Archive for August, 2005
· August 22, 2005 at 2:07 pm · Odds & Ends
It is that time of the week where I let you know what happened on this week’s edition of the Web Hosting Show, the one and only voice of the Web hosting world. We covered a lot of great topics this week from head to toe. One of the most exciting ones from this week would have to be the news about the new Web Host TV project. The other is me trying to reason with Web hosts about the jargon words they use.
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I am very excited to see what is in store for Web Host TV. What, you haven’t heard about it yet? Web Host TV promises to change the way you take in your Web hosting media each and every day. Others have tried to change things, but have fallen flat on their face. Web Host TV hopefully will not follow where others have failed.
I’ll have more details on it for you when there are more details to say. I will just leave you with this… remember that Web Hosting Show video I did a while back? Think about being able to see that, along with a plethora of other content all in one place. All aimed at folks in and around the Web hosting world. Sounds pretty exciting, doesn’t it?
This week’s Web hosting tip of the week is all about Web hosting jargon. You know those big words that Web hosts like to toss around and the regular folks out there have no clue as to their true meaning. One thing that really gets on my nerves is when Web hosts refer to regular old Web hosting accounts as virtual hosting account or shared hosting accounts.
Why? The guy walking in off the street just wants hosting. He doesn’t know what a virtual hosting account is or a shared hosting account means. All of these names are pointing at the same kind of hosting account. The one that 99.9 percent of us use every single day. Web not just call it regular hosting?
So don’t be confused. No mater if it is virtual hosting or shared hosting, they are both your standard Web hosting account.
· August 19, 2005 at 3:42 pm · Odds & Ends
There are some really helpful Firefox extentions out there today. That is what the whole extention experiance is suppose to be about right? Things that help you out in one way or another. Things that make your life easier. Well, there are some twisted folks out there, and I guess they have needs as well. These are some of the oddest Firefox extentions I have ever seen listed.
Abe Vigoda Status
We all love Abe Vigoda right? How many of us can say we are just waiting to see him kick the bucket though? Apparently folks want to keep up to date with old Abe in Firefox. The Abe Vigoda Status extention does only one simple thing. It tells you that Mr. Vigoda is alive or dead.
Clines
Stupid games have also made it into Firefox extentions. Clines is only one of many out there today. The point of Clines is to “move balls from one square to another one in order to build lines”. Yeah, that is it. Funny thing is, I can do the same thing with a sheet of paper and a pen. I could make lines go up and down. I could make lines go from left to right. If I felt really motivated, I could even make lines go diagonally.
TickerFox
I like Firefox, don’t get me wrong. I don’t like it so much though that I feel motivated to know that four more people have downloaded it though. TickerFox allows folks to see the latest download count directly from the status bar of your browser. Do I have to ask where the “watch paint dry” extention is?
So these are only a sample of some of the odd Firefox extentions out there today. Do you know of one that is even more odd than these. Let me know!
· August 16, 2005 at 1:14 pm · Odds & Ends
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.
· August 15, 2005 at 11:46 am · Odds & Ends
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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· August 12, 2005 at 5:15 pm · Odds & Ends
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.
· August 10, 2005 at 4:23 pm · Odds & Ends
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!
