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?

• The Blog - If you’re reading this blog post, I think you’ll agree that the blog is done.
• News - Web hosting news that the editor deems worthy can now be posted.
• Web Hosting Directory - We’ll be adding more categories and tons more sites that you submit as “finds.” Here are the categories so far:

  Domain Name
  - DNS
  - Registrars
  - Whois
  Forums
  Hardware
  Hosting Directories
  Hosting Help
  Hosting Service Providers
  - Dedicated Server
  - Low Cost Web Hosting
  - Reseller
  - Shared Hosting
  - Unix and Linux
  - Windows Hosting
  News and Reviews
  Organizations
  Podcasts
  Software
  Web Hosting Blogs

What’s missing?

One the very coolest accomplishments was the ability to work in RSS feed submission. So, now you can submit your own web hosting find to the directory and if the site has an RSS feed, we may be able to display it along side the other site info. Here’s an example for Web Hosting Gear. There are no guarantees that we can display a given site’s feed but we’ll certainly try. There are one or two cases wherein we were unable to get the feed items to display for some sites.

• Review content - We added a few feature hosts reviews that we’ve been looking at over time. For starters, there is an extensive look at EarthLink Web Hosting and other ISP related products.

What about phase two?
I want to sit back and catch my breath, but under consideration is:

• User web hosting news submission
• Top Ten host list rated by editors and hosting community experts
• Articles and tutorials to help you build and host a web site

Please comment on this post to tell us what errors or glitches you see and what else you think is needed.

Happy Independence Day!