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Free Graphic Hosting with UpPush

Feb/02 in Free Hosting

UpPush.com is yet another of many free file hosting services out there that touts itself as being for “everybody”. They support .jpg, .gif, .png, .tiff, and .bmp uploads too so that almost covers all of your basic image formats.

UpPush Free File Hosting

The only regulations mentioned is “no adult content” which is reasonable and they are also the sister site to FileBig.com – a web site reviewed here a few days ago. UpPush is definitely worth checking out if you need a free image hosting resource that is both quick and easy to use.

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FileBig.com – More Free Image Hosting

Jan/30 in Free Hosting

Sounding like the mumblings of a caveman, FileBig.com is on the scene and will allow you to upload up to 50MB per file to share with your friends, forum buddies and file sharing amigos. Here are a handful of the perks.

  • Fast, Easy and Free!
  • Easily share files too big to email.
  • 50MB file size, bigger than others.
  • Unlimited storage and downloads.

The promise a free file hosting experiance that can not be beat. You can use the web site interface to upload all types of files (as long as by all you mean .JPG, .GIF, .PNG, .TIFF, .BMP). It will allow you to easily share files on MySpace, Facebook, eBay, and more.

FileBig - Free File Hosting

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WebRipper – Ripping Media from the Web

Jan/17 in Desktop Apps

WebRipper WebRipper might be the best tool to use if you need to take pictures or media files from the web and save them to your own PC. The program is totally free and offers several filter options to allow you to control where, when and how the files are downloaded.

The downside is that it will take a little ‘bit of tweaking before you get things just right – and that might frustrate some people. The good side is, this program was once thought to be forgotten about but was just updated recently.

It also supports more than just picture formats. Here is the full list of file types supported.

Supported file-types:
Images: JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP
Videos: MPEG, AVI, QuickTime, Real Video, WMV
Audio: MP3, WAV, Real Audio, MIDI
Documents: DOC, XLS, PPT, PDF, TXT
Other: Flash, EXE, TORRENT, ZIP

The hidden gem of this program is the search function that will allow you to scrap the Web for images tht meet your keyword and size requirements.

Now there are perfectly good reasons to use this tool. Lets say you wanted to save a long list of photos your sweetie sent you of your Christmas vacation together? Saving each one, one by one would be a pain – but using this to take them from the Web makes the job much easier.

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Blogger, VP and Geek – Kayla Fleming Talks

Jan/11 in Interviews, Web Hosting

Kayla Fleming Hosting Interview

Kayla Fleming, the Vice President over at Surpass Hosting is one of those people who I had always read or watched (no wait, that makes me sound like a stalker doesn’t it?) but never introduced myself to till a few days ago. I needed an interesting personality to talk with and she seemed to take the proverbial cake. I have been a big fan of her work and wanted to learn a little more. According to her profile over at the WHIR…

Kayla has experience in all areas of web hosting from conducting market research to securing server environments. Kayla has worked with Internet companies for nine years and has been involved in the web hosting industry since 2002. Under Kayla’s direction, Surpass has reached record growth each year. She is also responsible for the company’s forum, one of the most active communities among web hosts.

Now your caught up to the same spot it Kayla’s story I was at before this greatly enjoyable chat between the two of us.

How did you “break in” to the wild and wacky world of web hosting we live in today?

Kayla: My first job was doing tech support at an all Mac powered ISP. That was powerful inspiration to stay on the geek path. I watched sites like Blogger.com pop up from thin air and saw a lot of trends unfold. I think it happened very naturally and I was at the right place at the right time.

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Micro Hosts Make Hosting Even Cheaper

Jan/08 in Web Hosting

Talking to a few people both inside and outside the web hosting game there is a certain business model that seems to be taking off in popularity. Many large web hosts looking for new revenue streams are trying to also be Micro hosts. Now what is a Micro host?

Web hosting disk space and bandwidth offers are so large these days it is getting ridiculous web hosts have to do something new. You can always lower the price – so why not make fast food’s equivalent to the web hosting world? That is Micro web hosting 101.

Now who would want to use a stripped down and less expensive hosting plan? Well you will need to toss in a few more perks. Maybe an easy to use page editor or a template system. The target for these will not be Joe down the street who has years of experience in coding HTML, PHP and working with MySQL databases. The target is Jane, who has never done a web site before and wants something simple and quick so that she can type in the content, hit save and she never has to look at the site again for six months.

So is Micro hosting a bad thing? No. It is creating yet another business model that will make the web hosts money and the customers of the web host happy.

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Hosting Debate Over 10 Terabyte Deal

Dec/14 in Web Hosting

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. Continue Reading →

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Holiday Hosting Deals and Steals!

Nov/20 in Web Hosting

Every year about this time, web hosts roll out the red carpet to try to get the attention of those avid shoppers with cash burning a hole in their pockets. Courtesy of HostingHoopla.com I have some of the best hosting deals for you that have caught my eye thus far.

Host Color Offers Thanksgiving Deal
Web hosting provider Hostcolor.com announced on Friday it is offering through December 1 a special Thanksgiving promotion that offers a 20 percent discount on shared hosting plans.

Hostway Gives Away Business Makeover
Customers who purchase specific Hostway and ValueWeb products before December 14 will automatically be entered in the draw for $5000 (USD) worth of Hostway services.

Designers – Win a Xbox 360 or $400!
Lunarpages is holding a contest for our new t-shirt design, and you are all invited to submit your designs via our community forums.

AIT Offers Free iPod Nanos
Web hosting provider and domain registrar Advanced Internet Technologies, Inc. is offering free iPod nanos as part of its “Holiday Tunes Promotion”, the company announced recently.

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Why I Hate Hyphenated Domains

Nov/15 in Web Development Tutorials

There is a reason why you don’t see many hyphenated domain names out there today. Now why is that? Well there is everything from being hard to remember to just being ugly, you could pick and choose why they are a bad idea. The key thing to remember though is to stay away from them at all costs.

Think of ten of your favorite Web sites. Do any of them have hyphenated domain names? Nope.

The first reason is, is that hyphenated domain names are really hard for folks to remember. When picking a good domain name, you want to find something short, relevant, and with a few keywords. Now many Web 2.0 startups are breaking that rule left and right - but I think it is still a good rule to have.

For the rest of us, the previously mentioned rules are good ones to follow. You want people to be able to associate your domain name with your Web site quickly. hyphenated domain names just make things too difficult.

Where does the hyphen go?

Did it have one, or were you just thinking that it did?

If they the visitor types in the domain name without the hyphen, will they be taken to a competitor’s Web site? These are all things you should keep in mind. So next time you are out domain name hunting, do yourself a favor and stay away from getting a hyphenated domain name.

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Lunarpages T-Shirt Design Contest

Nov/14 in Web Hosting

The Lunarpages people have just announced a really cool contest.

Lunarpages is holding a contest for our new t-shirt design, and you are all invited to submit your designs via our community forums. Currently we have black t-shirts with a white design on the back and we would like something a bit snazzier.

Please post your entries on this forum thread as images or a link to your design, and on December 17th we will close out the contest and spend the following 11 days voting as a community on the best 5 entries.

What is the prize? The winning prize is a Xbox 360 or $400! Get more information about the contest over on the Lunarpages forums.

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Free Hosting for Facebook Developers?

Nov/14 in Web Hosting

Joyent

Need a good hosting gimmick? Well take free – and then take one of the hottest web sites out there and I think you have a good mix. The people at Joyent must have had that in mind when they decided they were going to give people working to make Facebook better.

In an article on Information Week’s web site this was said:

“Joyent is offering the “Accelerator,” as the company’s on-demand infrastructure subscription service is known, for Facebook developers in conjunction with Dell, which is supplying the server infrastructure for the program. The Dell servers run Open Solaris.”

Now I don’t think there is anything crooked here, Joyent is a great company run by great people. I think this is a real steal and deal for people working on Facebook applications and if they are looking for hosting they should stand up and take notice.

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