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Hope in Hosting – Episode 177

Jan/19 in All Posts, Web Hosting Podcasts

Podcast 177I have great hope in the world of web hosting, that in the new year we can all make it a ‘bit of a better place. On today’s show I’ll let you know how you can do your part – just like I have every week before. Oh, and what can President Obama teach us about the industry?

I’ll be sure to cover that too on this week’s edition of the Web Hosting Show.

Download the Web Hosting Show, Episode 177!
Running Time: 13 minutes | File Size: 5.94 MB

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

  • How to Score 5GB of Free File Hosting!
  • How can Obama Inspire the Web Hosts Out There?
  • Three FAQs about SSL
  • Making Money with Google AdSense

Here are this week’s web hosting news headlines:

Please be sure to send any feedback, questions or comments about this week’s podcast to me directly at mitch@mitchkeeler.com or leave a comment! Would love to hear from you all!

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The WHIR Gets Redesigned

Jan/07 in All Posts, Hosting News, Web Hosting Tutorials

I just noticed that the WHIR has a totally redesigned web site.

The New WHIR?

Overall, I like the new look and feel of the layout.  It surely beats the old design, that looks like it was pulled right out of 1995.  However there are a few things that nag me.  Here are both the good and the bad about the new look for one of the more popular web hosting web sites out there.

The Positives

  • Lots more attention paid to the WHIR TV project and RSS.  Two things I am happy to see them highlighting.
  • No more black and white!  The colors they picked are a nice update to the old look without seeming like the entire thing is boring.
  • The membership feature is cool and a welcomed addition.

The Negatives

  • It is a little ad crazy.  Now I realize people have to make money as much as the next guy (that is why I have ads on my own web sites) however it seems a little like they were just tossed everywhere without much organization.
  • Some of the pages (jumping from section to section) change layouts so quickly, it is a little easy to get lost.  Maybe the inclusion of a breadcrumb trail at the top could help this.  Something like: (Front Page > Features > The Story Headline)

Overall, I would have to say they have done a fine job at the new paint job.  How do you feel about it?  Do you miss the old layout at all?  When was the last time you visited?  You can check it all out at theWHIR.com.

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Web Host Has Trouble Making Rent?

Dec/23 in All Posts, Hosting News, Web Hosting Tutorials

Even web hosts sometimes have a hard time making the rent it seems…

The problem started, when the web host IAS.net was evicted, leaving a number of businesses and non-profit organizations without hosting.  What a Christmas present, your web hosting goes out right for the holidays.  It turns out the web host had problems with late payment of rent, which lead to the owner of the building to cut them off.

A number of other web hosts chipped in and took over some of the the IAS.net clients for free – so it is nice to see some people in the web hosting industry are in the holiday spirit.

The next day, IAS.net fought back by saying they were not making payment to the landowner on purpose, due to poor upkeep of the building.  Reportedly the building had ongoing maintenance and black mold issues, which the property owners neglected to address.

So on one side you have the landlord who didn’t get paid, and on the other side you have the web host who was looking out for his workers.  Personally I can see the positives and negatives for both sides of the argument – however I think there should have been a more adult way to handle the entire situation.  It all comes off a ‘bit childish to me.

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Ho Ho Hosting – Episode 175

Dec/22 in All Posts, Web Hosting Podcasts

Podcast #175Tis’ the season to be jolly sure, but what about to learn about web hosting? Every season is the perfect one to do just that – so strap on your white beard and get ready to go caroling through the wild and wacky web hosting industry with me because the Web Hosting Show is now on the air.

Download the Web Hosting Show, Episode 175!
Running Time: 10 minutes | File Size: 3.84 MB

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

  • What Happens When Web Hosts Don’t Pay Rent?
  • See How Fast Your Page is REALLY Loading!
  • Roll Your Own Video Tutorials for Free!

Here are this week’s web hosting news headlines:

As the resident Santa Claus of the web host industry, I am here to give you your happy ho ho hosting gift. A free podcast, for you to enjoy. Beats a lump of coal, doesn’t it?

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One Flew Over the Web Host’s Nest – Episode 174

Dec/08 in All Posts, Web Hosting Podcasts

I am back in my chair with the microphone strapped to my head, so that only mean one thing. It is time to talk hosting from the free file hosting choices you have out there all the way down to GoDaddy’s lackluster marketing team. The Web Hosting Show is on the air and ready for download.

Download the Web Hosting Show, Episode 174!
Running Time: 12 minutes | File Size: 5.45 MB

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

  • What is Domain Sniping?
  • GoDaddy Shoots Super Bowl Commercial, and Fails to Raise the Bar
  • The List of The Greatest Web Hosts That Never Made It
  • 10 Alternatives to Free Rapidshare Hosting

Here are this week’s web hosting news headlines:

  • Aventure Host Launches Web Hosting Affiliate Program
  • Hivelocity Offers Customers Unlimited Bandwidth and Double the RAM

Yes, as of late – I have been on a movie-title themed podcast naming trend haven’t I? Well, I can’t promise Jack Nicholson, but I can promise you that listening to this podcast weekly will make the wacky and wild world of web hosting make a little more sense to you.

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Web Hosting Roller Coaster – Episode 173

Dec/01 in All Posts, Web Hosting Podcasts

Time to strap on your seat belt and get ready for the ride. We have high points, we have low points – we might even toss in a twist and a turn every one in a while. The greatest web hosting podcast known to man* has returned, and well, the Web Hosting Show is back on the air.

Download the Web Hosting Show, Episode 173!
Running Time: 16 minutes | File Size: 7.17 MB

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

  • Marketing Tips from Your Ugly Friend and a Cheese Sandwich
  • Your Shared Hosting Shopping List
  • Top 5 Holiday Deals from the Web Hosting World

Here are this week’s web hosting news headlines:

  • Daily.co.uk Giving Away Reseller Hosting
  • Lycos Europe Goes Down Under (and not to Australia)
  • Will Your Web Site Survive the Holiday Season?

Time to warm up the thanksgiving leftovers one more time, have a seat and enjoy a little talk, information, news and more on and about the wild and wacky world of web hosting. Hope everybody had a nice Thanksgiving break, and your ready for another award winning** web hosting podcast.

* – ok, maybe not the greatest ever, but who wants to listen to second best?
** – actual award winning content may vary!

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Wholesome Hosting Entertainment – Episode 172

Nov/17 in All Posts, Web Hosting Podcasts

Time to gather the family around the iPod, computer, or wherever you may be listening to me at and find out what is going on inside and outside of the web hosting world we all know and love. Grandma grab the popcorn, Little Bucky, you go grab the drinks. The Web Hosting Show, is now on the air.

Download the Web Hosting Show, Episode 172!
Running Time: 14 minutes | File Size: 6.18 MB

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

  • My Favorite (and the BEST) FTP Client
  • The Seven Dirty Web Hosting Words (and Phrases)
  • Get Access to Photoshop Online for Free!

Here are this week’s web hosting news headlines:

  • GoDaddy Does Makeovers for Lucky Web Sites
  • 1&1 Internet Moves into a Nuclear Facility
  • Hosting.com Get More Free Money to Blow Away

Come on, now how could you read a show description like that and not want to listen? Download and tune in to this very special edition of the Web Hosting Show. If you do, I promise to… well, do it again next week?

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HP Performance-Optimized Datacenter

Oct/23 in All Posts, Hosting News, Web Hosting Tutorials

hp-POD Find yourself in the need of a portable data center?  Now I am not talking about a mobile home with a few racks inside of it.  HP’s latest release is a new Performance Optimized Data Center, or otherwise referred to as POD.   Think of it as a shipping container filled with everything you would need for a data center.

This is what Steve Cumings, the director of Infrastructure for HP had to say in an interview with eWeek.com:

“Customers are looking to expand their data center footprint with additional capacity much faster than adding a traditional brick and mortar data center.  It can take 12 to 24 months to build out one of these traditional data centers and in the case of the POD, we can have one ready to ship in just about six weeks.”

So what about the stats?

A complete 8-foot-by-40-foot POD container can hold up to 3,520 servers or 12,000 hard disk drives in total, providing 12TB of data storage. The POD also has a unique cooling system too.  It includes hot and cold aisles for optimized heating and cooling, allowing hot air from one side to be distributed through the ceiling heat exchange, cooled and redistributed as cold air to the other side.  So the POD itself is like one big personal computer in its own right.

HP hopes will compete against similar high-density, mobile container offerings from IBM, Sun Microsystems and others.   With this juggernaut, I think they stand a pretty good chance.

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Power of the Web Hosting People – Episode 161

Aug/11 in All Posts, Web Hosting Podcasts

whs161 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 Web Hosting Show is on the air.

Download the Web Hosting Show, Episode 161!
Running Time: 9 minutes | File Size: 4.07 MB

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Here are just a few topics from this week’s episode of the Web Hosting Show.

  • Deeper Look at the Hosting Industry Organization
  • Media Temple does Cloud Spam Filtering
  • .Pro Domain Registrations Running Wild
  • Why You Need to Launch a “Today’s Special” Deal
  • Verio Hands out Hosting to the Needy

Been doing a lot of socializing talk the past few weeks on the podcast, and today we’ll talk a little more about the LinkedIn group everybody is talking about.  We got that, plus a ton of hosting headlines and, well let me stop pitching the show and let’s start doing the show.

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Two Organizations Wish to Connect the Hosting World

Aug/06 in All Posts, Hosting News, Web Hosting Tutorials

Coming out of HostingCon 2008, it looks like there are two major forces out there looking to become the dominate leader when it comes to being an community organizer for the web hosting industry.  On one side you have the Hosting Industry Organization and on the other side you have the Association of Internet and Hosting Service Providers.

There is a lot of buzz about them both, and a lot of the internal kinks are still being worked out.  Both seem to have a lot to offer to the table when it comes to organizing the web hosting world and the people inside of it.  From my point of view it seems both have very separate main goals.

The Association of Internet and Hosting Service Providers seems to be more focused on bringing people together to achieve certain goals, like you would see more so with an organized  trade association.

The Hosting Industry Organization on the other hand seems to be more focused on the social side of things.  They want to be a place to make connections, hire workers, sell businesses and that side of the hosting business.

Which one are you more excited about? I have passed out an open invitation to both organizations to come do an interview right here on the podcast.  I would like to ask them both the same series of questions so we can all decide which one might be the better choice in the long haul.

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