So you want to gain a little more information about your FeedBurner powered feed?  There are several free tools from around the Web that will allow you to do just that.  Here are three out there that Google hasn’t provided to FeedBurner users yet.

Blog Perfume’s Feed Analysis

With the toolset that Blog Perfume is providing, you can see some details statistics on just about any FeedBurner feed.  You can see the number of subscribers per month, the hits, subscribers and views from a day to day basis, the number of subscribers depending on the day of the week, and more.

Example: Web Hosting Show’s Feed Information for the Past 6 Months

Yoast’s Feed Circulation Graphs

Yoast takes a simpler approach and just gives you a graph based on the number of subscribers that you have.  Type in your feed name (what follows after the feeds.feedburner.com/) the time frame and the width of the graph.

Example: Web Hosting Show’s Subscription Number Graph for 6 Months

Feed Compare

This one might be my favorite of them all.  Feed Compare takes your subscription numbers and compares them with anybody else who uses FeedBurner to power their RSS feeds.  You can give it up to four feeds to compare too.  You can view stats for up to 1 month to 24 months, so there should be no concern about getting the big picture when it comes to this alternative FeedBurner stats tools.  For example, you can see the Web Hosting Show’s RSS feed and The WHIR’s RSS feed are pretty close in comparison.

Example: Web Hosting Show’s RSS Feed vs The WHIR’s RSS Feed

For many of these tools, you must have awareness API turned on for your feed in question.  If your trying to look at data from somebody else’s feed, and you get an error - this is probably the reason why.

Not just any podcast, the Web Hosting Show is back this week for episode 165. What is lined up for this week’s broadcast across the web hosting world? Well we have a little scam brewing with one domain name register, and we also have a lot of handy FeedBurner tools I bet you didn’t know existed.

All that and a bucket of chicken on this week’s edition of the Web Hosting Show.

Download the Web Hosting Show, Episode 165!
Running Time: 13 minutes | File Size: 5.66 MB

Here are just a few topics from this week’s episode:

• How to Read Bad Hosting Reviews
• Domain Hijacking, Not for Gangsters
• Best FeedBurner Analysis Tools
• Free Performance, Availability and Traffic Monitoring

Here are this week’s web hosting news headlines:

• Google to Build Data Centers that Float?
• EstDomains.com Involved in Hundreds of Online Scams?
• Hostway Gives Away More Apple iPhones
• GoDaddy Races Sing This Song, Doo-dah! doo-dah!

Web hosting world, you had better get ready cause we got yet another great podcast from pillar to post to share with all of you. Give a download, listen to it, and let me know what you think!

With both paid and free versions, Site24×7.com looks to be a great web site monitoring package.  They do monitoring of uptime and performance of your web sites, online services and servers.  They also promise to deliver instant alerts the moment something goes wrong.

You can set the monitoring tools to check the web site in question you wish to monitor in intervals ranging from 5 to 60 minutes or above.

If the worst might happen, and you need to be told, here are the various ways they can alert you to trouble:

• E-mail
• RSS
• SMS Messages

For those of you just wanting to beta test the service; when you first sign up, you are given a fully functional, 15-day trial account. At the end of 15 days, your account will be downgraded to free unless you upgrade to either Standard or Premium account.

Check out the screenshots, then give them a shot at Site24×7.com.

We hear everyday about new web projects that are starting up, and becoming popular and maybe even you too have an idea of what the Web’s next big thing will be.  The problem is, where do you get the cash to get started?

Ask for Money from Strangers

One way you could go is ask for donations.  If you have a current web site, dropping in a PayPal donate button might be a good way to go.  This way people can give what they want to give to help you out.  Chances are, unless you are really popular - this might not best way to go.  People don’t give away money very easily.

Beg Your Family and Friends for Cash

Another route would be to borrow the money from somebody else.  Look for a friend or family member that is loaded, and beg them the for money.  If begging doesn’t work, then tell them they will get their money back as soon as you can get it back to them.  Maybe even offer an investment bonus back to them, so they feel like they are getting something out of the deal.

Save the Money Up Yourself

Last method for fundraising I have is take it out of your own pocket.  You could pick up a few extra jobs, so you have a little more money in hand or you could set back a little cash from each paycheck till you have reached the amount of money you need to start.  This way might take longer, but you don’t owe anybody anything and it gives you plenty of time to plan you project out before spending a penny.

On today’s edition of the podcast I am going to teach you how to get your dollar’s worth in many different ways.  Do you really need to spend extra cash to add JSP to your hosting account?  Get four money free ways to search the file hosts out there.  All that and so much more on this penny pinching edition of the Web Hosting Show.

Download the Web Hosting Show, Episode 164!
Running Time: 11 minutes | File Size: 5.20 MB

Here are just a few topics from this week’s episode:

• Ever heard of JSP? What is it?  What Can it Do for Me?
• 4 More Ways to Search Rapidshare, Megaupload and More!
• Fundraising to Get Cash for Your Next Web Project
• Web Site Monitoring with Site24×7.com

Here are this week’s web hosting news headlines:

• Limelight Networks Does Work for the Wii
• UK Web Host Replacing Old Machines
• VeriSign Takes the Role of “Captain Obvious” and Says the Web is Growing

Can you name the man used in this week’s podcast graphic?

I felt like doing something a little different this week on the Web Hosting Show.  So instead of your usual podcast - I decided to put my artist cap on and design a few custom folders for a few web hosts out there.

One problem I have run into going from web host to web host is I never have the right folder icon to put all the work I have done for them in one spot.  With these beauties though, that is no longer an issue.

Download Web Host Folders - Volume 1 (.zip)

The web hosts in this collection are:

• Lunarpages.com
• BlueFur.com
• 1and1.com
• HostGator.com
• SurpassHosting.com

I have packed inside the zip file both .ico and .png versions of each folder.

These would also be great for web hosts to distribute to their customers, so that the clients of the web host in question have a special icon they can use to decorate their folder they put all their hosting stuff into.  Whatever reason you wish to use it, these are yours to use.  Feel free to share, give away, distribute as you wish.  The only thing I ask for in return is that you subscribe the the Web Hosting Show’s RSS feed.

Want more?  Let me know!

How would you like to be able to gain a ton of information about a web site, right from the status bar in Firefox?

ShowIP, an add-on for the Firefox browser, will deliver you not only the current IP address of a web site but a lot more helpful tools as well.  By left-clicking on the IP address in your status bar, you can select to:

• copy to clipboard
• whois lookup at whois.sc and dnsstuff.com
• test timing
• traceroutes
• trace the IP to the country of origin

Additionally you can copy the IP address to the clipboard.  If you need a tool to help you work with IP addresses and locations (as I know many web hosting workers out there do) this might be a good extension for Firefox to try.

You can pick it up on the Firefox add-on’s web site (just search for ShowIP).