HostDime Blog

Written by Jared Smith • September 25, 2012

On Thursday September 20^th, 2012 HostDime attended and helped sponsor the Nap Ford Community School’s fundraiser event at Ember nightclub in Orlando.  The event kicked off with a great musical set by Cornbread Blues followed by an amazing performance by CeCe Teneal and Soul Kamotion.

Written by Jared Smith • September 24, 2012

Most of your consumers will be easy to work with, pay their bills on time, and provide you very little hassle. But there are always those troublemakers who will make your life unpleasant and will refuse to pay for your services. In the movies, you’d just call one of your shady connections who’s handy with a baseball bat. But this is real life, and neither of us are gangsters, so here’s a helpful guide to deal with these slow and non-paying clients in a professional manner.

Written by Jared Smith • September 19, 2012

The HostDime crew was out in spades this week at iSummit 2012 in beautiful Orlando, Florida. iSummit brings together digital leaders to discuss emerging trends and intriguing strategies for interactive technologies. The goal is to find new business and make lasting contacts. HostDime was a fortunate sponsor who enjoyed the company of hundreds of entrepreneurs, marketers, developers, investors, executives, and strategists from all corners of the technological world. Be sure to check out over 60 photos from the iSummit event at our Facebook.

Much of the convention’s focus was on consumer driven social business. Panels included internet business, content strategies, marketing and development, online brand engagement, user experience, and other helping social media specific topics. It was certainly a wonderful opportunity to network with hungry in the booming digital economy.

Seeing as this was a social media event, let’s have a look at some of the online chatter from the event courtesy of Twitter. Kudos to the following 10 creative and engaging Tweeters for live-blogging panels, dropping valuable tidbits, providing helpful links, and getting their own brand out there. Hopefully this will give you a good idea of iSummit 2012 and multiple reasons to not miss iSummit 2013.

Written by Jared Smith • September 11, 2012

Do you think you have what it takes to become a web hosting reseller and make some quick income? Well the process might be easier than you think thanks to Web Host Manager Complete Solution (WHMCS). With HostDime, you get a free copy with your reseller, VPS or dedicated hosting package. WHMCS is a client management, billing, and support software portal for online web hosts. It allows clients to sign up for various packages and register unlimited domains without any work on your part. Once you approve a new signup in cPanel, WHMCS will instantly supply those new accounts on your server and you can view each client in-depth.

Written by Jared Smith • September 5, 2012

International web hosting provider HostDime.com, Inc. has provided Full Sail University’s Internet Marketing degree program students with free web hosting. Unlike many of the free web hosting services offered today, students will be given a fully functioning hosting account that is completely ad free. The cPanel enabled hosting plans will also be fully managed by HostDime’s industry leading support team.

Written by Jared Smith • September 4, 2012

The hosting industry is as popular as ever and is growing each day with new, independent start-ups looking to be the next big web hosting provider. Unfortunately, many entrepreneurs do not have the start-up capital to purchase loads of dedicated servers to re-purpose as shared servers or reseller machines. In most cases, businesses start out on a shared reseller platform and scale up the tiers of hosting as their business grows or as their clients’ needs increase.

Written by Jared Smith • August 24, 2012

Surpass Hosting’s recent migration from Fantastico to Softaculous has given Surpass Hosting users an opportunity to try out new scripts. Here are the top scripts according to Softaculous users:

Written by Jared Smith • August 23, 2012

Ah, passwords, the keys to modern living. It seems you can’t go anywhere or do anything these days without a password. You workstation needs a password, your gym needs a password, even your trusty buddy the cell phone may need a password. With so many passwords it’s tempting to make life easy and just have one master key, or password to make life simple. While this may be easy, it’s definitely not secure and you risk putting in danger every access point where you use that “master key.”

It brings to mind the old castle housekeeper with gigantic ring of keys to every room in the castle. What a burdensome load to carry. Wouldn’t a master key be better? Yes it would, but one stolen key and the whole castle is breached.

Written by Jared Smith • August 16, 2012

Whether you’re running a personal blog or reselling web hosting it’s important to make sure your business is running at optimum performance. Here’s a list of things to check once a month to make sure you, and your business are running on all cylinders.

Written by Jared Smith • August 14, 2012

Don’t you love it when you find that little thing that makes your life easier? At HostDime we like to save time using little tips and tricks to keep our life easy:

1. Accidentally close the wrong tab? Hit Ctrl+Shift+T and the tab will re-open if you are using Firefox, Chrome or IE. It’s Cmd+Shift+T for Mac users.

2. On a PC? The Windows key+ L will put your computer to sleep immediately.

Written by Jared Smith • August 9, 2012

99.99%. It’s something that we’ve come to expect from our hosting providers, yet when it comes to our online reputation, we’ve somehow settled for a lot less.

Yet, just like the importance of 100% uptime for our web sites, so too our online reputations should be considered as something that requires our 100% attention–okay, perhaps 99.99%–at all times.

Written by Jared Smith • August 7, 2012

Shared hosting is a great option for businesses looking to host their own website. It’s cost effective and you get the customer service and tools you need to be successful. At Surpass Hosting we do our best to keep your site safe and secure from outside intruders, including scam artists, hackers and entities try to spam yourself and others. There also a list of things that you as the consumer can do to assist us in keeping your environment safe.