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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.

  • Saving Geocities for Future Generations

    In an effort to save the content that was on Geocities, a group calling themselves the Archive Team is working hard to save the Web that way it once was.  Time to pack away the animated gifs, blinking text, and web rings into their own individual boxes, so that someday we can look back what was once …

  • A Lesson in Geocities History

    You might have heard of Geocities in passing, however if you are new to the Web, or the way things once were – all this concern about a free hosting service might be a little confusing.  So I figured, what better way to pay tribute to the web host that once was, than to give you a history lesson in …

  • Saying Goodbye to Geocities - Episode 186

    Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, Yahoo! Geocities has kicked the bucket, has ceased to be, and is no more.  So what was Geocities, how did it fail, and what can be learned from Yahoo!s past mistakes with this once popular free hosting brand name?  I tribute this weeks show to the free web host that onc …

  • First Virtual Web Hosting Conference

    Are you going to be a part of the Web Host Boot Camp?  This conference for those people out there interested in or apart of the web hosting industry looks to be a lot of fun, and very informative.  Where’s the twist?  No conference hall or long trip will be needed.  The boot camp will be all virtual …

  • Best Way to Find Web Hosting Coupons

    Have you found the web hosting company you are interested in, however haven’t yet sealed the deal, because the price is still not within your budget?  I have a quick and easy tip for you that will get you the price you want.  All you have to do is know how and where to find the web hosting coupons. …

  • Compare Linux Dedicated Servers and Deals

    Looking for an easy way to compare Linux-based dedicated servers and deals?  Look no further than your friendly HostMonk.  This relatively new service gives you a number of different options to search from to find the perfect dedicated hosting environment for your needs. You can sort the dedicated h …

  • Find Out Who is Copying Your Content

    Do you know who CopyGator is?  He’s catching duplicate content and plagiarism in and around the blogosphere.  Always keeping an eye on your content, the CopyGator service is an interesting one to use if you feel like others are stealing your works. How Does CopyGator Work? The service aggregates dat …

  • What is the nofollow Link About?

    You may have seen some links out there on the Web that have an attribute value that is “nofollow”.  What does this mean?  Well, this is a way a web sit can instruct some search engines that the link should not influence the target site’s rankings. For example, lets say I wanted to link to webhosting …

  • Blazing Web Hosts - Episode 185

    Time to hop back in the saddle and find out what is going on across this great web hosting land of ours.  From the Web Hosting Talk hack aftermath to the first all virtual hosting conference and everything in between we have a podcast here you should all get a kick out of.  So get listening, and joi …

  • Google Offers Services to Hosting Clients

    Google is working with hosting companies to offer quicker and easier access to their special tools and more via the Google Services for Web Sites service.  This is great news for any web host looking to provide a little ‘bit more to their hosting customers. This is a win-win for everybody. This is a …

  • Become a Better Web Hosting Client

    Did you know that you can become a better web hosting client?  No wait, isn’t the web host suppose to be bending over backwards to suit your needs?  Well, yes – however a good customer service relationship works both ways.  Make sure you don’t fall under one of these types of hosting customer stereo …

  • Make Your Hosting Support Better

    The core foundation of any web host is a great support team.  With that, almost anything else can be overlooked.  What is the reason for that?  Well, good support is hard to find these days.  So if you are a web host or a worker in the industry, I am going to give you some advice that will make sure …

  • Find Special WordPress Tags Faster

    If you have spent any time working with WordPress, and trying to customize it to make it your own, you know that finding the right tag for the right job is a pain at times.  WPLookup.com allows you to quickly find Wordpress Codex documentation for a function or template tag. Once you search there, t …

  • Web Hosting Relationships - Episode 184

    How can you make the relationship between yourself and your web host even better? By listening to todays show. On the podcast this week, Ill be discussing what web hosts can do to make life easier for web hosting clients and what web hosting clients can do to make lives easier for their web hosts. …

  • A Look into Aplus.net Hosting - Episode 183

    As a dedicated and shared web hosting solution, Aplus.net stands out from the crowd in several unique ways.  They have a loyal fan base, have tried several outside the box support techniques, and are also well respected within the web hosting community. On todays show I am going to speak with Aplus. …

  • 100% Downtime

    See, I promised you more Peer 1 Growing Pains goodness. Here we have part three of the Growing Pains series of ads. I really don’t think of them as ads though, because unlike many ads out there – I really look forward to seeing what the next one will deliver. Many thanks to all the great people at …

  • Big News! Podcast and Production Changes?

    Ok, “big news” might be a ‘bit of an overstatement, but it did get you here, so that is good. After taking a few weeks to think it over – I have decided to move forward with a big change on how the Web Hosting Show podcast is produced. Instead of doing a weekly show, like we have now for the past fo …

  • A Walk in the Hosting Park

    It has been some time since we last checked into PEER1’s Growing Pains series of videos. For those of you who might have missed episode one, you can find it here. Now let us see where our web hosting heroes end up next. Need more? I will be posting episode three very soon! I really hope PEER1 keeps …

  • Payment Gateways

    If you are running any type of e-commerce solution on your web site, finding the right payment gateway for your store’s payment processing is key. You can think of the payment gateway to the equivalent of a physical point-of-sale terminal located in most retail outlets. So which payment gateways are …

  • Faster Domain Search with DomainTyper

    Out of all the domain name finder tools out there, DomainTyper might be the prettiest one, to date.  The idea here is simple, type in a phrase, word or series of words you would like to register as a domain name.  As you type you will see if the .com, .net, or .org versions of that domain (as far as …