Make money online with the best Halloween hosting deal I have ever seen

Regular readers know that I actively promote AN Hosting. Everything I own online is hosted with them and they provide me with the service and support that I need. They are the virtual backbone of my business. Occasionally, AN Hosting offer time limited deals that are simply too good to miss. And now is such a time. For the next 24 hours, October 31st from 12:01am to 11:59pm Central, AN Hosting are offering UNLIMITED bandwidth plus UNLIMITED disk... Read More

Dreamhost stoops to a new low

A couple of days ago I started to receive some odd comments. All of them were written in the same style, by apparently different people none of whom left a web address. They all had one thing in common. Every one was praising Dreamhost, saying what a wonderful host they were and how they, unlike me, had received nothing but fantastic service, 100% uptime and wonderful customer support. Yesterday six of these bizarre comments were left, similar... Read More

Dreamhost destroys a ten year old blog

Dreamhost have done it again. Imagine you are a blogger with a ten year blogging anniversary coming up in the next few months. Then, for no valid reason and with no notice, Dreamhost cancels your account and refuses to give you access to any working backups. And, to make matters worse, the backups that you have been downloading from Dreamhost over the last few years are all corrupted and completely unusable. How angry would you be? My experience... Read More

Back safe and sound thanks to a professional backup team

I’m very happy to announce that Upstart Blogger is now back online after yesterdays difficulties. Credit where credit’s due, AN Hosting were fantastic in sorting this whole mess out. They took the site offline and out of harms way, took care of the problem and then loaded a backup copy of Upstart Blogger into place earlier today Nothing was lost since the backup they had was taken only an hour before the attack started. Specifically... Read More

Upstart Blogger is under attack

Upstart Blogger is currently all over the place, little bits scattered here and there. Things could get a little shaky around here until everything is fixed and nailed down. It’s going to be tricky but thankfully the hosting super heroes at AN Hosting are on the case. More news when I get it.  Read More →

Share your Dreamhost sucks stories

Upstart Blogger has one of the most famous Dreamhost sucks stories online. In case you haven’t already seen it you can read it here. Before I took over Upstart Blogger in December last year I too had been stunned by the absolute stupidity of the Dreamhost employees. Those wonderful Dreamhost employees who grin and pose in ridiculous photos advertising the fact that they own the company. There are plenty of Dreamhost refugess out there. Bloggers... Read More

Traffic boosting new year’s resolutions for bloggers

In the spirit of the season here are five simple new year’s resolutions to boost your blog traffic. If you are not already using Wordpress to manage your blog now is the time to start. Blogger is a newbie choice, Moveable Type is more complicated than it needs to be, and the new kids on the block like Mephisto are too unproven at this time. Wordpress does what it is supposed to do without any fuss or bother, is search engine friendly and has... Read More

Amazing Halloween Hosting Offer From AN Hosting!

I don’t usually write posts that are shameless plugs, but the incredible deal AN Hosting is offering for Halloween is just too good to ignore. Yes, I’ll get a nice commission if you decide to sign up for hosting using the links in this post. But if you’re looking for great hosting you owe it to yourself to keep reading. This offer has now ended, but AN Hosting still offers the best deal on hosting for your blog. Use the code UPSTARTBLOGGER... Read More

Good News From AN Hosting!

One of my favorite hosts has experienced its share of hiccups lately, but things are looking up. Seems the rumors are true, and AN Hosting will be moving to a new data center. This was published in the latest midPhase Newsletter (AN Hosting is owned by midPhase, but offers much better hosting packages than midPhase): Unless you’ve been hosting under a rock or vacationing in Tahiti you’re undoubtedly aware we’ve had a rocky month of power outages... Read More

Hosting Problems

Note: The problems seem to have been fixed. See update below. My site experienced another outage today due to problems with AN Hosting’s data center. I’ve had sporadic problems with AN Hosting lately… I’m saddened by this because, in my experience, AN Hosting has been a damn good host (note that AN Hosting is owned by midPhase, which has been plagued by the same problems). The service has been among the best I’ve experienced... Read More