Are you a web host looking for a cheap and effective way to expand your support services? Although some of us don’t like the phrase, “outsourced support”, the truth is it can be a very effective way to cheaply expand your hosting support team. CliffSupport is a technical support company that provides technical support, server [...]
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The Secret of Finding Unique Domains
The bookmarking service, del.icio.us started an entire trend of unique looking domain names that has continue to this day. Mixing domain names, with extensions (and sometimes tossing in a subdomain) has made for some memorable and unique domains. So what is the secret? There are two services that allow you to type in a phrase [...]
How Was That Web Site Made?
It happens from time to time. You see an amazing web site, and you ask yourself, “How was that web site made?”. Now, instead of hunting through the web site source code you can plug the domain name into this simple tool – and get all the information you need. BuiltWith.com is a perfect companion [...]
Find Secret Data Center Locations!
Not all tools have to be useful, that can just be fun to play with too. DataCenterMap.com is one of those geeky hosting tools you may just want to play with on a Sunday afternoon when you have some free time. As you can see, it is a big Google mash-up map with a ton [...]
Free Performance, Availability and Traffic Monitoring
There is a company out there providing for free, performance monitoring, availability monitoring, and traffic monitoring? Yes, there is. Mon.itor.us might have a silly name, but it delivers awesome and free monitoring tools for your web site. Here is how the web site describes the services they provide: We provides a “24 x 7″ network [...]
Best FeedBurner Analysis Tools
So you want to gain a little more information about your FeedBurner powered feed? There are several free tools from around the Web that will allow you to do just that. Here are three out there that Google hasn’t provided to FeedBurner users yet. Blog Perfume’s Feed Analysis With the toolset that Blog Perfume is [...]
Web Site Monitoring with Site24x7.com
With both paid and free versions, Site24x7.com looks to be a great web site monitoring package. They do monitoring of uptime and performance of your web sites, online services and servers. They also promise to deliver instant alerts the moment something goes wrong. You can set the monitoring tools to check the web site in [...]
4 More Ways to Search Rapidshare, Megaupload and More!
After the popularity of the first time I talk about some of the search engines for the most popular file hosting solutions out there (such as Rapidshare and Megaupload), we got a demand for people wanting more. As a man who like to deliver to people what they want, here are five more ways to [...]
Import POP3 Accounts into Gmail
For those of you who have your own POP3 e-mail account that came with your web hosting for your web site – would you like to import that mail into Gmail? Using Gmail’s Mail Fetcher, you can download messages from up to five other email accounts, centralizing all your e-mail in Gmail. First thing you [...]
LinkedIn Group Connects Hosting World
Connecting the massive amounts of people, from the server grunts to the high dollar CEOs of the hosting industry isn’t such a bad goal. Sure, it might be a big one but that is what the Hosting Industry Organization is looking to do. Based around what started as a group on LinkedIn.com, this project has [...]
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