WebHostingBuzz Hosting, Marketing, Security and Technology

Many of you in the information technology industry find yourselves in the inevitable position of having to work someone through a problem on the phone. Even if your job isn’t actually phone support, one of your internal (or external) customers will find themselves in a pickle, and you’ll find yourself on one end of a phone conversation with a potentially irate or annoyed customer that needs your help.

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If you’ve looked at our website recently, you might have noticed that we’re making subtle changes to it quite frequently. We’ve added order links, we’ve changed the layouts of some plan pages, we’ve reduced the size of some of the imagery on the site.

We’re doing this to try and improve our conversions. We get good traffic (although more is always better!) but conversions have been lower than what we’d like. We’ve spent time analyzing the visitor process from coming to our site, reading information on the services we have to offer and determining if we’re the right web host for them. We’ve improved it where we think we can, and we are seeing an increase in conversions.

Hopefully that means we’re doing something right.

Any success stories on improving your own conversions? Something that blatantly needs fixing on our website that would turn you off as a potential customer? Do let us know and action will be taken. Comments welcomed below or feel free to get in touch through the usual channels.

Next up… the Christmas decorations.

Unfortunately due to our highly visible website, lots of spammers trying to build inbound links frequent these forums. Myself, other staff and customers who are moderators have a daily fight against this and it is very annoying.

As a result, I have decided to implement a new policy. Every piece of spam we get will be read. If the domain is one we can take action against (such as a .com, .net, .org, .us, .co.uk) then we will submit an abuse report to the domain registrar. Registrars can and will suspend domains that are spamvertized in emails and forum posts and hopefully this will start to make an impact on those who choose to spam.

We’ve all put up with spam for well over 10 years. It’s time we fought back.

WebHostingBuzz believes that tomorrow’s leading thinkers and innovators are currently being developed in higher education institutions and in high schools around the world. It only makes sense to allow these future business owners, engineers, and developers a chance to develop and deploy their ideas at a significant discount while they are still in school.

By investing in tomorrow’s leaders, we hope to build ongoing relationships with young business owners, who can rely on WebHostingBuzz to deliver their premium web content and e-services to customers around the world.

College students and professors get a 30% discount off hosting with a .EDU email address!
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Competitors of Apple should take note of Verizon’s marketing campaign against the iPhone, a hard-hitting commercial that uses the iPhone as a punching bag. This marketing effort does something that no other campaign against Apple does to date: it hits back.

I saw this for the first time last night while I was watching a special on the JFK assassination and thought “This is brilliant!” It sure takes the “cool” out of the iPhone in very blunt terms.

PS: Until the “Droid” is released, the Blackberry is still superior to any iPhone. It has been proven.

WebHostingBuzz was proud to sponsor TigerLAN20, a fantastically quirky gaming event run by the Advanced Technology Student Organization at Fort Hays University.

Held from 12pm to 4am on October 10-11th, the event saw 65 contestants compete in the following fine specialisms:

Left4Dead
Halo 3
Rock Band/Guitar Hero

After a mammoth 9 hours of play the category winners were announced and some very well-earned prizes were claimed. Naturally, WebHostingBuzz chipped in with two brand new iPod Touch devices for the worthy prize winners.

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One of our clients submitted the videos below of our duck enjoying a ride Porsche at Nürburgring (motorsports track) in Germany. It was submitted by Rich G from Smart Maniacs.

Please keep sending us your pictures and videos and we would post them on our forums, blog, facebook and twitter pages.

Now sit back back, relax and enjoy the ride with webhostingbuzz duck!

WebHostingBuzz Attack of the Duck Part 1

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Thank you!

I haven’t been with WebHostingBuzz for very long, so I have been spending a lot of time familiarising myself with the company under the guidance of Tyler – Marketing Manager. One of our first discussions was about a WebHostingBuzz case study that we’re publishing. The topic? Unlimited Web Hosting.*

As somebody who has worked in the hosting industry in various capacities for several years I had come to accept the ‘unlimited’ plan as a sad but true fact of life. The case study in question was to outline why WebHostingBuzz has not joined the ‘unlimited’ bandwagon.

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Now you can get 50% off your first months bill when you sign up for any of our VPS hosting packages. This is a limited time offer by WebHostingBuzz and something that cannot be missed!

Use coupon code “SAVE”

One of our latest and most aggressively growing products, our VPS client base has seen tremendous growth over the last quarter mainly due to our strong commitment to our customer satisfaction packed with our ability to provide these packages at an affordable price point.

VPS plans offer a bridge between the normal web hosting account and a dedicated server. A VPS plan gives you the near power of a full blown dedicated server while you pay for only 1/4 its price.

This VPS HOSTING SALE valid till October 15th 2009.

Thank you.

Position:
Contracted Technical Writer / Public Relations Writer

Number of Openings:
Multiple

Description:
WebHostingBuzz.com is looking to expand its current staff of public relations and content production writers and bloggers to increase the availability and frequency of white papers and articles posted on our website. These posts and whitepapers will include (depending on the author’s experience): marketing, security, hosting industry, LAMP administration, SEO, tips and tricks, company announcements, other as deemed appropriate. Authors would be expected to produce at least one quality blog post per week, and other content as directed by the editor.

Desired Background/Skills:
We are not requiring a specific background to apply for this position. Motivation and a desire to do great quality work in a timely fashion is highly valuable. Applicants must be able to produce error-free, grammatically correct, and web-ready content.

The following skills/knowledge may prove beneficial:
HTML/CSS
Systems Administration
Blogging/WordPress
E-Commerce
Marketing
Security
Web Hosting
cPanel administration
LAMP administration
BASH scripting
SEO
Public Relations
PCI compliance
Other technology areas

Locality Requirements:
MUST be a citizen of the United States or United Kingdom. No exceptions.

Age requirements:
None.

Payment:
Negotiable based on experience and background

Position Reports to:
Marketing Manager

About Us:
WebHostingBuzz was founded in 2002 by Safvan Malik, our current president. Our grass roots were a simple reseller account coupled with a business idea from Safvan, who at the time was studying Business Management at University. Fast forward to 2009 and we now employ 30+ people, have a network of 250+ servers and power 500,000 websites from within our network. From home and small-business users to large corporations and major websites, we are happy to be the web host of choice by so many people.

To apply:
If interested, please submit a resume and writing samples (if any) to tyler.thompson@webhostingbuzz.com. Your resume will be reviewed and if you are deemed qualified for a position, you will be contacted to set up an interview over instant messenger.

Thank you for your time. We look forward to hearing from you!

Tyler Thompson
Marketing Manager
WebHostingBuzz.com