It’s been a few months now that I have registered my domain name. Having one of the most common name for a Vietnamese person, I have managed to get myself to the top spot on Google when searching for my name. While many web designer portfolio website have unique full names, it is quite easy for those designers and developers to rank for their name in the search engine rankings page due to their distinguished names.

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As the first post to my blog, I’m currently awaiting for an approval from one of my client’s hosting company for a domain change. This brings up the topic of hosting companies.

There are a bunch of web hosting companies out there, most of which offers competitive low prices ranging from $1.00 to $15.00 a year. While these servers may look enticing for a business owner to cut costs, dealing with the control panel may be an issue. Some comes with an integrated custom control panel while other uses a more generic control panel software such as cPanel. I’d much prefer using cPanel as I am sure most of you as well than to log into a client’s hosting account and see an administrative section with buttons and notices/messages all over the place.

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