Web Hosting Show - Hosting Podcast
This podcast is for both the Web hosts and the Web hosting clients out there. If you are Online, then you will have to face the world of Web hosting sometime. Would you rather go into the conversation lost and confused or educated and informed? Here on the Web Hosting Show we try to do our best to make sense of Web hosting.
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Be Proactive About Password Theft
It might sound cliche to say, but I am going to say it anyways. Make sure you keep your passwords complicated, long and different for each service you belong to, script you have installed or account you have created. When your web site’s security has been breached, passwords are another place you …
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Web Site Hacked? Scan Yourself First!
Your web site, just like your computer, needs to be monitored for security breaches from time to time. Many web sites out there are infected with trojans, iframe injections or viruses everyday. If you have found your web site has already been taken over by one of these issues, time to go through t …
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Clean up and Repair Your Web Site – Episode 197
Today we are going to talk about how to prevent your web site from being hacked, and how to repair your damaged web site. If your web site’s security has been breached or if you want to know what to do to make sure it doesn’t get broken into, this is the podcast you need to be listening to. Here t …
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WHS Podcast Update
Just stepping in for a quick podcast update. I’ve been sick the past few weeks, hence no show production. Last two weekends I’ve had fever, so been trying to take it easy. Hopefully though, this weekend I’ll be back at 100% so I can get some recording done and some podcasts out to all of you. Once a …
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Will H1N1 Take Out Web Hosting Workers?
Could H1N1 (the Swine Flu) take down the Internet? Now, as we all get ready to get out shots, wash our hands and cough into our elbows, once has to wonder if an increase of sick people staying at home and browsing the Internet could possibly threaten the stability of the system to the Centers of Di …
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5 SEO Tips You Can Do Right Now!
When it comes to SEO (search engine optimization) many people expect you to do several multi-step dances to get one thing tweaked that might just effect your search engine rankings by .001 percent. So, for those of you who don’t want to mess about I have put together five SEO tips that anybody can …
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Web Hosting is a Falling Search Trend?
According to Google Trends, the web site that helps watch trends for search results via Google, the phrase “web hosting” has been in a steady decline since 2004. You can see the chart for yourself here. So what does this mean? Well, a hundred different people could read into that data a hundred di …
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Free CSS Designs for You!
Searching for a place to find free web site designs you can use? OpenWebDesign.org has plenty to choose from, and they are all free to use. If writing CSS code isn’t your favorite thing to do – and you would much rather tweak up a design that has already been done for you – finding a great free onl …
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Web Hosting Panic – Episode 196
In this week’s disaster inspired episode of the Web Hosting Show, we’ll take a look at how and why the H1N1 virus might take out the entire web hosting world as we know it, and five search engine optimization tips anybody can do, in the mean time. Before Armageddon comes, you need to listen to this …
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10 Reminders for Web Hosting Remotes
So you want to start working as an independent contractor to a web hosting company, or you just started your first job. Before you switch to working remotely as independent contractor for a web host, here are a few things you should remember: Most independent contractors do not get vacation time. …
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Remote Workers Should Not be Overworked
One thing you have to watch out for when you start working remotely in the web hosting world is how many hours you work. Now some might think you should be working as much as you can, while this is true – you also need to have limits. Any web host who would hire you as a remote worker should get y …
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Mitchelaneous Redesigned (Need More Mitch?)
Now I do not plug my other projects very often, however I think this is an important enough update to share with the rest of my fans (even my wonderful podcast subscribers)! I just finished up with a brand new redesign of my layout over at Mitchelaneous.com – and I would love your feedback on it. Wh …
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How to Find a Job in Web Hosting
So, if I was going to start looking for a web hosting job, where would I turn to? Well, there are three resources you should keep in mind. You have the web host themselves, the web hosting forums out there, and special job hunting resources that will list for you spots available with a number of d …
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What is an Independent Contractor in Web Hosting?
Independent contractors, in the realm of the web hosting world, are people who usually work from home, for a web hosting company, doing assigned tasks. Now, what they are called, the assigned tasks they are given and more can change depending on the web host in question. What they do is give a web …
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Web Hosting Job Hunting Guide (Part 2) – Episode 195
Back in 2007, I put together a job hunting guide for people who wanted to come in and work in the web hosting industry. Now, several years down the road I thought I would revisit this topic, and help those who don’t have many resources for help, the web hosting independent contractors out there. T …
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PEER 1 Gets Inked for Anniversary
One thing is for sure, I can always turn towards PEER 1 for some awesome videos. The most recent, this time around, was their 10 year anniversary video. What did they do? Just a few company tattoos. PEER 1 10 Year Anniversary Tattoos from Charnell Pugsley on Vimeo. I have to give them credit, you …
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What is Collocation Hosting?
Some people in the hosting industry look at collocation as a dirty word? Why does collocation hosting have such a bad rap? Well, first let us take a look at what collocation hosting is really about. At its core this means that the provisioning of space, bandwidth and power is controlled by a third …
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Take Better Web Site Screenshots
Need to take a screen shot of a web site to show off to somebody? By far, one of my favorite programs to take screenshots is WebShot. It is almost the perfect screenshot and web page thumbnail generator utility. How do you use it? You put the web site address you want to get the capture of in th …
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Grade Your Domain with BuildStats.com
Looking for a new site to measure the effectiveness of your web site in a number of different ways? BuildStats.com will give you all kinds of details about your domain, or any domain name out there from around the Web. Some of the statistics included are: Indexed pages in Bing, Yahoo, and Google On …
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FTP FAQ for Beginners
As a standard network protocol we all use to upload, download and change files over the Internet, FTP is something we all use, but many people still have questions about. FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol, and usually works in a type of client-server relationship to allow you to easily upload d …
Web Hosting Show - Hosting Podcast
