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In this article we take a look at the differences between hosting in the UK and the US. Particularly we look at cost, features and our recommendation for what to choose depending on your circumstances.

Exporting and importing large MySQL databases can sometimes be a problem due to timeouts from web interfaces, hosting restrictions and inconsistent internet connections. Here we look at a script that will help to reliably export and import MySQL databases.

Many websites simply time out if you try to access them without the www prefix on the URL. Read on and make sure you don’t lose visitors by making this mistake.

Make sure you cannot access your website from both http://www.website.com and http://website.com – doing so could trigger duplicate content issues and damage your Google rankings. Here is a method to prevent this using .htaccess