Posted: November 19th, 2008 | Author: Joe | Filed under: Sponsored | Tags: blogging, hosting, Sponsored | 1 Comment »
Good web hosting is essential to success in the online marketplace. Whether you are a small business owner or even a part time blogger you need a web presence, and that starts with web hosting.
When I was looking for a host for this blog, I was quickly overwhelmed by the multitude of options I found. I knew I wanted hosting, a domain and support for word press, but even given those parameters there was a lot to weed through. Enter Web Hosting Geeks.
Web Hosting Geeks provides an excellent repository of website hosting providers. Check out there site. They have a top 10 providers list, but you can also search for hosting providers by any of the following:
Or you can narrow the field to the best host for Unix, Windows, PHP, Dedicated hosting, blogs and more.
They also provide a Web Hosting Guide to help prospective website/blog owner decide how best to find the host solution that fits his needs. It covers the basics like support and security, OS and programming tools, bandwidth, uptime and pricing.
I wish I’d known about Web Hosting Geeks when I was looking for a host when I set this blog up. I don’t think I would have made a different choice in the end (I use GoDaddy and have been very pleased), but Web Hosting Geeks would have made the whole shopping process a lot quicker and easier.
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Posted: September 2nd, 2008 | Author: Joe | Filed under: Saving, spending | Tags: blogging, Cheap, hosting | 2 Comments »
Case in point: Blog Hosting.
I really should have known better, but the cheap skinflint in me got the better of me.
When I started this blog, I was doing it more or less as a hobby and didn’t want to spend any money. Not a dime. There is so much free software available today, I thought I could do it. The one hitch to the whole approach was hosting.
I found a lot of free hosting sites, but most required ads to be displayed. I didn’t want to plaster my pages with ads – especially if I wasn’t earning any of the revenue and didn’t have control over where they appeared.
Then I discovered delishio.net.
They seemed like a winning proposition. They didn’t post ads on my page. They didn’t cost a dime. They even had some fairly nice templates to choose from. I spent a weekend configuring and selecting plugins and templates, and away I went.
Everything went swimmingly for about 8 months, but a part of me didn’t trust it. There was always an inner voice somewhere saying: “You never get something for free.” So I made a habit of exporting my posts every few posts, thinking that I could at least have a backup if delishio ever pulled the plug.
Well, it’s a good thing I did because that’s what happened.
Regular readers of this blog will have noticed 2 things:
- The site was down for almost two weeks – without warning.
- The site now looks completely different.
Well, long story short – the admin of delishio.net decided that this site constituted either spam or “hardcore porn” and summarily deleted it. Without warning.
I don’t know, maybe this site is like some kind of hardcore finance porn?
Anyway, I can complain ’till the cows come home but the fault is ultimately mine. I paid nothing for blog hosting, and I got what I paid for.
Caveat emptor, baby. Some lessons are harder to learn than others. I read mountains of recommendations saying I should have paid for hosting, and I should have listened.
The moral of this sad tale is to beware the skinflint in all of us, and don’t just go with the cheapest option presented to us; some things are worth the price.
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