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Web Hosting Job Hunting Guide (Part 2) – Episode 195

Podcast #195 Back in 2007, I put together a job hunting guide for people who wanted to come in and work in the web hosting industry.  Now, several years down the road I thought I would revisit this topic, and help those who don’t have many resources for help, the web hosting independent contractors out there.  Think you have what it takes to become remote, or would you simply like to know what the heck that means?  You should stay tuned, and listen to this week’s edition of the Web Hosting Show.

Download the Web Hosting Show, Episode 195!
Running Time: 13 minutes | File Size: 5.99 MB

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

  • How to Find a Job in the Web Hosting World
  • What is an Independent Contractor in Web Hosting?
  • Remote Workers Should Not be Overworked!
  • 10 Reminders for Web Hosting Remotes

Hope you enjoy this second take a question I know a lot of you have, how to get a job in web hosting, and advice for those of us who already work in this great industry.  Remember, you can always leave your questions, feedback or comments on this very page, or send it to me at mitch@mitchkeeler.com.  Enjoy the show!

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Cloudy With a Chance of Web Hosting – Episode 194

Podcast 194 Time to gather around the web hosting campfire to tell tales of data centers, collocation and the mysteries of the customer service representatives that will eat your brains.  Ok, honestly – web hosting isn’t really that scary, but this podcast does serve a purpose of making all the lingo make a little more sense.  Web hosts and clients alike, get read for the 194th edition of the Web Hosting Show podcast.

Download the Web Hosting Show, Episode 194!
Running Time: 10 minutes | File Size: 4.80 MB

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

  • What is FTP and how do you use it?
  • A great domain scoring web site resource!
  • What is so bad about collocation hosting?
  • How to take better web site screenshots!

Here is this week’s web hosting news headline:
Brinkster Launches URL ShortenerWeb hosting provider Brinkster announced this week that it has launched a new URL shortening service it is calling br.st!, throwing its hat into an already quite well-served market associated with several of the most popular social networking services.

Bonus! Check out br.st and see if it is better than the rest!

Trivia Question – True or false, Brinkster’s CEO Jared Stauffer is on Twitter.  (to find out the answer, be sure to download and listen to this week’s podcast!)

Tons of fun and useful tools packed into this week’s show.  Don’t forget to leave your feedback in the comments or contact me anytime at mitch@mitchkeeler.com.  Also, if your like what you hear, and you want to get more subscribe to our RSS feed (it is free to do!) so you never miss another post, interview or podcast!

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Top 10 Reasons Your Site Isn’t Working – Episode 193

Web Hosting Podcast #193 Are you wondering to yourself, why is it that my web site isn’t working? Why is my web site down? Is my web site down or is it me? These are questions I hear in the hosting industry day after day, year after year. I have heard them so many times, and seen so many reasons for the problems in question I have been able to compile a list of the top ten reasons why your web site is not working.

So that, my hosting homies, is the topic of today’s show.

Download the Web Hosting Show, Episode 193!
Running Time: 10 minutes | File Size: 4.67 MB

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This week on the podcast we will be covering the top ten reasons why your web site is not working. So without further interruption, let us take a dive into these troubling web site problems.

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Having My Own HostingCon – Episode 192

whs192 I’m not here to save the day.  I’m not here to change the face of web hosting.  So what am I here for?  I am here to help.  Help you learn more about the web hosting world in a podcast. All that I ask is for around 10 to 15 minutes of your time and I promise you will walk away at least knowing something you didn’t know before.  Let’s have our own hosting conference, me, you and hundreds of our closest friends.

Download the Web Hosting Show, Episode 192!
Running Time: 12 minutes | File Size: 5.29 MB

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

  • Was I Snubbed by HostingCon?
  • How Should Web Hosts Adapt to the Social Web?
  • How to Create a .htaccess File
  • How to Install a WordPress Plugin
  • Dead Body Pose Bring Stress Relief to Web Hosting Workers
  • Why I Don’t Do Web Hosting Reviews!

Here is this week’s web hosting news headline:
HostingCon Kicks OffMedia company iNET Interactive will host HostingCon 2009, the premier conference and trade show, at Washington, D.C.’s Gaylord National Resort on August 10 to 12.

Trivia Question – True or false, Tucows started in 1993? (to find out the answer, be sure to download and listen to this week’s podcast!)

Hope you enjoy this week’s podcast, and check out the archives where you are sure to find many more.  Also, if you have any feedback, comments or complaints – you can contact me at here.  Enjoy the show, and share it with your friends!

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Web Hosting with Tom – Episode 191

whs191I have web hosting advice, tips, tutorials and more for everybody.  From those CEOs that get the big comfy chairs in the high-rises across the country the common web hosting man (or woman) on the street.  No matter if you are starting your first web site, or your running you hundredth web site, join us now for a little web hosting education and entertainment.

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Running Time: 15 minutes | File Size: 6.53 MB

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

  • Using Proxy Sites to Troubleshoot Web Site Downtime
  • At Least One Mention of Burt Reynolds
  • 5 Common HTTP Errors (to watch out for)
  • Why You Should Not Host Your Own Videos
  • Forgotten Negatives about Cloud Hosting

Here is this week’s web hosting news headline:
4th Annual cPanel Conference Coming Soon!
-The 4th Annual cPanel Conference will take place this year October 5th, 6th and 7th. This conference is designed to help your hosting business maximize profitability, achieve total automation, and exponentially expand your knowledge base. (Got to toss my plug in for my fellow Texans at cPanel)

Trivia Question – Which big Texas city does cPanel call home? (to find out the answer, be sure to download and listen to this week’s podcast!)

Thank you for checking out, listening to or listening to the show this week.  Please be sure to comment and leave your thoughts and feedback about today’s show.  Also, be sure to watch the web site throughout the next two weeks as we post more about what was mentioned on today’s broadcast.

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The Webhostinator – Episode 190

whs190 I can see it now, a cybernetic system administrator being sent from the year 2029 to warn us all about the impending doom that will happen if you do not listen to this week’s edition of the Web Hosting Show.  If you skip this week’s podcast, the army of artificially intelligent computer-controlled machines bent on the extermination of the human race will win.  You wouldn’t want to be the one responsible, would you?

Download the Web Hosting Show, Episode 190!
Running Time: 13 minutes | File Size: 5.80 MB

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

  • What is Cloud Hosting?
  • Balloon Animals Take Over
  • Choosing a Web Site Host
  • 3 Uncommon Seats for Your PC Desk
  • Web Hosting Bomb Shelters!
  • Should Web Hosts Twitter?

Here are this week’s web hosting news headlines:

Server Farm: Your Place or Mine?In an era of growing insecurity, having your computer equipment tucked into a hole 85 feet underground has a certain appeal.  That’s the selling point of Underground Secure Data Center Operations (USDCO), a server farm located in an abandoned gypsum mine near Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Trivia Question – Which one of these is NOT a web hosting conference? (to find out the answer, be sure to download and listen to this week’s podcast!)

Sweet server genie, I promise not to let this much time pass again before I get a new show out to you.  I hope you download it, enjoy it, and pass it around to your friends.  Feel free to leave your thoughts, reviews and feedback in the comments or drop me an e-mail at mitch@mitchkeeler.com.

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Hosting Podcast Gone Wild – Episode 189

Podcast #189Not to sound like an over-hyped sales man, but we do have a great show for you today. From ten of the best free web site hosting solutions, to news about web hosts being attacked because of their relationships with torrents it is like a bonanza of web hosting news, tips, and tutorials you can not do without. The Web Hosting Show is now on the air and ready for download.

Download the Web Hosting Show, Episode 189!
Running Time: 11 minutes | File Size: 4.89 MB

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Here are just a few topics from this week’s episode: (click a link to read about that segment!)

Here are this week’s web hosting news headlines:

Largest Datacenter in the US to be Built in TexasDallas-based Capstar Commercial Real Estate Services is investing millions of dollars to redevelop a former telecommunications equipment plant in Mesquite, Texas into what it says will be the largest data center in the country, according to a report by the Dallas News.

Trivia Question – What “celestial based” web host calls Texas its home? (to find out the answer, be sure to download and listen to this week’s podcast!)

I hope you fully enjoy this week’s podcast. If you have any show feedback or suggestions be sure to leave a comment or drop me an e-mail at mitch@mitchkeeler.com.  Enjoy it, share it and listen again and again!

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Fast Reseller Hosting – Episode 187

Podcast #187A leader in the world of reseller hosting services; Fasthosts is not only flexible, they are fast too. Joining us on the show today is Steve Holford, the Chief Marketing Officer for Fasthosts Internet Inc. So what separates Fasthosts from the other reseller hosting options you might have?  What can you learn from them?

Those questions, and many more, will be answered for you on this week’s edition of the Web Hosting Show.

Download the Web Hosting Show, Episode 187!
Running Time:
5 minutes | File Size: 2.14 MB

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Here are some of the questions we will cover in today’s interview:

  • Why does Fasthosts centralize around reseller hosting?
  • What is the biggest misconceptions about reseller hosting?
  • What unique reseller hosting tools does Fasthosts provide?
  • What is the history behind Fasthosts?
  • Is reseller hosting a good way to make some money?

Also here are a few resources you might want to check out after listening to the interview:

Thanks to Steve for joining us on today’s show. If you would like to come onto the show to talk to the entire hosting industry about what you do, how you host or anything else be sure to drop me a line at mitch@mitchkeeler.com.

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Saying Goodbye to Geocities – Episode 186

Podcast #186Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, Yahoo! Geocities has kicked the bucket, has ceased to be, and is no more.  So what was Geocities, how did it fail, and what can be learned from Yahoo!’s past mistakes with this once popular free hosting brand name?  I tribute this week’s show to the free web host that once was, rest in peace Geocities, after this edition of the Web Hosting Show.

Download the Web Hosting Show, Episode 186!
Running Time: 13 minutes | File Size: 5.58 MB

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

  • A History Lesson in Geocities
  • Saving Geocities for Future Generations
  • Alternatives to Geocities
  • What Can Be Learned from Geocities

Trivia Question – How many years old is Geocities?(to find out the answer, be sure to download and listen to this week’s podcast!)

Feel free to share your favorite (or maybe not so favorite) Geocities memories in the comments!

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Blazing Web Hosts – Episode 185

whs185 Time to hop back in the saddle and find out what is going on across this great web hosting land of ours.  From the Web Hosting Talk hack aftermath to the first all virtual hosting conference and everything in between we have a podcast here you should all get a kick out of.  So get listening, and join in on the fun!

Download the Web Hosting Show, Episode 185!
Running Time: 13 minutes | File Size: 5.94 MB

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

  • What is the nofollow Link All About?
  • Find Out Who is Copying Your Content
  • Compare Linux Dedicated Servers and Deals
  • Best Way to Find Web Hosting Coupons
  • First All Virtual Web Hosting Conference is Coming

Here are this week’s web hosting news headlines:

  • Credit Cards Compromised in WHT HackDedicating this week’s news segment to more coverage on the webhostingtalk.com hack, the recent announcement that credit cards were compromised and what you need to do to protect yourself.

Trivia Question – The first version of the Apache web server was created by whom? (to find out the answer, be sure to download and listen to this week’s podcast!)

Hope you enjoy this week’s broadcast.  Thank you all for tuning in!

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