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.”

A while back, we took some time out to turn our attention to hosting by an ISP that you wouldn’t normally think of as a web host: Earthlink. A large company with an established brand name can do things that other smaller competitors cannot. One example is the ability to stock a team of 24 hour customer support staff. EarthLink won the coveted CNET Editors’ Choice Award for web hosting last year. Take a look at the review we whipped up on EarthLink Web Hosting. Have you tried the service? Even if you haven’t hosted with EarthLink, post your comments please.

There’s been a lot of talk EarthLink’s new handling of dead domains lately. In this article, the author Sean Carton complaines that “In a bid to increase ad revenues, Earthlink hijacked the DNS system, which may cause problems for a whole slew of applications. ” He makes some good points about how this could affect FTP, e-mail, etc.

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Note: Dave Coustan recently posted on Earthling some info on the opt out mechanism.

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

Some positives I noted about the myEarthLink Reader:

• myEarthLink Reader is free
• There are no ads on the interface page
• myEarthLink Reader is very simple, straightforward and uncluttered
• It features an OPML import/export list - this means you can bring in your existing news link list or take it with you