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I am currently working on a new project set to release June 5. This is a free wordpress hosting website where there will be a software used that is not currently used on other hosting services. This will create much more of a social networking feel to the whole thing. This will also offer more space than wordpress.com hosting and subdomains included. Best part about the whole thing is it’s free. There will also be given the ability to install your very own plugins yeah thats right is said it your very own plugins on this wordpress host. A name has been picked out and will be announced this Friday so check back then. You will also be given the option to install your very own themes as well as searching from our own exclusive theme database.

Another feature that will be available is being able to use your own real domain name on our services and only having to pay for the domain registriation fee and a small yearly fee from us to have the server foward to your domain all masked so people won’t even notice your on a free hosting service.
So keep a look out as i will announce the name later this week.

Recently i noticed my router was acting a bit funny. I tried to login to the router via internet explorer 7 using http://192.168.1.1 i noticed our router password was changed. I was a little confused at the same time i noticed that our network was not secure. I used the reset feature on the back of the router and got it back to normal. Secure your wireless connections i cannot stress that to you enough. In linksys routers it is found under the 192.168.1.1 area and under wireless security. I recommend using wpa-psk encryption because its harder to hack and you only have to remember a single pass phrase.

So today i went around hunting for ways to get a virus on to my virual test machine. I ended up finding one at this particular website. It was bundled with over 101 infections according to my www.pctools.com spyware doctor program. But the interesting thing is Norton failed to pick it up. I tried a full extensive scan in Norton and nothing. I mean come on the software was around $80 and nothing. I paid $35 for my Spydoctor with antivirus and it found 101 infestations i was suprised.

So be warned next time you use a program such as norton as it may not pickup everything on your computer.

I have the pic to prove what spydoctor picked up.

Click on the image to view full screen.

So today i had a friend of mine who found his blog hosted over at www.wordpress.com to be down. I thought that was quite odd. Apparently it was taken down due to a terms of service violation. This is one of the many reasons why you should have your blog hosted on your own personal server. After weeks of revamping he finally got his blog back up. Just made sure you take a good look at the terms of service on wordpress.com you could wind up not having your blog there anymore.

http://wordpress.com/tos/

Got a chance to finally use the flip video regular. This is a mini camera offered around $100.00 by flip online store and amazon.com.

http://www.flip.com

I was pleasantly surprise while using the camera the video turned out really good. The video looks almost similar to that of a real video camera. The actual camera itself holds only 60 min of video. We ended up recording an 11 min video with the flip video as a demonstration of how well the flip works. 11 min video at only 53.3MB storage. This camera unloaded the software on to the computer without any additional discs required. I really do suggest one whom is going to do blogging and the occasional family video get the flip if you want a little better quality then you might want to go with the flip ultra.

Here is our demonstration

In owning a website there is an importance of Search engine optimization or (SEO). This basically controls how much on the top of the list you are when someone does a search for your niche. Thats were Roy Montero comes in. Roy has been a search engine optimizer for many years now and has quite the experience in the area of wordpress. He currently owns a site http://www.roymontero.com and http://www.verbalnetworking.com/.

Now here are two things you must check out. Go to Roy?s site and sign up for his Free E-Book titled ?The Top SEO Rookie Mistakes and Myths?.

Also, you can get a one hour couching session with Roy for Free! So look out for those on his web site.

Surewire met roy in a webinar at ClickNewz which is a webinar hosted by Lynn Terry. In this webinar every Tuesday of the week at 9:00am PST time you can hear marketing ideas. I then noticed roy montero contributing ideas to just about every question that was asked. I then finally met him through a friend of mine and was able to talk to him on skype He then helped us here get the surewire blog going. Roy is a very helpful individual and seems like everytime i talk to him over the phone he always has some new idea he’d like to share.

Surewirehosting.com and Garet Hofer would like to thank Roy Montero for helping us with this blog.

1. Testimonials - I’d look around at www.webhostingstuff.com and other top webhost places and see if testimonials have been written about this host. I wouldn’t completely rely on testimonials to make your decision because i’ve found some good hosts in the past that other people didn’t like their policies. For sure i would take them into consideration but i would seriously email their support. If you get a response in less than 5 hours it looks like they at least check their email. Try out their other support services and see if you get a fast response.

2. Customers - Generally focus on the webhosts with fewer customers. Why would i say something such as this ? Well the webhost would probably give more time into helping you out because they have fewer customers to worry about. You generally would get more help from the top management who know more of what they are doing then the staff they just hired who are learning.

3. User-Friendly - Biggest mistake i see with most hosts today is a very not user-friendly way of paying the webhost. Some billing systems are far more complicated then others. Thats why here at surewire we offer only clientexec free with the reseller account. Clientexec is far more user friendly then other billing systems. See the user is going to say i can’t figure this out, get frustrated in which you wouldn’t want, and eventually leave that company. Thats why if you stay in constant contact or vice-versa with the host or the customer you will not be leaving with the phrase “How do i do that ?”

4. Plans - If you read nothing else in this article then this particular section then i have achieved my goal. You will see various hosting companies offer plans with unlimited bandwidth. I will tell you today that no matter where you are there is no such thing as unlimited bandwidth. If you were using in the 3,000 of bandwidth most hosting companies either would warn you or ban you off of their system. Even the suppliers of the services such as theplanet.com or layeredtech.com don’t offer unlimited bandwidth to hosting companies. Why then do they do it ? It is a not honest marketing strategy. They believe that people will look at this whom have no previous hosting experience and believe it. I’d say in a given week even sure wire uses no more than 5-10 GB of bandwidth and that is because of the many videos we have on here. If you are the average user who has a blog site you probably would use less than a gig of bandwidth. Why then are you paying for something your not going to use ?

Here at surewire you will never ever ever ever as long as we live ever see us offer a unlimited bandwidth plan. It is an unhonest marketing strategy that will never take place on our hosting. Also the hosting space, is 25 GB for the top plan and 4 GB for the lowest. People tell me all the time Garet your offering 4 GB when for the lowest plan i can go to thegreatesthostintheworld.com for instance and get a plan of 1,000 GB of space. Come on seriously, are you ever going to use that much space. I mean i could see the next youtube.com using that much space because of all the videos but even if you had your entire hd up on there you would still only use about 100GB and some places consider that as server abuse. Another reason why you will never see us offer a shared or reseller ever above 50 GB. We believe only in selling the customer what they are actually going to use.

5. Wording - Wording is a clever marketing strategy by a lot of hosts to gain the consumer’s trust through false advertising such as. We offer domains for $1.00/year if you sign up with us. Well i was once suckered into a deal like this through a hosting company which i will not name. They held onto my domain for over 2 years even though their terms said only 60 days. I couldn’t transfer it to another registrar. So my advice to you in this is read the terms of service carefully to make sure you know what you are getting yourself into.

That is all thanks for reading.

I ran into this problem today at the coffee shop. A dell inspiron b120 was refusing to connect to the internet because of a wireless software issue. We then went through several steps to successfully get windows back incontrol of the wireless connection.

If you are getting the following error

You can reenable it by following the below by:

Going to Start >> Run

When in services.msc look for wireless zero configuration. Righ. click on it and hit properties.

Click on start and click on the drop down box to re enable the windows service.

Ok now you are going to want to click on Use windows to configure my wireless connection.

Your good. Comment on this post if your having trouble.

So the other day i turned my computer on and found that it was runnning unusually slower than usual. I was kind of wondering if it may be a spyware issue at the time. I decided then to search around google.com until i finally ran accross a software called SpyDoctor which is made by (www.pctools.com). I then decided to download this software. Sure enough it finds over 100 infections. Well i found out i had to buy the software in order to remove these spyware infections. I then purchased the software for $39.95 which was one of the best decisions i have ever made. PCTools spyware doctor was then able to get my machine back up and running faster again not to mention the included Onguard protection.

This sofware actually tells you what it found and what it will do to your computer. This way you can ensure that you are not deleting anything important. Try this software its only $39.95 and works great. Not to mention you can legally give away 2 licenses to your friends to get them hooked too.

I was recently messing around with this new *free* piece of software called mojopac the other day for computer. This new software enables you to run all your applications from either a usb drive or an external harddrive. It is a great tool if you want to run Word and various other computer games.

So i tested this out a bit with the adobe series and found that it really didn’t run Adobe Photoshop CS3 all that well on some of the project files that i would open. If you need any help at all setting this software up then stay tuned for my live tutorial i will be posting in the weeks to come on how to get it working.

If you are interested in finding out what this wonderful piece of software does and where you can find it then simply go to the Mojopac website.