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About AptHost AptHost makes numerous, enticing claims: no hidden fees or contracts; 99.9% up-time guarantee; instant account activation; FFmpeg hosting capabilities; 24/7 customer support. If one simply looks at their website for information, they seem like your standard cheap hosting provider, offering shared hosting packages starting at $3.95 per month.…

16-Year Old Breaks Vine Rickrolling: "an Internet meme involving the music video for the 1987 Rick Astley song 'Never Gonna Give You Up.' Today, a 16-year old by the name of Will Smidlein created one of the best Rickrolls ever - unfortunately, he also made Vine crash. Vine has a…

Is Go Daddy (Finally) Going Public? Would you snag a slice of cheap hosting company Go Daddy if you could? In a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal, Go Daddy CEO, Blake Irving, told press that he's not opposed to an IPO. Go Daddy is growing "...at double digits,"…

Dropbox Goes Down It's every cloud user's biggest nightmare: what happens when a cloud service goes down? Yet, it can happen at any moment. It happened to Dropbox users yesterday. For one whole hour, Dropbox was down. Smack in the middle of a busy Thursday morning. This caused wide-spread panic…