A Hosting Story For the Books

by KyleWith on July 27, 2010

I am only now coming out of Hosting issues from hell, excuse my language. It is one that I still have not completely gone through, but maybe when I get through and the dust settles I will share the details.Moving on

Hosting Provider

A good hosting provider is a key aspect to anyone that uses the Internet. It is  basically my life line, when you think that e-mail is attached to it. That being said it is hard to find that right hosting provider. I have used the same company for 5 years and never really had a problem with them, up until the last 6 months and I fail to believe that the issues are my own. It is a challenging game to play, to find that provider with a good reputation and a low cost.

Finding the Right One

It is hard to find the right one, I know, I’m trying to do it right now. My advice, ask around, see who other sites, that rank similar to yours, are using. Over the last couple of days I have talked on the phone and in live chats to different sales representatives from numerous different providers to see what they had to offer and if they were able to provide me with the proper services.

Make Sure You Know What You Need

Like I said above, I will go into further detail when all this is said and done, but I will share one thing that happened. I got a recommendation from, Cliff from GSPN, about using BlueHost, he said they were a great provider to go with. So since I trust Cliff, I signed up. When I did, I saw that you couldn’t register .CA domains, but since I was going to transfer mine I didn’t think it would be an issue. Unfortunately I was an issue, I couldn’t transfer it, that only work around would have been iof I were to keep it register with my current provider and pointed it to the BlueHost servers. I didn’t want to do this, so I immediately got a refund. The lesson here is make sure you know exactly what it is you need and make sure you ask all the question before hand. I was lucky and was able to get a refund.

When All is Said and Done

When you have got your new provider, I suggest you take a couple of hours and get yourself familiar with their Control Panel and how things work. The confusing part for me at the moment is finding things with in the CP. Like I said, I was with one provider for 5 years and got use to simple steps, like where to click for what. Now I’m back at square one.

I’ll have more to come in the coming weeks, but what is your experience with Hosting Providers? Are they like Mobile Providers and try to get every penny possible?

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You could say I was one of those people who had this idea that if I had the biggest and best things, my content would become more noticeable. Needless to say I was wrong. Often times I think many who are trying to embrace new media also think this way. We are all wrong, to a certain extend.

A good lesson to learn is that as long as you have real, authentic, information filled content, it doesn’t matter the quality, people will still listen to what you have to say. If you want to blog, there are thousands of “themes” out there that look amazing that are free. If video is your preferred method, then get your self a Flip Cam, they are at most $200 and will work wonders for online video.

A good example I mention in the video is how Gary Vaynerchuk started his daily wine show, WineLibrary.TV. He started by using a Flip camera and from then built his audience by being authentic, passionate and helpful. He now has over 850,000 followers on Twitter from just being himself.

I do need to point out though, when you get big, and I know you will. You should maybe consider upgrading to some slightly higher quality equipment. I’m not talking thousands of dollars, but something that says “Hey I’m real and I’m doing this for you”.

I would love to know your thoughts on this? Or if you have struggled with this “addiction” like I did/am?

To finish off this post I came across this video of Clips for Gray’s shows. It is a great video of some of his best clips put together and it will give you an idea of how he does it.

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