Like an unlit firework on the 4th of July, the Web Hosting Show is back and ready to burst with excitement anytime now. All we need is for you to ignite the flame, tune in, and we will have a web hosting blast like the world has never seen. The Web Hosting Show is back on the air. Download the Web Hosting Show, Episode 171! Running Time: 10 minutes | File Size: 4.26 MB Here are just a few topics from this week’s episode: Where is the Good in Clustered Web Hosting? An Online Tool to Clean up Your CSS! Problem Finding FFmpeg Web Hosts? Multi-column CSS Layouts with YAMAL Builder Here are this week’s web hosting news headlines: Global Internet Solutions accused of Hijacking Sites News Story on Global Internet Solutions - Video from Fox News Sorry I missed you last week, but I had a bit of a lingering cold, and didn’t think you’d be able to stand a show I was sniffling all the way through. I promise you this is a sniffle-free zone now! Web Hosting Directory: Check out the new list of the best hosting resources! © Mitch Keeler 2008 | Check out my firefox help site and my tech blog too!   Less

If you’re a regular Make Use Of reader, you’ll know we were hacked the other day.  Someone stole our domain name.   If you want to read what happened during the time we were offline, head on over to the temporary website we set up. I talk a little about being hacked and about Simon’s article on betting websites. This podcast is available through iTunes so don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast if you have an iPod, or in another podcatcher if you have a different MP3 player. .muo_af_style { background-color: #B4D0E1; border: 2px solid #4275B8; } (By) Jason Mayoff is a dad, a tech geek and a Canadian radio broadcaster (CJAD 800). You can also find Jason at his brand new website, Tech Screencasts. Enjoyed the article? Please leave a comment and tell us what you think about it New subscriber? Get your freebies at MakeUseOf Downloads. Enjoy! Tags:betting, Domains, gambling, hacking, Podcast, security Related posts Make Use Of Podcast #4: Making Vista Faster & Better Commenting (9) Your Computer, Your World - How to Keep Out the Mindless (38) Welcome to the MakeUseOf.com Podcast #1 (19) Using Keepass to Secure Your Online Accounts (10) Use LocatePC to Secure and Find Stolen PC for Free (14) Less

Not just any podcast, the Web Hosting Show is back this week for episode 165. What is lined up for this week’s broadcast across the web hosting world? Well we have a little scam brewing with one domain name register, and we also have a lot of handy FeedBurner tools I bet you didn’t know existed. All that and a bucket of chicken on this week’s edition of the Web Hosting Show. Download the Web Hosting Show, Episode 165! Running Time: 13 minutes | File Size: 5.66 MB Here are just a few topics from this week’s episode: How to Read Bad Hosting Reviews Domain Hijacking, Not for Gangsters Best FeedBurner Analysis Tools Free Performance, Availability and Traffic Monitoring Here are this week’s web hosting news headlines: Google to Build Data Centers that Float? EstDomains.com Involved in Hundreds of Online Scams? Hostway Gives Away More Apple iPhones GoDaddy Races Sing This Song, Doo-dah! doo-dah! Web hosting world, you had better get ready cause we got yet another great podcast from pillar to post to share with all of you. Give a download, listen to it, and let me know what you think! Free Download: Download Your Free Copy of My Best of the Web Hosting Show Guides eBook! © Mitch Keeler - like this? visit Mitchelaneous.com | FirefoxFacts.com | WebHostingShow.com   Less

Get up, get down and get ready to do that web hosting boogie! Today we are getting down with our bad self with some hosting news, domain name speculation and a little talk about how badly China is beating as far as web users go. The Web Hosting Show (only in English, sorry China!) is on the air. Download the Web Hosting Show, Episode 159! Running Time: 10 minutes | File Size: 4.61 MB Here are just a few topics from this week’s episode of the Web Hosting Show. Joyent’s Tool for Online Collaboration! China has more Web Users than US? HostingCon Gets Going! What is Domain Name Speculation? For Web Hosts: the Best Live Chat Providers? Back again for episode 159, and I think I might be getting the hang of this… almost. From HostingCon to some great live chat suggestions, there is yet again a little for everybody to love and learn from here on today’s show. Have you taken the Web Hosting Show’s fan survey yet? If not, listen to the show and then get it done. Your feedback given there could dramatically change the production of this podcast! Be heard and give me you thoughts! Free Download: Download Your Free Copy of My Best of the Web Hosting Show Guides eBook! © Mitch Keeler - like this? visit Mitchelaneous.com | FirefoxFacts.com | WebHostingShow.com   Less

You can only do so many silly intros to a podcast before you run out of idea.  Let me just say I got lots to talk about this week from domain marketing to somebody spitting in your web hosting fast food.  Confused?  Good I like to leave you wanting more and well, here it comes! Download the Web Hosting Show, Episode 155! Running Time: 14 minutes | File Size: 6.41 MB Here are just a few topics from this week’s episode of the Web Hosting Show. Photo Sharing with EchoPic What is Type-in Traffic? Don’t Spit in the Hosting Cheeseburger Free Office Downloads for Budget Web Hosts Podcast Exclusive - Part 3 of Our “How to Purchase a Web Hosting Business” Series with Web Strategist Errett Cord . Download the podcast to check it out! Time to put on our party pants and do that web hosting dance we all do so well.  No matter if you move like you have two left feet or not, let me be your “getting down with your bad self” instructor though the wild and wacky world of web hosting. Free Download: Download Your Free Copy of My Best of the Web Hosting Show Guides eBook! © Mitch Keeler - like this? visit Mitchelaneous.com | FirefoxFacts.com | WebHostingShow.com   Less

We have cybersquatting, but why not cybersitting or cyberstanding?  Just doesn’t seem to be fair, does it?  Personally growing a little tired myself of sticking “cyber” in front of anything dangerous or bad on the Web.  We’ll cover that and many more deep thought provoking questions on this week’s edition of the Web Hosting Show. Download the Web Hosting Show, Episode 153! Running Time: 13 minutes | File Size: 6.73 MB Here are just a few topics from this week’s episode of the Web Hosting Show. Poll - Do Web Hosts Need to Provide Phone Support? What is and Who Does Domain Name Cybersquatting? Hostopia Buys Out Tucows Shared Hosting Services! Quick Domain Searching with Domize! Podcast Exclusive - Part 1 of Our “How to Purchase a Web Hosting Business” Series with Web Strategist Errett Cord . Download the podcast to check it out! Back in the saddle ready to giddy up with you, and you and even you back onto the wide open plains of web hosting land.  From cybersquatting to hosting news we have a ‘bit of everything to deliver this week, so lets ride. Free Download: Download Your Free Copy of My Best of the Web Hosting Show Guides eBook! © Mitch Keeler - like this? visit Mitchelaneous.com | FirefoxFacts.com | WebHostingShow.com   Less

On today’s special edition of the Web Hosting Show we have in the studio Emory Rowland of Clickfire.com. Emory has been an insider in both the web hosting and web development worlds for a long time - so there are many topics I would like to pick his brain about. Today though we will be cover from head to toe the world of web hosting reviews. Download the Web Hosting Show, Episode 152! Running Time: 11 minutes | File Size: 5.00 MB Here are just a few topics from this week’s episode of the Web Hosting Show. The Background Story Behind Clickfire.com! What Gives a Web Host “Staying Power” These Days? How to Stay Honest with Your Hosting Reviews! What Happens When the Web Host Bites Back? The Most Important Factors of Web Host Reviewing? Some web host reviewers are shady or down right scammy, but Emory is a guy I know and trust so when he says a web host is good or bad - I know I can believe him. What should and should not come into play though when seeking out and shopping for your next web host? Free Download: Download Your Free Copy of My Best of the Web Hosting Show Guides eBook! © Mitch Keeler - like this? visit Mitchelaneous.com | FirefoxFacts.com | WebHostingShow.com   Less

Time to open that proverbial mailbag to see what type of questions you have been sending me. Now I do my best to answer any and all questions sent my way but here today I have picked some of the frequently asked ones to help one and all, any and everybody who might also find themself stuck at a brick wall. The Web Hosting Show is on the air. Download the Web Hosting Show, Episode 151! Running Time: 15 minutes | File Size: 6.73 MB Here are just a few topics from this week’s episode of the Web Hosting Show. Are There Social Networks in the Hosting World? What Are My Thoughts About Those “Green” Web Hosts? Do I Know of Any Blogging Alternatives to WordPress? What is Domain Name Kiting and Will it Hurt Me? Here we are again. You, me and this make-pretend bag of mail I have. Ok, technically I don’t have a real physical mail or real letters, but I do have e-mails from a lot of you and as you know I do my best to tackle each and every question you send my way. That is one reason I got into the web hosting business. Getting to help others with their problems is something I just really enjoy to do. Just don’t think I would have gotten the same thrill out of being a circus clown, a fireman or that guy who tosses midgets at the fair. Free Download: Download Your Free Copy of My Best of the Web Hosting Show Guides eBook! © Mitch Keeler - like this? visit Mitchelaneous.com | FirefoxFacts.com | WebHostingShow.com   Less

Did you know that the Web Hosting Show was Yakov Smirnoff’s favorite way to spend a lazy afternoon? Ok, maybe that isn’t true but I will update you on the rise of the Soviet Union domain name extension as well as pull the curtain other myths and rumors about SEO. Now just as long as Yakov’s lawyers don’t shut me down, the Web Hosting Show is on the air. Download the Web Hosting Show, Episode 150! Running Time: 15 minutes | File Size: 6.62 MB Here are just a few topics from this week’s episode of the Web Hosting Show. Soviet Union Still Exists in the Domain Name World Regional Hosting, is it Worth Looking Into? Top Search Engine Optimization Tips and Myths De-bunked! Domain Name Warehousing, What is it and Who Does It? Little known fact, in Russia you don’t host web sites; web sites host you! Ok, maybe Yakov’s material was a ‘bit more funny back when we are all running around in MC Hammer pants but that was then and this is now. A little ‘bit of a shorter show this week around to make room for another podcast’s release this week but still have a lot of topics I want to cover one on one just with you, and you, and you over there who doesn’t even like this show but you listen because you know your even going to get something out of it. This podcast is for one and all - from the web hosts to the hosting clients and everyone in between. Extra: New Bookmarklet Makes it Easy to Add to MySpace! © Mitch Keeler - like this? visit Mitchelaneous.com | FirefoxFacts.com | WebHostingShow.com   Less

On this week’s show I am going to give you a run down on some of my favorite search tools to find files hosted for free on the services such as Rapidshare, Megaupload and more. Also tune in to hear about the basics of traceroutes for both Window and Macs as well as a lot more hosting goodness packed into one awesome podcast. Download the Web Hosting Show, Episode 145! Running Time: 14 minutes | File Size: 6.33 MB Here are just a few topics from this week’s episode of the Web Hosting Show. Best of the Rapidshare and Megaupload Free File Searchers! Web Hosting Basics - How to Traceroute? Is The Domain Up, or is it You? Answers for out Listeners Seeking Plesk on Shared Hosting! Learn to Spot Top 10 Web Host Scams! If the web hosting industry was Gotham City, I guess that would make me the defacto Batman. Here to right wrongs, and help you with your web hosting troubles. Actually not much of a Batman fan, always like the Green Lantern more myself. Extra: New Bookmarklet Makes it Easy to Add to MySpace! © Mitch Keeler - like this? visit Mitchelaneous.com | FirefoxFacts.com | WebHostingShow.com   Less

When moving from house to house, you have to pack up all of your belongings in the old house before you can move, right? The same could be said when you are moving from web host to web host. Download the Web Hosting Show, Episode 137! Running Time: 8 minutes | File Size: 3.29 MB The first and most important thing you can do is backup your web site and get it ready for the move. Remember to grab all of your static files. This would be all of your non-dynamic pages, images, templates and more. The exact files that you do backup might change depending on how your site is setup. (more…) Extra: Download a free domain name audio guide from the Web Hosting Show! © Mitch Keeler - like this? visit Mitchelaneous.com | FirefoxFacts.com | WebHostingShow.com   Less

Internet scams are everywhere, but there has been a large increase in the number of domain name registration scams. Learn about these scammers and how to protect yourself from losing your domain name and your money. Less