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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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 …
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Cloudy With a Chance of Web Hosting – Episode 194
Time to gather around the web hosting campfire to tell tales of data centers, collocation and the mysteries of the customer service representatives that will eat your brains. Ok, honestly – web hosting isn’t really that scary, but this podcast does serve a purpose of making all the lingo make a lit …
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Top 10 Reasons Your Site Isn’t Working – Episode 193
Are you wondering to yourself, why is it that my web site isn’t working? Why is my web site down? Is my web site down or is it me? These are questions I hear in the hosting industry day after day, year after year. I have heard them so many times, and seen so many reasons for the problems in question …
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Dead Body Pose Bring Stress Relief to Web Hosting Workers
People who work in web hosting, especially help desk support or system administrators, spend a lot of time at their desk. So with that in mind, I thought I would share with you a simple yoga pose I picked up that might look a little silly, but it does help to de-stress you some. The dead body pose …
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How to Install a WordPress Plugin
WordPress is probably one of, if not “the” most popular blogging script out there. One of the things that makes it so great is the wide variety of plugins you can install to extend it’s usability. So how do you install a WordPress plugin? Why, I am happy you asked. First thing you need to do is to …
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How to Create a .htaccess File
I like to tell you about the basics here on this show, as well as the advanced things. Creating a .htaccess file is some where in between. The .htaccess file is a way to make a change to the configurations of your hosting account for each directory. For example, once you put a .htacess file in you …
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How Should Web Hosts Adapt to the Social Web?
A lot of the appeal of Facebook or Twitter is that you catch people in the buff. No, not that there are a lot of nudist on the social networks. What I mean is there is a lot of “raw” and “un-edited” thoughts out there. Of course, that isn’t to say you can’t organized your raw thoughts before you …
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Having My Own HostingCon – Episode 192
I’m not here to save the day. I’m not here to change the face of web hosting. So what am I here for? I am here to help. Help you learn more about the web hosting world in a podcast. All that I ask is for around 10 to 15 minutes of your time and I promise you will walk away at least knowing somet …
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Forgotten Negatives about Cloud Hosting
Now, many might be getting excited about cloud hosting, and how it is going to innovate and change the way we all related to the world of web hosting. What many places and people forget to mention are the negative impacts that cloud hosting might have. Yes, there are some negative issues about clo …
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Why You Should Not Host Your Own Videos
Should you host your own videos, or should you turn towards some of the free video hosting services out there to do it for you? This is an internal battle going on with many web hosting providers out there – and I’m going to tell you why the second choice might be the better one for you. Video Shar …
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5 Common HTTP Errors (to watch out for)
It is no secret that bad things sometimes happen to good web sites. When this happens on your web hosting account, it is often shown as a HTTP error. Each problem that could happen with a web site, has an HTTP error code associated with it, which is suppose to tell you what the problem is. The pr …
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Using Proxy Sites to Troubleshoot Web Site Downtime
Now when most people think about surfing via a proxy, they are talking about doing it for privacy reasons. Proxy sites can also be used for troubleshooting problems between yourself and the server your web site is hosted on. Think of it as your chance to check your web site out as if you were acros …
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Web Hosting with Tom – Episode 191
I have web hosting advice, tips, tutorials and more for everybody. From those CEOs that get the big comfy chairs in the high-rises across the country the common web hosting man (or woman) on the street. No matter if you are starting your first web site, or your running you hundredth web site, join …
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3 Uncommon Seats for Your PC Desk
When you are working in front of your computer for most of the day, where you sit becomes a big part of your life. Web hosting people suffer a lot from this, because no matter if you are a remote tech working from home, or a system administrator in front of a server, you need to stay comfortable. …
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Choosing a Web Site Host
Every single day, there are hundreds, if not thousands, of people looking to get up and going with their own web hosting account. I thought, with that in mind, it might be a good idea to go over the basic questions you need to be able to answer when shopping for a web host, and the questions you ne …
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Should Web Hosts Twitter?
There are a great number of web hosts using Twitter for social communication, support and marketing. If you get any big group of web hosts geeks together though, on this topic, the argument usually goes one of two ways. Either people are really for it, or they are really against it. For those of y …
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What is Cloud Hosting?
You might be aware of it, or you might not – however you are already doing cloud hosting. Do you check your e-mail via Gmail? Do you share your photos via Flickr? These are just two popular examples of hosting from the clouds. With cloud hosting you say goodbye to the old idea of renting a server …
Web Hosting Show - Hosting Podcast
