I’ll share my biggest secret with you… I love The Godfather trilogy. And I’m not the only one who loves The Godfather movie trilogy. According to IMDB it’s the best movie of all time! So what did this movie (that was created in 1972, when there was no internet, no web hosting service, no Myspace or Digg) teach me about web hosting? It taught me four important things:

1. Trust

If you can’t trust your business partner, than your business won’t work.

What does it mean? If you can’t trust in the hosting company that hosts your money making websites, because you think it’s not a reliable company, and the only reason you stay with them is the fact that their hosting service is cheap, than you should move your sites to another web host.

2. Loyalty & Betrayal

If a mobster is not loyal to his “family”, because he doesn’t agree with the decisions of the Godfather, than he’ll end up in a body bag.

If your web hoster doesn’t provide what it has promised you before, then move your sites to another company without any hesitation. You know, it’s all about making money, and moving your sites to another company is not an emotional but a financial decision. In this case, the hosting company is the betrayer and not you.

3. Solving problems

If a mobster has a problem with somebody, he can either talk to him, or kill him -ooor kill him and talk to him after that-.

It’s free to ask help from the support of a hosting company, so feel free to ask. You’re the customer and they’re the seller, it’s their obligation to help you. If they don’t help you, than read ‘lesson no. 4′.

4. The head of a horse on the bed

In the movie, a producer doesn’t want to do what the Godfather tells him to do, so one day he wakes up, and he finds the head of his dead horse on his bed right in front of him.

I love animals, so I wouldn’t suggest you to kill a horse and put it’s head on the bed of a CEO. Instead you can write a nice, detailed article about your problems with XY hosting company, and you can post it on a forum like Webhostingtalk.com. Maybe an employee of XY company will read your article and he/she will try to solve your problem, or you’ll find another, reliable hosting company.

I hope you found this post useful, and if you haven’t seen The Godfather yet, than I suggest you to buy it on DVD.

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written by Jeremy \\ tags: fun, hosting tutorial, lesson, story, web hosting

Although I planned to write about web hosting today (Geez, a blogger who writes about web hosting related things on a blog named “Art of webhosting”?) , I changed my mind so I’m going to talk about some blog related stuff.

Traffic

The blog is only 5 days old, but according to Awstats there were already 1200 visitors on this blog. I have to admit, most of these visitors came from StumbleUpon, to read the “10 ways to make a tech support guy cry” post.

It’s cool, I didn’t expect so many visitors. I also didn’t expect any traffic from Entrecard, but they’ve already sent me over 200 visitors:

Design

I was working on the new theme of this blog all day, so I’m pretty tired now. Why do I want to use a unique theme on this blog? Because I want to create a brand, and it’s hard to create one if you use a theme like this on your blog. This theme can be seen on at least a 100 Wordpress blogs… anyway, I hope I’m going to finish the design soon and than I’m going to hire somebody to code this theme.

Goals for the next 30 days

• at least 100 subscribers to the RSS feed
• 200-300 unique visitor/day

I hope I’m going to reach my goals, and maybe one day this blog will be on a list like the one Jason created recently.

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written by Jeremy \\ tags: blog, design, traffic

I collected these ads because I wanted to show you, that designers at hosting companies can create really cool, and ugly banners too. The problem is that many of the webmasters are lazy, and they think it doesn’t matter which banner they put on their site because: “The reliability of a hosting company is more important, than the design of their ads”. That’s true, but if a hosting company offers only ugly banners to it’s affiliates, and the affiliates use these banners on their websites, than the visitors won’t click on these banners. So they’re not going to know anything about the reliability of that hosting company. Anyway, here are the banners:

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written by Jeremy \\ tags: ad, advertisement, banner, hosting ad, webhosting ad

Webhosting is an essential part of a successful website. You can’t create a successful site without a reliable webhost. That’s why I wanted to create a blog about it, because there are so many mysteries in the world of webhosting, people know too little about the big hosting companies etc. My goal is to create a blog that covers the following topics:

-infos about hosting companies

-webhosting plan reviews

-interviews with A-list bloggers about the their history with hosting companies

and the list goes on…

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written by Jeremy \\ tags: blog, company, webhosting