McKremie Web Hosting is now offering a free domain name with the purchase of any of our 12-month or 24-month web hosting plans. This is not a limited time offer; this will be part of our standard options going forward. The free domain name applies to the following extensions:
.com
.net
.org
.info
Most of our new customers are starting a website for the first time. This will help them by saving about $10.00 per year in domain registration fees. This is all backed by our 24/7 US-based customer support. If you are not failure with out web hosting features here is a small list:
- 24/7 US-Based Customer Support (Phone & Email)
- 99.9% Uptime Guarantee
- 90-Day Money-Back Guarantee
- #1 Control Panel – cPanel
- PHP, CGI, Ruby, Perl, MySQL
- Unlimited E-Mail Accounts
- Wordpress
- Drupal
- Ruby (RoR)
More feature can be found here: http://www.mckremie.com/hosting.php
The World Wide Web is just one of the services that utilize the internet. Electronic mail, ftp, and gopher were some of the earlier applications that were used over the internet but never gained massive appeal. It was the Web that created the surge of users online, from a low of 26 web servers in 1992 to more than 200 million in 2009.
Yet, Tim Berners-Lee’ initial proposal for a “large hypertext database with typed links” written some 20 years created little interest. Berners-Lee however was not discouraged by this misstep and with the approval of his supervisor at CERN, Mike Sendall, began developing what later became the World Wide Web on his NeXT computer.
Berners-Lee’s motivation for creating the Web was solving the problem of data sharing among scientists working at CERN who were using different computers running on different operating systems and using different software to view data. At that time, CERN was an organization of more than a thousand talented people whose stay at the facility averaged only two years. Because CERN and the Large Hadron Collider involved so many people, many wondered how to keep track of such a large project.
By late 1990, Berners-Lee already had the system for the Web in place at CERN. His team at CERN devised the HyperText Transfer Protocol; HTML which is the language used in building web pages; a browser called WorldWideWeb; and a web server which was running on his Next computer. The first use of the Web at CERN was for browsing the institution’s phone directory.
In 1991, Paul Kunz, from the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center visited CERN and became acquainted with the Web. Kunz bought a copy of the server software back to SLAC where the librarian at that time, Louise Addis ported it to an IBM mainframe running on VMC/CMS operating system. This is the first documented use of the Web in the United States.
By 1992, the Web was still exclusively used by research institutions and universities. Most web browsers were non-graphical except for the one Berners-Lee developed on the NeXT computer. It was only after a team from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) created the Mosaic browser that the web’s popularity exploded. Mosaic was the first browser developed by a team of full-time programmers who developed a product easy enough for novices to install and use. But it was Mosaic’s ability to display graphics and play multimedia inline that really started the explosion in web use. Earlier browsers had to open graphics in separate windows and it’s not difficult to imagine how excited users got when Mosaic made it possible to display both text and graphics on the same window. Of course, the fact that Mosaic ran on Windows meant that the millions of users of the operating system will eventually experience the web and not on the clunky way earlier browsers did it.
Another important contribution from NCSA was a web server called NCSA HTTPd. When its lead developer Robert McCool left NCSA in 1994, the development of the server came to a standstill and further development came in the way of patches via email. This is the primary reason attributed how Apache Web Server got its name. Its origin came from a patchy server developed at NCSA. By 2009, more than 100 million Apache servers were used to churn out web pages.
Today, the web is ubiquitous and the population online is greater than most countries worldwide. Web hosting is a 51 billion dollar a year business and is forecasted to reach 73 billion per year in 2014.
Bloggers are looking for the best value web hosting available. For a long time, shared web hosting was the only option available for individuals looking for a cost-effective way to have an online presence. Shared web hosting is possible because one server box is able to host hundreds of different web sites. The cost of maintaining and administrating the server is shared among the hosted sites. Likewise, shared hosting implies that each site is allocated a portion of the server’s resources. When there is a surge in web traffic to one of the sites sharing server space, it is usually the administrator’s option to temporarily make unavailable the site receiving increased traffic.
A cost effective alternative to shared web hosting is grid hosting. A grid is composed of over the counter computers connected to a network. One notion of the grid is scalability. Grid hosting is highly scalable simply because the computers comprising the grid are essentially stand alone units. The network operating system is responsible for handling out tasks to each member computer. Each member of the grid contributes to the completion of the grid’s overall task.
When the network load approaches grid capacity, all it takes is just a flip of a switch to bring additional computers to life thus scaling up the grid’s output.
Grid hosting is able to handle traffic surge gracefully. Behind the grid are possibly thousands of commodity hardware assigned to do specific tasks like serving email, providing web services and database querying. Increased load due to spikes in web traffic are simply distributed to the grid members.
The main difference between shared web hosting and grid hosting is scalability. Shared hosts have fixed capacities. It is somewhat ironic that popular sites on the shared host are punished and may face temporary unavailability of web content. There is no such thing as fixed capacity on grid hosting. An unknown site on a grid host may consume fewer resources. Over time, the same site may gain popularity but the site is allowed to increase its utilization of the grid’s computing resources.
Because of scalability, popular sites served by a grid host are allowed to consume more computing resources. Popular blogs on grid hosts won’t be taken down no matter how often they get slashdotted or dugg. Of course such sites may get higher monthly billings but the increased cost of hosting a popular site is always justified by the value of having a continuous online presence.
Many web hosting companies have hidden secrets that they don’t want you to know. These secrets are marketing gimmicks and in some cases very deceptive ways to get your money. Be careful as these secrets can end up costing you lots of money. To help prevent that we have uncovered and shown you what to look for.
7. Free Domains
WOW, a free domain sounds great doesn’t it? Guess what some web host don’t want you to know? Actually, there are a few different tactics going on:
1) The domain is free but you don’t own the domain they web hosting company owns it. Do you know what that means? Yep, you are stuck either hosting with them forever or you have to pay them what is equivalent to a ransom just to get your domain in your name.
2) The first year was free and now when you go to renew it each year they often charge $24.95+ for renewal. That’s like a 250% mark-up over what the average coast of a dot com domain name usually cost.
Now all web hosts are like this and it’s best to ask questions in the pre-sales process to find out who owns the domain name and how much do their renewal fees costs.
6. Web Hosting Review
Web Sites Web hosting review web sites are created for the sole purpose of making affiliate income. Often times the reviews in these web sites are fake and created by the owners of the review website. It is no conscience that the highest paying affiliate offers have the best reviews and somehow make it to the top positions. As an actually web hosting company we have been told by numerous review web sites that we could get to the top of their list if we pay them the high affiliate payouts.
Web hosting review web sites dominate the search engines including Google. Often times you can find that more than half the web sites in the top ten of a hosting search are not a hosting company, but a review website. Why? Well, the web hosting industry has some of the highest affiliate commission payout’s around and some of the top tier review web sites receive up to $150.00 per affiliate sign up.
5. Unlimited Storage
Unlimited Storage sounds great doesn’t it? That’s what *most* web hosting companies want you to think. The real truth of the matter is that there really isn’t a thing as Unlimited Storage. Sure, storage cost have dropped significantly in the past few years but Unlimited Storage is a marketing gimmick that many people fall for.
Here is how web hosting companies get around it. Have you ever read the complete Terms of Service of your web hosting company? If you are like most people, you browse it, but don’t completely read it all. Buried in the TOS you will find a section that mentions Server/CPU Usage. To sum most of them up it basically says if your web hosting account uses more than “X%” of the servers CPU Usage your account then violates the TOS and is subject to termination.
Now, it’s important for just about every shared web hosting company to have something like this in their TOS to protect other accounts on their servers due to improper coding and whatnot. However, many web host are using the Server/CPU Usage to get out of offering the Unlimited Storage they promise in their marketing.
4. 100% Uptime Claims
Great, you have found a web host that has a 100% Uptime Guarantee but what does that really mean? Do you actually get your money back if the web host is not up?
Uptime Guarantees are a huge marketing gimmick and the consequences for the web host are generally so minor. In order to get a full refund for a months worth of web hosting, your website would have had to of been down for a week. The truth is most customer will never notice if there website was down for a few hours and out of those that actually notice only a small fraction will ever ask for some sort of credit.
Plus keep in mind what generally isn’t included are things like; Acts of God, Server Maintenance, Wars or any other natural or unnatural events. What is an “any other natural or unnatural event”? Your guess is good as our but as we read that in many of the TOS it makes us think, any can mean anything. (blame the lawyers)
Wait that’s not all, are you ready for the kicker? The real kicker is that many of the uptime policies are only valid for Network Uptime. Network Uptime means the entire network of web servers your web hosts has. So if you happen to be on the one server that isn’t working properly the Network Uptime Guarantee probably won’t apply.
3. 24/7 Email Support
Have you dealt with web hosting companies that claim to offer 24/7 email support but often don’t reply to your initial tickets for 8+ hours? And we are talking about a human reply and not some automated message saying they will get to your ticket. There is a reason many web hosting companies don’t offer 24/7 phone and email support. They can not deliver! So instead they offer their so-called 24/7 email support.
Let’s be honest, how are you going to know if they are actually working or sleeping? You won’t and often times many of the budget or small web hosting companies won’t reply to your tickets in the middle of the night. Occasionally, some web host can only get to your support requests after the company owner gets home from his day job.
We are not saying all web hosts are like this and a good way to check is to find out where the company is located and send them a support request in the middle of the night, their time. You should be able to get a human response back within an hour or two at most. If the response take longer then you might be dealing with a one main operation that will probably come up short on your support needs.
2. Testimonials
Sure testimonials can provide great information about a web host but can you trust them? Do you really think a web hosting company would put up testimonials that were bad for them? If a web host has testimonials on their website you will only find two kids:
1) Ones they made up to make you think they are great.
2) Ones they hand picked to make them look good.
Either way is this really helpful information? No way! If you really want to find out how a web host is doing try using Google or Twitter to search for independent reviews.
1. Web Hosting Awards
Web hosting awards are very much like the Review Web Sites. Actually, most of the web hosting awards come from review web sites. Want to learn why?
Review web sites only make money when they can get traffic from PPC or Search Engines. One of the ways they get their high rankings in the search engines is because of all the links they get. By creating web hosting awards they get links from the companies they give the awards to. Many of the award images are links that point back to the hosting review website. To a web hosting review website this is an easy way to obtain links. Some are even devious to write the code where the image will not display unless the link is intact.
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We (McKremie) just conducted an audit of our support tickets to give our potential customers an idea of how our response times are. We went through the support tickets for January and February to see how fast or slow our team has been responding to tickets. It took a little time but we went through the data and were quite pleased.
First off we knew that the response times have been good as myself and the management team often monitor tickets that comes through our Helpdesk. But, I didn’t have an exact response time just a few estimations. Anyway, I’m happy to report that our average response time for web hosting issues is 7.5 minutes. What does this mean to our customers and potential customers? If you need to contact our support team you can expect a response on average in a little over 7 minutes. (currently) Our fastest response time was 2 minutes and our slowest response time was 17 minutes.
Not too bad for a 24/7 operation!
We have been on Twitter for a little while now and wanted to let our blog readers know how to find us.
@McKremie – Official Twitter Account for McKremie Web Hosting.
Twitter is an amazing social network that has been gaining huge popularity over the past few years. I personally check and tweet a few times per day. If you have a twitter account please send us a tweet @McKremie so I can add you to our followers list. It’s also a great place for anyone that might have questions about McKremie to reach out to myself and the team.
We will be having a few Twitter contest from time to time so ensure you are following us to get all the details.
So a few months back I was looking for a way to give her blog an affordable custom design. I really wanted some pictures of her in the actual design of the blog, so when I visit her website I would know right away, I had arrived. Now the problem is getting a custom blog design can be expensive. Just for the design alone can run well into the hundreds of dollars and that doesn’t include the domain and hosting. I thought there are probably plenty of parents in the same boat, at this point the Kizzog was born.
What is a Kizzog? It’s a semi-custom personal blog about your child. The actual word (yeah, we made it up) comes from Kids + Blog = Kizzog.
Kizzog Image Uploader
Kizzog Themes
Word Class Web Hosting Support
To find out more about our new Kizzog product please visit the Kizzog homepage or read our frequently asked question.
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.
Business tend to focus so much on how they can increase sales and profits they rarely take time to see how they can help others. At McKremie we have taken our first of many steps to help out worthy causes. I pleased to announce our Nonprofit and Public Schools Web Hosting Program.
From our press release:
The program offers all US-based registered 501(c)(3) non profit organizations and public schools free web hosting services. This is a new service being offered by McKremie Web Hosting Solutions and it is available to all US-based non-profits, not just those located in Las Vegas!
If you have or are involved in a nonprofit organization please feel free to complete the request form to see if your organization qualifies. The web hosting plan that’s offered can handle most small to medium sized organizations and schools. The value of this program provides for more than two hundred dollars of free web hosting. If you have any questions about this new program please feel free to email me personally.
Press Release Coverage:
October 30, 2008 @ theWHIR.com
McKremie Hosts US Non-Profits By David Hamilton
October 30, 2008 @ PRWeb.com
Free Web Hosting for Non-Profits and Public Schools from McKremie
October 29, 2008 @ 1888PressRelease.com
McKremie Offers Free Web Hosting for Non-Profits and Public Schools
October 29, 2008 @ PRLog
McKremie Offers Web Hosting for Non-Profits Organizations
October 30, 2008 @ eprinternetnews.com
Mckremie Web Hosting Solutions Offers Free Web Hosting Services To US-Based Non Profit Organizations And Public Schools
