still find it important to say something about green hosting. Most other major industries have a game plan when it comes to the environment and why shouldn’t web hosts also have it? It’s an industry that’s constantly on the rise and it affects many peoples life. We should all do what we can to keep our earth healthy.

I think that it’s partially up to the web hosting providers and partially up to the consumers to act when it comes to green hosting. Hosting providers should, of course, already have some kind of a plan when it comes to this. One example of things to do is to have a paper free work place. If they haven’t a plan for the environment it’s up to the consumers to put some pressure on these companies. I think that you would be surprised over how much influence the “little person” has over the big companies. After all, without the consumers the web hosting industry wouldn’t do as well as it’s doing right now. So everybody unite and let’s make the best for this planet’s future!

Sitemap Standardisation

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

This week Google, MSN and Yahoo agreed on a sitemap standard. Updating sitemaps may not be such a pain in the future. Google and Yahoo have already implemented the standard, with Microsoft following by 2007.

The Future of PHP

Monday, June 16th, 2008

PHP is already popular, used in millions of domains (according to Netcraft), supported by most ISPs and used by household-name Web companies like Yahoo! The upcoming versions of PHP aim to add to this success by introducing new features that make PHP more usable in some cases and more secure in others. Are you ready for PHP V6? If you were upgrading tomorrow, would your scripts execute just fine or would you have work to do? This article focuses on the changes for PHP V6 — some of them back-ported to versions PHP V5.x — that could require some tweaks to your current scripts.