I’ll be renewing my web host again next month. I’m tired of renewing my webhost quarterly so I guess, I’m ready for a long term payment scheme now.
I’m planning to move to another webhost because I’m not satisfied with their customer support. I mentioned that last May when I renewed my account. The host is good for beginners simply because they’re the only webhost I know that charges monthly fees. What I want now is to enjoy features and services I haven’t experienced from my current host.
I could try every webhost recommended by my co-bloggers but I don’t want to waste my time for “trial and errors”. I’ve checked on web hosting reviews and proved that my current webhost is not included in their top ten webhost list. I hope I’m not making a mistake on choosing my future webhost next month. It won’t be on #1 rank if its not the best.
File host offers webspace for our important documents such as images, documents, videos, audios etc. There are many file host sites in the web but some are not accessible to mobile phones (depends on the site and connections). To mobile community, using a file host means sharing our files to others.
During my active moblog days, I have an account at xthost and fsphost. The later closed their site and I lost my files, my xthost accounts are still running until now for so many years. To maintain xthost account, take note of these rules:
- inactive sites will be deleted with less than 1 hit/week
- No adult content allowed!
- Hosting copyrighted/illegal material is not allowed
- no mp3 storage (like 1 mp3 per account…)
- actually you know what’s going on, if you abuse it we will delete your account
- XT Host reserves the right to delete any page it deems unacceptable for any reason without prior notice.
- XT Host makes no guarantee as to the availability of service.
Its not that easy maintaining the account if no single hit (download) a week. There was a time that I have to download a single file from each of the accounts regularly to maintain them. If the first rule is not accomplished, that means account expiration. The trick here is upload an image and use the link in forum, blog or site.
A friend also informed me that my xthost links were posted on other popular wap sites which I’m not aware. If they’re receiving a regular download from those wapsites, I guess I owe them a lot.
Rule of thumb, always read the terms of service when signing up.
Last month, I was worried with my ebook files when my computer got infected with Trojan virus. A collection of eBooks for 4 years is precious to me, I even converted some of them. Backing up in a CD and/or a flash disk is a good idea but online backup is much better.
Good thing that I signed up for a free basic account at IDrive with 2GB space. I referred my friends and I have additional 10GB now free of charge. That’s 12GB in all for IDrive Basic. IDrive Pro is $4.95 only a month with 150GB space.
We can never tell when we are going to need our back up files, a trojan virus can only be one of the many reasons why we need a back up.
Today is the last day of the month in my country, my birthday month. As I’ve mentioned to June is linkylove birthday month, the top commentator of the month will received a simple token of appreciation from this blog. As I’ve write that entry, I’m planning to give entrecard credit which is 2000 plus a link to this post. I didn’t mentioned that because I don’t know how much would be my credit on the last day of the month.
If the top commentator is not an entrecard user or not yet… better sign-up now or the credits remains to charity. LOL! Entrecard guide ebook is available for new users, download the ebook in PDF or repligo format.
Anyway, there are 16 hours left, you can check here the timezone in your location. Comments are always moderated, relevant comment means approved comment and no spamming please. You can also check my temporary comment policy.
My entrecard code is on my maintenance page, I’m activating it once or twice a month when I’m editing my template. I guess, its the perfect example of a blank page with entrecard widget. Since quick drop is illegal now, rules are rules so I removed the entrecard code. Although I don’t want to miss a single drop when I’m on maintenance mode, better remove it than get penalized.
IMPORTANT: If you currently have a “Quick Drop” page a.k.a. “Power Drop” page, you must take it down by July 1, 2008.
Starting July 1st, we will be going through a massive list of quick drop pages we have amassed. Accounts will be permanently closed on-sight if the quick drop pages are still active. Requests to be reinstated will be ignored. Credits will be permanently lost.
In addition to that, sorry to my co-reciprodroppers for removing the list on my blogroll. I guess, only top droppers will be link on my post. i guess, its also illegal using our list because droppers will also be penalized by July 1.
Thumbs up for Entrecard for implementing this. Hoping for a better entrecard community in the future. To those who didn’t received the email, click here for more details.
