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HOT! Hosting Sales and Promotions

Paul Zannucci — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 22:07:34 +0000

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On the Friday after Thanksgiving and the following Monday, Cool Handle is literally giving away a year of hosting for free. Click the banner below on the right day(s) and you’ll be good to go:

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Simply Hosting Sale

Paul Zannucci — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 01:14:40 +0000

Simply Hosting promotion. Seems to be a lot of these around these days–good enough deals that it makes sense to give it a go, creating your own little cyberspace home.

Simply Hosting is a solid choice for shared hosting and is intuitive enough for your average beginner. As usual, WordPress is available for easy installs, and it’s hard to find something simpler than that.

Dedicated Hosting Pricing…

Paul Zannucci — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 20:39:10 +0000

Normally I consider pricing on dedicated hosting to be ridiculous. But what do you do if you really thinknthat may be the best type of hosting for you but are unsure? Well, for a limited time, you can kick the tires for only a buck. Really just $1. There isn’t even any setup fee. If you’ve bee unsure, there’s never been a better time to try it out at Cool Hosting:

Easy Hosting

Paul Zannucci — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 17:02:11 +0000

Just need a hosting company that is affordable, easy-to-use and works like a charm? One would think that this would be easy enough to find, but this is not the case. Actual use of most hosting companies is the equivalent of being hit with a hammer in the male vegetables. That’s why this website is here: conservation of your veggies.

The following web hosting companies have been tested by me personally, and as a person who despises most hosting companies, I can tell you that these are the cream of the easy, affordable, non-emasculating crop. Take your pick and get online!

Blogging or Running a Site with your iPhone

Paul Zannucci — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 12:43:49 +0000

Note: This article assumes you are running your site with WordPress, though it likely applies to most popular platforms.

I’m doing something wonderful right now; I’m updating this site from my iPhone. The point of this article is not to argue that this is an efficient method of updating and maintaining your website, but rather that it is a convenient way to keep your site fresh during times when you are away from your computer. Depending upon the type of site you run, this could range from being an absolute necessity to simply being a good way to keep search engines happy.

Before getting into the available tools that make this task much easier, I should point out that fresh from the box with its native Safari browser, you can do nearly anything with your WordPress site, just depending on your level of sanity or desperation. Pulling up my admin page allows me access to everything but the stats table for the “wordpress.com stats” plugin. I can move widgets around, change the CSS, write new PHP, etc. It isn’t easy, but it can be done. Obviously, just because it can be done doesn’t mean it should be done, and I wouldn’t recommend experimentally crashing your site from your phone (wait till you get to your computer before you destroy your site). The best use of your smart phone as it relates to your site is general updates and, possibly, emergency maintenance.

Several tools are available in the app store that make site management from your iPhone easy. First and foremost would be the free WordPress app. With this app you can add new posts and pages, edit old posts and pages, approve or disapprove comments, and some other tasks like adding or adjusting tags and categories.

Writing on your iPhone can be done directly within the WordPress app or you may use one of any number of free or paid word processing apps. Some of these apps are made to enable faster typing, but I’ve found that, with a little practice, I’ve become quite proficient at iPhone typing, being only barely slower than on a regular keyboard. Apple’s new OS make this even easier by having a built-in spellcheck system.

Besides the WordPress and word processing apps, there are a whole array of apps you might find helpful, from photo-editing to FTP programs. Also, many web hosting companies have created their own apps that provide even more background control.

Bottom line? Being away from your computer doesn’t have to mean that you are away from your site, and that is a good thing. Just don’t let your boss catch you blogging on the football game.

GoDaddy Reseller (WildWest) Consolidation Post

Paul Zannucci — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 18:16:45 +0000

NOTE: As I’ve said, the point of this site is honest help in an ocean of filled with sharks. I’m not in this to make money or friends. I call them as I see them for the benefit of my readers. All GoDaddy testing has reached a point where I confidently direct readers to look elsewhere regardless of their needs. I have not found anything, after more two years of testing, that GoDaddy does well other than marketing itself. Their Linux servers are a slow. Their “grid” is a ridiculous. Their customer service inadequate, incompetent and, especially with someone who knows what they are doing, rude. And their reseller accounts provide you with an opportunity to pay them good money to attempt to sell their inferior products. I cannot in good conscience continue to test this program for fear I might sell someone something.

So I’ve made a few posts about the GoDaddy WildWest (don’t ask me why) reseller program and intend to make some more as I start my new trial of the product, but it looks like most people just read the original review and don’t see the rest of the material that’s been provided (not that it is critical material in all cases, but it is updated); therefore I’ve decided to create sort of a centralized consolidation post. Newcomers probably still won’t see this, but for those who enjoy following the trials and tribulations of attempting to make money with the GoDaddy reseller program can bookmark this page and follow the updates from here.

The original review including some useful comments from readers: GoDaddy Reseller Review

This first update: GoDaddy Reseller Update

The second update: Reseller Update # 2

Most recent update: Reseller Trial Closed (Sort of)

I think that if there is one thing overall that I would have you know about this program it would be that you need to maintain a sense of sanity when thinking whether to try this or not. If you can’t afford to try it out but think you might make your money back quick, you better think again. This is not an easy way to make money. It takes time, trial and error, and patience; and still there is not guarantee that you will succeed. If you can throw out the money and think this would be fun to try, go for it. On the other hand, if this is your desperate attempt to get grocery money, you’d be just as well off buying 200 lottery tickets for all this will do for you in the short term unless you already have a clientele ready to go.

Basically, just use caution.

Do Follow Comments

Paul Zannucci — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:18:22 +0000

Okay, so I finally approved a backlog of comments. For the purpose of being a pleasant web host, I have a DoFollow policy for comments. While most blogs automatically set themselves to not report links out from visitors, I find it more neighborly to let your links count. All I ask is that you be polite, on-topic and linking to a site that isn’t a scam, pharmaceutical, gambling, etc. Those I chuck into the great trash can of cyberspace.

Thank you and happy linking.

General Update

Paul Zannucci — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 16:52:37 +0000

So I’ve finally had my first problem with Host Gator. As it turns out, they need a “valid” credit card in order to keep your account active. I’ve never heard of such a thing! Anyway, as soon as I complied with this unreasonable demand, they kindly turned the site back on, and we’re back in business as smooth as ever. Despite this obsessive need for payment, I still recommend Host Gator as the far and away best shared hosting company out there. You can read my full review here: Best Shared Host Host Gator Review.

Or you can just hop over to Host Gator and start your trouble-free, super fast shared hosting by clicking the banner below:

Speaking of things that don’t work because of my general incompetence, my one year trial of the GoDaddy reseller program came to an end, and I didn’t make any money at all. Why? Because I didn’t do anything. I set up the site and let it just hang out for a year. Nevertheless, I’ve come up with a plan for how we (the interested reader and I) might be able to make such a thing work, and I’ll divulge that in an update soon. Whether I’ll actually try it out myself or not, I haven’t decided. Want to make a run of it on your own? Here’s their link below. Despite one year of complacency and losing $200 in start-up fees, I still think there’s good potential there.

Speaking of GoDaddy, they now offer cloud computing starting at $99 per month. I haven’t tested it and don’t have any intention to, so try at your own risk. You’d have to have one hell of a website to need cloud hosting. I don’t have any of those, and since it is my policy not to artificially stress the servers I test, I don’t think we’d get a realistic result from my using it. If I ever have a site that’s getting 20k plus unique hits a day, maybe I’ll put it over there and see what they can do.

One thing is for certain about GoDaddy, and that is that is that they have the very best system for finding domain names. Even when I haved a site that will be hosted elsewhere, I use GoDaddy to find the name I want.