Yeah I know, I am suppose to be on vacation this week from posting anything. This is just a small update though. Thanks to Steve Rubel I know have an account at Yahoo! 360. I’ve been playing with it the last few hours, and I have to say it is pretty neat. Sure, there are a few things that could be improved but overall it is a very nice package. Expect to hear more from me about it next week. Till then, go check out my Yahoo! 360 profile and let me know what you think!

I have been busy with a lot of different things the past few months, and I think I am in need of a break from things. So I have decide that I am going on a “blogging vacation” this week.

Hopefully by the end of it I’ll be refreshed and ready to jump back into my proverbial writing pants. Also, if you are wondering there is an episode of The Web Hosting Show up and running. However there will be no show for April 4th. The Web Hosting Show will be back in production on April 11th. Mitchelaneous however will be back in production on April 4th. If you have any article ideas, folks to interview, show ideas or anything that would fit on either of my two Web sites, this would be the perfect time to contact me and let me know. Also if anybody has been wanting to send me fan mail this would be the time to do it as well. Figure I’ll get at least one…maybe! See you all in about a week!

A lot of the questions Web hosts get are all the same, today I will tackle some of the most common problems and get them answered once and for all. Web hosting for video games? I go one on one with the folks from Enfinity Hosting and talk about Web hosting, dedicated game servers and so much more. There is going to be an open bar and gambling at HostingCon2005. Now where did I put my invitation? Buckle your seat belt and grab your granny, The Web Hosting Show is on the air.

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A few days ago I received the first edition of Ping! Zine with one of my articles inside. For those of you who might not know, Ping! Zine is a free Web hosting magazine that covers just about everything the Web hosting world has to offer from top to bottom. This was Volume 3, Issue 1 and has been one of the better issues I have read so far. Why? Well yeah maybe it is because I am in it.

Through pages 36 to 37 I describe some of the Web hosting differences that are out there today. Just think of it as a trip back to Web hosting school. I am extremely happy with the way it all turned out and I can’t wait till the next issue of Ping! Zine comes out because I’ll be in that one as well.

Wrote Web hosting articles? Check.

Wrote Web hosting book? Check.

Host Web hosting radio show? Check.

Get Web hosting articles in print? Now I can say I have done that as well. What else is left for a Web hosting innovator to do? Honestly though I have to once again thank Lockergnome for some of my recent success. Who would have guessed I would have come so far in such a small amount of time? Not me, that is for sure.

Now I am not usually a big fan of things where you have to put some money down monthly or yearly to get a service returned to you. You know like the movies you can watch Online or the music you can “pay for”. Well I think my problem was there was just nothing out there that I thought was worth paying for. That all changed a few days ago when I signed up for WWE’s new Match Jukebox service.

After paying my yearly fee of $39.95 I can now access any of the matches they have uploaded now from ECW, WCW, NWA, WWF and more anytime I want to. With currently more than 150 matches in its library, and 325 matches scheduled by year’s end, WWE Match Jukebox is the one and only place to watch wrestling matches Online. New matches are added every month, so if I get bored with what is up now all I have to do is wait a few more weeks to get some more wrestling action.

Right now they have sections dedicated to: Hot August Matches, Smackdown, Undertaker, Shawn Michaels, Triple H, Most Requested, John Cena, Wrestlemania, Hollywood Hogan, Sting, Royal Rumble, Specialty Matches, Intercontinental, Heavyweight, WWE Championship, WCW, ECW and March. Each section has around 15 or more matches for you to choose from. Want to see Trish Stratus take on Stacy Keibler in a Bra and Panties match? Go right ahead! Want to see The Undertaker make his Wrestlemania debut against Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka? It is all up to you.

So what is the quality like? Almost perfect. Well, I have an advantage because of my Samsung SyncMaster 910T 19″ LCD monitor. Just about anything looks good on this bad boy! Regardless though, I can toss up a few matches, bring them up to full screen then sit back a few feet away and watch some of my favorite old WWE matches.

It is honestly harder to find time to work now when I know I could be watching wrestling instead. So would I recommend the WWE Match Jukebox to other pro wrestling fans out there? Whole heartedly.

My good friend and fellow Web hosting writer, Johnder Perez wrote up a feature article up at The Hosting Chronicle about myself and The Web Hosting Show. It is one of the best written articles I have seen yet about myself or The Web Hosting Show. Make sure you go check it out and let him know what you think.

Anybody in the Web hosting industry will realize how big the Web hosting business is, especially when a weekly show is dedicated to it. Delivered as a podcast, the Web Hosting Show is quickly gaining momentum as the next source for Web hosting news and information. What exactly is a podcast? Think of a radio show. But instead of listening to it on your radio, you hear it while you’re on the internet.

What exactly makes this show unique to the world of Web hosting? Amidst all of the hosting communities, magazines, Web sites and directories feeding hoards of information to the Web hosting community, the Web Hosting Show is a unique blend of Web hosting news and information delivered in a fun and entertaining manner. Try listening in on one of the shows and you’ll hear a jovial voice with a southern Texas accent. Then perhaps you might be wondering: who is the voice behind the Web Hosting Show?

Mitch Keeler, the executive producer and host of the Web Hosting Show, has a passion for Web hosting that stems from his need and want to help people out. As a contributor to Lockergnome, a resource for people curious about the world of technology, he extends his technology savvy and his natural ambition to provide meaningful and rich information that helps people with their daily interactions of anything related to technology.

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Having a Web hosting server that is totally your own. It is the American dream right? You could put a little white picket fence around it, plant some flowers and call it home. Well not exactly. For you and me, buying a dedicated Web hosting server is a little out of our price range. Some can cost up to $500 or so a month to keep up and running. So with that being said, what are the benefits of having a dedicated Web hosting server?

Well the number one benefit of having your own dedicated server would be reliability. Think of it as you being stuck on a deserted island. You don’t have to worry about anybody else throwing coconuts at you or trying to take over your island. You and you alone are there and you can do whatever you want.

When you are on a shared Web hosting server, sometimes other people on the server can make life for you a little harder. Due to processes, scripts or other activities, your Web site might start coming up slower due to those other folks. With a dedicated Web hosting server, you are the only one on that server and you are not subject to such pesky activity. Well, unless you are the one causing it.

Having your own Web hosting server also provides you with a more cost effective way of hosting more than one domain. You can split that Web hosting server up as many times as you want, depending on how much space each Web site needs. True, you could do that with a Web hosting reseller account too. The only problem is a reseller account is still on a shared Web hosting server. As long as you are on a shared Web hosting server you are going to have reliability problems.

With that being said, you can also expect to see greater performance from your Web sites. Without sharing the server’s resources with 10 to 100 other people, your pages will come up quicker, your scripts will run faster, and it will be as if your entire Web hosting experience was on steroids.

Security is another good reason to go with a dedicated Web hosting server. With a shared Web hosting server, some things on the server itself are more open to see. Within a dedicated Web hosting server though you can keep more things to yourself and locked down for only your eyes to see.

Now when shopping for a dedicated Web hosting server, you might be confused by the “managed” and “unmanaged” lingo. With an unmanaged Web hosting account, you or somebody in your company will need to know how to deal with the server first hand. That is when hiring a system administrator might come in handy. Then they can worry about all the server side problems and configurations.

With a managed dedicated server though, more of those worries are in the hands of the Web host you bought it from. The only problem you might run into there is you want to make sure your Web host has a good quality staff of folks who know what they are doing when they are working on your dedicated server.

So there you have it, those are the big benefits of having your own dedicated Web hosting server. If you want to know more or want to learn about shared Web hosting solutions, you might go check out Lockergnome’s Guide to Web Hosting. It is the best guide into the Web hosting world you will ever read or need.

Well I got my Dell Pocket DJ in the mail today and I couldn’t be happier with it. I’ve only gotten to play with it a few hours, but damn is it not the cutest little thing you have ever seen? If you want an MP3 player that plays MP3′s and does it well, then pick it up for yourself. Then again, this is my first MP3 player, so of course I’m going to be happy with it.

The only negative side of it, is that it comes with MusicMatch, which I really dislike. It was easy enough to un-install it though once I got everything else up and running. Thankfully the folks at Dell put their own program in there as well to help get music on the device. You can also use it to transfer files, but only if both computers have the Dell software installed. I’m sure you might be able to dump it another way, right now though I haven’t had enough time to play with that feature.

When I was looking around at reviews for it at a few different Web sites, I saw lots of people had a problem with the scroll wheel and not feeling like it was responsive enough. I haven’t had a problem with mine yet. It feels good in my hand, and it is easy to scroll with my thumb using it. Other than that, I am a little afraid of getting it scratched up. Maybe I should start looking into MP3 Player gloves?

I’m a fan of the lime green one myself, but then again I am a little weird. Another benefit is I can now listen to 5GB worth of The Web Hosting Show. Now who would turn down an offer like that?

Everybody likes to get something for nothing, right? Well I have made it no secret in the past that I am not a big fan of free Web hosts. When dealing with a free Web host, you have to be careful when handing over personal information. Also, you need to read whatever terms of service or acceptable use policy they might have posted. I will give the devil his due though, there are a lot of free Web hosting companies out there that you probably have never heard of. Here recently I have ran across several places listing more free Web hosts than you can shake a stick at.

Free Webspace offers the biggest selection of free Web hosts I have seen on one Web site to date. The reason I trust them a little better than most is because the offer a place for customers to come back and rate the free Web hosts. They also have a division for free image hosting as well. As far as things I would like to see on the Web site. I’d like to have an RSS feed of the most recently added Web hosts to the Web pages. Also, since they do allow for rating of free Web hosts, I’d like to see a top ten list or something to that effect added as well.

When it comes to getting something for nothing though, I guess beggers can’t be choosers.

The free Web hosting power search is one feature on the Web site I really do like. That allows you to narrow down your search, based on things you would usually get with a regular Web hosting account. Some of these include, PHP, Ads, ASP, POP3 Access and more.

Free Web hosting is good for folks just getting into the whole hosting a Web site idea and who know nothing about it. I wouldn’t recommended it to people who are doing bigger or more important projects though. You might also learn that you will quickly reach the borders of your free Web hosting account if you are not careful. If you need somewhere to play around and learn though, free Web hosting can be a great tool.

So go check out a few free Web hosts and let me know what you think! I might pick the best of the best to look at myself and decide who is the best free Web host of them all.

I have heard a lot of talk about how there is a list of elite A-List bloggers out there and have wanted onto that said list for a long time. Well, till here recently that is. Recently I have learned to come to the realization that I will never be an A-list blogger. So what is the alternative? Rot and die a horrible blogging death? Not exactly.

I will invent a new term for folks like me. We need a name for people who might not be as “blogging elite” as a Robert Scoble or a Chris Pirillo. They are good as what they do, but us smaller guys need a name as well. What shall this new group of renegade second class bloggers be called? B-list bloggers. Folks who won’t be able to leap tall buildings with a single bound, but will deliver content to anybody who is a fan of the little guy.

Let the revolution begin!