Affiliate sign ups are a tools that many web hosts use to continue bringing people in the door, while rewarding the clients that bring in the most. Is it worth the trouble to sign up for these and will you earn any extra money? We’ll talk about that plus downtime tips, stat tracking help and suggestions for finding that new web host your looking for right here on the Web Hosting Show.
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Here are just a few topics from this week’s episode of the Web Hosting Show.
- Hosting Affiliates – Worth the Time and Money?
- What Should Web Hosts Do When There is Downtime?
- Suggestions for Tracking Your Web Site Stats!
- I am Impressed by cPanel 11! Should You Be?
- Find That New (and hopefully better) Web Host?
Time to sit around the proverbial campfire of web hosting learning and discuss some of this stuff that just doesn’t seem to make sense. From web hosts to web hosting clients I look to make everybody happy here.
I have to say I am pretty excited about the upgrades coming to cPanel and WebHost Manager.
Time to open that proverbial Web hosting newspaper to see what all the hosting gurus around the world are talking about. I use a very complicated measurement of buzz to find the most important stories of the week. It involves lottery balls, midgets and other scientific stuff. Now that I have done all the heavy lifting, I can share with you the spoils of my hard work.
Did Mitch sell out? Yes, I did get another job and I am now working once again inside of the Web hosting industry, but I wouldn’t call myself a sell out.
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I might like to eat the stuff, but I do not like getting it in my E-mail inbox. Getting spam is nothing new to anybody who has spent five minutes on the World Wide Web. So what can Web hosts and Web hosting clients do to get less of it? I have a few things to say and a few tips to share, right here on the 66th edition of the Web Hosting Show.
Best 3 Hosting Control Panels
Since it does feel like that “best of the best” time with the Web Hosting Show’s two year birthday coming soon – I figured this might be a good time to look at what is out there with the control panels we all use on a daily basis in the Web hosting world.
Which are the best of the best? Well it took me a while, but I think I have narrowed down the list to three. The top three control panels in all of the Web hosting world.
cPanel
The folks at the cPanel Web site say, “cPanel is designed for the end users of your system and allows them to control everything from adding an removing E-mail accounts to administering MySQL databases.” The fact of the matter is though that they do that and so much more. Most often used on Redhat Linux based systems, cPanel provides support for over ten different flavors of Linux. There is no Windows or OSX versions yet however.
The interface is clean, with more options and features than you could shake a stick at. It is easy to see why they are the number one control panel used today. They do have several competitors though, chomping at the bit to take their space on the top of the mountain.
Plesk
Plesk is available for both Linux and Windows Web hosting servers. This alone gives them a little advantage over cPanel. Their interface looks much like Windows XP. You have all the soft colors and big icons that you would ever need. I have to give them credit though, because it does look great.
They have all the basic features that cPanel has as well. Good stuff indeed.
Helm
Now we have seen a lot of different Linux only control panels, but what about a Windows only one? That is one thing that Helm provides to the end consumer. There are many customer features to go on and on about, but how does it feel once you get on the inside?
It has the standard pretty interface, nothing new there. These control panels are built to be used over and over, so they have to be easy on the eyes. One thing that did get my attention is the ability to see your billing information inside the control panel. That is very nice indeed.
Agree? Disagree? Give me your thoughts – leave a comment and let me know your opinions and other choices for your own dream team of Web hosting control panels.
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