Well it is official, I’ve hit the big time!

From Lockergnome’s Staff Page:

Mitch Keeler is Lockergnome’s resident freaky guy and Web hosting guru. Since leaving the world of Web hosting, Mitch has been writing to help people better understand everything from FTP to server up time. There are many questions surrounding the Web hosting world, and Mitch will not stop writing till every one of them has been answered. The world of Web hosting is not the only love Mitch knows though. He is a consistent contributor to several Lockergnome channels including Web Developers, Game Invasion, Tech News Watch, and Windows Fanatics. Mitch has also started to deliver his own twist on the technology world on mitchelaneous. It is a place for him to share his views, recent news and all things geek.

Six months of hard work and dedication are behind me now with Lockergnome, and I am still as excited as I was about being a member of the team since day one. Every contributor I have met at Lockergnome has been helpful, kind and fun to talk with. I’ve made a lot of new friends and gotten a larger audience for myself as well. Here is something I wrote up for the Web page hyping folks up to join Lockergnome as a Contributor, Writer, or Editor:

“Once fired from the Web hosting world, I didn’t have a place to turn. Having only my writing ability and my wits, I turned to becoming a member of the Lockergnome staff. Since then I have received three times the writing and article jobs I did before. Also, getting to know and learn from some of the more experienced staff members did more than, ‘get my name out there’, it made me a better writer.” ~ Mitch Keeler

That pretty much sums it up for my stay at Lockergnome so far. Also thanks to the fact I can toss around the fact I am a Lockergnome contributor a few other perks have come my way. The biggest one so far is seeing myself soon in print, in Ping! Zine. My Web site and blog daily hits have gone up as well. I went from around 300 hits a month to 25,000. That is a large jump in folks interested in hearing what I have to say.

Self promotion is not the only reason I am a happy Gnomie though. I really just love to help folks out with their problems and like to write about the technology industry in a whole.

So let me say thanks to everybody at Lockergnome (everyone from readers to fellow writers) for making these past six months so wonderful!

Many folks have been asking me when and if they can read some of the Web hosting book I’ve been working on. Well, never one to disappoint my friends and colleges, here is a sample of the introduction chapter.

The wacky world of Web hosting. I have called it that many times before and probably will many times again. The reason the Web hosting world is so wacky and unpredictable is because there are a lot of strange things that go on. Both from the customer standpoint and the Web hosts’ side there are many a story to be told. There is one thing you can not deny though. That is that there is a lot of confusion when it comes to Web hosting. Who’s the best host? What should you be looking for? Well if you don’t know your server from your disc space then this is the right book for you.

Before we get into the story that is Web hosting, let me tell you a little more about myself. Hopefully if you have a better glance of how I came to be known in the Web hosting world you will have a better view of where my perspective comes from.

It has been a year since my last Web hosting job. In that time I have written hundreds of articles helping folks learn more about the way Web hosting works. My articles can be seen on over a dozen Web sites and by the time you read this book, possibly more. Now to go back a little further into my past.

What do you think? I know it isn’t much to go on, but I’d like to keep as much of this under wraps as I can till I am done with the finished project.

Happy New Year, my first draft of the Web hosting book I have been slaving over for weeks now is finally finished! As far as percentages go, I would say I am at around 75 percent done with the entire project. I just wrote the last sentence in the last chapter, and damn did it ever feel gratifying. Already I feel like I have reached a major accomplishment and it has yet to be read by anybody else’s eyes but mine.

Now I am going to play cut and paste to see the actual number of pages I am dealing with here. Then I will be dividing things up via chapters and sub-categories. I might move things around a little more, edit a few things but as far as the big picture goes I am finished with all of the hard work.

I want to thank all the folks who have stayed interested in the project so far, and I hope to have a finished project by the end of this month. Then I’ll have one more thing to add onto my resume, and hopefully you will walk away with more knowledge about Web hosting than you started out with.