Archive for February, 2006
· February 27, 2006 at 12:20 pm · Odds & Ends
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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· February 20, 2006 at 8:05 pm · Odds & Ends
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.
· February 20, 2006 at 12:38 pm · Odds & Ends
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?
· February 20, 2006 at 11:00 am · Odds & Ends
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.
· February 19, 2006 at 6:54 pm · Odds & Ends
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.
· February 16, 2006 at 9:22 pm · Odds & Ends
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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