The WHIR TV team has done a lot of great coverage for Web Hosting Day 2008. I thought I would share some of the content with you since you, much like myself probably were not able to attend the event.

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Web hosting is not an industry that only belongs to the northern half of the continental United States. I got a lot of grief on this show from time to time about my accent. I’m from Texas and proud of it though - so if that causes me to “talk a little funny” in your opinion then so be it.

There are many great southern people and companies that have made the web hosting business just a little better. So before you claim we are all beer drinking rednecks - maybe you should have a closer look.

Who Are These Southern Hosting People?

One of the most powerful publishers of the web hosting word is from down south. Ping! Zine, the web hosting magazine is based down in Louisiana. One of the biggest hosting providers out there today, the Planet is based in Texas. Another powerful web hosting firm down here in Texas is a little shop called Rackspace. C I Host would be yet another example of a big Texas-based hosting firm.

Now those are just a few of the big names. There are many more smaller names I could list - and this list could go on and on and on. One place where this topic was covered well was back in the March 2005 issue of the Web Host Industry review. If you haven’t seen that issue yet, I would recommend you check it out.

The Web Hosting World is for Everybody!

Do you get the point yet? Now I am not here to say that us funny talking southern people have claim on the reigns of the hosting world either. Truth be told, web hosting is a global market with a whole heck of a lot of funny sounding people.

This is a question I get asked a lot, should folks collocate their hosting servers or have them all in one spot. Now both have their advantages and disadvantages, so I’m not going to tackle every single argument you might here for one side or the other right here, right now.

First, for those of you who might not know what collocation is, let us put a definition with the word. Collocation is the placement of hosting servers in more than one location. Another good way to explain it would be to call it a service whereby a company that owns a server houses it in another company’s data center due to the greater security, stronger backbone or other technological reasons.

I am a big fan of collocation, so here is my most defining argument on why you should be a fan of it as well.

The advantage of having your servers more spread out is that if a natural disaster hits, or something else really bad it will not kill your entire network. Say you have data centers located in the north, south, east and west of the United States. If you southern data center goes out - that is only one forth of your business that is effected.

Disagree with me? I would love to hear more reasons for this and against it. Drop me an E-mail at mitch@mitchkeeler.com and let me know which side of the fence you are on.

+ Check Out the Podcast This Was From! Listen to the Web Hosting Show, Episode 95!

Many people put there servers in many different places. Is this a smart thing to do or is it a practice for only the paranoid among us?

Also listen to me rant and rave, and give you some advice about how to deal with those discussing maggots of the Web that steal your virtual content.

All of that plus a chance to get some free Web hosting right here on the Web Hosting Show.

Download the Web Hosting Show, Episode 95!
Running Time: 14 minutes | File Size: 6.17 MB

Here are just a few topics that we discussed on this week’s episode of the Web Hosting Show.

• Will the Term “Web Hosting” Go Away Soon?
• How Should You Deal With Content Theft?
• Should You Collocate Your Web Hosting Servers?
• Web Hosting Giveaway - Get Some Free Web Hosting!

The Web Hosting Show is back and is pulling no punches this week. How egotistical must a guy be to believe that folks would want to listen to him go on and on about the Web hosting world. Well hey, I am not one to call myself names but - you are listening aren’t you? From collocation to content theft - we have a lot of ground to cover on this week’s edition of the podcast.

Link of the Week: Inside ISPCON

We have seen Web servers in all shapes and sizes right here on the Web Hosting Show. How would you like to own your own oddball server? Now you can get your hands on your very own.

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The strange Web server in question this time around is the WebServUSB. If you haven’t guessed by now, it is an entire Web server crammed inside of a USB thumb drive. Read more »

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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Running Time: 4 minutes | File Size: 3.16 MB

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. Read more »

Web hosting servers, the size of a match head and learn how you could run your own hosting server out of your own house; this is the Web Hosting Show, podcast 27 and it is on the air.

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Running Time: 21 minutes | File Size: 4.92 MB

Hello, I am Mitch Keeler and welcome to the Web Hosting Show, the one and only voice of the Web hosting world. The Web Hosting Show is brought to you each and every week by the fine folks over at Web Hosting Chat. Web Hosting Chat is your number one place for Web hosting discussions. Read more »