Everyone so enjoyed my last rant Losers And Winners Revenge that I thought I would update everyone on how things turned out. Winner went on to purchase his Bluehost hosting from me. WordPress setup went smoothly enough. The first theme we tried didn’t work, but the 2nd try was the charm. Winner also went on to purchase a Turnip T-shirt and wrote a post related to my rant post titled WordPress 2.5 (winners and losers take 3?) on his new Foolsville 2.0 Blog. To top things off, he also left a very nice testimonial under one of my promotions.
If anyone is thinking on doing this, give Turnip the opportunity to help you. He helped me set up word-press which I knew nothing about, up graded it to the latest version, explained how to use the fantastico software on the bluehost c-panel. Uploading, downloading, installing, cleaning up, e-mail on and on. He is always there if I have questions, has the ability and patience to help. This is a great service. I can not thank him enough. He even told me where to get a great deal on a turnip T!”
As for Loser, sure enough he bought his hosting from GODADDY instead of Bluehost to spite anyone getting the commission. Being the genius he is, he used his real name and address on his registration details. Next day he was posting in the Entrecard forums asking for WordPress help. Being the sucker I am, I suggested how he might accomplish what he wanted, without giving too many details of course. What’s even funnier is he thought he got a kickback from some scam company. hpr.castironhostingreview(dot)com. When you read the site, you find out its a bogus incentive site. Good luck once they get your name and address. That site says “please do not contact the web hosting companies about your rebate” for a reason, all their commissions would be reversed if you did.
At the end of the day everyone was smiling. Rants are like many things in life, the best come with a happy ending.
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6 users commented in " Winners And Losers: Last Words "
Follow-up comment rss or Leave a Trackback **********Setting up a first blog’s a b!tch. Really. If I had someone like this veggie helping me out August of last year, I would not have had much trouble figuring out the WP tutorial stuff I printed off WPdesigner’s website.
I always say I started blogging September 2007, but the truth is that I started blogging AUGUST… took me a month of redoing and ranting at my host (who wont give support) before I got a blog running. XD
Congratulations on Mr. Winner. The good thing about a detailed tutorial is that you can build several more websites with the knowledge, and on your own then. The commission you gave Turnip for the referral is too small for that gift of WP knowledge that he gave you back.
Here’s to building MORE quality blogs. *ting!*
Well it sounds like “winner” won and “loser” lost. lol
I’m familiar with the particular contest - but i can say that hosting wordpress - or any mysql driven site on godaddy is just not that good of an idea when compared to the alternatives. From all the sites we have ever created, we have tried to use godaddy hosting several times, each time it worked much faster on a shared host that kept the mysql on the same server.
What do you mean by this
“Being the genius he is, he used his real name and address on his registration details.”
Does it mean we should not use our real name and address when registering domain name or hosting..?
I’m sorry, I really don’t know.. i’m teh loser maybe. lol
Mart: There is good and bad to registering with your own details. The good is that you officially “own” the domain in the eyes of the governing bodies. Wonderful if your host is a scammer and plans to steal your domain from you.
Now the bad, as quoted from http://www.domainwarning.com/:
mining whois and domain slamming-
Because all the data is there for the taking, spammers and marketers “mine” the whois database and harvest registrant data including addresses, fax numbers and email addresses. This is a real problem, and there have been very slow moving Whois database reform processes creeping through ICANN as well as CIRA in Canada.
In the meantime though, people may wonder why is it that shortly after they register a domain name, they start getting all kinds of marketing spam in their mailbox. This is because their email address is being harvested by robots from the Whois database. There is a free service to protect your email address called MyPrivacy.ca.
The variation on this is some registrars (and there is one outfit who is particularly notorious for this) which is mining the whois database for registrant information, and then mailing out what look like renewal invoices for either those domain names or variations of them.
Unsuspecting recipients think they’ve received a renewal invoice on their domain and then remit payment, initiating a domain transfer without realizing it. Surprise, you’ve been slammed. In the worst cases your website and email comes crashing down as your DNS services terminate with your old provider.
Also: As I warned one young lady recently, there are stalkers out there. Do you want your highschool age daughter to give her home address and phone number? Once they see who owns the domain, they go to Facebook and learn more. Now how easy is it to guess your passwords based upon your birthdate and other personal details?
Winners are always winners and keep on winning…losers sure don’t get it, do they? Wonder if “loser” will try to change his ways…or will he just always stay a loser who tries to save a buck?
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