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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.

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.

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.

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:

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.

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.

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.

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.