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Weekly news #2 [Week 13]
Mar 29th
Hi there! It’s been a long time since the last article in the Weekly News category! But this week has just started and thus you can look forward to some more news to come. From now on the weekly news category will get it’s Monday and Friday article every week!
Here are the news or important staff I want to share!
A.Webhostingtalk.com
1. For the last two days over 27 new posting in webhostigntalk.com’s shared hosting offers section! Some of them advertised as a 50% off. You should check them out!
2. At the same forum you can find 18 new VPS offers & 17 new Reseller offers!
Why I mention those? Because the forum is a good place to start your web hosting search. Companies advertise there and do not pay for the adverts so only the market decides who wins and who fails – in contrast to some other forums/review sites… And you can always ask someone on the forum about their experience with a particular company!
B. For those of you who still don’t believe in Twitter. Just subscribe to your hosting providers Twitter account [if they have one] and follow them. You might get more news from the company this way and this might help you if you experience any downtime as companies [the good ones] would Tweet about their problems to help their customers! Read the rest of this entry »
Me & Twitter :) Why to Follow…
Feb 5th
This one should be a relax post. I don’t wanna throw at you any phrases from web hosting, or related to web hosting at all. It’s Friday and people should start to think about the weekend and thus why should I scary you with work at this time?
As you might notice in the recent days I have started a small shift of attention to my Twitter account. I have started to post some of the clues and hints I have discussed here at my blog on Twitter, but I also posted there something more, too. It’s always very advantageous to follow my twitter account to don’t miss any of my ideas I might get in the middle of a day 
. Some of them will turn into standalone article at Icethunder.net, but some might not and thus you could miss something.
Rofl, I started to think about another nice hint, that you might find useful in the middle of this article A very nice way t find out how good a hosting company is – mainly how responsive they are, could be to follow them trough Twitter. This way you can see how many Tweets they actually did and at the same time you will see how helpful they are, how they deal with customers and much more. It’s only up to you how good you are at reading “between the lines.” You could start to follow 5-10 companies and make Twitter one of the criteries for your final decision. Read the rest of this entry »
What kind offers do you like?
Jan 12th
I wrote an article about Hostgator and their “coupon code” policy. I think you know what it was about, but a small recapitulation. They offer a 20% off during the whole year, without any real offer in between. I think this approach just is not very creative. You get your customers, because people like discounts, but you still miss people who wait for something really much interesting.
I, for example, like to go around the web and search. I do not buy anything that’s cheap, but I like to see really special offers. The kind you see and you want to buy immediately, because it is an offer you know will not come back very soon! At the same time I realize, that providing your customers with a really reliable service costs money. And if your company really wants to do a good job, than the service costs even more. And thus the only way for you to cover the costs is to set the pricing in a good way.
As an owner of a hosting company you need to look on different things
- the support people
- the servers [ + other hardware]
- bandwidth/hard disk capacity
- …and more
and all this costs money. The only way to cover the costs, as I said in the previous paragraph, is to set the prices just right. But the competition is though so it is always good to offer a special coupon. And this is where you have to make the choice. You need to decided how much you are willing to give to your customers. And, at the same time, you know you can not go too high, because you need to cover the costs. Read the rest of this entry »
Hostgator coupons and the others…can’t they do better?
Jan 12th
I do not want to make you feel, that I do not like hostgator.com. I really like their plans and they all seem pretty good. I did not find too many bad reviews about this web host and the majority of the reviews I have read have been really positive. Even my favorite web hosting forum has tons of good posts about this host company. Even I wanted to sign up for a plan with them a year ago, but I changed my mind and read why.
Well, it is because they were not able to get my attention with a good offer. Under “offer” I mean a good coupon code with more than just 20% off the price. I know, that you need to pay to get a quality service, but sometimes to give your customers something extra pays off too. They offer 20% off during the whole year [at least what I have seen until now] and they lack any other special offers. It would be more interesting to see life coming into their “coupon river” and they could go beyond themselves and make a real offer, like 40% off for a limited amount of time… . That’s an offer!
Other big companies do this all the time. I know, that most of the time these companies do oversell, but I do not try to tell Hostgator to do the same. I just think it would be good to see some life from them in this “coupon” world, too. It would be nice to see this kind of offers at least during Christmas and not their usual “20% offer”. They just change the picture for a snowman and that’s all. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekly news #1.0
Jan 6th
What a nice day it is today I thought to myself this morning after my morning routine finished. Hosting news site read, WHT visited and now I can go on to write my first “Weekly News” category article. In fact there might me more “Weekly News” articles in one week – the number depends on important things that might happen in the industry and around
In this new category I would like to bring the most interesting and most important news from the world of web hosting. You might know, that I specialize on Shared hosting so you should not look for VPS or Dedicated news for now. Although I might include news from this area as well.
This category will be not only about “news” because I am not that high in the rankings and I really do not have the connections with major hosting companies, but I would like to bring you news about “hottest offers”, “most up2date offers”, “recent problems [uptime/downtime” etc. as I will find out along the way on my morning routine.
This first article will be no exception and so let me start. If you do not see it it’s 2010 and you should start moving fast as there are tons of “PROMO” codes out there! If you are like many people you most probably did not take advantage of the great special offers during Christmas 2009. You need to be satisfy yourself with just a new years offer or you can wait ’till next Christmas… . I would still recommend you to go with companies with history if you consider your project as an important one! Read the rest of this entry »
