Comments on: Website Hosting for Your Benefit (not mine)

By: Jenny

Jenny — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 07:52:18 +0000

Great for me that I found your Blog… I just started with my own Blog, can I reference to this post? I want to write something on similiar topic!
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By: Dave Doolin

Dave Doolin — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 23:45:59 +0000

Ross, I talked with a couple of the Bluehost engineers at WordCamp SF a few weeks ago. Very cool guys. It turns out they are an old skool Perl shop. For the price I pay, I’m very satisfied. I keep meaning to write a blog post about it.
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By: Ross Taylor

Ross Taylor — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 18:08:16 +0000

I think one of the main things to look for with hosting is track record for support. I know your recommended host bluehost does quite well there, and have been very helpful to me in the past.

I used to use GD for most of my hosting but became very frustrated as their servers seemed to be targets for hacks, which their support team did very little to help me fix after my content had been “defaced”. I also found they oversold their servers a lot as well and access time was unbearable slow, even for a small site.
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By: Dave Doolin

Dave Doolin — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 03:19:58 +0000

Actually, I don’t use it myself at the moment. I go through phases where RSS is my main tool, then I never look at my feed for months.
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By: Ralph@Retirement Lifestyle

Ralph@Retirement Lifestyle — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 16:28:50 +0000

Perhaps I’m just Luddite at hear but I don’t use RSS to follow anything.
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By: Dave Doolin

Dave Doolin — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 01:39:49 +0000

The further I go into IT, the more attractive turn key solutions look. Full circle! And less sneering. Although it would be amusing to see you sniff in contempt, Anca. You’re usually so agreeable, I just can’t picture it!

If I was running a funded startup, I’d pay the few ducats for Posterous account, and a few hundred to get it skinned. Then let Sachin and his gang worry about the details.
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By: Anca

Anca — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 19:32:08 +0000

There are a couple of other options for hosting that you could consider if blogging isn’t a major part of your business:

If you sell products, you could consider a hosted eCommerce provider like Shopify or 1ShoppingCart. These will provide you tools for managing and organizing your products, but come with vestigial blogs that aren’t all that easy to use.

If you are just doing a brochureware site (a few pages and contact info) you could work with a service like weebly or SquareSpace, which provide some nice-looking templates and widgets, but, again, have vestigial blogging engines.

I’m a coder who used to sneer at hosted services and shared hosting. I’ve changed my tune with some of these hosted tools – they just make it so much easier to worry about the content and the marketing, rather than the IT aspects of business.

By: Dave Doolin

Dave Doolin — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 16:31:46 +0000

John,

I’m not surprised it didn’t show up. Changing the post slug or even permalink doesn’t matter either, due to WP internal redirects.

That said, this article is core to the Website In A Weekend curriculum, and it’s useful for paying customers, so I’ll keep updating it and reposting when necessary.

Funny how it used to be one of the huge benefits of the web was being able to revise articles. Now, it seems most people view revision as a liability costing time supposedly better spent with “new” articles.

By: John Soares

John Soares — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 14:44:22 +0000

Dave, count me as one of the people who didn’t see this in my feed reader. I came by to see if I’d missed any recent posts, and it turns out I did.

I use Snarfer, but the company just announced it will no longer update Snarfer, so I may switch to another reader.
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