With the word that Geocities would be closing, “sometime in 2009” many of the Geocities users are looking for other places to host their content.  Even though Geocities is closing the door on it’s free hosting, there are still many free hosting alternatives to Geocities.
Free Hosting – Two free web site elders that might [...]

Have you found the web hosting company you are interested in, however haven’t yet sealed the deal, because the price is still not within your budget?  I have a quick and easy tip for you that will get you the price you want.  All you have to do is know how and where to find [...]

The holiday season might have just started, but for some web hosts out there – they must really be in the Christmas spirit.  Either that, or they have started to over indulge a little early in the eggnog.  Web hosts passing out bargains like candy can only mean one thing, more web hosting deals [...]

We are all looking for something for nothing, and when you mention that phrase in the web hosting world, it can only mean one thing.  Free web hosts.  Now I don’t often recommend free web hosts to people, cause you never know when they might fall off the radar – and take your web site [...]

You have seen the deals out there all of your life.  They are for “a limited time only!” or “the special weekend offer”.   These are what I would call “today’s special” marketing pitches to your customers or soon to be customers.  I am amazed though that more web hosts are not taking advantage of this [...]

Bringing the hosting world together in an all you can eat buffet of excitement, we have Ben Welch-Bolen on today’s show to share a little more information about the Hosting Industry Organization.
That isn’t all though, but this intro is running a little long.  Only other thing I am telling you right now is the [...]

We are all hurting for cash these days, so anything that will save us money is definitely a good thing.  I want you to pull up your latest hosting bill.  How much was it?  Did you know you might be able to bump it down even further than it already is?   Here are a [...]

Here is a little advice.  Web hosts don’t like it when you upload 5GB worth of personal backups on your web site hosting account.  Caught the discussion on this in a couple of places so thought I might weigh in from the web host’s side of things.
Now why shouldn’t you use your web hosting disk [...]

A few week’s back there was a news story not many made much out of happening that I though I could at least mention here.  Hostopia will pay $1.6 million in cash for Tucows shared hosting assets.
That includes approximately 14,000 Domain Direct, NetIdentity ItsYourDomain.com customer accounts.
That is a ton of cash changing hands.  One [...]

Now if you listen to the podcast here, you are more than likely more knowledgeable than the average Joe on the street about web hosting. One question I see come up a lot for hosting insiders or web designers that have friends and clients who need a place to host is which way should [...]