Sign Up for a Host Gator Hosting Account.
November 24th, 2008 admin Location: Raleigh, North CarolinaIn most of our projects we recommend using Host Gator as the hosting provider. We do so because in our experience so far they have been reliable and we have had good support experiences.
Some of our clients ask us how to go about the setting of their accounts. That is the reason of this post.
1. go to http://www.hostgator.com/shared.shtml
Host Gator Shared
There you will find a table with the following info:
2. Click where it says “Order Now” in the Hatchling Plan, the Baby or the Business. More often than not, for a starter website the Hatchling plan is more than enough. If you want a unique IP for your site, then Business will do.
Selection of Package
3. In the next page you will see an order wizard. Select the I will use My Existing Domain option. Type in your domain name: example.com and hit NEXT. This applies only if you already have a domain name. If you don’t, or if you want a new domain name, then click where it says “register new domain”.
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4. In the next screen you will enter the coupon code: XXXX. If you don’t have coupon codes, then it is time to go look online. How? Well, just go to Google.com and type something like HostGator Hosting Coupon.
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5. In the following screen, review that the totals are correct and go to the next screen to pay by entering your credit card info.
6. That is it.
Once they setup your account you will receive an email confirming the information and payment but also with something extremely important— YOUR ACCOUNT INFO—
You are going to need specially three things:
1. The hostnames for your hosting server. They look something like: ns192.serverexample.com
2. The ftp access to your site (server ip, username and password).
3. The cpanel access for your site. (username and password).
Once you have that information in your hands you are set to go.
Make sure that you contact us for more information or if you have any questions. Thanks for using Shark Media Design for all your Website Design needs.
Money does not equal life. I repeat: Money doesn’t equal life.
November 3rd, 2008 admin Location: Raleigh, North CarolinaDifficult times don’t bring out the best in people. Is hard to ask a sinking person to think about anybody else other than saving himself. The economical crisis is showing the real character in the people around you, and in myself.
Producing value for others is not an easy task. For most people, their lives are completely tied up to their jobs. Their jobs provide the security of sustainability and affordability of social anesthetics like shopping sprees and Friday’s dine out.
My questions today revolve around: why do we all live so attached to the pursuit of money? why is it that we believe that with more money our life would be easier, safer and better? I have the impression that most people in their death beds don’t look back and say: “I would try to live longer so that I can make more money”.
A life in the pursuit of “more” is a life full of absolutely nothing. If I live my life as if I was awaiting for a destination I would miss my life completely. Because life is really the trip.
The worst part about it is that I pretend that my only problem is lack of money when in reality deep inside I know that the real lack is faith.
If you take two people and send them to a deserted island: To the first one you give a million dollars and to the second you give a reason to live, who do you think that would last longer?
We are like money hungry robots with junk-filled garages. We associate so much pleasure to the act of getting that we have forgotten how does it feel to give something to somebody else.
The paradox:
I want to work hard to get more money. The more money I get, the more things I buy. The more things I buy the less money I end up with. So I have to work more for more money.
In the end, I have neither money nor life. It is a pretty clever distraction.
Summarizing: Our entire lives we sell our time in exchange for money. Money that we plan to use to buy a better life. But at that point we have no time left.
Is like working at Disney World. Waking up every day and working hard. When you retire, somebody asks you if you enjoyed the rides and you reply: “I didn’t have time to enjoy them”.