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Your Shared Hosting Shopping List

When visiting some of the web hosting forums out there, it seems that everybody is asking the same question, and nobody else has realized this but a select few.  More times than not, somebody will have a list of four or five web hosts and then saying, “Which one is the best?”.  There is no [...]

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13 of My Favorite Hosting Interviews

Due to my PC being in bad shape, going to postpone recording this week.  Do not freat though, because I hate to leave anybody empty handed.  I have had a great collection of people on the podcast of the 3+ years.  My question is, have you heard them all? Here are some of my favorite [...]

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How to Sell Your Hosting Company – Episode 149

These are some questions for the web hosts out there. Are you ready to retire? Want to get out of the web hosting game to do something else? Well there are a lot of legal loopholes and dotted lines that need tending to first. How does one sell their web hosting company? I’ve got Errett [...]

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Updating Your Terms of Service

I received an e-mail from a soon to be web host the other day, and they asked: “How often should I look over my terms of service?” Most people think a terms or service and acceptable use policy are things that you should put up once and then forget about. We could not be further [...]

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Multiple Sites on One Hosting Account?

What is the best way to manage multiple web sites with only one hosting account? That is the question Diane e-mailed to me a little earlier this week, and there are a few different ways you could get this done. Here is Diane’s dilemma. I am a web designer and I have a bunch of [...]

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Twitter for Tech Support?

One question that I get from a multitude of web hosts is, “Are there any alternative methods to tech support that you know of?”. With everybody doing the standard e-mail, help desk and live chat support, people are looking for an alternative to give them an edge over the competition. After sitting here and giving [...]

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How to Create a Custom Google Search Engine

Related Podcast Link: Listen to Episode 123! Not every web site out there has the best search features. Heck, some of the web sites out there don’t have any way to search through them. When you have a web site or resource that you need to search often, trying to use the lame ways the [...]

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Screwed Up? Should Have Backed Up Instead!

Related Podcast Link: Listen to Episode 123! From time to time stupid things happen to good people. Now if that alone isn’t a good enough reason to backup your web site – I don’t know what is. I learned a very valuable lesson this past weekend when upgrading WordPress on all of my projects that [...]

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Free Layout Marketing

Related Podcast Link: Listen to Episode 119! When it comes to bringing in new folks into your web site you would be willing to try just about anything and everything, right? One thing that you might have not of considered is the idea of developing something for the public and then giving it away for [...]

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Starter Guide to Web Hosting

Over the last two and a half years I have covered a lot of topics that relate back to getting started with a web hosting account so that you can get your own web site off the ground. Here are some of the best of the best to help and newbie become a web hosting [...]

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