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For remote web hosting technicians, trying to remember what time it is where your business is located can be a pain. Thankfully, I have an easy to remember bookmark that should save you both trouble and time when it comes to remembering when that next big meeting is for you and for your boss who lives across the country.
This bookmarklet is perfect for anybody who spends any time working on web site layouts. XRAY is used to see the box model for any element on a web page. It will dim the area not selected, and give you statistics such as the CSS id or class assigned to it, the interface hierarchy, and the CSS code assigned to that section.
So, if I was going to start looking for a web hosting job, where would I turn to? Well, there are three resources you should keep in mind. You have the web host themselves, the web hosting forums out there, and special job hunting resources that will list for you spots available with a number of different web hosting companies.
Find Jobs at the Web Host
Some web hosts will look for contracted workers in their own user base, so that is something to keep in mind. If you want to go work for one specific web host, join their user forums and help out as much as you can. See if you can become friendly with the current staff, and let them know if there is a spot available, you would like to be the one to fill it. Many web hosts also have “employment” pages up with positions that are open in the company.
Find Jobs on the Web Hosting Forums
Web hosting forums are another place to look for web hosting related jobs. One of the most popular out there would be the Employment Offers and Requests section over at WebHostingTalk.com. Other web hosting forums may have equally as helpful resources too, to start looking for a new web hosting job.
Find Jobs on the Web Hosting Employment Resources
Be sure to check out the web sites that specialize in advertising web hosting jobs too. One of the more popular job boards for web hosting positions is webhostingjobs.com. Run by the same staff the control TheWHIR.com, they have a lot of jobs listed for local and remote positions.
Don’t get discouraged if you get turned down by the first web host you try to get a job with. Just go to the next one on the list, or try to ask around at several web host if they have any spots available for you as a local technician or remote contracted worker.
Looking for a new site to measure the effectiveness of your web site in a number of different ways? BuildStats.com will give you all kinds of details about your domain, or any domain name out there from around the Web.
Some of the statistics included are:
Using tools like this will help you determine where you might need to spend more time working on your web site. For example, if your web site is not the popular across the social sites, you might look into seeing what needs to be done to get your domain mentioned there more.
BuildStats.com is a handy domain scoring tool that you should keep handy.
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.
Free Hosting – Two free web site elders that might someday share the same fate as Geocities are still around. Both Angelfire and Tripod are still around. Here are a few more to choose from:
Specialized Hosting – For those people wanting to host their own blog, you might look into wordpress.com and their free blog hosting service. If you want to get started with a forum, check out freeforums.org.
Shared Hosting – For those people moving from Geocities to another location, it might also be time to look into shared hosting plans. There are many low-cost web hosting plans out there to choose from, and they will give you much more disk space, bandwidth and resources to work with.
One more place to check out for free hosting suggestions would be TheFreeSite.com. Hey have a lot of suggestions when it comes to free web site hosting.
Have a free favorite host you would like to plug? Leave a comment!
BONUS! Here are a few other Geocities alternatives:
If you find any more, let me know!
Be sure to catch the rest of our Geocities Tribute on Podcast 186 of the Web Hosting Show!
Looking for an easy way to compare Linux-based dedicated servers and deals? Look no further than your friendly HostMonk. This relatively new service gives you a number of different options to search from to find the perfect dedicated hosting environment for your needs.
You can sort the dedicated hosting offers by:
ManagementThe HostMonk web site was founded by a group of IT professionals who found themselves spending way too much time sifting through hosting plans to find the best deal. So what did they do, they built a tool that helps you sort dedicated web hosts more easily.
Here is more on why and how they think they are different in comparison with other web host ranking tools:
Choosing a hosting service is a decision that will affect the way you work and impact your customers’ experience. The choice should not be made on the basis of which provider buys the largest banners or spends more money getting your attention. The choice should be made according to the facts.
HostMonk is committed to bringing you a thorough index of the world of hosting services. We present the facts for you to make your decision. What you see is impartial, based on the cold hard facts with nothing added or removed.
The beta web hosting tool currently compares 2,901 different dedicated hosting plans. Go check it out at HostMonk.com.
Do you know who CopyGator is? He’s catching duplicate content and plagiarism in and around the blogosphere. Always keeping an eye on your content, the CopyGator service is an interesting one to use if you feel like others are stealing your works.
How Does CopyGator Work?
The service aggregates data from other two million blog feeds, and parses over a half million blog posts in a day. The servers then crunch the data and are able to evaluate if one post resembles another post just a little too much. Once you sign up, you can get notices by RSS feed, or e-mail when somebody is using your content without your permission. The service is simply fast, simple and pretty darn accurate, to boot.
You can see an example report I got for webhostingshow.com here:
When you compare the blog posts from within CopyGator, you get a percentage score on how likely it is they copied you. For anybody who wants to protect their content online, CopyGator is a web site you just have to save to your bookmarks. For another alternative to web site plagiarism searching, also be sure to check out Copyscape.com. It also does a good job at catching online content thieves.
Google is working with hosting companies to offer quicker and easier access to their special tools and more via the Google Services for Web Sites service. This is great news for any web host looking to provide a little ‘bit more to their hosting customers. This is a win-win for everybody.
This is a great ‘bit of new for hosting customers who can have an easier one stop shop where they can get all their web site and web hosting tools. It also offers a perk to web hosting companies, cause they can draw people in by offering these services. Google is offering web hosts the ability to have quick and easy access to Google Webmaster Tools, Google custom and site search, and Google AdSense.
The perks for the web hosts are the ability to integrate these Google tools into their control panel, and display a Google badge to generate referral fees. To find a list of web hosts providing the service, check out their partner success stories. Some of the web hosts included are Dot5Hosting, eHost, FatCow, PowWeb, DomainHost and more.
I would highly suggest any web host interested, go check out the Google Services for Web Sites page and sign up to give your customers an easy, one-stop access to Google’s services for web sites.
If you have spent any time working with WordPress, and trying to customize it to make it your own, you know that finding the right tag for the right job is a pain at times. WPLookup.com allows you to quickly find WordPress Codex documentation for a function or template tag.
Once you search there, the web site will take your query and send you to the corresponding codex documentation page on the topic you searched for.
You can also add the search to your browser:
I am looking forward to seeing what this tool will bring to the WordPress development world in the future. If you need a way to find functions and template tags fast in WordPress, WPLookup is the place to start searching.
Out of all the domain name finder tools out there, DomainTyper might be the prettiest one, to date. The idea here is simple, type in a phrase, word or series of words you would like to register as a domain name. As you type you will see if the .com, .net, or .org versions of that domain (as far as you have typed it in) are available. You can also add other domain name extensions, if needed.
The fun doesn’t stop there though. They also give you a list of domain name hacks you can try. For example, when I typed in “Mitch” they suggested mit.ch and mitc/h as domain name hack alternatives. Down the left side of the page, they have the “Web 2.0 Domain Name Generator” which seems like nothing more than a wacky list of oddball names.
If you want to add the domain name lookup to your own site, they give you the code to embed it. Overall DomainTyper is a nice alternative if you are looking for another way to find your next domain name you wish to register.
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Mitch Keeler is nothing more than your average Joe trying to leave his mark on the world though both his professional work and his online projects, articles, podcasts and more.
