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Reliable Web Site Monitoring with Site24x7.com

Aug/26 in Web Development Tutorials, Web Hosting

logo With both paid and free versions, Site24x7.com looks to be a great web site monitoring package.  They do monitoring of uptime and performance of your web sites, online services and servers.  They also promise to deliver instant alerts the moment something goes wrong.

You can set the monitoring tools to check the web site in question you wish to monitor in intervals ranging from 5 to 60 minutes or above.

If the worst might happen, and you need to be told, here are the various ways they can alert you to trouble:

  • E-mail
  • RSS
  • SMS Messages

For those of you just wanting to beta test the service; when you first sign up, you are given a fully functional, 15-day trial account. At the end of 15 days, your account will be downgraded to free unless you upgrade to either Standard or Premium account.

Check out the screenshots, then give them a shot at Site24x7.com.

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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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Quickly Share any Images with Rapidpik

Aug/05 in Free Hosting

rapidpikAlways in search of the next best thing in free hosting, I happened to run across rapidpik.  Now I have only played with it for a little ‘bit, but it could very well be the simplest uploading tool with the most features.

You should know the basic song and dance by now.  You choose your picture, you upload it and you can share it.  This service is much of the same.  Once you upload the image you are given the option to “edit” it.  Only editing you can do for now is changing the name. 

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Once you have done that, you are given the final result as a URL.  You can check out my test one one to see an example of the final product in action:  http://rapidpik.com/show/4406/jd9gf

Some of the nice features here are that you can share the image using a number of social services, you can view the image in all kinds of different sizes and you also get a flash player (which comes in handy if you upload multiple images at one time).  So if your looking for another free image host to add to your favorites – give rapidpik a shot.

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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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Fumpr – Your New Simple Image Hoster

Jul/24 in Free Hosting

There is no doubt that image hosts these days are coming a dime a dozen.  Fumpr is yet another service you can add to that ever growing list of free image hosting providers, and they cut out all the details, fuss and more.  You have an upload button, and a “browse to my file” box.  That is it.. well, OK they have a huge logo too.

Image Hosting with Fumpr

As you can see, after you have uploaded your image you can share the URL with friends, download, embed it into a web page of your own or grab the forum ready code.  Might also want to check out their sister service too, Fix Up My Pic.

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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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Quick Podcast Survey for YOU!

Jul/06 in Web Hosting

We will be short on a podcast this week due to the 4th of July weekend madness that has passed us by, but between your cleanup of fireworks and dumping out the barbequed leftovers please take a minute to take this short 6 question survey about the Web Hosting Show. 

Any and all feedback is appreciated and you know I am all about making you all happy so if there is something you like, hate or would love to hear about let me know. 

Take the Web Hosting Show Podcast Survey!

If you have ever wanted to share your opinion to me about what I do this would be the time to do it.  Also happy post 4th of July to all of you and thanks in advance!

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Open to Podcast Feedback

Jun/01 in Personal, Web Hosting

Since production of the podcast has been delayed again this week due to my recent PC problems I have decided to turn a negative into a positive (but I need your thoughts).  Go check out the technical difficulties post over at WebHostingShow.com.

+ Give Me Your Feedback, Suggestions, Compliments and Complaints!

I need all of you to let me know what you love, what you hate, what you want more of and what you could do without this week.  Give me your feedback so I can produce a better podcast just for you.

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Where Are You in the Green Hosting Debate?

May/08 in Web Hosting

green-hosting-debate 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?

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