We’ve found that lots of web hosts, small and large, are eager to get the word out whenever they have news. A while back, I did some reorganizing and created a special page for those who want to tell the world about their new web hosting feature, product or what their company has been up to lately. The new Web Hosting Finds Submit area also lets you submit to our directory of web hosting resources. Check out the rules before submitting (don’t worry, they are not burdensome) and remember to be sure and submit something that you think all your friends and fellow readers here at the orange dog will be interested to hear about!

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Good morning everyone! No worries, I’m not really up this early in the morning. I have figured out how to set the time stamp in WordPress to schedule a story for publication–a sweet feature! read more »

We seem to spend a lot of time talking about the latest shared hosting provider. There has been buzz lately around companies like BlueHost, DreamHost, and many other who have raised bandwidth and disk space offerings. Some have been criticized for “overselling.” read more »

I would like to say that I really appreciate everyone’s comments about the web hosting reviews and other content on Web Hosting Finds. I hope that we are accomplishing our goal of making this site a truly useful tool for visitors. There are many pros and cons when choosing a hosting provider and it can be a mind racking event to try and pick just one even from the few we have featured here. read more »

How would you feel if Eddie Van Halen, Brad Pitt, Jay Leno or–insert your favorite celebrity–called you up and said that you rock? Well, that’s sort of what happened this week when Mitch Keeler, the undisputed rockstar of web host podcasting let it be known that WebHostingFinds.com was the choice for the Web Hosting Show podcast number 70‘s Site of the Week. The show’s theme covers the subject of blogging and Mitch seems to like WordPress a great deal–my favorite blogging software by far and the what we use here on this blog. If you have the slightest interest in web hosting or just want to hear a creative voice in the industry, I recommend giving this unique podcast a listen here. read more »

One of the most perplexing things about 1 and 1 web hosting is not they their control panel is not user friendly or that they separate everything into “packages” or that they are not ostensibly as “hip” as Godaddy, but how do you spell the name correctly? I’ve narrowed it down to the below from references on the company site and other references on the Internet. Which one of these is the correct way to refer to the company? read more »

Most folks think of BellSouth in terms of telecommunications or ISP services and that probably will not change anytime soon. read more »

We’ve taken a brief-and I mean brief-look at Rackspace web hosting and put a few thoughts about their goals and what they have to offer. This is general stuff, a mini-review that may help you if you’re thinking of going the dedicated server route. read more »

Well, if you’re a site builder, you know that it’s never really done. Never-the-less, I’d like to say thanks to everyone who contributed to building Web Hosting Finds. Todd Bemis created the ubiquitous blood hound graphic of the dog that will be forever sniffing, tracking and pointing out the most palatable hosts. Tristan Bergman contributed to the content. The mysterious “Suzana” (last name withheld by request) whipped up some of the buttons and other graphics. Also, I’d like to thank Google, Yahoo and MSN in advance for sending us lots of visitors who will enjoy the fruits of everyone’s labor–bring em on guys… read more »

Several ideas for a web hosting logo were tossed around by the design folks. After a few mockups were created, it became apparent that the current logo looked the best and conveyed the Web Hosting Finds message the most accurately. Not that it’s going to change, but what do you think of the logo itself and more importantly what should the name of our beloved mascot dog be? I’ve got some ideas but want to turn them over in my head a while before I post them. Do post yours here. 

I seem to be in the minority, but I really like the Toolbar button functionality that Google introduced many months ago. It allows site builders to throw together a 16X16 favicon-like button which appears on the Google Toolbar itelf as you surf. Of course, it’s not just for aesthetics, the button can be designed (like this one) to display news feeds from a site after it’s updated. So, this means you will be aware the site has been updated without even having visited it. You can get the latest Web Hosting news by clicking below to install the button to your Internet Explorer or Firefox browser. Okay, enough. Just click something and see what happens. If you like it keep it.  read more »

RSS feeds are a big part of the Web Hosting Finds site experience. As one who has tinkered with many a RSS aggregator, I was pleasantly surprised after testing the myEarthLink Reader. I confess that I was not expecting to like the product. After all, aren’t there a slew of RSS Readers like Google, Yahoo, Rojo, Bloglines, etc. that should be light years ahead? Actually, the idea behind getting and reading your news with a RSS feed reader is seems simple read more »

It’s simple, but sweet and I suppose it should be called a mini guide. This is the start of our web hosting guide: read more »

This is insanely trivial but I wanted to mention that the Web Hosting Finds site is listed on Google China. Now, if each person in living in China would please click in, we’d get about 1.3 billion visits! What was this English speaking webmaster and web hosting enthusiast doing surfing Google China? Ahh, too many late nights in front of the computer… read more »

July 4th seems to be an appropriate and symbolic day to declare WebHostingFinds.com’s independance from the monarchy of betadom. All the major components for phase one of the site are hereby declared free. What are they? read more »

The news section is now functioning pretty much exactly as wanted. This is a real web hosting news engine to get the latest headlines out to hosting enthusiasts at light speed. Please report any bugs via comments in this post. Thanks.

 As this site is obviously under development, the last thing on anyone’s mind was getting the site indexed by the Google search engine. First you build the site, then it gets indexed by Google, then visitors arrive, right? At least that’s the way Mom always said it should work. So how does a brand new site suddenly appear in the Google index? read more »

Well, we’re almost live–live in the sense that you can see a few pages, but not officially live yet. For anyone curious, here’s what we’ve accomplished so far in terms of domain, hosting and design: read more »