root's blog

If there is one single and important reason to buy your own domain name it’s to obtain and retain a unique email address that can’t be taken from you. If you think you’re current email address is safe then think again because in today’s economy no company is immune. It also means that current companies might be shut down their email hosting services to weather the economic storm.

Overview

While a podcast is really nothing more than a packaged link to a web page with sound or video embedded into it the idea of setting up the page, embedding the content, and publishing it in one step is relatively new. A godaddy podcast hosting service or a “blogcast” as they have branded it has been around since 2006 about the time that the term became popular.

Why Use it?

In a trend that’s changing the landscape of hosting companies like Amazon.com and Google have provided services which allow you to store data on their distributed networks. They’re called file hosting services but the possibilities are a bit more expansive than that.

I’m not a fan of putting labels on things including this Web 2.0 business but I do like to think about things in terms of versions being a software developer. I’ve been involved with some form of web hosting related work since 1995 and have seen the industry evolve quickly every step of the way.

I'm sure that you've heard the catchphrase Information Is Power before. On the Internet the wealth of information can lead to the hampering of the power contained in information but many websites are able to harness this power properly. The following list is a collection of websites that truly achieve greatness in this regard.

WikiPedia

The team over at LunarPages held the third part of their wordpress theme contest series. The contest itself spanned over a three month period and had particular rules that all contestants had to follow.

In the end it came down to three major winners and here are their reactions.