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As soon as I can find a way and a place to move this blog over to WordPress, I am.
Alright I have finished moving WebHostingShow.com over to WordPress! Come check it out, play with everything, leave some comments and let me know what you think. Over the next few weeks I will probably be tweaking things to perfection, so there is still much more to come.
Now I have written a lot of program reviews and Firefox extension articles in my day. With all of these, there is always one thing that sticks out at me like a sore thumb on the Forth of July. Why is it “cooler” to mesh your product’s name together?
For example, lets say I have a program called Mitch Rocks. Now if I was 85 percent of the public, I would probably name it “MitchRocks”. Why get rid of that space? It just looks a little silly after you have looked at enough of these.
Well, I have put it off long enough. Since I thought it might be the easier one to do first, I have decided to start moving The Web Hosting Show off of Blogware and onto it’s own server with WordPress on the backend. I have tried to live with Blogware, but like many others I am starting to feel the growing pains. So wish me luck, and hopefully this process will not be too painful.
I know when I first entered the Web hosting world on my own, I was a little intimidated by some of the big names I wanted to talk with. There is no reason for all that worry though. On today’s show I’m going to share with you some of my tips on how you can get that conversation going. The Web Hosting Show, podcast 68 is now on the air.
I have been looking for some time now for a way to install WordPress on my local machine here, so I could play with some things and test some layouts without worrying about running up my own bandwidth. Well, I found it via the Web site Geeks are Sexy. After following the simple to understand steps I got it done. After looking at several different methods of getting this done, I think this one is the most simple and straight forward.
I am really starting to get the itch to move WebHostingShow.com and this blog over to WordPress. The only thing holding me back is finding the time to do it all.
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The latest issue of Ping! Zine is now in the mail but you can get a head start on everyone by checking it out online at PingZine.com. You can view it online via PDF or download a copy for your PDA now!!! In this issue we talk about World Hosting and the thoughts of many on reaching customers outside of the US. Also, a hot topic is Hiring Foreign Support and reaching across the language barrier.
Have problems with your salespeople not living up to your expectations? Well, check out our Nine steps to moving Bad Salespeople Up… or Out!!! This issue is packed with lots of vital information for being a success in the hosting industry and juicy tidbits for running your personal or business website. So don’t miss out on anything.
This issue covers all the latest and greatest topics in the Web hosting industry.
Sure the Internet might not pass on too much knowledge. Many old folks think it is all a waste of time really. I have been able to find a few nuggets of interesting knowledge through the week though.
+ Laughing at A-List Blogebrities (and Internet trends) can be fun!
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We all know about Web 2.0 and how it claims to change the way we view the Web in our lives. Well, coming from the Web hosting world, I have not seen too many applications that relate to my industry. That was the case untill I started seeing all these Ajax powered domain name searching tools popping up one by one. So out of the many out there today, which ones are the best? That is what I wanted to know.
The first Ajax domain name searching tool we have is squurl. It might have a funny name, but it does do the job.
Chris Jennings is a Design Student who works full-time as a web designer as well as chasing his entrepreneurial dreams. He is currently studying modern-day marketing and writing a book with a few friends at Yopos.com. Brian is the founder of the Infinimedia Network.
As far as speed goes, I would give this one 3 out of 4 stars.
DomainsBot is a new one to me, I just ran across it the other day. Here is some information about the project taken from the Web site.
DomainsBot was built to solve a couple of the most annoying problems facing anyone who wants to start a website on the Internet – finding decent domain names; figuring out who to register them with; and keeping track of them once you do.
How is DomainsBot’s speed? Five stars all the way. This sucker is quick!
Right off the bat I do not like this place because of the name. Diggage? It sounds like they are trying to milk the success of Digg.com, all the way down to the spelling. With that aside though, here is what I found out about them.
The site diggage was created one winters day. While searching for a domain name for one of my other projects I was getting extremely frustrated that I had to keep pressing ‘submit’ or ‘search’ or better still ‘go’. In this day and age, we want information, now! I wondered what was the best way to display results without interaction. I heard about this new so called ‘AJAX’ technology which, to be honest, has been around for a lot longer then some might imagine. Anyway, I put my thinking cap on and created diggage.
How does the speed look? Not that bad, I would say 4 out of 5 stars.
Now this was probably one of the first Ajax domain name search tools I ever heard of. Here is the inside skinny on them.
AjaxWhois.com allows you to search and Whois just about every Top Level Domain (TLD) in the world!
This service is free for private use only. Commercial use and/or abuse is strictly forbidden. We cannot guarantee the accuracy of the results.
Speed? I would say it is a safe bet I could give them a 4 out of 5 stars as well.
Here is some inside information on the folks at InstantDomainSearch.com.
This site is designed to help you find the right domain name. We don’t offer computer-generated suggestions because we think people can outperform machines when using good tools.
How instant is InstantDomainSearch.com? I think we have our second 5 out of 5 stars!
I was looking at Hosting Hoopla this morning, because it still seems like it is an idea that hasn’t taken off just yet. As you may or may not know by now, it is my Online Web hosting news and link aggregator. My main purpose for putting it together was to give many folks inside the Web hosting industry a look at what was going on in the Web hosting world all in one place. The only problem is it hasn’t taken off (in popularity) like I thought it would have. Have any suggestions on what would make it even better? I’m all ears.
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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.
