When you talk about Lunarpages there is no doubt in my mind they should be on anybody’s top ten Web host list. Excellent support, cheap plans and lots of perks. That’s the formula for a good Web host, isn’t it?

Today I talk with their marketing mastermind Amy Armitage. The Web Hosting Show is now on the air.

Download the Web Hosting Show, Episode 106!
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Here are just a few topics that we discussed on this week’s episode of the Web Hosting Show.

• An Interview with Amy Armitage of Lunarpages.com
• What is a Woman’s Place in the Hosting Industry?
• Marketing Tips Everybody Can Learn From!
• Do I Love or Hate the New cPanel 11?
• Finding Domain Registrars for Wacky Extensions!

Seems like we have had more people accepting or asking to be featured in an interview here on the podcast. This week is Amy - last week was Julien and hey, next week could be you.

I have a few more Web industry movers and shakers I am talking with and trying to bring onto the show. So if you know of somebody or if you are somebody who’d like to come on and chat just drop me an E-mail at mitch@mitchkeeler.com. I’m a real easy guy to get a hold of.

Link of the Week: Lunarpages Lunatics

Back when we did the poll on WebHostingShow.com a few weeks back, you told me you wanted more Web development talk on the podcast. Well, not to be one to disappoint - I thought I would start sharing the Web dev love today.

1. Color Scheme Generator 2 - When it comes to selecting colors for your Web site, you want to work with things that look well together. WellStyled.com gives you a generator that will help you match your colors and come up with a basic color theme for your Web site or project.

2. 2 Column Tableless Layout - A lot of folks might say this is the best layout on the Web today to try to create, and this second link from WellStyled.com walks you through, step by step, on getting it created.

3. Great Fonts for Web 2.0 - This list (found at ModernLifeIsRubbish.co.uk) gives you some of the most popular Web 2.0 Web sites out there today and lets you know what font they are using for the Web site’s header images. Might be an interesting place to get some inspiration.

4. AnyBrowser.com - This link gives you your Web site of choice in any resolution you can pretty much think of. Just type your URL into the box, and see how it looks in different sizes.

5. Free Icon Resources (for your site) - MaxPower.ca has put together a great list of icons that are free to use on any Web site out there today. You get links, artists, previews and the type of license it was released under as well.

For more Web development help and talk through the week, be sure to check out Lockergnome’s Web Developers newsletter. It is another side project of mine, and I guess since it is away from my major network of Web sites you could refer to it as my home away from home.

Related Podcast Link: Listen to Episode 105!

I have the perfect Firefox extension for any special hosting guru in your life. When it comes to trouble shooting issues with a Web page, the life-of-request information extension, otherwise known as lori, takes the cake at being useful enough to use, but not so complicated you don’t know what is going on.

So what exactly does this extension show you? Here is the rundown:

TTFB: This shows how long it took to see the first byte from remote server (from click to first byte received). This value gives a rough estimate on when the browser can start laying out the content.

TTC: How long it took to display the page (from click to complete drawing of the page)

Page Size:: This value includes both bytes fetched from network and bytes fetched from the browser’s cache.

Number of Requests: Number of requests used to fetch the page’s content (images, style-sheet, javascript, ect). Again, this value include both network requests and cache requests.

For more information about lori, check out the official Web site. To download the Firefox extension, check it out on the Mozilla Add-ons Web site.

Related Podcast Link: Listen to Episode 105!

When it comes to monitoring your Web sites, uptime and downtime are things you hear a lot about. There is much more to the process though that you might not have considered. What about performance of DNS, FTP, POP3 and IMAP? What about RAM Usage and network traffic stats? One service that delivers you all of this and so much more is Wormly.

So what is Wormly all about?

Wormly monitors your website infrastructure to keep you online and performing fast. Our website monitoring service reports your uptime and alerts you when failures occur, while our performance monitoring service reveals problems before they take you down. Wormly offers performance and availability monitoring of your servers with a crucial difference - Our service helps you find out why your websites are crashing so you can solve the problem at its source.

The service is available for both Linux and Windows based servers.

What is the best part about Wormly? The plans start out as low as $7 a month. When compared with other server monitoring services out there, they are under-cutting the competition in price big time. It is nice to see even at that low price, they are still offering more than the competition as well.

Be sure to listen to episode 105 of the Web Hosting Show, where I talk with Julian Szemere. He is the Australian mastermind behind the Wormly performance monitoring service!

Related Podcast Link: Listen to Episode 105!