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!

C. If you are searching for a cheap domain registrar than try to look at name.com or namecheap.com as they both have some interesting coupons to offers this month. .Com, .ME, .Net can be yours for something around $9+/-. Check their Twitter accounts for promo codes. Don’t forget it’s the end of March so the codes expire soon… .

D. The real big news -> Icethunder.net is finally back online and writing! Have a nice day!

From what I have learned:

• You should not start with a VPS unless your projects really needs this kind of environment.
• If you think your project needs a VPS right from the start make sure you order a Fully Managed VPS if you do not know how to configure and secure a web server or if you don’t have an administrator to do it for you!
• Basic management and/or Unmanaged means nearly the same: You will need to do all the securing, setting up and configuration alone! Buy this sort of plan only if you know what you are doing! To read a quick tutorial is not enough!!!
• Always read the Terms of Service and Service level agreement!!! It’s even more important than by shared hosting! You are responsible for the virtual server! There might be high fees for re-installation or technical assistance with unmanaged VPS in the ToS!
• Do you wanna go the VPS way alone and despite all the aforementioned problems? Than start learning LINUX!!! Debian and CentOS are what  have fond to be mostly used [Ubuntu, Fedora etc. are popular too]. Debian is stable and very mature. CentOS, on the other hand is more up2date, but don’t forget they both use different package managers and most importantly you will have to use a CONSOLE / TERMINAL and no GUI to help you! Knowledge of Gnu/Linux is thus a must!

After searching for the right VPS in the last couple of weeks I can say, that you can never say how valuable forum posts really are! There are people out there ready to help you. They are ready to give you their opinions and many times it’s really good to ask questions before you make the wrong decisions or assumptions. It’s not good to just blindly believe in what one review site tells you. Always try to ask and you will get a better and bigger picture!

In the coming weeks I will write some article with my experience and hopefully they will be useful to some of you. This blog still stays a shared critique hosting, but I will start to implement VPS hosting news, review and critique, too! Hopefully you will like this new style.

The other news is that in a couple of weeks [sometime in MARCH] Icethunder.net will get a new design! Until than do not forget to write your comments to the articles and/or ask questions about topics or things you would like to see answered discussed. Have a nice day!

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!

It's been a long time since hostgator started to offer UNLIMITED plans. Up until that time every one out there was talking about how "UNLIMITED" selling companies do not deliver what they offer and often place restrictions on the "UNLIMITED" thing... . Try to leave a comment and tell us how is the service at hostgator. Do you like it or did they change after they went to UNLIMITED?

Downtown host and Sharkspace still offer a 50% off. An interesting offer, but I did resist to use it [well I did not noticed it...], but they still might be great hosts. Anyone with experience with one of them? If so leave a comment!

1and1 came back this year with a  “6 months for free and the next 6 months for$ 6.99/month” special. I did use this offer two years ago and stayed with them for two years, but now for $6.99? I do not know… .

I would say you should check WEB HOSTING TALK more regularly to find out many news shared hosting offers! There are tons of them right now!

Do not forget to leave any comments! Have a nice day!