The past few months I had the opportunity to give a few interviews online. I have listed links to the interview below so readers can check them out.

Interviewed by Joedel Sanvictores:
Joedel Sanvictores is an internet marketing expert based in the Philippines. He is very involved with search engine optimization as well just about all aspects of the word wide web.
December 9, 2008 – Interview of McKremie President

Interviewed by Mike Lugar:
Mike Lugar is a young internet entrepreneur who owns a computer services business in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
October 30, 2008 – Interview with McKremie, LLC Co-founder

I enjoy the online interviews and it’s always nice talking with new people and answering questions about McKremie, LLC. Over the past few months we have had some good publicity about some of the new services we launched. Within the next week we are getting ready to launch another new product and are very excited about it.

7) 24/7 Customer Support can be the biggest myth. Their are many companies out their that claim to offer this service but when you open a support ticket you don’t get an answer for over 6 hours. Or if they offer phone support and you try and call them in the middle of the night and the phone rings or goes to voice mail you’ve probably been had. If you are thinking about choosing a web hosting company try out their support number or emails before you sign up and see what kind of response you get and how fast.

6) Green Web Hosting are they really green? Depends on your definition of green. Many web host are now buying “green” energy from energy providers and then calling themselves green. Yes, this is a huge step but one person’s definition of green isn’t the same as others. Some host may only provide green energy to their offices and not their data centers while others the other way around. Contact the specific web host and ask them specific questions about being green.

5) Host Unlimited Domains is another marketing term that many fall for. With some web host you can indeed host numerous web sites in one account as long as you do not use more server resources than what is aloud. Check with your web hosts terms of service and see what the specific server resource limits are because these vary greatly depending on the web host.

4) Free Website Submission to the major search engines. Some web hosting companies make you think you have to pay for this or this is some sort of big secret.

http://www.google.com/addurl/
https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit
http://search.msn.com.sg/docs/submit.aspx

3) Web Hosting Review web sites want you to think they have detailed reviews and list the top 10 web hosting companies based on actually facts. What they don’t tell you is often times the top 10 web hosting list are all generated and ordered by how much each company pays in affiliate commissions.

2) Unmetered Hosting Accounts aren’t really feasible for most. You should be extremely worried if the price for this service is under $20.00 per month. Bandwidth prices have come down in the past few years but not near enough to offer “Unmetered Hosting Accounts” for less than $20.00 per month.

1) There is no such thing as “Unlimited Web Hosting” and/or “Unlimited Bandwidth” these are just marketing terms that companies use to get people with no clue to sign up for their hosting services. Don’t fall for the biggest advertising gimmick in today’s market.

On November 23, 2008 at 10:00 PM PST we updated our ticket support system with new and improved software. We strive to find better ways to help our customers and our old support ticket software was OK but not great. It lacked some functions that we really need like;

1) ability to move tickets between departments
2) ability to assign tickets to a specific staff member
3) ability to suggest knowledgebase articles

There are other reasons but the above mentioned were are main criteria. We were able to close most of the open support tickets with our old system prior to the software switch. Those that had tickets opened 24 hours later on the 24th of November had new tickets created as we turned off the old system at that time. We are happy to report that the transition was smooth and the new support software is working great.

The main support URL has changed to this one here. I recommend to all our clients to bookmark this page for future reference. You can also access the support department via any page of our website in the top navigation.