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Congratulations GoDaddy Girls

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

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GoDaddy have always been known for making pretty controversial commercials that people either love or hate. I guess that they believe that all publicity is good publicity. However, being somewhat of innovators (if you can call them that) in the hosting industry they also sponsor the Andretti Green racing team in which Danica Patrick is a driver. Just the other day, Sunday the 24th of May to be exact, Danica managed to make history at the Indianapolis 500 with her third place finish, which is the best result for a woman ever in this race.

The commercials that Danica made for GoDaddy has, as it always is with their commercials, caused quite the stir beforehand and hence also boosted the traffic to their website. This event however proved to be even more successful for GoDaddy. During the broadcast of the race web traffic to GoDaddy.com spiked 163 percent and after the race traffic increased with an impressive 570 percent. GoDaddy themselves say that this traffic is due to a GoDaddy “tease” commercial before the race featuring Ms. Patrick encouraging people to log on to their website. Say whatever you want about their commercials but they sure know how to drive traffic… And oh, congratulations on being part of making history!

Check out the video above

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Got Hard Drive?

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

gothardriveUnused disc space is history. Most hosting companies now offer a service that allows you to give a part of your disc space to a hosting company so it can be used as part of the server. Do not worry, you do not need to saw off a piece and send it to the hosting company. It can be done online. Just fill in the form specifying the type of PC and internet connection you have and voila! a part of your hard drive is used for providing hosting. This program will not slow down your PC or endanger it in any way. Think of the SETI project, you donate some CPU processor speed so that the kooks over at Berkeley can keep looking for E.T.

There are a couple of drawbacks to the hard drive donation program. Once every two months a maintenance person will come and check the hard drive. But this is a small price to pay. You are earning money for doing nothing. Awesome, isn’t it? With any program, there’s always that tricky agreement termination. Timing is crucial; if someone signed up for hosting that uses a part of your hard drive you will have to wait until the end of the hosting plan period to get your property back. If you need the hard drive back right away, you can terminate the agreement after compensating the remaining period back to the hosting company.

The bigger the hard drive the more you earn. Simple as that. Plan sizes from mediatemple (mt) are as follows:
Tiny drive- 100GB- $10/month
Little drive- 200GB- $20/month
Big hard drive- 1000GB-

Think ahead if you want to buy a new PC and order one with extra disc space. I bet you already want to sign up as a “hosting donor” so here is the link. Don’t give away too much though and think before throwing out your old good for nothing PC, it may be worth something now.

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Dr. Steven Chu brings hope of a Green Internet reform!

Friday, December 19th, 2008

Hey everybody!

Just finished an article on Obama’s announcement of the new energy and environment team this Monday. Secreatry of Energy nominee Dr. Steven Chu brings hope of a DC powering reform of the datacenter market, including all major hosting providers. As active director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Dr. Chu has been involved in research of alternative energy for a long time. And as LBNL just released a report in March regarding the Demonstration Project of a new DC Powering solution for future datacenter.

This is exciting stuff as a new government is formed and new ways for a greener US is being explored. May more energy-efficient datacenters and a green Internet be one of these ways?

Read the full story.

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Web Hosting SALE!!! Cyber Monday & Black Friday promotions

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008

Hey everyone!

Gotta just spread the word on a current/upcoming hosting promotion here at Web Hosting Search. Thanksgiving just celebrated, Black Friday shopping spree just last week and Cyber Monday this week, the team at WHS thought of nothing better than to launch a sales campaigns giving discount on any hosting plan offered by hosting provider Web Hosting Buzz.

You’ll get $5.99 off  if you paste the code blackfriday into the coupon box when signing up to any Web Hosting Buzz hosting plan and $6.99 off if you paste the code cybermonday. How about that?

To get all the info go to the official Cyber Monday deals page!

Enjoy your dollars saved :-) /Brian

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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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