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A few days ago, a friend told me about an article he read in the Internet about people making a living via their blog sites. Since he didn’t have much experience on how to start a web site, I sent him a few links to look through. After a few days of reading and researching, he managed to start his very first blog site – Google Adsense Tutorial. The blog site was hosted on blogger.com and he asked me about the possibility of hosting on a proper web hosting company since he has heard of blogspot sites being hijacked and removed for no reason. Image by Christian Sisson.

I told him that there are many web hosting out there in the market today. It all depends on one’s needs and requirements. For some, they would go for lower cost while some would go for one which provides unlimited bandwith.

So his next question to me, where is a good place to start looking for web hosting plans? And if possible, it should show him a list of top web hosting plans so that he could easily compare them side by side.

Without hesitating, I recommended to him a site that’s at the back of my head called FindMyHosting.com

FindMyHosting.com allows one to easily search and compare web hosting plans. Continue Reading »
How to find the best web hosting plan

This site, wanginternet.com is currently registered under Yahoo! Domains.

When I first subscribed to Yahoo! Domains way back in year 2005, it was on a real good promotion which cost only $2.95. 

For year 2006 and 2007, I was billed $9.95 which was ok and I still considered it affordable.

Today, without any email alerts what so ever, I saw a bill of $34.95 in my credit card statement. Ouch!

Without hesitating I quickly contacted the online chat support from both Bluehost and Westhost and asked them about the possibility of transfering my domain over to them since they are my web hosting providers. What I found out from both hosting provider was that in order to ensure a successful domain transfer from my current registrar, which is Yahoo!, I had to make sure that my domain:

• Has not expired or is not within 14 days of expiring
• Has not been renewed within the last 45 days
• Has not been registered within the last 60 days
• Is not involved in any legal or payment disputes

One thing for sure is that my site has expired and it has been automatically renewed within the last 45 days. So no matter what, I will still need to pay Yahoo! Domains $34.95! This is the price to pay for being ignorant about when my domain expires. Continue Reading »
I was billed $34.95 by Yahoo! Domains

Recently I’ve been thinking of new ways to make more money online. When I finally thought of a good idea, the next thing that came to my mind was to think of a good domain name.

If you’re wondering what’s my great idea about, well… ok I’ll let you all know. The site will allow people to exchange reviews. Nowadays there are many sites which allows you to purchase reviews. Just to name a few: ReviewMe, SponsoredPosts, PayPerPost. The thing about these sites, they will take a cut from the reviews you wrote as a publisher, which also equates to paying more for a review purchase. So the big idea is all about a marketplace for publishers to exchange reviews. I can’t foresee how successful the site can become but this sort of site is worth going to.

So the next step is to get a good domain name. We all know the importance of a good and catchy domain name that people can easily mention and remember. The first domain name that I could think of is… ReviewExchange.com! I wonder if it’s still available. So I headed over to Gossimer’s domain services.

I quickly did a search for ReviewExchange to see if it’s still available.

Shucks!!! The domain name is no longer available! But wait, Gossimer’s domain services recommended a list of other domain names. One good name that caught my attention was…. ReviewBarter.com!

Isn’t it smart? The domain services engine managed to recommend an even better domain name for me. So the next time you need to search for a good domain name, head over to Gossimer’s domain services. The price of $8.88 a year is also quite affordable.

Besides domain services, Gossimer also has web hosting plans starting from $5.95 a month which has many features including Fantastico. Their servers are are on OC3 connections at Hurricane Datacenter. In case anything goes wrong, all plans also come with 24 hour support. For sure you can expect your site to be hosted on a fast and reliable center.

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• To start a new thread at one of the forums.
• In the forum, describe a little background about yourself.
• Specify the domain name to host. No subdomains or free subdomain names are allowed. So yes, you’re gonna have to purchase your own domain name first.
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