Gettin' My Geek On » socialmedia http://www.markstevens20.net/blog Ramblings on my experiments with Linux, networking, and collaboration aps Sat, 30 Jan 2010 01:23:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 The Webhost http://www.markstevens20.net/blog/2009/05/the-webhost/ http://www.markstevens20.net/blog/2009/05/the-webhost/#comments Wed, 20 May 2009 01:38:37 +0000 Mark Stevens http://www.markstevens20.net/blog/?p=14 My first step was to pick a webhost.  It wasn’t hard, and there certainly are lots to choose from.  While I was trying to pick a domain name, I used all mighty Google to search for web hosting, which led me to http://webhostinggeeks.com/.  I was in the minimum budget category, as I have no intention of this turning into a high traffic revenue generating site.  Webhostinggeeks provided a nice simple overview of the options, features and prices.  It was difficult to find any one host to stand out.  Prices are all about the same and would cost me less than $100 USD for a year of hosting.  All boasted similar features.  Customer reviews were about equal, it seemed that they all had solid reviews, with a few ticked off vocal customers for each.  I couldn’t find anything to differentiate them.

It wasn’t until I started bookmarking the hosting sites on on my del.icio.us page that I noticed a distinction.  While most of the sites listed on webhostinggeeks were bookmarked a few hundred times, Bluehost was bookmarked 10 times more often, over 3500 times!  An important rule of social media is to “trust the masses.” This may just be a volume decission, as it seems that Bluehost is the only host to crack the top 50 webhosts, out of the sites I bookmarked.

So a few weeks ago I bit the bullet and signed up for a site with Bluehost.  As for domain name, I chose markstevens20.net.  I tried to be more creative, but

  • A) I’m not that creative and
  • B) Anything creative I did come up with, was already parked by someone else.  Annoying, isn’t it?

But markstevens20.net suits me fine.  It’s easy to remember, albeit somewhat narcisistic, and I like that the 20 hints at 2.0.  Whether that’s web 2.0, enterprise 2.0 or just Mark Stevens 2.0, I’ll figure that out as I go.

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