Posts Tagged ‘Web hosting’

Today we need all the help we can get to market ourselves to get our foot into the door. Whether it be into a new job or to impress a client. One has to come across as the “firstest with the mostest”. There are two major ways of accomplishing this unique marketing tactic.

First, the tradational Powerpoint presentation with voice narration. Unlike your hard copy resume, this method gives your potential boss or client an additional carrot to consider. When building your interactive profile, take an inventory of your personal skillsets. What do you want others to learn about you that is not already on your resume? Consider hyperlinks to websites that have influenced you. What you include is up to you, but make it more than just your resume in another format.

The second means of delivering  an interactive personal profile is through the development of a personal website that describes you and your background. The two things you would need to secure are a personal domain for yourself and a web hosting account. It is now possible to get a .me domain for your name rather than the traditional .com version.

Building a website is not a difficult take nowadays. Many web hosting companies now offer website building packages as part of their offer. Check a few out!. There are also a number of self-installing scripts that can get you setup a quick and professional site within minutes and a few hours of customization. The benefit of these scripts that that allow you to edit your website from any Internet enabled computer. Three of the most popular scripts are:

• Wordpress
• Joomla
• Drupal

Want to kill two birds with one stone? Why not do both and offer your Powerpoint profile as a download on your website. Doing this will prevent you  from having to burn CDs of your profile.

The possibilites are endless when it comes to how you can market yourself electronically. Just think outside the box and you’ll quickly find yourself working with those you want to be in with.

Web hosting has been around now for almost two decades. It has remained relatively unchanged in how it works. There is one major difference and that is how the data centers (the centers where the web servers are housed) are powered. We have begun to move to using alternative energy to power them and by using these companies, we are helping the green movement as well.

Just like our home computers, the servers that drive the Internet need sufficient and constant reliable power. When you consider the amount of power that data centers consume on  a daily basis between the computing equipment and the cooling equipment to ensure the heat doesn’t overcome the equipment, large numbers of kilowatts of electricity are used to power these great sized rooms or buildings.

Just like everything else in the last year or so since the great increase in price of fuel and the threat of global warming, there is now the push to power data centers with alternative energy.  Some hosting companies are already using alternative energy to power their operations, and not just a little.

HostGator.com, which is based in Texas, is one of those hosts that have completely made their hosting farm a “green” farm. They power their equipment completely by wind power and putting some of that generated power back into the grid. It is not shows how HostGator is being responsible to the environment, but is a model that alternative power could be used to totally replace traditional fossil fuel based power plants.

This blog and the associated web site, are hosted by Hostgator and therefore are entirely powered by alternative engery sources. If you’re looking for a way to put “green” measures into your own business model, I would consider looking at Hostgator for your web hosting needs. I have been completely satisfied not only with their product, but also with their great support backed by a great staff of people.

I have always been an advocate for using alternative fuels and I think we are just at the beginning of a new beginning of fuels that continue to renew themselves. In the future, it is easy to imagine now that alternative energies such as solar, wind, and other sources will be used to power the new backbone of our society, the Internet.