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Long Day’s Night in Hosting Headlines

Jul/29 in All Posts, Hosting News, Web Hosting Tutorials

Not a lot going on this week, but there are a few nuggets of goodness as far as web hosting news goes.  Here are just a handful of some of the hottest web hosting stories from the week.

cPanel Staff Working Longer Hours

The control panel gurus at cPanel announced that as of Monday, July 21st customer service hours will be extended from 7am to 7pm EST.  So if you are a customer looking to get your questions about cPanel answered, they will be available to help.

China Has More Web Users than US

19.1 percent of China has web access.  How much is that?  Oh roughly 253-million people.

HostingCon Gets Going

The biggest news story of the week would be that HostingCon is taking place July 28th through the 30th at the Navy Pier in Chicago.  I have skipped out on the festivities yet again, but looks like a great show all around.  HostingCon is the yearly meet up for all the biggest players in the hosting industry.  This year Parallels and Microsoft seem to be keynoting the conference and I am sure we will hear more about it from those who were “on the inside” soon.

Do you have any hosting news to share?

Drop me an e-mail at mitch@mitchkeeler.com and I’ll be more than happy to share it with the rest of the web hosting industry right here, next week on this very podcast.

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Live Chat Alternatives – Episode 159

Jul/28 in All Posts, Web Hosting Podcasts

Get up, get down and get ready to do that web hosting boogie! Today we are getting down with our bad self with some hosting news, domain name speculation and a little talk about how badly China is beating as far as web users go. The Web Hosting Show (only in English, sorry China!) is on the air.

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

  • Joyent’s Tool for Online Collaboration!
  • China has more Web Users than US?
  • HostingCon Gets Going!
  • What is Domain Name Speculation?
  • For Web Hosts: the Best Live Chat Providers?

Back again for episode 159, and I think I might be getting the hang of this… almost. From HostingCon to some great live chat suggestions, there is yet again a little for everybody to love and learn from here on today’s show.

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iNet Interactive adds HostingCon to Their Portfolio

Jul/24 in All Posts, Commentary, Web Hosting Tutorials

juggernaut00 iNET Interactive, those darlings of the web hosting world who brought us such things as webhostingtalk.com, hostvoice.com, and hostingtech.com have acquired the HostingCon conference.  From the looks of it Interjuncture (the previous owners) will still oversee HostingCon 2008, but in 2009 one would assume iNet will be taking over.

Now let me quickly give you my positives and negatives on this.

On the bad side of things, we see one more diamond of the web hosting world being gobbled up by the web hosting equivalent to the Juggernaut, iNet Interactive.

On the positive side of things, I have a lot of trust in Troy Augustine, he is a good guy and I think he will continue to do what is best for the business in a whole.  iNet also has the capital to move the conference forward to make it even bigger and better than before.

George Roberts, the guy who was behind all the other HostingCons to date has really turned this conference from just a gathering to THE event of any web hosters calendar year.  He deserves the pat on the back and congratulations the most out of this deal.  Right now it is planned for George and Interjucture COO Frank Spaulding, to both remain involved in HostingCon as members of its advisory board.

For more coverage of HostingCon 2008 be sure to check out their web site and you can check out my previous interview with Troy “Juggernaut” Augustine back on podcast 111.

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.ME a Big Fail So Far?

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

1216558906_188 You may have caught wind of some of the .me buzz last week, as GoDaddy started taking registrations for them for $20 a year (and you have to sign up for two years, so that should really be $40).  According to Mashable.com several people were claiming to have registered the same domain name, which is going to be a disappointment for some.  If eight people say they registered it, that will leave seven people really unhappy about the whole ordeal.

GoDaddy has also released this response to the claims that there was some wacky stuff going on during the first day of .me domain name registrations:

We knew the .ME Open Registration response would be tremendous, but it went beyond even what we had expected. As a result, we experienced some system issues in our communication with the registry.

As soon as we became aware of the issue we began taking steps to correct it. It is now resolved.  For our customers, if we did not successfully register the domain name requested they will receive a full refund.

Now that the first week’s hype is over, it might be a little easier to search around and see what .me domain names you can register from GoDaddy.  Only problem your left with is, are all the good names taken already?

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When Spam Attacks – Episode 157

Jul/14 in All Posts, Web Hosting Podcasts

Did you know the peaceful Swiss people have problems with spam?  The king of all spam has also met his fate.  Spams not the only thing we got on the line up today, there is a lot of hosting news, and information coming to you.  So stand back, there is a Web Hosting Show coming through!

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

  • Why Not Setup a Data Center Out of Your Basement?
  • The King of Spam to be Sentenced to Hard Time!
  • What is Domain Name Front Running?
  • What Country Tops the World in Spam?
  • ICANN Blames What Domain Register for Recent Hack?

Short on words this week, but since we do have an awful lot of SPAM talk this week:

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ICANN Shakes Things Up – Episode 156

Jun/30 in All Posts, Web Hosting Podcasts

From coast to coast, and all around the web hosting world. I can’t promise you you’ll be a millionaire if you listen to this week’s show. I can’t even make you better looking. What I can do for you is to make everything from server farms to domain name registrations make a little more sense and I can do so with what some may say is a funny accent.

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Running Time: 18 minutes | File Size: 7.85 MB

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

  • ICANN Wants to Give You .Anything?
  • Where to go to Get 30GB of Disk Space Free?
  • Free Billing Software for Web Hosting Resellers?
  • Best Tool to Update Your Blogs?

Podcast Exclusive – Part 4 of Our “How to Purchase a Web Hosting Business” Series with Web Strategist Errett Cord. Download the podcast to check it out!

I’m back again, and sad to say ICANN is still turning down my application to be the official spokesperson for the organization. Maybe it is because I have no boobs? If I did, I know at least I’d get work from Bob Parsons. Time to start answering some questions, and to make some sense out of all this web hosting lingo.

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Web Hosting and Internet News with Gawkwire

Jun/17 in All Posts, Hosting News, Web Hosting Tutorials, Web Hosting Tutorials

Feel like some of the other hosting news sites are getting a little long in the tooth?  Now I read all types of hosting news and information resources from all around the Web.  I really have high hopes for a new one that just broke onto the scene.  Gawkwire.com wants to be your new web hosting and Internet news resource.

From industry news, to domain stories.  From big business to the little guy.  Gawkwire is already providing news from all corners of the hosting world and doing well at it.  Here is how Robert Lang, Gawkwire managing editor describes this new hosting resource:

“We designed Gawkwire to build on the strengths of other hosting news portals and magazines. Unlike many sites, our content is updated continuously, not once a day or even once a week. We take it a step further, by creating a dialogue with our readers that enhances the overall experience of our site.  And we don’t stop with just news articles. Gawkwire’s rich content covers a wide spectrum, with everything from video blog posts to executive interviews.”

I am very excited to see the launch of something new out there in the hosting news bubble.  Too long has the field grown more than a little stagnite, and the hopes for Gawkwire is to add a little ‘bit more spice, interest and information to the world of Internet and hosting news.

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Hostopia Jumps on Tucows Hosting

May/22 in All Posts, Hosting News, Web Hosting Tutorials

hostopia A few week’s back there was a news story not many made much out of happening that I though I could at least mention here.  Hostopia will pay $1.6 million in cash for Tucows shared hosting assets.

That includes approximately 14,000 Domain Direct, NetIdentity ItsYourDomain.com customer accounts.

That is a ton of cash changing hands.  One has to wonder why Tucows wanted to get out of the shared web hosting game and what will they do now with this extra surplus of cash on their hands?  Colin Campbell, the CEO of Hostopia release the usual quote out to the public saying they had high hopes and more…

“Our plan is to provide customers with numerous upgrades and additional value-added services to earn their loyalty and continued business. Traditional web hosting is fast evolving to the SaaS (software as a service) model and Hostopia is perfectly positioned to offer these services to these customers.”

This is a big buyout for sure, and big congratulations deserve to be sent towards Hostopia for getting the deal.  If you were Tucows, what would you do now being the actual “cash cow”.

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cPanel VPS = Coming to a Server Near You!

Apr/15 in All Posts, Hosting News, Web Hosting Tutorials

The king of control panels (cPanel) says soon that there will be a new prince in their kingdom. The most popular web hosting control panel out there today has announced that they will be releasing a new VPS optimized cPanel. Now news yet if it will get a new name, but it should fit right in with the cPanel and WHM (Web Host Manager) relationship.

cPanel VPS Optimized

Why upgrade? Looks like they are mainly wanting to provide VPS hosting clients the same feature rich functionality of cPanel and WHM while helping to reduce memory usage by up to 60 percent for VPS accounts. Another nice perk about this newest version of cPanel is it will lower the costs hopefully for cPanel powered VPS hosting as right now most VPS customers have to pay the dedicated hosting license fees to use it. Also due to the earlier mentioned cut in memory usage, web hosts should be able to reach a higher account density per machine. So how can you lay your hands on it right now?

The word is that cPanel will offer this newly upgraded VPS version for free for its customers, probably while they test it out.

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Troubleshoot Your Hosting Woes – Episode 148

Apr/14 in All Posts, Web Hosting Podcasts

From coast to coast, and all around the hosting world we all have times where we contact support and they say that nothing is wrong. Today I’ll show you how to paint a better picture for support of your hosting problems as well as…

Well a lot more hosting podcast goodness right here on this week’s edition of the Web Hosting Show.

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Running Time: 16 minutes | File Size: 7.10 MB

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

  • DemoWolf Introduces Subscription for Flash Tutorials!
  • Learn to Gather the Right Info Before Contacting Hosting Support!
  • cPanel Releases a Virtual Private Server Edition?
  • Find a Web Host that is Perfect for Your Blog!
  • Hosting Spotlight Shines on Dan “W3Counter” Grossman!

I really do appreciate you listening to episode 148, and this week we have tons a various content on board and ready to go so that you too can learn to become a better web hosting guru. From experts to novices, everybody is welcome because I think all can get something out of today’s broadcast.

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