Now, I have no problem with a tribe of people having to kill an elephant to survive and grow their crops and the like.  That really isn’t the issue here.  The problem with what Bob Parsons is done is he has gone off the very tacky deep end. Not only did he shoot the elephant, he had to film it and put it to music. 

This has been a huge public relations nightmare for GoDaddy, and I am sure they are searching for more GoDaddy girls to make the sour taste of this whole story go away.

So how much of clueless moron does a CEO have to be before they start to lose customers?

A number of competitors have jumped at the chance to take some of GoDaddy’s customers who no longer wish to do business with them. 

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.

It was not too long ago that people picked cPanel because it was pretty much the standard when it comes to web hosting control panels.  It might not have been the prettiest or the best, but it got the job done.  For Pete’s sake, it has been around since 1997 – so I would be willing to bet it is one of the oldest control panels out there too.

What is New with cPanel?

Over the past couple of years though, cPanel has gone beyond being the ugly old reliable control panel we have to use to the flexible and pretty control panel we want to use.  The cPanel website also offers much more when it comes to teaching you more about the company and the product.  Here are just a few of the more recent innovations you might not have seen yet:

• Webinars
  Join the technical marketing team and learn about product roadmaps, new features and topics you suggest. Hosted by David Grega and Mario Rodriguez
• Dev Blog
  Are you integrating your application with cPanel? Read tips, discussions, and how to’s related to integration, API’s, and tools by cPanel developers!
• News
  Catch the latest happening at cPanel ranging from software updates, press releases and general talk about the industry in the news section.
• Podcast
  Listen to cPanel technical writer Lindsey White as she discusses web hosting and interviews industry superstars.
• Social Media
  Follow cPanel on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or the forums and become part of the 1000′s of followers that engage in these communities.
• Events
  Find out where the cPanel team will be at next. This include various conventions, events and seminars across the globe.

So if you haven’t spent some time on the cPanel website in a while, I recommend you go check it out today.  Both the “Interact” and “Support” areas are well worth your time.

What is your favorite memory of cPanel? Leave your thoughts in the comments!

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). 

I have a few personal and career situations to be worked out first, and in the long run this will be good news for one and all, because I am going back to spending more time with all my great, wonderful listeners right here.

So, with that said if you have any podcast suggestions or questions you would like for me to answer on the show, please be sure to use the Submit Your Questions form on WebHostingShow.com and also make sure you are subscribing to the RSS feed so you never miss a week’s episode.  It is free to do, easy to do and most of all important to do if you want to get all the great web hosting and web development related tips, tutorials and more that are featured here every day.

Thank you all for your continue support, and you will be hearing more from me (yes, very literal pun) next month.

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.

Here is a little ‘bit more about the project from the web site:

Although normally fiercely competitive, as members of the hosting community we know that the power we wield as a group is much more than we can wield individually. And so we’ve come together to help assist those affected by this disaster. With the generosity of all our combined customers, we hope to make a difference. And you can too. One dollar helps. One hundred dollars helps one hundred times more.

Any donations given through the web site go directly to the American Red Cross, and their web site and servers, so you know the donations you give are not going through a third party before they go to those who need it most.

If you are interested in donating, or learning more about this fantastic cause, be sure to check out HostingforHaiti.com.

Download the Web Hosting Show, Episode 196!
Running Time: 12 minutes | File Size: 5.38 MB

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!

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

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.

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.

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

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 Hack – Dedicating 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!

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.