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If a picture is worth a thousand words, then this podcast has to be worth at least eight minutes or so of your time. On this edition of the Web Hosting Show we will be taking a look at both online photo gallery hosting services and three different types of photo gallery scripts you can install on your own web hosting account.
Running Time: 8 minutes | File Size: 3.27 MB
There are hundreds if not thousands of great ways to showcase your artwork, your photography or any other type of images you have created and share them with the world. I have done my best to check them all out – so you can finally know which ones are the best of the best.
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.
The one thing I didn’t see from the coverage I have read thus far on it is an idea. You would think with this many web hosting people grouped together you could see something emerge as a whole to make the business better. Maybe we start a conversation about not hosting splogs. Maybe somebody suggests that we all hosting companies try to hire more American workers. Those are only a few examples of what one hopes would come from an event like this. If it happened it either has not been covered or it wasn’t “buzz-worthy” enough for anybody else to pick up on.
How to Read Bad Hosting Reviews
As your palms get sweaty, you think to yourself, “Should I read it?”. Well, I am here to tell you that you should, but take it with a grain of salt. A healthy dose of skepticism never did any harm.
After reading a bad review, the first thing I want you to remember is that every coin has two sides. Your only hearing from the ticked off customer in many of these cases, and you don’t know what they did to to the web host in question. Something else I have learned over the years of working in the hosting world is that happy people usually don’t post reviews. If you are happy, and you know it you usually don’t do squat. Is it beyond belief? Well, when was the last time you wrote Oscar Mayer to tell them you love their baloney? I promise you though that the guy who found a human finger in his baloney wrote them a nasty letter.
Not to say there is anything wrong or bad with leaving good reviews. Heck some of those are the ones that really make people excited, due to their lack of actually happening. It is kind of like finding a duck dressed up like Abraham Lincoln. You don’t know how he got there, he probably won’t come back again, but he did put a smile on your face.
So remember, not all bad reviews are as bad as they seem. Sure, they may be rooted in some truth, however you should get a wide variety of opinions to see if this was just one guy out of the blue having problem, or if you can spot a trend.