Blogging For Money

I need to search for a new web hosting provider because my current reseller UK account is quirky and has been giving me some issues. Looking around for cheap web hosting, I chanced upon Host Nexus, a web hosting provider. It appears that this company is fast becoming among the most popular places for webmasters to host their sites. They are able to offer you various types of hosting packages as per your requirements, such as shared hosting, blog hosting, VPS hosting and even Windows Reseller hosting. They’ve built-up years of experience and very good at what they do. Host Nexus also offers a large assortment of ten different web hosting packages for your to choose from for your site, all ranging from $34.95 annually or as low as just $6.95 per month. The ability to host sub-domains is included with some packages, as well as their their MySQL database offering. If you have no idea where to begin, there are no worries about that. Host Nexus also gives its clients an entire portal site of self-help tools along with its customer service, so you will be able to always find the facts that you need quickly.

With all of the great characteristics and its money back-guarantee, Host Nexus web hosting is a sure winner for sites just starting out or large businesses needing to have a serious host provider.

In a competitive internet world, web hosting service comes in the thousands these days and you are spoilt for choice as to which one you should subscribe to. Getting a reliable web hosting, however, is not an easy find, it takes the time and patience to try out various web hosting services or read up on user experience reviews at the major web hosting companies before deciding which one suits you. And even if you do find the one that you like, there is the issue of hosting package and pricing, whether the plan suits your needs or fits your budget. You certainly do not want to overspend your money on a plan that does not suit you or is too expensive even though you know that they are a reliable web host.

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So I finally got the Bluehost refund after cancelling my hosting package with them, even though I was actually expecting it to be later. They refunded me through PayPal. I am going to use part of the refund for my promotional campaign for my web directory and bid for position directory. I am expecting both to hit at least a PR6 and PR5 respectively in the next Google update. A higher PR means more $$$, and more $$$ means wedding bells.

Heh.

As we approach the final week of May, I will be doing some basic accounting to see how much I’ve earned from my problogging/web directories/text link ads/PPC activities this month. This is turning out to be the best month ever. I will publish the results on this blog and see whether I have met my personal target of $2K (in USD, not Ringgit) this month.

So along with the Google Adsense cheque, I found my refund cheque from the previous web host which I have cancelled my semi-dedicated hosting account with. Here it is.

The refund amount is for three months, I’ve already used the previous three months Ah, if only I knew about DataKL Hosting earlier…

It seems that the WordPress index.php file on the www.menj.org is causing the CPU quota to exceed 20 seconds and overloading the host. I’ve already upgraded the WordPress files but the problem still persist.

CPU Exceeded Log For Thu Apr 5 06:44:15 2007

Thu Apr 5 06:39:17 2007: used 3.16 seconds of cpu time for /usr/bin/php index.php
Thu Apr 5 06:39:17 2007: used 2.76 seconds of cpu time for /usr/bin/php index.php
Thu Apr 5 06:39:27 2007: used 3.33 seconds of cpu time for /usr/bin/php index.php
Thu Apr 5 06:39:27 2007: used 2.90 seconds of cpu time for /usr/bin/php index.php
Thu Apr 5 06:39:32 2007: used 0.02 seconds of cpu time for HTTP Request: www.menj.org : GET /feed/ HTTP/1.1
Thu Apr 5 06:39:33 2007: used 0.02 seconds of cpu time for HTTP Request: www.menj.org : GET /feed/rss/ HTTP/1.1
Thu Apr 5 06:39:37 2007: used 3.70 seconds of cpu time for /usr/bin/php index.php
Thu Apr 5 06:39:37 2007: used 3.02 seconds of cpu time for /usr/bin/php index.php
Thu Apr 5 06:39:42 2007: used 1.63 seconds of cpu time for /usr/bin/php index.php
Thu Apr 5 06:39:42 2007: used 1.84 seconds of cpu time for /usr/bin/php index.php
Thu Apr 5 06:39:47 2007: used 1.84 seconds of cpu time for /usr/bin/php index.php
Thu Apr 5 06:39:47 2007: used 1.80 seconds of cpu time for /usr/bin/php index.php
Thu Apr 5 06:39:52 2007: used 1.63 seconds of cpu time for /usr/bin/php index.php
Thu Apr 5 06:39:57 2007: used 1.82 seconds of cpu time for /usr/bin/php index.php

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The lousy and expensive previous hosting provider finally came through and is issuing me a refund. I am now officially richer by RM657.00

Hello Menj,

Thank you for your confirmation and details.

Please note that I have successfully terminated your hosting account from our server. The following is the calculation for refund.

Linux Semi Dedicated Server (11/01/2007 – 11/07/2007): RM1,314.00 (Paid)
Hosted for 3 months (11/01/2007 – 11/04/2007): RM657.00
Balance 3 months not hosted (11/04/2007 – 11/07/2007): RM657.00

Please let us know the name payable and address so that we could issue a cheque and post to you.

Of course I will be plonking all that money into DataKL Hosting but who cares? Let me gloat while it lasts.