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True green web hosting – DC powered servers

Friday, November 21st, 2008

What does the hosting industry do in the global fight against current climate changes? How can a hosting provider cut costs, improve data center stability and still call themselve a green web host? Do you plant a tree for every new customer? Do you put a couple of solar panels on top of your roof? Or do you save up to 30 % on power supply to your servers using low wattage components?

The answer is the new DC power technology. With direct DC power to the servers or the option of applying a AC-to-DC converter solution, outrunning other AC powered dataventer solution, a company called Rackable Systems claims to have come up with a data center power solution that not only will increase system reliability but also decrease monthly power costs by up to 30%.

I just started reading about this and it seems that finally environmental thinking is beeing applied directly on datacenter systems. Full cargo centers of servers running 24/7, demanding loads of power supplies – it is in the datacenters that green web hosting really can be applied. Planting a tree or using some solar panels is just for show, to ride of the green hosting’s good name.

DC power is the future, as far as I can tell.

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Website of The Week Competition!

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

Listen up everybody!

Here is you chance to show off your own website and get your well-deverved time in the spotlight.  To the weekly blogging here at WebHOstingSearch.com we are now adding a segment called Website of The Week! – a competition for all our loyal and awesome readers who we know master some of the greatest websites in th WWWorld.

Every week the competition takes on a new theme, starting today. This week, w.38, you will be competing over the title Best Pimped Out Blog - judging who has the most pimped out blog? Other themes that will follow is:

  • w. 39 – Flyest Functions – rewarding the website with coolest and flyest functions!
  • w.40  – Coolest Web Design – got user-friendly, outside the box, original type web design?
  • w. 41 – Most Original Content – what is your site about?

Each weekly winner will be announced by the end of the week, Friday, in an exclusive Winner of The Week blog post. The winner will in addition to glory, fame (and a link to his/her site) get a custom-made certificate logo to show off on his/her website.

So compete now by simply commenting this blog post or any of the coming Weekly Winner – post, add your contact information, website URL, your current web host and which weekly theme you want to compete in.

Remember,  you can nominee any website you want! It doesn’t have to be yours!

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The Logic of Local Hosting!

Friday, August 29th, 2008

Hi all!

Just thoughts I would touch upon the issue of local or remote web hosting. Of course I’m not talking in technical terms, but geographical. Local being in the same country, state or region and remote being in freaking Never land. No, but on a more serious note there are few good reasons why you should not choose hosting closer to where you live, rather than far away. No different language, no different culture, no different time zones. Those are three basic reasons why youshould think domestic.

Additionally to these rock solid facts, the chances are you haven’t even bothered to check the offers in your own neighboorhood due to what I like to call Bling blindness. Of course the risk exsists that you won’t get the cheapest price in your own country but try to think like this: You Get What YouPay For. If you pay an extra couple of dollars a month you’ll not only get what you pay for, but the absense of our recently mentioned 3 facts. Think about it at least :-)

This is an issue we have chosen to address, not only here on the blog but in our geographical toplists. You can find your country and web hosting type listed according to price, service and quality. Start by selecting hosting type in the top tabs in the index page.

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The Human Web Hosting Glossary

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

Hey all!

After being in the web hosting business and blogging for WebHostingSearch.com for some time now stumbeling upon tricky terms and words you’ve never heard of, seems like everyday life. But you live and you learn and by now I feel like a human dictionary when it comes to web hosting. Countless hours have I spent trying to find proper explanations to new words and to my disappointment I had a hard time finding good resources. Digital and online technology being so fluid new words and names arise every week. Even if you are a web hosting guru, it is virtually impossible to keep track of all the new lingo.

So to contribute to this miserable situation, if any of you are in need of explanation concerning web hosting lingo simply comment on this post with your Q’s.

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Hostingcon 2008, a recap

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

So I didn’t post on the 30th as it was a busy day to close out the conference. I did not attend any of the sessions, although there was one I really wanted to attend. The exhibition hall was slow and it provided a good opportunity to speak to the company representatives on a more personal level. We were quite excited to find out that some of the companies want to work with us on future media and press information.

And now, some interesting tidbits from the conference-

  • Social media is an important form of connecting with consumers
  • IPv4 is running out and IPv6 will take affect in two years
  • Spam is increasing exponentially and is still everyone’s nightmares
  • SaaS (software a a service) is becoming increasing popular as a mode of deployment for software. For customers, SaaS is easy to maintain since the updating and maintenance occurs on the host’s side.
  • Green hosting was not a crucial issue.  I currently believe that green hosting will be the next step in as companies become more environmentally friendly.  Hopefully, it will become more important in the upcoming years with newer technologies to complement it.
  • Product branding is vital for hosting companies even though consumers see hosting as a standard good.

If you have questions, feel free to post comments.  We appreciate what you think.

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A Scam Was in the Air

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

Yes, I was in Chicago for the annual Hostingcon conference and one of the big talks for this event was a lottery with a Harley Davidson valued at over $12,000 as the first prize. The point of it all was to show that all of us hosting geeks also could be cool (sigh…).

Anyways, the companies responsible for this competition was Gawkwire, DesignVAR, Host4Yourself, BobCares, The Cloud Talk, CRE Loaded and SeeksAdmin. And I can tell you that there were many wishing to win that bike, including yours truly, and the expectations were running high. What should have been a fun and joyful competition ended up as somewhat of a … In lack of better words – it ended up as somewhat of a scam! You see, once they had a winner it turned out that he only had 1 chance in 250 to win the bike.

I can promise all of you that weren’t there – the mood quickly changed among all involved and in particular among all of us who entered the “competition”, or scam if you so will. It simply felt as cheap trick to get attention and what could, and should, have been good attention for the responsible companies turned out to be nothing else than a fiasco. All wasn’t good in the hood at HostingCon 2008. Rough times in the web hosting industry, :) …

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Hostingcon, the exhibition hall, and goodies

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

So there were enough complaints about the AC yesterday, that the convention center is more temperate today. Good news that some people consider ice boxes an uncomfortable environment.

The exhibition hall opened today and it was filled with people, goodies, and new ideas.  Microsoft, Parallels, and Google served as the traditional powerhouses but there were many other companies to take note of.  We met Ratepoint, ARIN, ICC, Limestone, DNA Mail, dotnetpanel, MailChannels, Parallels, and Drupal. We are excited that many agreed to be interviewed and we look forward to asking some tough, and fun, questions about their company, product and outlook on the industry.

We also met some hosting providers and will be expanding our selection soon.  Stay tuned because you will have some new options. Woot!

The day is about to close but on a fun note, there were neat prizes given away.  I received a Nerf toy (from MailChannels), a couple USB storage devices (ICC and Comodo), and may hopefully win a plasma tv.  Okay, that’s just a long shot, but who knows.  Oh! And I got a $2 bill…prize or souvenir?

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Hostingcon 2008, Monday

Monday, July 28th, 2008

The sessions are over for the day. In summary, it was really hot outside and really cold inside. Basically a frying pan to the ice cream freezer.

Despite the freezer situation inside, the sessions provided some great information. Here’s a quick run down:

  • Social Media is an important tool in communicating with customers
  • IPv6 is being deployed as IPv4 runs out of address space
  • Parked domains is a big market
  • Google Webmaster Tools may be offered in the future with hosting packages

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    Web 3.0 – The End of Google?

    Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

    What makes Google genius in my opinion isn’t its always changing algorithm and concept of e.g. ranking sites according to number of backlinks, but rather their insight in how people use the internet. They search, they’ve always search and the question remains, will they always search? My instict tells me that yes they, or we, will always primirily search to find websites and navigate through the web. Internet is and always will be  too big for anything else.  But perhaps  social bookmarking will accelarate and gain greater part of people user-patterns in the future? Or will we simply go directly to wikipedia when we want to know something?

    Has Google reached its peak or will it remain untouchable for yet another decenium? What is your thoughts?

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    What the new e-hype?

    Monday, June 23rd, 2008

    The internet hype shows no sign of cooling down and another IT-crash is not to speak of. Online forecasts predict nothing but clear skies and warm temperatures for the world’s greatest computer network. A growing majority of Earth’s population is spending hours online on secure connections every day, causing more and more businesses to migrate online. Online marketing is already a billion dollar industry and the ecommerce market is forcing shopping malls into bankruptcy all over the country every month. What’s next to come? What’s the e-hype of 2008?

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