August 4, 2008

A lot of people come to me for help when it comes to building websites and one of the first issues that they bring up with me is web hosting. What kind of hosting? What do I need? What price should I pay?

Amusingly, in nearly all cases, their first choice is horrible. It’s either some company charging 5x as much for the same product, or it’s a cheap-as-chips hosting company where you have to pay extra for MySQL! Now, I can just point these people to Web Hosting Geeks, a company that has rated their top 10 hosting choices. Now, as always, it’s a case of buyers beware so always go in with your eyes wide open and never choose Yahoo. But generally the guide is good, I have heard of some of the hosts on there and they are reputable.

I was having an amusing conversation the other day with a new friend. We were discussing the plethora of books on how to overcome procrastination, and the irony of this given that if you’re suffering from a bad procrastination habit, you’re highly unlikely to finish a book that could quite easily be summarized into one sentence without too much difficulty.

“Stop thinking, start doing.”

You see many phrases like this around the place and that’s about all is needed really.

I’m getting  much better in terms of procrastination but now the problem is taking too much on at once and putting continuity into it, I tend to start working on 4 projects at once.

This is what is happening atm:

2 FB Apps

4 unblocker websites.

3 blogs (Jonk’s is being converted into a blog)
2 image hosts.

That’s an addition to the two blogs I have going atm.

And what’s weird is I seriously think I’m forgetting something in that list.

I remember in Nov last year I was talking up the creation of a bunch of websites but nearly all these ones are ready to go. They aren’t pie in the sky concepts, nearly all of them are just waiting for graphic designers to get off their flippin butts and send me the work I have asked for.