Seeing how it’s Christmas Day, I thought I’d to leave a couple Christmas eGifts under the makingthemogul.com tree for you to download and enjoy.
Monthly Archives: December 2008
Woo-Hoo! I Found A New Web Host!
You already know what I’ve been going through with my web hosting issues lately, so I’ll spare you the recap (you can view my previous posts) and get right into it.
I received a lot of great referrals and have spoken to a TON of hosting companies over the past 2 weeks: BlueHost, MediaTemple, Choopa, DreamHost, SurpassHosting, GoDaddy, etc. The list literally goes on and on.
I contacted ALL of them. It took me forever but I did it. One reason was because I wanted to really get my feet wet and find out what was being offered but also because I wanted to understand what I needed.
I’m not the most technical person in the world but I can tell when someone is just trying to sell, so I contacted them all to ask them the same questions over and over again so I can hear multiple replies and learn about this stuff.
They say the only way to learn something is to ask questions; so that’s what I did.
The main thing I learned from all this: the web hosting industry might be very competitive, but it’s not very innovative.
Wow HostGator. Just Wow.
*Note: I originally posted this on Tuesday, however my blog wasn’t fully transported to my new webhost, so even though it showed up in RSS feeds everywhere; that post has been lost in cyberspace. This is a repost.*
If you visited my site anywhere between 1am and 10pm yesterday, you probably saw something that looked like this:
Obviously, this had me in FUMES given the very recent issues I’ve been having with HostGator, so I contacted them via their online live chat.
This is how the conversation went:
