HOSTING: THE ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT APPROACH
When it comes to all-you-can-eat restaurants, I generally look askance (OK – one exception: Robson Sushi – hmmm, they need a website – and the food is great!)!
When it comes to hosting, I see things a bit differently.
Here’s why I like webhostingpad.com:
- $59/year for unlimited space/bandwidth/domains/databases
- has cPanel & Fantastico (super-quick WordPress setup)
- 24/7 support by phone or email
- Their mailservers work great, that is for anyone who’s not switching to google apps anyway
I’m not going to lie, I’ve had occasion to email them about slight downtime, and there have been some bigger crashes on their servers which have left me with hours and hours of downtime, but that is rare, and all around, I feel it’s the best value out there.
Whenever I have had an issue and am feeling grumpy about webhostingpad, I just look at other hosting providers … seems if it ain’t one thing it’s another 
I would love it if someone can find me a hosting company that has 100% uptime for a reasonable price, great support, cPanel, etc.
Meanwhile, webhostingpad is still my pick!
WHY WORDPRESS?
Where do I start?!
I’ve been in this business in one capacity or another (and by “this business” I mean I.T.) for about a thousand years.
I’m oldschool.
I won’t bore you with stories of how excited I was about my fast, powerful new 386 in the early 90s, but anyway, suffice it to say, “we’ve come a long way, baby”.
Nowadays, it’s truly astonishing to me what GREAT VALUE I can offer my clientele by creating a WordPress website, starting with an AWESOME studiopress.com premium theme, and then customizing it to the point where it is exactly what the client wants.
I can offer this service for $400-$500 because I do it over and over again and I am FAST (now – LOL – not in the early days).
I do remember the heady days of the dot com bubble and it used to take a team of programmers/designers MONTHS of planning meetings, research, coding, thinking, troubleshooting, etc. etc., to come up with a really perfect relational database and a bulletproof CMS (content management system) back end.
This is what I can do for that very same $400!
The future is so bright, we have to wear shades, WordPress users!
I’m an evangelist – I’m here to help.
Use WordPress, learn it, get to know the plugins, tinker with it, and you will love it for its beautiful, intelligent self.
