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Now why didn’t I think of this? This guy has started a website/blog that he intends to keep up after the auction for his beer rights. the winning Beer Company will be getting his all-out devotion to their beer. He will only drink and serve their beer. He will only wear their clothing. All of this, for the rest of his life! So far, no bidders, but I have to imagine there will be. See the auction here.

Ok! Another question has been asked about hosting. I received this via Email within hours of our last post about shared hosting:

What is colocation and what are the benefits?

In many ways, collocation is like having a huge data department with a fully trained staff and large resources without having to spend for it all. You are purchasing equipment, such as data servers and web servers, and they are managing them all for you at their location.

It’s your equipment, your data, their workforce. They can do the backups, management, and even reboots for you on-demand. They can help with the security, system administration, and data storage needs. They will also almost always have some kind of up-time guarantee, because it just doesn’t do any good to have the data that well protected if you can’t get at it.

Thanks again for all of your input, keep asking those questions, and we will keep answering them!

I have run in to a site called http://www.orblogs.com… It is specifically for Oregon Blogs. They have a place where you can put your blog in with everyone else in the local area. What a great idea. Local news, brought to you by Bloggers just like you! Try it out at http://www.orblogs.com/city/portland/.

Ok, so now that I have discussed our dilemma with our current reseller plan, it has brought up several questions about individual shared hosting plans. So, here are the things that are important to look for:

1. Email accounts and pop3 availability. How many accounts? At least 10 for most small businesses. Pop3 is for using programs like Outlook or Thunderbird.
2. Registration of domain name. Will they include this in the price of hosting? If so, do they renew it automatically for you? Can you purchase multiple years?
3. Spam filters for your email.
4. Anti-virus for your email and for your hosting.
5. Amount of space. 500 Mb is standard these days. Can you buy additional if you grow out of it?
6. Amount of traffic. 5GB of transfer is adequate for most businesses. What is the price of additional traffic should you need it.
7. Databases. 3 MySQL or SQL databases is minimum for most websites with any interactivity these days.

I hope this list helps to make your decision easier. Let us know if we can help find a good fit for your small business.