Mrs. Mecomber's Scrapbook

I had Bluehost as my web hosting company for a year. I am a professional blogger (that is, I am paid to blog for various articles), and I run a dozen blogs. I need a reliable web host. I DID NOT find Bluehost reliable. I was paying over $100 a year for unending frustrations. Bluehost [...]

It’s hard to fathom that only a year and a half ago, I was completely baffled by the concept of blog hosting, ftp, and cPanel. Now, I am more comfortable. And I haven’t destroyed any of my websites in the process! Amazing! I’ve had my share of webhosts: Whip An Orbit, WizzerdWerks, Dreamhost, Bluehost, and [...]

I was blog hopping the other day and came across a post about a spectacular promotion for Dreamhost, one of the bigger web hosting companies. Using the promo code 220, I saved $193 off a $216 two-year web hosting package! So I got two years of web hosting for $21 or so! It was a [...]

Over the weekend, I had some technical problems with my other blog, New York Traveler.net. The comments features on the blog were totally unoperational. A day previously, I had updated the Akismet plugin (Akismet is a software plugin that traps spam comments on blogs). I couldn’t be sure that the Akismet plugin was related to [...]

I have discovered that the President and CEO of Bluehost, my new and favorite web hosting company, has a blog! It’s Matt Heaton.com. I love it when CEOs have blogs. Blogs are extremely personal and allow you to interact with the higher folks up the food chain. He has some great insights to offer about [...]