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So what did we cover on this week’s edition of the Web Hosting Show? After taking last week off, I had a little ‘bit of catching up to do. Some of the topics for Podcast 51 include:
Credit Card Fraud
Web Host Promotion Tools
Web Hosting Industry News
Online Backup
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I have to say, this is pretty darn awesome. Odeo’s new “Send me an Odeo” features is the neatest thing I have seen come out of the whole Web 2.0 movement in a long time. As far as voice messages go, I am ready to say goodbye to Skype once and for all. You don’t even have to be a member of Odeo to send a message. So what are you waiting for, go test it out and leave me a message!
Don’t have anything to say? Then plug yourself (This is ___ from ___ and your listening to the Web Hosting Show, the voice of the Web hosting world) and I can probably figure out a way to use it on the Web Hosting Show.
Due to my podcasting vacation, there is no Web Hosting Show podcast this week ready to go. Don’t worry though, I figured I would still take a look at last week’s news and let you know my thoughts right here.
“Singapore Web hosting provider 8 to Infinity announced on Monday it has upgraded its dedicated hosting plans, more than tripling disk space from 80GB to 200GB and doubling the RAM per server.”
Every time I hear about a Web hosting company outside of the US, it always seems like it is in Singapore? Maybe this one Web host just has a really good PR person.
“According to reports from Pakistan released Wednesday, a petition submitted to the country’s Supreme Court asked the government to prohibit the broadcasting of controversial cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad, described by the petition as ‘blasphemous.’ Among the respondents named in the petition are Web hosts Yahoo! USA and 1&1 Internet, as well 1&1′s chairman Andreas Gauger.”
This is stupid. While we are at it, let’s stop doodles of Jesus, Buddha, and the Flying Spaghetti Monster as well.
“Internet research organization Netcraft reported last week that Web hosting provider Go Daddy had surpassed 1&1 Internet as the world’s largest Web host, it’s January gain of 255,000 hostnames bringing it to 5,544,296 in total, about 95,000 more than 1&1 according to Netcraft’s Hosting Provider Switching Analysis.”
Go Daddy is number one? So how long is it going to take before they do something stupid, and somebody starts calling them evil?
I have noticed a few times my traffic for the Web Hosting Show has spiked. Now this wasn’t because of me (even though I am kind of jealous that it wasn’t). This was because I had a picture of Candice Michelle on the Web page. Apparently Google must think I am a big fan, because I am the 5th result for “Go Daddy Girl” in Google Image search.
The moral of this story? Be careful who you mention when blogging.
As you know, the Web Hosting Show has been going on for a year now. To hopefully keep things fresh after 50 podcasts, I wanted to ask a few questions and see what type of responses I get. You can either leave your comments here or drop me an E-mail.
1. What type of features and segments would you like to see on the Web Hosting Show?
2. Is there anything I can do more of or less of?
3. Is the Web Hosting Show length too long? too short? just right?
Feel free to leave me whatever comments or feedback you might have. Good or bad, I want to hear it all.
Well this morning I had my first encounter with credit card fraud. While checking my credit card statement this morning I saw a charge from Absolute-Soft.com for $9.95. I contacted them by E-mail and got no response. After that, I contacted my credit card company and filed a dispute on the charge. That will take about a month to sort out.
Now being in the Web hosting industry, you learn about how Web hosts deal with these types of folks. Web hosts generally hate finding slime like this on the servers they run. So that left me with tracking down the folks who were hosting this dishonest Web site. For good measure, I decided to find out who the domain name register was as well.
Well after a few whois searches and trace routes later I had my targets. SAGO Networks was the Web host and Register Fly was the domain name register.
First I contacted SAGO Networks (via the abuse team) and I have some good news to report. Just a few hours after my first E-mail was sent, they had terminated the account. Score one for the good guys, Absolute-Soft.com is no longer up and running.
How about the domain name register? As of right now I haven’t heard back from them yet. If I do hear from them, I’ll update this post to let you know what they did or didn’t do.
So that just goes to show you that you never have to play the role of the victim in these types of situations. Hopefully this will help somebody else in my situation get a little pay back when it comes to credit card fraud.
Listen to the Web Hosting Show, Podcast 51 – Credit Card Fraud!
Update: I have gotten several E-mails from folks who have still gotten hit with this scam. I’m sorry to hear about it, but there isn’t much I can do. After getting so much E-mail, I can’t promise I can get back to each and every one of you. The best thing to do is contact your bank or credit card company and let them know about the charges.
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I don’t know who started it and I really don’t care who ends it. I just think “meme” is a really stupid sounding word. It’s like somebody was reading a dictionary while they were on the toilet, and said, “Hey, that’s a funny sounding word that means something”.
Don’t dare tell me people have been using this word in regular conversations either. Other than the A-List folks (Well, not all of them. Just the ones who like to pretend they are some sort of “Internet God”) I have never heard anybody really say “meme”. Maybe because I’m southern, but I just don’t see that one passing without somebody saying, “What?” or “Me..me.. what’s wrong with you boy, you stuttering?”
So let me say it one last time, “meme” is a stupid word.
I thought I would share my first (of hopefully many) interviews with my good friend, SB-1. Not much tech or hosting related content here. Just some good ol’ “Q and A” with an up and coming pro wrestling superstar.
Who is SB-1?
SB-1: The name “SB-1″ actually derives from the old television show “In Living Color”. Seriously. Shawn Wayans was the DJ, and he called himself “SW-1″. So it seemed natural for me to plug my initials in and ABRA-CADABRA! I had a stage-name.
The persona “SB-1″ is every emotion, strength, and flamboyancy (that may not even be a word) in me. It’s a combination of every hero that’s influenced me, wrestler or not. And make no mistake about it, folks: SB-1 is here to stay.
What is the hardest thing about being in the spot you are in right now in your pro wrestling career?
SB-1: I began training in late September 2005, had my first match about six weeks later, and here I am two matches later with only 5 months experience in this business. The term “rookie” seems like an understatement.
Right now I’m just paying my dues and, for lack of a better term, getting initiated into the business. I figure if I can make it through this phase, everything else will fall into place. And that’s not really a matter of “if”, but “when”.
How do you feel about sterotypical gimmicks and the place they have in today’s wrestling enviroment?
SB-1: I’m an artist and a perfectionist. I don’t believe in doing anything “half-assed”. Therefore, you’ll never see SB-1 wearing a generic outfit with a preppy haircut and a goatee. I believe in the frivolous outfits and personas of the late 1980′s and early 1990′s, and, as a fan, I’m sick of the “reality” wrestlers today.
Whatever happened to gimmicks like Papa Shango, The Rockers, and the Repo Man? Look at Jake Roberts for instance. They gave him a snake and colorful tights, and next thing you know he’s larger than life. Brilliant! Don’t get me wrong: guys like Randy Orton and Chris Benoit are phenomenal wrestlers, but where’s the originality?
The unreal characters of decades past are what turned me on to professional wrestling. Without them, why not play football? Or baseball? I say F**K “keeping it real”. Let’s see more caskets and face paint!
What is your earliest memory of professional wrestling?
SB-1: Watching WWE’s “Prime Time Wrestling” and hearing Bobby Heenan and Gorilla Monsoon. Man were those the days! I remember staying up past my bedtime to see my heroes at the time, DEMOLITION. Those guys rocked!
When others may look at you and smirk, maybe even mock you, what keeps you doing what you’re doing?
SB-1: I’m in the entertainment business. When I get a reaction from the fans, cheers or jeers, I know I’ve done my job. At my size, you can’t take people’s derrogatory statements to heart. When I wrestled ACTION JACKSON last month, he outweighed me by 110 pounds. What do you think the average fan would say about a skinny guy like me facing him? So I let that fuel me: I may not can beat this guy, but I’m not gonna let him tear me down. And he won the match, but I think I proved something to the fans and myself that night. To steal a line from the greatest ACTIVE wrestler today: I AM FOR REAL.
Would it ever be possible to see you in a buttoned up shirt and tie working a “nine-to-five” job?
SB-1: Haha! I’d love to be able to make a living wrestling. So would the thousands other independent wrestlers scratching and clawing to make it to the big leagues. The brutal honesty is that I might never be able to make ends meet in this business.
As SB-1, I’ll say it’s only a matter of time, but as a man I like to keep my feet firmly on Earth. Only time will tell.
In the world of professional wrestling, who would you say you look up to most and why?
SB-1: Bret Hart. The entire Hart dynasty, in fact. I have a tattoo of the Hitman’s logo on my upper back to remind me why I chose this life. I’ll go on record as saying Bret is the greatest wrestler of all time… PERIOD. Chris Benoit is close behind, and after that it gets a little blurry. Benoit’s intensity is unmatched. More recently I’ve been a huge fan of EDGE and both MATT and JEFF HARDY for their unique styles and innovative characters. Although I’m not a fan, I also have to give KURT ANGLE his due. And SHAWN MICHAELS ten years ago was up there with the best, too. Too bad I can’t say the same now…
It has been asked for decades, but in the “Internet Age” it needs to be addressed: Is professional wrestling fake?
SB-1: The word “fake” carries such negative implications. I prefer the term “choreographed” if I’m forced to put a label on what I do. Twenty years ago, no wrestler would dare admit this; but the times have changed.
It’s hard to convince anyone that professional wrestling is legit. It’s far from ultimate fighting, but it’s far from “fake”. Those are REAL people performing REAL athletic feats with very REAL pain. I think professional wrestlers are unfairly judged, too. No one comes up and says, “You’re one hell of an actor,” they say “Is it real? Is it all fake?” Do you think people come up to Jet Li and ask if his fight scenes are real? The audience needs to be entertained, and as wrestlers we always put on a great show. At the end of the day, that’s all that matters.
The one year birthday episode of the Web Hosting Show is ready for download. Other than talking about what the podcast had done in the past year, we covered some pretty big Web hosting news. From HostingCon to wire tap hosting discounts, here is the week that was in the Web hosting world.
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Mitch Keeler is nothing more than your average Joe trying to leave his mark on the world though both his professional work and his online projects, articles, podcasts and more.
