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Domain Name Shopping 101

Jan/12 in All Posts, Specials

Last week I talked to you about picking the perfect domain name, now this week I am going to teach you how to shop for that domain name in the wide market of choices you have available. Shopping for the domain name of your dreams is sometimes just as confusing and as hard as picking a domain name. There are a few things you should keep in consideration and a few questions you should ask yourself as you shop.

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Before you even start shopping online, you need to stop and think. Let us say you already have your Web hosting for this domain. Now the first question you have to ask yourself is do you want to buy your domain name through your Web host or through a separate domain name register. Continue Reading →

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Picking the Perfect Domain Name

Jan/05 in All Posts, Specials

There are a lot of aspects that come into play when you talk about domain names. What are the best ones out there? How do you know which one is right for you? How should you shop for one? Well over the next four weeks, I hope to answer a lot of your questions every single Thursday right here on the Web Hosting Show. As part one of this four part podcast series, I thought I’d talk about picking the perfect domain name.

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So how do you pick the perfect domain name of your dreams? Well a lot of that has to do with what you want your Web site to be about. Some people might argue with me on this point, but I am a big believer in having keywords in your domain name. Keywords that are associated with the idea behind the Web site. Continue Reading →

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Mitch’s Four Holiday Hosting Wishes

Dec/15 in All Posts, Specials

Usually when the holidays start rolling around, everybody makes a wish list of what they would like to get. From new clothes to the newest gadgets, there are a lot of things covered by a lot of people. My holiday wish list is a little different. My wish list is pointed directly to the Web hosting industry in hope that they might listen and change. I don’t want them to change just for me, I want them to change to make the Web hosting world better for each and every one of you as well.

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4. I wish for GoDaddy.com to offer a better Web hosting experience.

I have been nothing but disappointed with my hosting experience at GoDaddy.com. I had heard good things from folks in the past about it, so I had to try it out to see what all the fuss was about. I will give them a little credit, as far as bandwidth, disk space and uptime goes, I am very happy. Where I have a problem is the control panel and missing features. The control panel that GoDaddy.com uses sucks, there is no denying that. It is one thing to rule a market, it is another thing to be the best thing in the market. GoDaddy.com might be on the way to ruling the virtual Web hosting world, but they are by far not the best option out there. Continue Reading →

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Web Host Magazine’s Best of the Web – November 2005

Dec/01 in All Posts, Specials

I’m not the only guy out there finding the best the Web hosting world has to offer you. One of my favorite resources for new and exciting Web hosting related Web sites is Web Host Magazine and Buyers Guide’s editors’ choice awards. The editors over there have made a few picks for November, so I thought I’d share my opinions on these top picks.

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We have five Web site to take a look at this time around, so lets go ahead and get things started. Continue Reading →

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Web Server Collocation – The Good, Bad and Ugly

Oct/27 in All Posts, Specials

When is the right time to work with a data center and when is the right time to just go through a Web host instead? There are a lot of questions surrounding collocation in the Web hosting industry, and hopefully I can get more than a few of them answered for you today.

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I got an E-mail from a Web Hosting Show listener the other day. Shane wanted to know what I thought about Web server collocation. When you should do it, when you shouldn’t do it and so on. So here we go. Continue Reading →

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Best Webmail 101 Tutorial & Podcast

Oct/13 in All Posts, Specials

E-mail is something we all get and soon we will not be able to exist without it. In the time we live in today it is becoming more and more important to have a place to be reached on the Internet. At one time, being able to check your E-mail through a client, like Outlook Express, was enough.

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Well that was then, and this is now. The new quick way to keep up to date with your Web hosting ways is Web Mail. Web mail is an a way to check your E-mail without ever leaving your browser of choice. Looking much like Hotmail, Yahoo Mail or Gmail, Web Mail is usually offered as a part of your Web hosting package at purchase of a Web hosting plan. Continue Reading →

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Four Questions for Your Future Web Host

Sep/29 in All Posts, Specials

Web hosting is a difficult and confusing business to get yourself into, but sooner or later just about everybody thinks about starting a Web site for themselves. No mater if you are starting up a Web site for your child’s baseball team or for your own corporate business, the things you need to look for to succeed are them same for all.

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Here are a few things to consider asking any Web hosting company you feel is worthy of having you as a client. Continue Reading →

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Web Hosting Download – PSPad | Free Text Editor

Sep/15 in All Posts, Specials

For this week’s Thursday Web Hosting Show segment I thought I would feature one of my new favorite downloads that would be perfect out there for any Web hosts or Web hosting clients that might be listening. The name of the program is PSPad and I have to say it is the best program for Web page editing that I have ever used.

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The thing that separates PSPad from all of the other text editors and FTP clients out there is that it is one program that does both! Yeah, you heard it right, this bad boy both edits Web pages and uploads them to the server as soon as you save. Continue Reading →

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Get Google News Hosting Alerts

Sep/08 in All Posts, Specials

It is really easy to stay on top of the Web hosting world by using Google news. Here is how it is done in 60 seconds! The Web Hosting Minute has returned!

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Google is a great news source. Sure it has a few problems, but what doesn’t these days? Continue Reading →

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Podcast Special – Web Hosting Show E-mails

Sep/01 in All Posts, Specials

I figured this would be as good of a time as any to go through some of the Web Hosting Show’s E-mails. From the good, the bad and the ugly, I have seen just about every kind of suggestion, feedback, question and comment you could imagine. If you want to do the same, feel free to do so at mitch@mitchkeeler.com. Now let us get to answering some of these E-mails.

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Our first question comes from Dominick via Hotmail: Continue Reading →

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