The web hosting world’s equivalent to the crazy old uncle is at it again. Bob Parsons, the many behind the brand at GoDaddy, recently got in trouble for shooting Elephants while on a trip in Zimbabwe. PETA along with many other critics are urging people to transfer their hosting and domain registrations elsewhere.
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Daily Tip: Don’t Kill Elephants
cPanel – Fresh, Bold and Fun Control Panel
If you ask just about anybody what control panel their web hosting account is using, nine times out of ten you are going to get cPanel as the response. While cPanel has always seemed to be the proverbial, “big daddy” when it comes to controlling hosting accounts – I do have to say the company has done a great job at sort of remaking its image to seem more up to date and awesome.
New Podcasts Coming in May!
Hello citizens of the web hosting world! I know as of late updates have been few and far between, but I come with good news. Rather than saying there will still be at least another week with no new podcast, I will say new podcasts will go back in production in May (next month, for those of you without a calendar handy).
Web Hosts Helping Haiti Victims
It is always a good thing when you can share some positive news about web hosts joining web hosts for a good cause. Hosting for Haiti is all about the biggest and brightest web hosting companies in the world coming together to support the victims of the earthquakes that happened in Haiti last month.
WHS Podcast Update
Just stepping in for a quick podcast update. I’ve been sick the past few weeks, hence no show production. Last two weekends I’ve had fever, so been trying to take it easy. Hopefully though, this weekend I’ll be back at 100% so I can get some recording done and some podcasts out to all of you. Once again, I apologize for the delays – however stay tuned, more podcasts will be coming sooner than you can say, “one man production team”.
Web Hosting Panic – Episode 196
In this week’s disaster inspired episode of the Web Hosting Show, we’ll take a look at how and why the H1N1 virus might take out the entire web hosting world as we know it, and five search engine optimization tips anybody can do, in the mean time. Before Armageddon comes, you need to listen to this very scary cold and flu edition of the Web Hosting Show podcast.
Download the Web Hosting Show, Episode 196!
Running Time: 12 minutes | File Size: 5.38 MB
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Here are just a few topics from this week’s episode:
- Over 3,000 Free CSS Web Design Templates!
- Will the Swine Flu Take Out the Internet?
- Is Web Hosting a Falling Trend on the Web?
- 5 SEO Tips You Can Do, Right Now!
Here is this week’s web hosting news headline:
ICANN Breaks Free from US Control – Internet regulation body ICANN and the US Department of Commerce announced last week that they have signed a new agreement that ensures that ICANN will now be “independent and not controlled by any one entity”.
Trivia Question – Where are the ICANN headquarters?
We are back yet again, with another great web hosting podcast for you all to enjoy. Remember, you can subscribe to the RSS feed to get daily updates on the topics we discussed on today’s podcast, or keep checking back at webhostingshow.com. Hope you enjoy the show this week, and if you do – drop in a comment and let us know!
The Webhostinator – Episode 190
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.
One Host Stands Up to Torrent Killing IFPI
It looks like after the people involved with the Pirate Bay web site were convicted of copyright infringement earlier this year, the IFPI is starting to threaten other torrent sharing sites by threatening their web hosts.
To give you a little more information about the key players here, the Pirate Bay, a torrent sharing web site, provides what you could call the “path” to be able to download copyrighted materials. The IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry) is the music industry’s lobby group who is doing some of their heavy handed grunt work when it comes to shutting down web sites like the Pirate Bay.
The new tactic here is that the IFPI are skipping over the web site owners and are now going directly to the web hosts who host the torrent web sites in question. They want to get the web hosts on a charge of assisting copyright infringement, which is a decision that has yet to be appealed.
There is one web host who has yet to given into the demands of the IFPI. The Swedish provider Portlane has filed a complaint in the Swedish Market Court. Now true, sharing copyrighted materials might be wrong, I will leave that judgment call up to you.
What is to be admired here is a small guy standing up against the establishment, showing the IFPI and the world that we should be a society who serves the people’s best interest and not the best interest of the one with the biggest wallet.
Big News! Podcast and Production Changes?
Ok, “big news” might be a ‘bit of an overstatement, but it did get you here, so that is good. After taking a few weeks to think it over – I have decided to move forward with a big change on how the Web Hosting Show podcast is produced.
Instead of doing a weekly show, like we have now for the past four years, the main podcast will change to a production time of ever other week. So this will roughly average two shows per month, instead of four.
Now why make the change? The first and most important reason is so that I can be sure I am giving myself enough time to get a quality show together. Slapping things together last minute, and trying to hurry up and get it done is no fun. The idea is by giving myself a two week window of production, instead of just one, I can spread out the workload on myself a little more.
Who knows, this might even launch or inspire some more unique content between the podcast episodes. I am always open to suggestions!
This site and podcast is very much still a fun side project for me. The only money I make off of it, is when you click the ads on the web site. Of course, four years ago I was unemployed and only had two web sites to work on. These days I am all over place with projects, work, and more.
So if things change a little in the weeks to come, don’t be scared – it is just an evolutionary track to make sure that even after four years we can keep this podcast and web site an entertaining and informative web site for everyone (web hosts and webmasters alike) to enjoy.
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Blazing Web Hosts – Episode 185
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:
Here are this week’s web hosting news headlines:
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!