Posts Tagged With: comments
· May 8, 2008 at 5:21 am · Web Hosting
Tags: carbon credits, comments, feedback, green, hosting, podcast, web-hosts
I’ve got a lot of positive and negative feedback on this week’s edition of the Web Hosting Show podcast. The most interesting of the bunch is the debate over how usual “green” hosting really is. I know some hosts out there really want to do better by the environment, and feel like this is helping. After reviewing all the facts though I still feel like it is a three card monte-like scam. Here is a view from the other side of the fence from Jen L, one of the debaters…
We do it, and if it’s a scam, then so is my electric company regulated and overseen by the government.
At my home, I have the option to pay a premium for renewable energy, and I have lots of official stuff on my bill showing the higher price I pay with the guarantees that money got fed into the grid. My electric company releases the energy I pay for into the grid - they have to, or its illegal. Are the zaps coming into my house guaranteed to be clean?
No. Energy delivery is communal - but the higher premium I pay puts more clean energy into the grid that would not otherwise get there. If enough people chose to pay for the higher premium, a higher percentage of energy in the grid would be renewable. Does it come with the same ego boost as solar panels on the top of my house? No. Does it ensure that less pollution comes from me because I pay more than everyone else? Yes. It makes a difference.
It’s the same concept. Green Tags enable people that want to buy renewable energy but who don’t have it directly available to them to do so. If *everyone* did it no matter where they were, we could all be green in a short amount of time.
If you wonder if its a scam, ask to see the certificates that were issued (as we all get certificates saying precisely what we bought), and the report as to how they arrived at how much to offset. If they can’t give it to you, then yes, possibly, it’s a scam.
If they *can*, the place you are hosting is paying for their energy *twice*, once to keep the power on, and again in the same amount to feed that energy they used back into the grid as green energy so someone else doesn’t have to use dirty energy.
How someone voluntarily choosing to pay for their electricity twice can be considered “a scam” is beyond me.
Check out podcast 151 for yourself and join the debate. Is green hosting good or just another sales gimmick to get you in the door?
· April 27, 2007 at 7:24 am · Web Development
Tags: close, comments, help, spam, trackback, turn-off, WordPress
I’ve been looking for a good WordPress comment to help me fight the comment and trackback spam I have been getting lately. One solution was to turn off commenting for posts that were so many days old. I like this idea - because I highly doubt somebody today is going to feel motivated to comment on something I posted two or three years ago.
With that said, I found the tool I was looking for in Comment Timeout. This wonderful plugin allows you to:
- It lets you close comments on old entries that do not have an ongoing, active discussion.
- It examines your spam queue and your Bad Behavior logs to let you close comments and trackbacks across the board to troublesome IP addresses.
- It allows you to reject comments that contain too many hyperlinks, or links in BBCode format.
I have used this on the Web Hosting Show’s Web site for a few days now and have been enjoying the result. As soon as I get the time to do so, I’ll be rolling this out on all of my Web sites.
· March 8, 2007 at 5:03 am · Personal, Web Hosting
Tags: comments, feedback, hosting, mp3, podcasts, questions, web-hosts
I gave this a shot once and it didn’t work out - but I figured hey, why not give it one more try? I would like to get anybody and everybody to send me your hosting questions in audio form via Odeo. Here is the link for you to do so.
Now what can your question cover? Anything! Here are a few topic ideas to get you started:
1. Send me just a friendly hello!
2. Ask me a question about your hosting account of the Web hosting business.
3. Let me know your questions on and about domain names.
Both Web hosts and Web hosting clients are welcome to ask and I promise you I will do my best to get it played on a future episode of the Web Hosting Show. If I can answer it, then I will hook you up with somebody who can via the comments.
Send me your thoughts, my ears and podcast is waiting for you! Also if you know of a service other than Odeo which you would like to use just let me know.
· October 26, 2006 at 7:01 pm · Web Hosting
Tags: blogs, commentary, comments, feedback, Web Hosting, web-hosts, WHIR
Now it looks like I might have rubbed a few people at the WHIR the wrong way with my commentary on how the only folks that are commenting on WHIR blogs are the other WHIR writers. It’s funny this catches their attention and me mentioning that WHIR TV would be a lot better with Anastasia Tubanos in a bikini doesn’t. For the post that started all of this - click here.
Let me comment on something Liam Eagle said though:
Mitch seems to think he’s unraveling some sort of conspiracy. But this is hardly a revelation. It ought to be patently obvious to anyone reading the WHIR blogs that we’re posting comments on each other’s entries. We’re certainly not doing it in secret.
Nobody said it was a secret.
The reason I thought it was funny is that the Web Host Industry Review is one of the biggest dogs in the fight. They are the “leaders of the pack” in some people’s eyes. When you look at other Web hosting leaders blog (take Bob Parsons for example) he gets comments all over the place. Why isn’t the WHIR Blog team getting the same reaction? That is what I thought was “odd” and then “funny”.
Just to make it clear yet again, just because I might question or highlight what the WHIR is doing doesn’t mean there is a “negative meaning” behind it. Heck, I even wrote for the WHIR once upon a time (did one article too my whole month there :)).
One thing that the WHIR does very well is Web hosting news. I am in no way, shape or form in competition with the WHIR team. They have a bigger budget, a bigger team, and more leverage in the business than a little old Web hosting podcaster like me has. I am only trying to bring attention to what I see.
Now one more comment on what Liam had to say in his own comment:
Hey Mitch. I was going to reply here, but I thought maybe nobody would see it, so I put something up on my blog. 
Yes Liam, maybe nobody would have seen it here, but then again - where did WHIR TV go anyways?
· October 25, 2006 at 4:00 am · Web Hosting
Tags: audience, comments, funny, self-promotion, web-hosts, WHIR
Now this is just funny. I was skimming through some of the comments over at the Web Host Industry Review’s new blog section, and something struck me as odd. All the comments i saw were from the same people. So I figured, well they have a few fans - good for them. The closer I looked though, all the comments I saw came from the other “blog writers”. They are sitting around and commenting on each others different posts so they look more busy it seems.
Now this might not be the case exactly, but it sure does look funny. Need an example?
· August 29, 2006 at 9:47 am · Web Hosting
Tags: answers, comments, labor-day, podcast, questions, special, Web Hosting
On Labor Day, the Web Hosting Show is going to be doing another Q and A special. Send me your questions, and I’ll do my best to answer every single one I get. Now you have two choices when it comes to sending me your questions.
You can drop me an E-mail at mitch@mitchkeeler.com and leave me your questions there or you can send me an audio voice message via Odeo. No matter which one you pick, I’ll put it and you on the show and give you an answer. Also, don’t be scared to send me your Web site link as well. I would love to check it out and put a cheap plug in the podcast for it.
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