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06 Jan 2020
How to Install DirectAdmin
With the recent cPanel price increases, many web hosting providers are considering alternative control panels for the management of their websites. In terms of alternative control panels, as we have previously discussed in our DirectAdmin v. cPanel post, DirectAdmin is a formidable competitor. With that in mind, we thought it would be a good idea
01 Jan 2020
Happy New Year!
______________________________________________________________________________ With 2019 coming to a close, all of us here at IOFlood would like to take a moment to reach out and send our best wishes to you and yours! We hope you had an amazing 2019! We know we have, thanks to all of our fantastic customers for your support over the past
10 Dec 2019
Server Pricing Report – December 2019
This is the ninth and final installment of our monthly server price reporting for 2019. If you’ve been following along, we’ve been tracking changing parts prices for RAM, SSDs, Hard Drives, CPUs, and a couple of GPUs. Typically this is done monthly, and then shared on our blog. Currently, all listed prices are from eBay,
08 Nov 2019
Server Pricing Report – November 2019
This is the eighth installment of our monthly server price reporting for 2019. If you’ve been following along, we’ve been tracking changing parts prices for RAM, SSDs, Hard Drives, CPUs, and a couple of GPUs. Typically this is done monthly, and then shared with WebHosting Talk and on our blog. Currently, all listed prices are
24 Oct 2019
DirectAdmin vs. cPanel
With the recent price increases for cPanel licences, there has been a lot of chatter on various hosting forums regarding alternatives, so today I thought I’d take a look and see what else is out there for those of you that may be considering looking for an alternative. There seems to be three main contenders
07 Oct 2019
IPv4 Address Subnetting Explained
Every server at IOFlood comes standard with one /29 worth of IPv4 IP addresses. Additional IP’s can be added at an extra cost, up to a total of one single /24 (or equivalent) worth of IPv4 addresses per server. But how many IP’s do you really get with a /29 or a /24? In this
04 Oct 2019
Server Pricing Report – October 2019
This is the seventh installment of our monthly server price reporting for 2019. If you’ve been following along, we’ve been tracking changing parts prices for RAM, SSDs, Hard Drives, CPUs, and a couple of GPUs. Typically this is done monthly, and then shared with WebHosting Talk and on our blog. Currently, all listed prices are
30 Sep 2019
Determining Number of cPanel Licences Actively Being Used
How Many cPanel Accounts Do I Really Need? In late June of 2019, cPanel announced a new licencing and pricing structure for all cPanel services. As these changes have been implemented on a per-user basis, it’s important to be able to determine how many user accounts you are going to need. Auditing your cPanel accounts
13 Sep 2019
Server Pricing Report – September 2019
This is the sixth installment of monthly server price reporting for 2019. August was incredibly busy, so again this month we’re skipping from July to September. If you’ve been following along, we’ve been tracking changing parts prices for RAM, SSDs, Hard Drives, CPUs, and a couple of GPUs. Typically this is done monthly, and then
13 Jul 2019
Server Parts Pricing Report – July 2019
This is the fifth installment of monthly server price reporting for 2019. May was unusually busy, so again this month we’re skipping from April to June. If you’ve been following along, we’ve been tracking changing parts prices for RAM, SSDs, Hard Drives, CPUs, and a couple of GPUs. Typically this is done monthly, and then