If you are a newbie, or you don’t want to spend more than 10 seconds on installing Wordpress on your web host, than you need a “Wordpress friendly” hosting package. What does it mean? You need a web host that has Fantastico installed on it’s servers. What is Fantastico? It’s an online application installer, and with the help of this script library it takes only 10 seconds to install Wordpress on your web host. Fantastico is fantastic, and it’s useful for everybody -not just for bloggers-, that’s why I created a list of the biggest hosting companies that useFantastico on their servers. Here is the list:

Hostgator

If you use the coupon code wordpress than the cost of the first month’s hosting is only 1 cent. Although I haven’t tried Hostgator’s hosting service, my friends love the “Baby” package which costs $7.95/month. If I wasn’t satisfied with Hostican’s service, I’d try this offer.

Hostican

This blog is hosted at Hostican, and I like their service. You can read the Hostican shared hosting review here.

Lunarpages


I’ve read positive reviews about their hosting service, but I haven’t tried it yet.

I haven’t reviewed or tried the services of the following companies, the only reason I included them in the list is that they have Fantastico installed on their servers.

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written by Jeremy \\ tags: hostgator, Hostican, lunarpages, web hosting, wordpress, wordpress hosting

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

Yesterday I was checking out some threads on Webhostingtalk.com, and I bumped into this thread. According to the original poster, some scumbag (probably the owner of ResellerUnlimitedHosting.com, henceforth referred to as RUH) copied the design of Downtownhost.com which is a reliable web hosting company.

Here are two screenshots about the too sites:

Some of the members of Webhostingtalk forum thought that it’s interesting that a ‘company’ steals the design of another company, and that’s why they contacted RUH via live chat, to ask what the hell is ResellerUnlimitedHosting.com doing, why did RUH steal the design of another hosting company’s website etc. As you can read in the chat logs, the support guy at RUH stated that they are the child company of Downtown host. Don’t worry, the story gets better… why? Because the owner (his nickname is: Jedito) of Downtown host is a (respected) member of the WHT community and the other members of WHT sent him a pm about this copyright infringement. After that Jedito sent a DMCA letter to RUH, and now he is waiting for a response (I doubt that RUH will respond to that letter…).

Here is the log of the chat between Jedito (in this conversation: ‘you’) and the support guy at RUH (Kevin):

you: Hi
you: when do you plan to remove the current design?
you: my name is Jorge Catena, and I own DowntownHost LLC
Kevin: remove what?
you: I prefer to not send DCMA letter to Gnax, but not answering my email you’re forcing me to do it
you: remove the design, it’s ripped off from our
Kevin: what are you talking about?
you: downtownhost.com
you: rings you a bell?
Kevin: oh you stolen our design man
you: are you stupid?
you: or pretending to be?
Kevin: pls remove it…other wise ill take legal action against you…
you: do you really want to have legal issues?
you: Ok, I see, you’re an idiot
you: I’m sending at this moment a DCMA letter to Gnax
Kevin: ill send letter to DCMA
you: to DCMA? you don’t even know what’s that
you: what a waste of time
Kevin: stop ********..ill definitly take an actions against you

As you can see Kevin the RUH support guy was so stupid that he didn’t even know what DMCA is… (I know…Jedito was the one who mispelled it twice, but this guy at RUH was so stupid, that he just copied and pasted the mispelled word). The fun part of this chat is that Jedito (you know, the owner of Downtownhost.com) got threatened with a DMCA counterclaim. It’s ridiculous that a scumbag can steal and lie without any consequences. I hope Jedito will ‘win this war’.

For further information about this ‘case’, visit this thread.

(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5)

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written by Jeremy \\ tags: company, scam, web hosting, web hosting scam, webhosting

Yeah, I mean it, and this is why I wrote that in the title: As you may know, many of the web hosting companies have an affiliate program and they pay high commissions for their affiliates.

How can you trust in a stranger’s words about a web hosting company/plan? In 99.9% of the cases this website owner, this reviewer gets a nice commission after each sale.

Alright, why do I tell you things like this? This is partially a webhosting review blog… am I crazy or what? Well, honesty is one of the most important part of this business. If a company doesn’t deliver what it promises, I don’t want to be it’s business partner (in this case, I don’t want to be it’s affiliate). My ultimate goal is to write honest reviews about hosting services (no matter whether they suck, or they are good & reliable) because people have to know the truth about these companies. So stay tuned folks!

PS: I’m sure you’ve noticed that I’m not a native English speaker, sorry for the grammatical errors, I try to do my best to create quality content.

(1 votes, average: 4 out of 5)

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written by Jeremy \\ tags: cheap hosting, review, web hosting, webhosting review