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Take The Money And Run - How to get good hosting on the cheap

Published
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Cory
on November 15, 2008
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So you want decent web hosting for your site but you don’t want to pay through the nose to get it.

Well, you’ve come to the right place.

Just sit your coupon-clipping butt down and listen to Cory’s own 3 step web hosting solution.

  1. Find a web host offering a good 1-year deal. - This actually isn’t as hard as it sounds. There are plenty of hosting companies out there all eagerly trying to get you “hooked” on their hosting. The first hit is .. not free, but cheap. Last year I found a deal with Dreamhost at $22 for 1 year including domain name registration. This year, Netfirms offered the same, but with two free domains instead of just one (the offer is expired now). These deals aren’t hard to find if you know where to look. RetailMeNot.com can help you find discount codes and special offers.
  2. When the year is over, repeat step 1. - You’ll probably need to find a different host for each successive year. The point of their deals is to draw in new clients, then charge them full price when they renew their hosting. Luckily for you, there are plenty of hosting companies out there.
  3. Transfer your old site to your new host. - Copy and paste files. Export databases. Make sure any links are updated. Don’t forget to transfer the domain name as well. If you wait until after the registration expires, someone else could snap up your domain before you have the chance to renew it.

But wait, you say. Surely there won’t always be some amazing 1-year deal out there. That’s where NearlyFreeSpeech.net comes in. They offer hosting for just pennies a day. You pay for exactly what you use and nothing more. Also, you prepay for hosting so you’re guaranteed not to get burned if your site hits Digg or Slashdot. Just throw $10 on your account until you can find the next 1-year hosting deal. Then switch again. They’ll even refund any extra money you don’t use. If you run a small site, like a low-traffic blog, you may want to just stick with NearlyFreeSpeech. They really are that cheap.

One More Time

Published
by
Cory
on November 10, 2008
in Blog-Related
. 3 Comments

The blog is back with a new host and a new look!

<pause for the sound of no one caring>

Sometimes I think the only people who still read this blog are search engine spiders and email harvest bots.

It’s been about a year since I started this site and the posting rate has definitely gone downhill. I used to post once every few days, then once a week, then once every two weeks, then once every three weeks. The last time I updated this blog was over a month ago. I mentioned something about posting once a week. Yeah.. that didn’t work out. This time I’m serious though. I will post at least once per week and yes, you can hold me to that. Hey, it worked for Shawn (for a month anyways).

So sit tight. You’re in for more impassioned rants, more crazy adventures, and more posts about nothing in particular.

Edit: Someone pointed out that I took down the “free music” section. It’s true. The music is gone. I decided not to keep it on the site ’cause it was being abused. After the link to the folder hit the tubes, some mp3 indexing sites caught wind of my free music stash and started spreading links to the individual files around the internet. I don’t really mind providing free music to my visitors, but it was just a lawsuit waiting to happen.  I think the music used something like 50 gigabytes of bandwidth every 24 hours. That’s roughly ten thousand song downloads a day.

Running On Empty

Published
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Cory
on March 11, 2008
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I haven’t posted that much in the last few weeks (much like certain other blogs). I’ve been busy with work, school, life, et cetera but that’s no excuse. I get the feeling that I’m doing nothing and it’s taking up all of my time. I would probably have posted a bit more frequently but my cache of clever observations and impassioned rants has been reduced to a few half-finished ideas. Even those are pretty useless to be honest. I can’t even remember what I was thinking about when I wrote them. Of the the three “blog ideas” I have left here, one is a question mark - nothing else - just a question mark. One says “H.S.T”. The last one is “JP vs MS” .. whatever that means. So instead of trying to decipher my cryptic notes-to-self (although you’re welcome to try), I’m just giving it to you straight. I’ve got nothing to say.

Now hold on a minute. I should clarify something.
This is not one of those forced compositions. You know the kind. Everyone has, at one point in their lives, witnessed this scenario:
A person is required to write a speech, or essay, or some other type of composition. They try desperately for hours to come up with a topic with no success.
Suddenly, it hits them. Why not write about not being able to find a topic? “That’s genius” they think to themselves. “I’m the most original person I know“.
Then they take this and show all their friends, who try their hardest not to roll their eyes while telling them how creative an idea it was.

Anyways, this post is not one of those lame compositions. I just have nothing to say, and I thought you should know it.