Aaron Donohoe

I’m looking for a host for a few turnover development websites, probably hosting for around 10-15 websites, mostly blogs.

I’m looking for hosting with the following specs:

• cPanel (reseller account with WHM preferred)
• Around 4GB space, and a suggestible amount of Bandwidth
• Decent Uptime, and Server Specs
• A Reasonable Monthly fee, I have few intentions of paying annually anymore as I’ve been burnt too many times with those ‘Fly by Night‘ hosts who take your annual fee and run after a month!
• Unlimited Databases and Email Aliases/Forwarding
• If Shared Hosting, Unlimited Addon Domains or atlease 15 addon domains
• Support not essential - I’ve enough experience with cPanel and WHM to be able to sort myself out unless it’s a server or backend problem

Can you suggest any hosts? I’m looking for personal experiences with such hosts, but bear in mind these websites will be turned over at a fast rate so I don’t want to be paying the earth for the monthly fees. Just simple shared (although reseller preferred) hosting with cPanel a must!

Any suggestions welcome :thumbsup:

2008 has been so hectic, I haven’t yet had the chance to layout a plan of action forecast for the year ahead, as regards present websites, blogs, forums, domains, and proposed investments, and ideas. Well I’m finally getting there - slowly but surely. 2008 has been so hectic, I haven’t had the opportunity to make any business posts, nor have I had the luxury of time to upgrade the blog to Wordpress 2.3.2.
I have plans for my ‘high’ earners, such as this blog and a few others - sorry but for some reason, I often don’t publically disclose most of my websites of being under my ownership - although, if you have an eye for detail you’d spot my trend of websites dotted about the net . I have decided to keep this blog as my main personal diary, with as few business posts as possible. I will of course post the odd webmaster article, but I want to bulk out the rest of my network of simular topics on money making, marketing, and other online activities - if they end up anything like this blog was in August I’d be happy!

The six forums I run and co-run will be expecting quite considerable work, all phpBB, and SMF boards will eventually be ported over the vBulletin, provided they can earn their keep! I’ve two boards on IP. Board, I will keep them on that for as long as I can (when the licenses expire). I’m gradually moving from stepping stone to stepping stone when it comes to marketing websites and blogs - forums are my next target!

Setting up a blog is hard work, but setting up a forum is a mammoth task! For instance, Wordpress is so easy to install I can have it done in under 30 minutes, theme installed too! . All you’ve to construct is your categories, a few links in the blogroll, intro post, and a few other minor bits and pieces. Forums, tend to be more difficult. Firstly you have to install it, IP. Board and vBulletin, simple as they are, take a lot of time to install. They take longer to setup, with various categories, forums, sub-forums, usergroups, user ranks, admin/mod permissions, etc… Hence, I have never been very motivated while setting up forums!

I believe it will take me another week to settle! I’ve been so busy getting myself ‘on the road‘ - more on that when I get my license in the post!, I’ve been away from the 2nd of January until Sunday evening, I’m back at school - which is hectic at the moment as you could imagine, I’m busy working on other websites which I’ve promised priority over everything else, and that coupled with looking for employment, and trying to juggle a social life and online business - it’s not an easy feat!

www.impulseblogger.com passed onto its new owners today, I’m sorry to see it go, but with the sale comes my chance to redeem myself. I’ve registered a domain, that should be of interest for fellow bloggers - www.bloggingbucks.biz has been registered to serve as a resource for bloggers to visit to get advice on services available to them to earn money through their blogs. PPC, Inline post advertisements, Sponsored posting services, etc…

It will be fairly low maintainence - unlike Impulse Blogger which would have been a very high maintainence blog in my opinion, and at the time I hadn’t enough time to spend on this place let along another blog! Bloggers will know that it takes a great deal of effort to write for their blogs, you have to think up articles and posts to write, in some cases enticing titles, and keep up-to-date with advancements in the field in which you’re writing about. And on top of that you’ve bills and SPAM to keep on top of!

I’ve a few more ideas floating about up there - but I’m going to focus on getting present websites online and generating revenue and traffic before I commence registering more domains!

www.webmasterdiscounts.biz - discountinued, as courtesy towards a friend who runs the .com extension.

I went out today to partake in some retail therapy, spending my hard earned money is often a difficult task! However, I did manage to part with nearly €400 today, on stuff that wasn’t really needed. Out in Ashbourne I bought a Graphics Tablet (with stylus and mouse), Belkin Mousepad with cool blue LED lights and 4 port USB Hub, and a new Logitech keyboard, it’s layout is simular to that of my old Laptop and it doesn’t make a sound which is what I wanted for those late night online sessions!

I also bought myself a new mobile phone, after setting my mind on the 6300 on Vodafone, I eventually settled on the Sony Ericsson K800i - the salesman recommended it over the Nokia for a number of valid reasons, maybe its more pricey, but it has more features like 3.2MP camera, expandable memory, Radio, MP3 player, etc…

I was considering the N73, or perhaps the N70 - but I am not a fan of Nokia Symbian mobile phone technologies, they’re too confusing and in my opinion make the phone slugish and will inevitably cause more problems in the long run. I just want a bove average mobile which is what I got. The only problem I’ve encountered is, that over two hours later the Vodafone sim still hasn’t activated - I ported from O2 to Vodafone for a number of reasons, one being I’ve more contacts on Vodafone than O2, and for my use Vodafone has better tariffs.

Now, I’m off to try to figure out this Graphics Tablet - I tried writing my name on it earlier and ended up with some mental looking modern art of just lines going from top to bottom! Could be because I’m a lefty and have my wrist resting on the tablet.

It might seem a little premature - although not if we’re in ‘Tesco Time’, I should have wished you all a Merry Christmas back in October…. Anyway, I’m wishing you all a Merry Christmas this evening, as I am logging off for the festive holidays - Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and St. Stephens Day (Boxing Day).

Everyone deserves a holiday, I want a break away from the internet in general at Christmas. Of course I’ll login to check emails, and make sure the websites are ticking away nicely, but I won’t be making any posts until the 27th of December.

I’m just tying up loose ends on the website front, any jobs that needed doing I’ve been doing today - I did take 2 hours off to watch the Great Escape (such a brilliant film!), and making sure I’ve no overdue bills that could get me cut off over the festive period - although any hosting company that would cut you off on Christmas must be heartless money grabbing philistines!

I’m hoping that 2008 will indeed be prosperous, and present many lucrative business proposals and a nice stream of online revenue! I’m cutting down my present portfolio, with intentions to extend it - as regards time spent on individual websites. 10 websites could generate more revenue then that of 100 websites -if the time, and effort is spent on the 10 initially. So my target is to reduce my portfolio weight, but focus my time on the remaining websites and undeveloped domains. This blog is okay to tick along nicely by itself, but other websites need the intial push, as most websites take off by themselves pending they are marketed correctly and have an active presence for their first month.

So for the next three days I’m taking it easy. No thinking of a great website idea, and going straight online to register the domain then and there. I will simply write it down and do anything I have overdue from Christmas on the 27th and no earlier!

I’m not expecting any surprises on Christmas morning - it will probably be the last year my younger Sister will be in the ‘Santa’ phase, so this will be the last real ‘family Christmas’, as always there will be a big gathering. It’s usually in my Grandmothers house, but as she’s working on the nights of Christmas Eve and Christmas Day - yes, my granny is Airport Police!, so this year for a change it’s being held at my house - all 16 of us! Will be the first time Christmas dinner will be held in the new house, so should be fun.

I’ve already recevied my main present, which was Birthday / Christmas present - the new PC. I’m incredably difficult to buy presents for, I never need anything, nor want anything. My Dad is the same, and shopping for my Mam is the worst - I’m a male, she’s female. Men tend to run into the first shop they see in a panic, and pick up the first ‘girly’ thing they see, and then have a shop assitant help them (that’s how I do it…). So I’ve since told her to give me rough ideas of what she likes, and if she wants something specific - it’s better that way!

So have a Happy & Safe Christmas, and I’ll see you before the new year (hopefully!). Here’s a Christmas classic - Merry Christmas Mr. Bean.[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etUq95XKGiw[/youtube]

I’ve only really been into earning money online these past few months - and mostly I’ve only been earning ’small change’ just enough to cover my expenses and perhaps buy a few luxuries on eBay. I have tried setting up large websites, but I usually cannot manage them due to either expenses or the sheer demand of them - and often I sell them off before I reach my maximum potential with the website.

Whereas, if it were a business partnership, between two or more persons, management and motivation of the website would be increased - I know this through existing websites I’ve partnerships in, you’re more motivated to keep on progressing with the website, as you don’t want to let your partnership down from your side of the dealings.

Another advantage of business partnerships would be reduced cost to individual, and more of a likelyhood for the website to succeed. Two minds are greater than one, I have a number of good ideas and resources, and I’m sure other people do too. If ideas and resources were compiled, there is more chance of greater profit, although it would be reduced in a partnership compared to a sole webmaster - still you’d have a greater chance of earning revenue in the first place if there was a team/group effort.

Hence why I’m stating my case for forming partnerships with budding ‘internet entrepreneurs‘ like myself, come the new year. I want 2008 to start off my serious money making ideas. If anyone is interested in my proposal, you can contact me, or add me to MSN: donohoe14 (at) oceanfree (dot) net.

I had previously written about how Google PageRank had taken a nose dive and it’s datacenters were down for every site/domain. Well it appears after many on and off spells it’s now running steady. We’ve obtained our PR4 back, and I’ve noticed that a number of well known bloggers (to me anyway!) have been downgraded, in Googles latest playground strop over many blogs accepting paid reviews, posts, links etc… It appears that Google wants to be the governing body of online revenue!

Well it appears that many bloggers and alternative services are retaliating - and Google may just give in! Basically, it all started when Google starting kicking bloggers off their Adsense programme, with accusations of “clicking fraud” which is like treason in the online PPC circle! When it appears that they weren’t (or so they claim! ), and Google were letting the power go to their heads when Bloggers turned to alternative services to earn money online such as Text Link Ads, PayPerPost, ReviewMe, & Bidvertiser - a sort of screw you to Google.

Google later retaliated to the bloggers by demoting their PageRanks to PR0 - meaning that through the likes of the PayPerPost system, their blog wouldn’t be as desirable then one with a higher rank - so they wouldn’t get work and inevitably go crawling back to Google. Google may have won the battle, but they sure as god haven’t won the war!

With the deranking of many bloggers, they’ve basically shot themselves in the foot! Adsense counts for a large bulk of Google’s online revenue, and bloggers would easily make up a majority of memberships on the Adsense programme. So if Bloggers are in retaliation with Google, Google stands to lose a nice chunk of income from it’s Adsense program if all bloggers were to drop it!

You may notice that I’m running Adsense on this site as a means of income. I’ve been lucky, that my site isn’t riddled with sponsored posts, text link ads or Googles competitors - so I’ve just about been kept off Googles radar! For now!

Okay, you’ll probably notice that the blog looks a little different today - well, I’ve been busy getting it looking more presentable, with a new theme, making the sitebar look more attractive, and messing around with the Widgets.

One thing, is it took ages! This new theme, doesn’t like Widgets (on it’s current layout), so we had to revert to our roots, and dust off our HTML skills to get the sidebar looking mildly well - if I do say so myself
I’ve gotten rid of WidgetBucks - as I don’t honestly feel I’ll make money from it, and it looked horrible, and flashy. So, I’ve decided to give Adsense another shot - I find that it can fit in better with a theme than Bidvertiser.

And to encourage more RSS subscribers, we’ve dotted various methods to sign upto our RSS feed - such as the new Email Subscription option in the sidebar, which will deliver new posts direct to your inbox! And as usual, the bog standard Google Reader option is available.

Well after a long (and happy) relationship with Bidvertiser, we’ve dumped them in favour of WidgetBucks - a new advertising network, which advertises various products and services related to the page their placed on, on a slender, quite attractive widget.

However, we’re only trialing this form of revenue earning - can’t you see I’ve been turning a bit commercial recently . We’ve been credited $25, on initial signup, so we’ve to generate $25 worth of credits on our account for the next payment - this will make or break the service for us.

We know, it’s a bit unattractive (as is our style!), but it will hopefully, contribute to the bills - believe me, I’d much rather have an ad-free site…if it wasn’t bankrupting me in the process (well not really…).

Don’t get me wrong, Bidvertiser was a great system, just their payouts weren’t as high as expected for the exposure. Most of the sites I run, had Bidvertiser on them at one stage, and had a lot of clicks on my account - but I wasn’t earning the money I think those clicks were worth!

So maybe, this new system may work out in our benefit. We’ve tried Text Link Ads, but the Plugin doesn’t like us! We recieved good money from them, but we’ve yet to sort out the blog - I’m sure once we update (you guessed it…I haven’t updated to 2.3.1 yet!) the plugin will work okay, and we’ll be able to run TLA once again!

We’re sorry Bidvertiser - no hard feelings eh?