November 2011
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The Bhut Jolokia
Alright followers, readers, subscribers, whatever I call the rare few of you these days, it’s time for some nonsense before the winter blues put me down like a bear in hibernation.
Each fall, daylight savings casts a spell over my psyche. Down the rabbit hole I go as a traveler into the dark abyss, spiraling downward, inside a cerebral black hole. I pop vitamin D pills, buy special light bulbs,...
September 2011
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Green Web Hosting
Most people are not fully aware that, just by being online, they already have a negative effect on the Earth. Consider the resources being consumed by individual computers, most of all, by servers. Projections show that by 2020 the Internet will have contributed a significant quantity of greenhouse gasses to the atmosphere. In fact, early predictions indicate that this amount will surpass the...
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$100 Fantasy Football Credit
“Are you ready for some footbaaaaaaaalll?!” - Hank Williams, Jr.
So, you want a shot at glory? The sweet taste of victory? No? How about a $100 credit on your ROCKHOST.COM account? Aaahhhhhh, now I have your attention. Yes sir, this season will be the first annual ROCKHOST.COM ESPN Fantasy Football draft and yours truly is footing the bill. That is unless, of course, I win! :^) Entry...
August 2011
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Ten Year Anniversary
This month marks the 10 year anniversary of ROCKHOST.COM. Been a long time comin’, that’s for sure. Since our inception, the Internet has grown rampantly, expanding much like the universe. No literally, by about one zettabyte, or ten to the twenty first power, to be exact (NERD ALERT!). Datacenters now use 1/5 of the world’s energy. Humanity’s dependency on technology is an...
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A Dot Com Decade
This summer marks the ten year anniversary of ROCKHOST.COM, which is an eternity in the web hosting industry, quite frankly. I am very proud and fortunate as well as a little lucky to get to do what I do. Of course nothing comes without its ups and downs. For example, having to reboot a server during the peak of my vacation in downtown Breckenridge last month, but hey, no complaints. I would do it...
May 2011
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Small Business Owner
Being a small business owner is tough, a labor of love. ROCKHOST.COM is like my child. But today, today is one of those days. The kind where I get to reward myself by sneaking away from society for just a little while to fly under the radar.
Everybody, friends and family included for the most part, seems to think that I have it easy, that I won the “work from home” lottery. Wah, I...
April 2011
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Blue Collar Web Hosting
Hey Kids, sorry for not blogging in so long. The winter blues finally got me and I found myself with no fire, no pep, no machismo! BUT, I’m back, full throttle, spring is in bloom. You may have been wondering where I have been so I thought I would show you.
On a cold January morning, where the temperature was a paralyzing negative seven degrees (that ain’t wind chill folks), the...
January 2011
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Quicktime Streaming Servers
Work? Ha ha, well it is pretty hard to sit here and call a beautiful sunshine filled day on the lake catching fish and drinking beer work, buuuuuuuuuuut I suppose this technically counts too. Can I write off the gas the ol’ ‘87 Sea Sprite burnt on Lonestar? Yeah, probably.
Normally, work, for me, is a server crisis, hardware failure, or phishing complaint. [Editor’s note: insert...
November 2010
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Video Tutorials & FAQ
Is it corporate mandate to start the marketing campaign for Christmas the day after Halloween or WHAT!?!? While the department stores of the world, sorry not you Macy’s - love the parade, suck consumers dry, we here @rockhost (follow us on Twitter) have decided to give something back to our loyal customers and readers. Instead of lining you up at 4 a.m. the day after Thanksgiving like a...
October 2010
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Halloween Giveaway Contest
Alright, yes, it is our favorite time of year. The leaves turn colors and fall to the ground while the frost breaks before the first freeze, ahhh Indian Summer, beautiful. Soon scantily clad ladies will be running around town half naked in 100% slut freedom. Finally for one night, one glorious night, the whole world turns into a strip club and I got a fat roll of singles baby! AMERICA!!!
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September 2010
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Downtime, it happens...
Here @ ROCKHOST.COM we take every precaution, expense, and IT resource available to prevent downtime, which unfortunately, still happens (much like “shit” I’m sorry to say). No matter how much redundancy a server has, or how many layers a network has, it is still inevitable. A ticking time bomb if you will. This fact is held evident by last year’s Google downtime and only...
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Flash Media Servers
Finally! After months in the making our Flash Streaming Media Servers have arrived. In the .flv streaming video below (uploaded to YouTube.com for sharing purposes) we sit down with Seth Cole, the Owner Operator of ROCKHOST.COM. And by we, I mean me - Seth Cole! :) Whew, I found out one thing during this process, I am NO actor and will never be sitting in the director’s chair. But, if...
August 2010
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VPS 101
There are over a hundred million websites on the Internet today, most of which are buried deep within the search engines; static, old, boring, and ugly. However there are always a few shining stars, websites that are popular and relevant in society.
Traffic intensive sites that inform or entertain users, readers, and followers require far more resources than the average web hosting service. VPS...
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Xeon Dedicated Servers
ROCKHOST.COM is proud to announce the launch of our brand new premium dedicated hosting service. We are happy to welcome the whole Intel Xeon family to our server product line. Currently we are offering Xeon Wolfgate, Yorkshire, and Nehalem processors.
Each of our high end dedicated servers feature a Dual or Quad Core processor, 500 GB SATA disk drive, and a mind blowing 10,000 GB of...
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Authorize.net Payment Gateway
It is pretty rough having the “Man” constantly in your back pocket as a vendor or merchant of any kind. Yet, the fees increase dramatically for Internet businesses who don’t use terminals and never see the actual plastic. Sure, it is true, the risks are higher, but when I see that debit post on the first of each month in our DBA account flames of fire shoot across my forehead and...
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Custom Website Design
Starting today ROCKHOST.COM - web hosting for bands, businesses, and beyond - will be selling 100% custom website, logo, and banner designs to the public.
In the past we found this service a little tricky to navigate due to varying differences in customer and designer opinions, BUT with our new laid out service plan it is easy to know what to expect.
Our “Standard” packages...
July 2010
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Transfer Domain Names Away From GoDaddy
In this short three minute video tutorial we briefly discuss how to transfer a domain name away from Go Daddy to another registrar such as ourselves, ROCKHOST.COM.
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Geotrust / Verisign EV SSL Certificates
What is an SSL Certificate? Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Certificates implement endpoint authentication and communications privacy over the Internet using encryption. The standard that prevents anyone from intercepting and reading the data stream between the web surfer and the web server. Financial transactions processed through a website using SSL are extremely safe. By activating the...
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The Google Monopoly
Does it bother anyone else that Google has such a strong choke hold on the Internet? Don’t get me wrong, at the same time I think Google is amazingly progressive, but I earn my living through e-commerce. My mortgage payment depends on a mathematical algorithm. It’s a little scary. Sure, I know the ins and outs of SEO, I even offer it is as a product, but there are NO guarantees.
I love my...
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Domain Registry of America
How many of you have ever received a letter in the mail from the Domain Name Registry of America (or Canada)? This is a company that solicits domain name transfers from other registrars in an attempt to steal legitimate business. From time to time we are asked by our clients, who are often in a state of panic, why they need to pay again or how our company could unknowingly let their domain name(s)...