We are very proud of our Partner Program because it gives money back to our customers to promote us rather than to Google or some less-than-honest review site.  The key for it to work is 1.) our ultimate integrity in payouts and 2.) your ability to sell our hosting.  What sort of ways can you use this Partner Program to earn 20% of each sale?

1.) If you are a web professional, refer your clients to the button where you are selling hosting.  Have them buy from that link, and you will earn 20%.  We don’t really care if you publicly display our link (although we’d appreciate it), you just have to have the link hosted on our servers.  What’s nice about this model?  Unlike reseller hosting, you are giving your customers the freedom to maintain their own account.

2.) Design a WHB button geared towards donating to your favorite charity.  Any time someone buys from it, donate your 20%.

3.) Foster support for your open source project by selling hosting on your site.

4.) Set up a button geared towards donating your 20% to a beer fund.  Have a party once you earn a certain amount.

We don’t care what you do with the money or how you get it as long as you aren’t making claims about us that aren’t true.  Promote WebHostingBuzz any way you can and keep your 20%.  We’ll focus on keeping your sites up and giving you the best customer service possible so you won’t have to worry about promoting us.

We give our regards to everyone undergoing rough economic times, and hope this is an added bonus of hosting with WebHostingBuzz.

Yes, that is true. We have recently found out that Google has upgraded Web Hosting Buzz from PR 6 to PR 7. PR (page rank) is a technology google uses to find out how many quality links point to a web site. We would like to thank all our clients and affiliates that have helped us gain this status.

Thank you very much.

WebHostingDirectory, a source for hosting information and news since 1997, gave WebHostingBuzz an award for Best Unix Web Hosting.  We are honored to receive this award and want to thank all of our dedicated staff who made this possible.  Well, enough accolades.  Back to work ;).

Yesterday, the stock markets tumbled as a result of the rejection of the bank bailout bill.  Although we certainly aren’t happy about this situation, we want you to know that we are an owner operative, cash flow positive company.  We have diversified financial headquarters in both the U.S. and Dubai, so we should have no issues through this financial turmoil.  We will continue to focus on offering you the fastest, most stable, and economical hosting company on the market.

To see our offerings, please check out our website.

In order to better know our customers, what they were using our services for, and how we are doing as a company, we decided to survey our current WHB customers.  Most of the feedback was good, some of it was rather amusing, but it did give us some direction as to how we can make WebHostingBuzz even better.

What were some of our favorite comments?

“WHB is simply THE best hosting provider I have been using. I have been involved on the internet since 1997, By no comparison, WHB are the BEST on planet earth when it comes to server uptime, prices and packages and an outstanding customer service and support. these are my 2cents and I am sticking to my statement.”

“I have nothing but praises for my host WHB. Simply the best.”

“Web Hosting Buzz totally rocks!”

“I would recommend it to all my friends… if I had any.”

Here are the results.  We have already started to comb over the feedback so as to improve our offerings in the future:

1. I would rate the sales/billing process at WebHostingBuzz as:
Exceptionally quick and straightforward. Good. My problems were solved. Average. Some minor issues here and there. Poor. I dread contacting you. Not noticeable enough to comment. Sales Support 26.7 % 41.7 % 12.6 % 1.7 % 17.0 % Billing Support 26.9 % 37.4 % 16.4 % 3.8 % 15.2 %
2. I would rate the technical support at WebHostingBuzz to be
Unnecessary. My site is always up. Quick and very helpful. Capable of solving my problem. A little on the bad side. Pure pain. HelpDesk support 12.9 % 47.3 % 29.1 % 6.4 % 4.1 % LiveChat support 27.4 % 34.4 % 27.8 % 5.1 % 5.1 %
3. My preferred method for contacting WebHostingBuzz is:
79.3% HelpDesk (269) 20.6% LiveChat (70)
4. I would rate the speed of my WebHostingBuzz site to be
55.2% Good. I have no complaints. (189) 28.9% It has its moments, but it’s usually pretty good. (99) 8.4% Stellar. (29) 7.3% Slow. A little help, please. (25)
5. I use WebHostingBuzz to host:
42.7% a site composed of custom pages I or someone else built (249) 17.0% a blog (99) 16.1% a site built using a content management system (94) 7.0% View “Other” Answers “Other” Answers 6.5% an application (38) 5.8% a store (34) 4.6% other people’s sites. I’m a reseller. (27)
6. What plan(s) are you currently on?
83.8% Budget (296) 7.6% Reseller (0-20 sites) (27) 3.6% Business Lite ($35 a month) (13) 2.2% Reseller (20+ sites) (8) 1.1% Business Buzz ($55 a month) (4) 1.1% Dedicated Server (4) 0.2% Business Enterprise ($75 a month) (1)

Optional Questions

7. The best CMS on the market today is:

31.5% What is a CMS? (93) 25.0% WordPress (74) 16.9% “Other” Answers 16.2% Joomla (48) 8.1% Drupal (24) 2.0% Mambo (6)

8. FOR DEVELOPERS: I program in:

32.4% PHP (97) 27.0% I’m no programmer! (81) 21.7% HTML and CSS (65) 12.7% “Other” Answers 2.3% Java (7) 2.0% Python (6) 1.0% Ruby on Rails (3) 0.6% ASP.NET (2)

We’ve just completed a deal that secures us 400sq foot of private datacenter space in our own caged suite in AtlantaNAP, Atlanta. This gives us space for approximately 1,000 servers and adds much more scope to the services that we can provide. We will also be running our own network (previously, we bought bandwidth from the facility itself) and this will allow us to tune everything for customers needs. We also have our own dedicated power feed/UPS along with a custom cooling configuration for our private space. Pretty cool huh?

We will have to physically migrate servers about 200ft from there current location (we have 9 racks in the general colocation area) to our new private area and we expect around 15 minutes of downtime per server as we do this, but this will be scheduled and maintenance windows will be posted.

Once the migration is completed, we’ll also be publically launching our eagerly anticipated VPS plans. Stay tuned.

With the economy slowing as a result of inflation, it’s hard to say what the impact is on hosting. Web Hosting Unleashed interviewed four key executives at various hosting companies about what impact the

economy has made on their business, and the results varied.

Here’s what WebHostingBuzz COO and resident DJ Matt Russell had to say about the matter:

“With the global economy in tatters and many of the West facing a “credit crisis”, we’ve noticed a number of things:

1. We have far fewer inactive websites. Most websites are there for a purpose, whereas before we’d have many clients signing up just to test out some features.
2. Our international client base is growing fast. The weak dollar makes our plans very attractive to those outside of the U.S.
3. And of course, consumers are more price-savvy as they have less money to spend.

You can read more opinions on the matter at by reading Chris Lloyd’s article in Web Hosting Unleashed.

Here’s a question for our resellers, have you noticed any up or downtowns as a result of the economy?

Think your host rocks because all of the hosting review sites say they do? Think again. As you may have read in our post on March 22, most of these sites, along with sites that list hosting for certain CMS, are bought and paid for by affiliate marketing schemes. As you may have noticed, WHB would rather put our money into more servers, support, and better server admins, but hey, that’s just us.

BlueHost is regarded by many of these sites as a premiere hosting service. Both BlueHost and HostMonster are put ahead of others in hosting reviews quite frequently. But as you can see from this post on inetintegrity, many of these review sites are hosted on BlueHost’s servers by some guy named Matthew Heaton. The reviews are written as if they were created by an unbiased third party, but in reality they appear to be written by Heaton and associates. What a very dismal job that must be.

The author of this article goes on to share his or her less than stellar experience at BlueHost, which was plagued by frequent downtime and email problems. Sigh.

We at WebHostingBuzz would rather put our money into keeping your site up instead of paying guys like Matthew Heaton. If you appreciate this, please log into Facebook and become a WHB fan.

Many thanks to inetintegrity for bringing this to our attention.

Hosting with WHB will save you from this guy

If your going to be a hosting reseller, it’s important to know that the hosting company you are dealing with isn’t just some creepy guy who set up some servers in his mom’s basement. Matt Russell has been in the hosting industry for nine years and has been the WebHostingBuzz COO for four. Learn more about WHB’s reseller and affiliate programs as well as what we are all about in his interview with Reseller Guide.

–Michelle Greer, WHB Marketing Ninja

We thought of getting into this social networking buzz so WebHostingBuzz.com has created its own fan page on facebook.com. If you use facebook then come on in and join us at http://facebook.webhostingbuzz.com. We have tons of stuff planned out for it…cya you there!