A leader in the world of reseller hosting services; Fasthosts is not only flexible, they are fast too. Joining us on the show today is Steve Holford, the Chief Marketing Officer for Fasthosts Internet Inc. So what separates Fasthosts from the other reseller hosting options you might have? What can you learn from them?
Those questions, and many more, will be answered for you on this week’s edition of the Web Hosting Show.
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Here are some of the questions we will cover in today’s interview:
- Why does Fasthosts centralize around reseller hosting?
- What is the biggest misconceptions about reseller hosting?
- What unique reseller hosting tools does Fasthosts provide?
- What is the history behind Fasthosts?
- Is reseller hosting a good way to make some money?
Also here are a few resources you might want to check out after listening to the interview:
Thanks to Steve for joining us on today’s show. If you would like to come onto the show to talk to the entire hosting industry about what you do, how you host or anything else be sure to drop me a line at mitch@mitchkeeler.com.
With the word that Geocities would be closing, “sometime in 2009” many of the Geocities users are looking for other places to host their content. Even though Geocities is closing the door on it’s free hosting, there are still many free hosting alternatives to Geocities.
In an effort to save the content that was on Geocities, a group calling themselves the Archive Team is working hard to save the Web that way it once was. Time to pack away the animated gifs, blinking text, and web rings into their own individual boxes, so that someday we can look back what was once considered, “cool” in web site design.
When it comes to copyright concerns, the idea isn’t to take credit or resell the content. At this time there are no plans for releasing the data, but in the future it might be rolled out for the world to look back upon.
You might have heard of Geocities in passing, however if you are new to the Web, or the way things once were – all this concern about a free hosting service might be a little confusing. So I figured, what better way to pay tribute to the web host that once was, than to give you a history lesson in Geocities.
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, Yahoo! Geocities has kicked the bucket, has ceased to be, and is no more. So what was Geocities, how did it fail, and what can be learned from Yahoo!’s past mistakes with this once popular free hosting brand name? I tribute this week’s show to the free web host that once was, rest in peace Geocities, after this edition of the Web Hosting Show.
Why Did Geocities Fail?
Did Shared Hosting Kill Geocities?
In 2008, according to a survey by Compete.com, the domain geocities.com attracted at least 177 million visitors annually. So with those numbers, how could they go wrong? You can not argue the point that the lowering in price of shared hosting accounts made the Geocities hosting look less favorable. Users could pay as low as $4 or $5 a month and get a lot more than they were getting from Geocities with a shared web hosting provider. Free hosting might be totally obsolete these days.
Did MySpace or Facebook Kill Geocities?
Many are even saying that Geocities could have easily evolved into a Facebook or MySpace. Looking back at the original Geocities, it was all about community and sharing your pages with others. This is much like it is today, except badly designed free sites have been replaced with goofy zombie versus pirates or mafia wars games.
Did Yahoo! Kill Geocities?
In 2001, Yahoo decided to start offering a “premium” version of the Geocities product. To give users something to pay for and upgrade to, they had to turn on the free hosting service. This is when they started to limit the monthly data transfer or bandwidth to the free Geocities users. Following that, Geocities was just another free hosting service. Nothing more.
Yahoo!’s overall feeling towards the Geocities free users was distain and disgust. They failed to realize or even try to turn the direction on the proverbial Titanic in front of them. Could Yahoo! of saved Geocities? Maybe they could have or possibly they could have killed it off sooner than now. However, at least then we would be left with a general feeling they at least tried.
Be sure to catch the rest of our Geocities Tribute on Podcast 186 of the Web Hosting Show!