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Here they go again. Raising disk space and band width is becoming a habit for this company. BlueHost has yet again increased their bandwidth offering to a whopping 999 GIGS. Most shared hosts in the 6.95 monthly range do not get anywhere clost to this number. Read more about the increase here. There is also an interesting article from NetCraft that discusses other such super sized budget plans here.
Here’s a review of Deluxe Godaddy Hosting from a .NET developer. Of course, the average person doesn’t require develepment tools, but it’s nice to get this perspective on what the catch is and recommendations.
Everyone either talks about how bad Godaddy is, or how cheap they are, but where does Godaddy stand today? I am a .NET developer and also a newly registered Godaddy user I am here to put this issue to rest. Get the current Advantages and Disadvantages of Godaddy from my experiences.
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I saw this on Digg.com and Earthling last week. In touch with your RSS feelings. We all have busy lives with very little time. Web surfing is fun but can take hours going to visit every single website and blog you enjoy. Would it not it be fabulous if you could just get all the headlines of the most current stories from all your favorite websites and blogs in one place? Well now you can, and it is called RSS feed. “
read full rss oprah story | read digg story
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.
read EarthLink opinion article | digg story
Note: Dave Coustan recently posted on Earthling some info on the opt out mechanism.
If you don’t own a PDA, you may wonder what your site looks like to one of those high tech mobile device users. Google™ has a nifty PDA site viewer tool thingy that lets you see what your site might look like to a PDA visitor. The tool is reportedly similar to Skweezer and IYHY
Quigo’s AdSonar is being used by more publishers. The contextual ad service is becoming more popular and used by big publishers like Fox and Cox newspapers.
read more | digg story
How did I miss this? It’s not April Fools. I happened across the BlueHost.com web site and realized that there are a few updates to their shared hosting package, very interesting ones I might add. What blew me away was the 750 GB of bandwidth now being offered. This is far higher than any other host that I am aware of and wonder how BlueHost is able to offer so much. There is also mention of a new site builder and raising of the disk space allocation to 30GB. I’ve updated our BlueHost Web Hosting area with the latest info.
A bit of a diversion from our topic of web hosting, but interesting…Everyone asks questions. When you conduct a usability test, you ask questions. When you gather information from a client, you ask questions. When you write a customer survey, you ask questions. It is interesting that effective interviewers sound like effective interfaces in many ways. These interviewers lubricate information flow by getting out of the way.
read more | digg story
Are you into podding? I love listening to all sorts of podcasts, news, talk, and music. I found on digg.com that Apple has introduced the 2nd generation of the iPod nano this morning, and along with it, they created a very slick and visually appealing ad to go with it.
read more about the new iPOD nano ad | digg story about new ipod nano ad
The Web hosting industry needs a good magazine or two. Here is a freebie I discovered recently. PingZine is a free web hosting / Web developers magazine that is open to anyone. The magazine has PDF and print versions that cover a number of interesting topics on digg all the time. If you are in the biz this mag might be up your alley. I have not actually seen a copy of the mag yet, but it looks interesting.
pingzine.com | digg story
We mentioned recently Michael Arrington of TechCrunch fame and how his blog now generates 60K per month. Michael is all about Web 2.0. But what is Web 2.0 and what is…was Web 1.0? This video is a good primer to learn the answers in laymans’ terms and a bit more.
Wikipedia has a new article comparing 100+ one-click hosting services. Services that specialize in hosting files seem to be springing up everywhere. Most of these hosting services appear to be free, but files may “expire” and be deleted after time. A neat table compares the important info of each of the 100 one-click hosting services: name, domain, file size, language, traffic/bandwidth limit and expiration time. information for a number of one-click hosting services. The Wikpedia article is not all-inclusive by any means. I haven’t used any of these services but I would expect them to come in handy if you were working on a student project and needed a place to store files for a short time. Perhaps good for uploading pictures and videos of the in-laws 
“A reinvigoration of civics”
NPR (National Public Radio) has a neat interview with David Sifry: Search Site Tracks Blogosphere’s Rapid Expansion. David gives a few interesting facts about the blogosphere (he’s the creator of Technorati.com, the famous blog aggregator site that helps users “sift, search and sort through blogs”).
A “state of the blogosphere” report from Technorati founder Dave Sifry says 175,000 new blogs are created each day. Sifry finds that about 55 percent continue blogging on a regular basis. The blogosphere is doubling in size every five to seven months. Sifry offers more numbers and observations in a conversation with Scott Simon.