Soon I will be everybody’s favorite Mitch! How long will it take for Google to smarten up and bump me up a few places in its own search results for Mitch? Only time will tell. Somebody really should let Google know that Mitch Hedberg is dead though.. so I think it is only right that I take my rightful spot on top.

What Web hosting resources out there are the best of the best? Which ones blow away the competition? Who has the best set of forums? Who has the best Hosting directory? I am here to go through the piles of Web hosting Web sites out there to pick out the very best for this special edition of the Web Hosting Show.

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Today’s edition of the Web Hosting Show is going to be a little different. Instead of the usual format, I am going to go through and pick out some of my favorite Web hosting resources Online and tell you why I think at least, they are the best out there today.

You are always free to disagree though! I would love to hear your feedback either by sending me an E-mail at mitch@mitchkeeler.com or by sending me a voice message via Skype. My name on Skype is mitchkeeler, no spaces. If they are good enough I will either read them or play them on the next week’s edition of the podcast.

Best Web Hosting Forums – Web Hosting Chat

I would have to say the best set of Web hosting forums out there today would be the ones found at Web Hosting Chat. True, I might be a little bias because they are a major supporter of this show. The reason I didn’t pick Web Hosting Talk or any of the others out there though is for one simple reason.

I was a big fan of Web Hosting Chat’s friendly nature way before I had anything to do with them professionally. So many other Web hosting forums get a bad name because of a few rude visitors. From my experiences so far, just about everybody on the Web Hosting Chat forums are friendly and willing to help anybody out with a Web hosting problem.

Best Web Hosting Magazine – Ping! Zine

Once again, Ping! Zine was not picked because I have written some articles for them. They were picked because they are the most fun and informative all wrapped into one. In competition with The Web Host Industry Review and the Hosting Standard, they are a breath of fresh air.

Sure, they cover the serious side of Web hosting too. They do all coverage though with a charisma not found in any other Web hosting publication though. What does all this cost you? It is all totally free! That is one of the best parts as well. Reading Ping! Zine is like having somebody walk up to me on the street and hand me a five dollar bill for free. It just doesn’t get any better than that.

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Hello Web hosters! I just wanted to let everybody know that I will be a little busy this weekend, during my usual show recording time, but do not worry I have an episode of the Web Hosting Show ready to go for all of you. Podcast 25 of the Web Hosting Show will be a “best of the best” type episode. I am going to go through some of the best Web hosting Web sites out there, such as best forums, best news site, best directory one by one and give you my picks. It should be a little different and hopefully a lot of fun to listen to. So check that out this Monday, right here on the Web Hosting Show Web site.

I’m also looking for a few more folks to interview, so if you have something to do with the Web hosting industry and you want to talk, feel free to shoot me over an E-mail and we will get something worked out. If all else fails, there is still the Web Hosting Show voice mail as well. Just leave me a quick question, comment, suggestion or remark! All you have to do is login to Skype, call me (user name: mitchkeeler) and I’ll get it onto a future episode of the show.

I have very little time for TV these days. If it isn’t Adult Swim, late night news, or wrestling chances are I probably will not get to see it. The few times I do find a show I like outside of that scope, it gets cancelled (See Dead Like Me). I had high hopes for Current TV, but I am afraid to say so far the experience hasn’t been very good.

The first thing that bugs me is the fact that on DirecTV, the show listings are just shown as long four or five hour blocks of nothing but “Current TV – No Description”. How am I suppose to know when something I would like to see is on? The few times I have stopped on the channel, I haven’t seen anything I would really tell people I watched. So to the folks at Current TV that will probably never see this, I have one message for you. Then don’t even ask me to get into the bad teenage segment introductions. If I wanted to see hot teenagers reading from cue cards, I’d turn it back to MTV.

Put something interesting on!

It is that time of the week again! The time that you throw away your usual Monday worries, kick back and listen to the Web Hosting Show. I am here to give you yet another sample of some of the things we discussed on this week’s Web hosting podcast.

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One interesting Web site I ran across in this past week was MyBadHost.com. They are taking a very interesting approach to dealing as the middle man when it comes to fights between Web host and Web hosting client. The following was taken from a thread about MyBadHost.com written over at the BrowseHosts.com forums:

We take reports on bad web host and do a complete investigation. We try to help you negotiate with your host to get you your domain or refunds. We as well sign up for web hosting at places that offer unlimited bandwidth and unlimited space to actually see if we can add as many files as we can to use up about 10 GB.

As I said before, it is very interesting to see and I hope they do well in the long run.

I think I mentioned it last week when I said that HostNews.com is becoming one of my favorite Web hosting resources Online. They have everything but the kitchen sink and seem to be adding more as time goes by. They even interviewed me about the Web Hosting Show, some of my other projects, the world of podcasting and whole lot more. So please, read the interview and let me know what you think!

HostNews.com Interview with Mitch Keeler!

I have really got to talk Matt (the guy who runs things over there) to come onto the Web Hosting Show so I can turn the tables on him.

Also as a bonus this week, check out the Web Hosting Show’s Video Beta One and let me know what you think. Could a video edition of the Web Hosting Show podcast be in the works?

Yeah, I finally did it!

Go watch the Web Hosting Show Video – Beta 1 and leave me your feedback, comments, and suggestions!

Well today marks a pretty big milestone in my writing career. I have been with Lockergnome for exactly one year. It has been one great year, with hopefully many more to come. Life before Lockergnome was pretty bleak looking at best. I had just left my last Web hosting job, and was just about to call the writing career dead and buried before I gave Lockergnome a shot.

What can I say Lockergnome has helped me accomplish in one year? Well, I know have a voice that many more people can and do hear on a daily basis. I wrote and sold my first book (Lockergnome’s Guide to Web Hosting) all about the wild and wacky world of Web hosting. Last but not least, the Web Hosting Show podcast was greatly inspired by the folks at Lockergnome and Chris Pirillo’s own technology show.

I just want to give a big thanks to a few folks that have made me feel right at home at Lockergnome. Chris, Ponzi, Bob, Matt, Brandon, Meka and Jeff have really helped me along the way. Thank you!

Well that is as sappy as you are going to be able to get me! To those who might feel a little hurt because they weren’t mentioned, don’t feel bad. After writing for Lockergnome for a year my fingers are a little tired.

I have been interviewed by more than just a few folks now. With projects like Lockergnome’s Guide to Web Hosting and the Web Hosting Show becoming more successful for me, it seems like I am getting asked to do more and more interviews.

It is fun for me, because I get excited every time I do one. It’s like opening a present on Christmas each time I see an interview with myself on somebody else’s Web site.

HostNews Interview with Mitch Keeler

Well I was really impressed with how my interview with HostNews went. Matt just seemed to ask all the right questions, and I didn’t make myself look like a fool. Those are my two most important points to watch for post doing an interview with somebody. Plus I really like the graphic he came up with for the top of the page. Very nice work! Please read it and let me know what you think!

It is that time of the week again, where I take you through a roundup of some of the topics we covered on this week’s edition of the Web Hosting Show podcast, the one and only voice of the Web hosting world.

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This week we received a voice mail message from somebody wanting to know about alternative podcast hosting solutions out there today. I pointed them towards the podcast hosting roundup article that I did a few weeks ago. My favorite out of all those listed is still Audioblog.com. In my opinion, they make it the easiest and the fastest to create some audio content and get it up to share with the world.

I got an e-mail from a guy last week who wanted to know where and how he could learn how to master the basics of HTML. For those new to the Web hosting world, it can be a very scary place. Thankfully though there are more than a few places that master at helping anybody in the world learn the basics.

I pointed him into the direction of two places I learned the ropes from. The first one was W3 School’s HTML section. They have more than enough information to get anybody started into the world of Web page design. The second place I pointed him to was WebMonkey. WebMonkey’s beginners section is still one of the best places Online to learn how to master the art of HTML.

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