Posts Tagged With: debate
· January 15, 2008 at 1:35 pm · Web Hosting
Tags: billing, debate, dreamhost, error, hosting, news, web-hosts
Looks like the DreamHost people fell asleep yet again at the wheel. What they describe as a “teensy eensy weensy little billing error” turned out to be $400 to $9,000 in overcharging their customers. Feedback is coming in quickly with the story being posted all over the ‘net.
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Here is more about the fiasco from the Web:
Not a good time to be a customer of DreamHost, that is for sure. Also as a point worth mentioning for all fairness, I am a contracted worker for LP… but anybody who has seen my publicly viewable resume and mention of if here time and time again can see that. 
Update: Looks like by watching the DreamHost blog they have posted a few more posts after the one that was heard around he Web. Seems like they are doing a better job the second time around discussing this issue than the first. I’ll give them two thumbs up for that.
Update #2: No, I was not bullied by anybody to update this post (removing some of the negativity) - I took in feedback, and adjusted my thoughts, it happens. As for those who want to try to drag me into a public fight over one of my employers - no thanks, got more important things to worry about than people trying to make a name out of themselves by trying to shoot me down. Thanks for reading!
· December 14, 2007 at 5:00 am · Web Hosting
Tags: cheap, debate, hosting, hosts, podcast, web
It has been fun the past few days watching the debate on the Web Hosting Show about fxts.net and a segment I did talking about their “promise” to give their clients 10 terabyes of disk space. Well, I give Daniel - the guy in charge over there a lot of credit because he has defended himself and his action.
Alex (from Sliqua Enterprise Hosting) had held the fire to his feet though without going over the line. Here are just a few examples of the discussion that has been had. Read the rest of this entry »
· October 29, 2007 at 5:32 am · Web Hosting
Tags: backup, cpanel, debate, hosting, hosts, ICANN, page rank, podcast, web
Almost lost my voice doing yesterday’s podcast recording, so appreciate my excitement about getting this put out there for the public and my lack of probably common sense to stop talking when I should have. On this week’s edition of the Web Hosting Show I covered the following:
- Google PageRank Updates and Debate
- Discrimination Against Southerners in Hosting
- How to Backup Using cPanel
- Best of the Forum Scripts
- ICANN Investigates Insider Domain Registrations
Should be a podcast everybody can get something out of. If not, you can have your money back! Jokes on you though, you can listen for free.
+ Listen to Episode 129 of the Web Hosting Show!
· August 10, 2007 at 10:40 am · Web Hosting
Tags: al-gore, debate, enviroment, green, podcast, recycle, web-hosts
There has been a lot of talk about green web hosting lately. I am all for saving the planet as much as the next guy - but I don’t think the practices that are going on are actually doing much for the environment. Instead it is one big PR game being played with the public - and many are falling for it hook, line and sinker.
I covered this topic (as it relates to web hosting) and a few others this week on the podcast.
For most people, green hosting is that kind that has been sitting in the back of the refrigerator a little too long. Pretty soon though I have a feeling that either by hook or crook we will all be impacted by in in one way or another in the future. I’ll talk about it, tell you what it is and let you know what you can do to help.
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It seems like if you have enough money you can buy yourself out of your problem and then you don’t actually have to worry about changing your day to day business or day to day life. As I talked about on this week’s edition of the Web Hosting Show - I think there’s something that smells funny about the whole green web hosting deal.
· August 22, 2006 at 11:12 am · Web Hosting
Tags: audio, CD, debate, expensive, Hostingcon, prices
Well, it looks like the head honcho of Hostingcon noticed my comments about the Hostingcon CDs being a little over priced. This is what George Roberts had to say.
Please keep in mind that the price you quoted is for the whole program on CD, which is 32 CDs. We do make individual tracks available for a lower price as well as each individual session available. For those that just want to pick up the audio for a couple sessions they missed it’s pretty reasonable at $15 per session.
Now I like George. As I have said before, he is one of the brilliant minds of the Web hosting industry. I just think he is overlooking a few things.
Ok, I do realize that it is a big load of CDs you would be getting. If the price can’t be lowered though, how about giving us a few “Hostingcon bundles” to check out? Give me three or four CDs grouped together, and set the price under $100.
I want to look out for the Web host out there that couldn’t afford to go to Hostingcon - but still wants to learn something from the experience. I realize that profits have to be made, but cutting a few people a little slack should not hurt the bottom dollar.
