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Fun Interview with Lunarpages Newsletter

Aug/19 in Personal, Web Hosting

Hey for those of you who wondered what it is  do for a day job, here’s your chance.  Was looking back this morning at an interview I did for the Lunarpages monthly newsletter.  Here is how things start out…

Hey Mitch! Thanks for taking some time out from writing our Newsletter articles to handle a quick interview. 

Not a problem. Nice to be on the other side of the content stream every once in a while in front of my close and personal amigos, the always awesome Lunarpages clients.

You’re another one of those people who work for Lunarpages and does just about everything in every department. So what’s your official job title and what do you do for LP?

I don’t know if I have ever been given one? I guess officially I would be considered a Level One Customer Service Representative, Senior Forum Moderator, Content Writer, Sales Guy, Blogger and Official Odd Jobs Associate. Think I almost got everything covered there.

You can check out the rest of the interview on the web site.  Had been a while since I had done any sort of interview, hope I wasn’t rusty.  I guess what they say about, “time flying by when your having fun” is true.   End of next month will mark my two year anniversary of being with the company, and hopefully I’ll have many more years to come.

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Association of Internet and Hosting Service Providers

Aug/18 in Web Hosting

The Web Hosting Show The Web Hosting Show was great this week.  I got a one on one interview with Paul Hirsch of the AIHSP (the Association of Internet and Hosting Service Providers) explaining this new web hosting group, what they hope to do and how you too can join up.  Check out the podcast for the entire interview:  What is the AIHSP? – Episode 162 of the Web Hosting Show!

Here are some of the questions I asked Paul about the alliance:

  • Where did the idea of staring up AIHSP begin?
  • After looking over a lot of the goals the AIHSP has set, a lot of them seem to be aimed to benefit employees. What about contracted workers, who often not given the same rights as an employee?
  • I have one major concern, what happens to the little web hosts? 
  • What can people and businesses do if they want to get involved?

To learn more about what the AIHSP wishes to do, the best place to check out first (after you listen to the podcast, of course) is the AIHSP Goals page.  If you want to learn more about this exciting group or get involved yourself, check out aihsp.org.

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Web of Pain – Comic for the Web Dev Geeks

Aug/08 in Web Development Tutorials, Web Hosting

It is not often you can mix funny with web hosting.  Thanks to the latest issues of Ping! Zine, I was turned onto a new comic that covers the web development side of things Web of Pain.  Browsing through the archives on their web site, I had a lot of fun.  This one still sticks out as my favorite thus far…

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Well worth visiting to see the comics up so far.  It is updated every second Monday, so there will be more fresh content worth checking out soon!  Enter the Web of Pain!

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Featured Again in Ping! Zine

Aug/03 in Web Hosting

Just got the latest edition of Ping! Zine at my door yesterday, and I do have to say it is great cover to cover, front to back.  Yes, I also had an article in it this month, Website Hosting vs Personal Backup Hosting (check it out on page 46).

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Download Vol 6 Issue #3 of Ping! Zine (.pdf)

If you did not get the paperback copy of the magazine, you can also pick up the digital version from PingZine.com.  If you want to get the paperback version of the magazine for free, check out this special subscription offer from WebHostingShow.com.

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Appreciating the Wiki Process

Jul/28 in Web Development Tutorials, Web Hosting

One of my most recent project I have been put in charge of for Lunarpages is building up a support site wiki for all of their customers to use.  Now as somebody who uses WordPress for just about everything – I was skeptical about moving over to the wiki format. 

I do have to say I think I am getting a grasp on how to move around, edit and customize a wiki.  Thankfully, there is a lot of good help and resource information on MediaWiki’s web site.  If you ever find yourself building a wiki this is one nice resource your going to be using over and over again for sure. 

One of the most helpful have been the post about categories, think I have that about mastered by now.  I haven’t even started looking at all the extensions though.  Have any other wiki advice for me as I tackle this new project of mine?

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Lunarpages Now Providing 229 WordPress Themes

Jul/27 in Web Development Tutorials, Web Hosting

I’m proud to say that Lunarpages (via several design contests) has done a lot to perk up the WordPress theme design area of the Web.  Between two contests they are now highlighting 229 different themes that are all available for download.

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Lunarpages WordPress Theme Design Contest – Series 1 Entries

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Lunarpages WordPress Theme Design Contest – Series 2 Entries

So if your looking for a little insperation on your next WordPress theme design or your stressing over finding a great one to use, check ‘em out.  Lunarpages is also currently holding it’s third WordPress design contest right now – so if your a designer you got to check that out too.

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Hosting Podcast Tease for Episode 158

Jul/25 in Personal, Web Hosting

Loads of hosting fun from this week’s past show. Did you check it out?
If not here are just a few topics from this week’s episode of the Web Hosting Show.

  • HostingCon Sold Off to iNet Interactive? – iNET Interactive, those darlings of the web hosting world who brought us such things as webhostingtalk.com, hostvoice.com, and hostingtech.com have acquired the HostingCon conference.
  • Interesting Tool to See if Your Site is Up or Down! – Previously I told you about an awesome web site status tool that could help you tell if your web site was up or not.  Down for everyone or just me looks to have become a real success.  I have one better though, thanks to a suggestion from a Web Hosting Show listener named John.
  • The Mess That Was .ME Domain Name Registrations? – You may have caught wind of some of the .me buzz last week, as GoDaddy started taking registrations for them for $20 a year (and you have to sign up for two years, so that should really be $40)… If eight people say they registered it, that will leave seven people really unhappy about the whole ordeal.
  • The Simplest FTP Program Ever!?! – I often hear complaints from people that FTP programs are too hard to use.  There are too many options, too many buttons and too many configurations you have to learn about.  For those people out there looking for a  simpler FTP program I offer to you DropUpLoad.

Interested?  Then go download and listen to the Web Hosting Show, episode 158! Also be sure to grab the RSS feed, and pick it up on iTunes too.

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Hong Kong Explains the Internet’s Tubes

Jul/20 in Web Hosting

Need a totally off the wall and oddball way of explaining bandwidth to your friends?  This video (from what I guess is a commercial for Internet access from Hong Kong) should do the job.

If you don’t find that funny, you don’t deserve to laugh! (via HostingBookmarks.com)

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Who is Your Web Host?

Jul/11 in Online Apps, Web Hosting

Here is a question I wanted to see answered on Plurk and thus far, there have been a lot of good suggestions.  So who is your web host?

Need more?  Check out the Plurk page to see if anymore suggestions have been added (or you can add your own!).

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The Web Site is Down

Jul/10 in Web Hosting

This has to be the best web video I have seen in a long long time.  Right up my alley!

If you know of anymore of equal or better quality, let me now. Always looking for videos to share on the Web Hosting Show’s video showcase.

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