My Hosting Company: HostMonster
- Hosts 450,000 Domains
- Unlimited Hosting Space
- Unlimited Site Bandwidth
- Host Unlimited Domains
- Unlimited Pop/Imap Email Accounts
- SSH Access (Secure Shell)
- SSL, FTP, Stats
- CGI, Ruby (RoR), Perl, PHP, MYSQL
Personal Note: You must have a domain with PHP & MySQL for any serious business today.
Offering these alone makes Hostmonster's price for the features one of the most competitive I've found.
- Front Page Extensions
- Free Domain Forever
- Free Site Builder
- Best Support in the Industry
- Free Domain Name or Domain Transfer
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Personal Note: This truly sets Hostmonster apart. How many hosting companies I've used before where you pay and then wait 3 days before you can use your site. I've never waited again, once I found HostMonster!
- Free 1 Click Installer For Over 50 Scripts
- Free SiteBuilder w/Templates
- 99.9% Network Uptime Guarantee
- $25 Free Yahoo Advertising Credits
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My Favorite WordPress Theme: Thesis WordPress Theme
- Thesis+WordPress simply offers the best SEO available for blogging on the internet.
Most blogs and blogging services have very, very poor SEO - even the hugely popular free platforms. What a waste of your talent and effort if you're holding back the search engines from seeing you!
- Neil Patel of QuickSprout.com, Search Engine Optimization consultant for 30 of the top 100 blogs on the internet, personally uses Thesis.
This alone would convince me to get this theme
- A most powerful and versatile publishing pallette
- Unparalleled typography and visual clarity ("clean" look) - two of the most important aspects of any website
- Voted simplest-to-use blogging template by tons of non-geeks (visit the link above to see who uses it)
- Chris Pearson, the author, meticulously supports and documents this software - it's a big reason why his site gets 100K visitors per month!
- This is professional software: a one-site license costs $87; an unlimited site developer license: $164;
upgrade to developer: $77
- Why JohnMartinsBlog doesn't use it: this site is about what can be done with free or near-free services; hopefully soon, I can switch JohnMartinsBlog over to one of Chris' awesome free themes (Cutline, CopyBlogger, NeoClassical) which are superior to just about any other theme, but they cannot compare to Thesis
My IT Tech Friends' Favorite Backup Software: Terabyte Unlimited's Image for Windows
The recommended way to back up your operating system and data...and get it all back to normal again when catastrophe strikes.
Lots of options here for all you techies. The first link here is probably all you need now.
Image for Windows (9922-2) ...You also get a free copy of DOS/Linux Image included with this
BootIt Next Generation (9922-1)
Image Deployment License (9922-3)
BootIt Next Generation - Technician License Add-On (9922-7)
Image - Technician License Add-On (9922-8)
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