Did you know the Web hosting market is on the rise? It’s true, and we’ll have to numbers to prove it on today’s show. Speaking of things that rise, I’ll also give my review of the new “Internet Only” version of GoDaddy’s newest commercial. Oh you didn’t know? The one and only voice of the Web hosting world is now on the air.
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Hello, and welcome yet again to another edition of the world’s number one Web hosting podcast, the Web Hosting Show. This show is supported each and every week by the fine folks over at Web Hosting Chat. Web Hosting Chat is the number one set of forums out there for Web hosting discussions. Who am I? Why I am the most charismatic man in the Web hosting industry, Mitch Keeler.
This podcast carries all the top Web hosting headlines, talking points, tips and tricks, design help and more. Just think of it as me combing the Web hosting world for the most interesting topics of discussion so you don’t have to. You could kill time by looking up all this information by yourself, but I’d hate to see you have to do that. Instead I’ll promise to deliver you the best the hosting industry has to offer each week. The only thing I ask in return from you is that you just keep coming back.
I just set up my first wireless router last week, so that I could get Online with my new PlayStation Portable. Man do I ever love this device. I am even thinking about making a mobile or PSP version of the Web Hosting Show Web site I love it so much. Do you think I should? One of the best benefits I have found with the PSP is now I can sit in my living room and check my E-mail. I no longer have to walk clear across to the other side of the house to login. Damn do I ever love technology.
Want to know how you can make an impact on this very podcast? That much is easy. All you need to do is drop me an E-mail at mitch@mitchkeeler.com and let me know your feedback, thoughts, complaints and comments. This show isn’t for me, it is for each and every one of you out there who want to know more about how this wacky world of Web hosting works.
Web Hosting Headlines
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Web Services Firm Celebrates Long Haul With MINI Giveaway
FatCow Web Hosting, a leading Web services provider for individuals, creative professionals and small businesses, is celebrating its 7th year in business in a big way by giving away a new MINI Cooper auto, an Apple Mac mini and an iPod mini, along with 25 of its own “MiniMoo” domain hosting accounts (which include a free domain).
The contest is open to both new and current customers. Everyone who joins the FatCow herd during the promotion by signing up a FatCow plan will be automatically entered in the drawing. FatCow is also giving its loyal existing customers an opportunity to enter the contest by referring new accounts or taking advantage of upgrade offers.
Mitch’s Take: Hey giveaways are always a good way to create “buzz” around your services or products. By nature, folks will do a lot to get something for free, so I think this deal from FatCow Web Hosting will do just fine. Congrats guys on 7 years of service!
Level 3 and Cogent to Blame for Thursday’s Internet outage
Thursday a major dispute between two large service providers affected thousands of Internet uses. Level 3 Communications refused to accept excess traffic from their competitors Cogent Communications, causing large sections of the Internet to be unusable and grinded email traffic to a halt.
Mitch’s Take: Well I don’t care who’s side you are on in this dispute, I think both sides were acting a little childish when you consider they are holding up the Internet of all things, over this little fight. This just goes to show you that some folks will not and have not ever grown up.
GoDaddy Offers New Domain Name Appraisal Service
GoDaddy today announced the release of a new domain name appraisal service. The service is split into to categories, express and certified. As the name suggests the Express Domain Appraisal service is quick and easy. With a turn around time of 2 hours or less, Express Appraisal uses five critical factors, placed in a weighted ratings algorithm. The results are posted on a secure Web page which can be shared with third parties.
The Certified Domain Appraisal is slightly longer. Taking about 2 days to complete, the name is reviewed by an appraisal staff. Factors such as length, number of words, number of hyphens, numeric characters, desirability, and top level domain are taken into account when figuring out the estimated value.
Mitch’s Take: Everybody wants to know what they are worth so GoDaddy is smart to jump in on this business as well. I haven’t seen a set of Web hosting forums that didn’t have a thread dedicated to folks giving feedback about a domain name’s worth. We all want to know how desirable we are and I bet many folks would be willing to pay money to know for sure.
Do you have some Web hosting news? Make sure you send it to mitch@mitchkeeler.com and I’ll try to get it on the next episode of the Web Hosting Show.
Web Hosting Tip of the Week
Every so often you just need a quick nugget of Web hosting knowledge. The Web hosting tip of the week is brought to you by Mitchelaneous. Mitchelaneous is my own tech news and views Web site, where I tell you what I think about some of the new things coming out of the technology world.
This week’s tip is about surviving DDoS attacks. A DDoS attack is a distributed denial of service attack. A type of denial of service attack in which an attacker uses malicious code installed on various computers to attack a single target. An attacker may use this method to have a greater effect on the target than is possible with a single attacking machine. Since I know little to nothing about the topic, I am willing to point you into the direction of somebody who does know about it. I found an article series on WebHostMagazine.com that does a great job at letting you know what you can do to protect yourself and survive one of these horrible attacks. For the most part, this article is for all the Web hosts out there. Who knows? Maybe a few Web hosting clients can learn from this as well.
Web Host Magazine – Surviving DDoS attacks
Do you have a Web hosting tip you’d like to share? Make sure you send it to mitch@mitchkeeler.com and who knows? It could be included on the very next edition of the Web Hosting Show.
Web Hosting Deals and Steals
The Web Hosting Show’s Hosting Deals and Steals are brought to you each and every week by AllHostingDeals.com. AllHostingDeals.com is your number one place to find Web hosting offers too good to be true.
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Have a Web hosting deal or offer that is too good to be true? E-mail me at mitch@mitchkeeler.com and I’ll tell the folks about it on the next Web Hosting Show podcast.
Mitch’s Hosting Talking Points
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October 2005 Web Server Survey
This news comes right from Netcraft:
In the October 2005 survey we received responses from 74,409,971 sites, an increase of 2.68 million sites from the September survey. The large gain makes 2005 the strongest year ever for Internet growth, as the web has added 17.5 million sites, easily surpassing the previous annual mark of 16 million during the height of the dot-com boom in 2000.
So are we entering a new hosting bubble? With the growth of blogging and podcasting, and folks becoming tired of free hosting solutions I can see some of the reason for the growth in the Web hosting industry. There are a lot of startups and expansions of old companies going up every single day as well. Right now is an exciting time for the world of Web hosting and I am more than happy to be here to see it all.
It seems like Windows servers are gaining a little more mind share as well. Windows servers gained 0.75 percent, while Apache-based servers fell by 0.67 percent. Linux flavored Web hosting is still the main choice by a long lead right now, but it is nice to see that Windows is moving up by a little at least.
The WHIR Magazine – Digital Edition
It seems like the folks over at the Web Host Industry Review have come out now with a digital version of their Web hosting magazine. Now subscription to the paper version of the magazine is already totally free, so I’m not sure what the folks at the WHIR are gaining by making a digital version of the magazine as well.
Once you open it up, you are brought to a window with navigation and options at the top and the magazine at the bottom. I do have to say seeing all the options are nice, but why not just release it as a PDF file? In any case, it brings the print version of the magazine out where more eyes can learn about the Web hosting world and how it works, so for that I am happy to see it happen.
Go Daddy Commercial
Now I would not really consider myself a media review guy. If I like something, I’ll say I like it. If I don’t like something, I’ll say that I don’t like it. Commercials are just not really on my radar most of the time. With that said, I always like to see what new commercials the folks at GoDaddy come out with. So let me take off my Web hosting guru hat and put on my hat of a commercial reviewer.
What do I think of the new “Internet Only” car wash ad? Oh, is it ever good. Then again, I just really like Candice Michelle. Lets screw the thought of wearing a guru or a commercial reviewer hat. As a red blooded American male, I am telling you this commercial is well worth watching over and over again.
GoDaddy has Candice as the GoDaddy Girl… maybe I need to find a Web Hosting Show Girl? If you are interested, make sure you send all your 8 by 10 photos to mitch@mitchkeeler.com. I can’t promise you money, but I can promise you it would be better than seeing me dress up in drag.
Do you have a Web hosting topic of discussion you would like to hear me cover on the Web Hosting Show? Then make sure you send it to mitch@mitchkeeler.com and I’ll try to get it on the next episode of the Web Hosting Show.
Web Site Design Help, Support and Ideas
All of the Web Hosting Show’s design help is sponsored by BrowseHosts. BrowseHosts is the most comprehensive Web hosting directory out there today.
This week’s Web site that needs some help is Jon Kev New York Outlet.
The front page looks nice, but I am seeing a lot of white space between your paragraphs of text. A little white space is good, it gives my eyes a place to rest. Too much can look a little tacky though. Also I’d like to see you stick with the same font type, colors, style and size through all the pages on the Web site. Of course, you can make headlines a little bigger and make them stand out more, but with the fonts and colors changing on every page, it just doesn’t look good.
On the bright side though, I really like the use of the graphics and text on the top half of each of the pages. Usually you see folks just slap a big graphic on top and never come back to it. What people need to realize is that ever inch of that page counts, and no mater if you are doing Web hosting or a Web hosting podcast you need to sell your visitors on the idea of what you are producing.
I wish the folks at Jon Kev New York Outlet the best of luck, and I can’t wait to see how they do in the future.
Do you need some help with your Web site design? Would you like me to just let you know what it is you could do to make your Web presence that much better? Make sure you contact me at mitch@mitchkeeler.com and I’ll try to get your questions answered and your Web site reviewed on the next episode of the Web Hosting Show.
Web Hosting Web Site of the Week
The Web hosting Web site of the week is brought to you by Banners World. Banners World is the number one place to visit to get all your Web site graphics, banners and designs done.
The Web hosting Web site of the week is SiteGalore.
SiteGalore is one of the most nicest template Web site creation tools out there today. They have had a lot of high marks from everybody from the Web Host Magazine and Buyer’s Guide to the Web Host Industry Review. I am sure their services are not cheap, but I bet they are well worth the money that you will be paying for them. Not sure about them? Try out the demo first, then make up your mind.
Do you have a Web site that deserves to be the next Web hosting Web site of the week? Make sure you send it to mitch@mitchkeeler.com and I’ll try to get it on the next episode of The Web Hosting Show.
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