This is a continuation from web hosting bargains part 1, where I looked at some issues with choosing a web hosting provider. Finding the right host at the right price for your website has always been the case of caveat emptor. You need to understand and estimate your own needs, and then find the hosting [...]

It is 2008. Everyone and their dogs and cats can haz websites. If you are selling something or providing services, and if you do not have an Internet presence, you don’t exist. It is one of the easiest ways to get yourselves known by the world, and if you cannot be linked to at [...]

TechCrunch reports Alexa has overhauled its ranking system to use more sources than just its toolbars. There has been big shifts in the Blogosphere where many webmaster-centric blogs suffer a dip. On the other hand, many sites that are not Internet/web design-related actually get a boost in Alexa ranking. For example yesterday OzBargain was [...]

Sydney Morning Herald: eBay to accept cash and PayPal only, and this story has generated quite a lot of discussions everywhere. While it does not really impact me as I don’t really live on eBay, may I borrow the words from the infamous Jedi Knight — “I flt a great disturbance in the Force… as [...]

TechCrunch: RetailMeNot Adds Social Network, where Duncan Riley interviewed Guy King from RetailMeNot.com, talked about turning ReviewMeNot.com into a social network of Shopping Community, and how a 3-employees Melbourne-based start up with no VC funding generated $10 million sales and seven figure profit a year. Impressive. Just let you know a little secret — my bargains website [...]

Do you have a website? Do you shop for web hosting companies for the best deal? Now let me tell you when you can find the best web hosting deals — when another popular web hosting company is having extended outage! MD WebHosting was having hardware issues with their racks, resulting many hours of downtime for [...]

I was at work this afternoon and one of my university friends, who knew that I ran a bargain website, IM’ed me a link, asking whether I knew about RetailMeNot.com. “Sure! I actually blogged about these guys almost a year ago!” When I came home after work, my wife asked me whether I have heard [...]

I first read about RetailMeNot.com on DownloadSquad late last month, but I did not pay much attention. “Yet Another US-Centric Coupon Dump? No thanks” I thought. Then today Bevan emailed me about this website again, and convinced me to take another look, because: It’s collaborative — people love to share good things with complete strangers online, [...]