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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.
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
I am currently enrolled in an upper division class on information systems security focusing on the CISSP examination. The class is part of a program certified by the National Security Agency and Department of Homeland Security as a Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance. Since cyber crime and electronic security are becoming such everyday topics – especially e-commerce related – I thought many of our readers might find it interesting to read some of my papers from the class.
The first assignment was to describe a security attack that I had experienced or been a part of. I describe a situation I was in as a small hosting provider who was defaced by a targeted attack against one of my clients.
The story goes back almost a year now (and is still being added to every day.) The story goes across 4 states and three nation’s borders. Until you’ve done a cyber investigation, you really have no idea how difficult situations like these can be – I sure didn’t have any grasp of it going in, but I have learned lots from the process.
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First and foremost, we would like to thank all of our contestants who participated in our bumper sticker contest. We appreciate everyone’s efforts and hope they enjoyed seeing the creativity of their peers.
The winners of the iPod Touches were:
Kyler Burke
Emylee Schonhoeft
Andy Pull
Each of the winners received their iPods last week. We are in the process of developing some prizes as a “thank you” to all who took the time to participate.
Look for other exciting contests and deals in the near future!
Today, WebHostingBuzz is introducing an innovative environmental policy to deal with customers who fraudulently open accounts and then choose to file complaints with the Better Business Bureau when we fail to open those fraudulent accounts.
Since we are very environmentally conscious as a company, we have decided to use the paper from such complaints as toilet paper. This allows our company to save money by buying less toilet paper, but also saves the environment by reusing wasted paper. In addition, we have also pledged to make a $100 donation to the International Tree Foundation to apologize to Mother Nature for this cruel abuse of her resources.
The implementation of this policy began yesterday after a long saga with a fraudulent customer which goes back several weeks. I will include the transcript of the entire ordeal in a text file attached to this post, but here are the basics of what happened:
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Daniel Marcus
I’ve been hosting with Web Hosting Buzz since before I could drive, and before I was out of high school. Now, about five years later, I can drive, I’m in college, and I still don’t have a car. I made a mini version of the sticker for my laptop, and the full size one is on my desktop. Now I have even more excuses to tell people about WHB! On the computer monitor are my original two websites hosted with WHB, and of course the WHB website. The little thing sitting next to the coffee maker is Tux, the Linux penguin.
Justin Ivie
“I’m Justin Ivie with Walk-Ons, Inc. and I’ve been a WebHostingBuzz.com customer for just over 2 years!”
Kyler Burke
“Been a customer of WebHostingBuzz for two years.
Thanks for the chance to win! Been working hard on it all afternoon. This is my 4Runner with me in it!”
Pat Halbach
“Both of us are Happy with WebHostingBuzz!”