Alas it's true - I'm in love with the web hosting company that "eats up the competition".
The Mr. and I design websites for a living (among other things). When asked "where should I host my website" I don't hesitate to recommend Hostgator. Of course we would never recommend any company to our clients that we hadn't tested thoroughly ourselves; we've put the shared-server hosting accounts with Hostgator to the test and been very happy with the outcome.

We began working mainly with CMS type sites back in early 2006 when Joomla forked from Mambo and that is when we decided to give Hostgator a try. Before 2006, The Mr. and I had several static sites that we either owned or managed for clients scattered across several different hosting companies -- The names of which escape me because they have all gone out of business in the years since we left [...] Continue Reading...

Whoa. Great customer service and an awesome picture to boot. What more could I ask for?
Maybe a satellite receiver that pops it's own popcorn...? Ok - all kidding aside, I've been a customer of DirecTv (Or is it pronounced Direct TV?) ever since I purchased my Panasonic Plasma HDTV a couple of years ago. Before switching to DirecTv we were using an analog TV and had yet to experience HDTV in all its glory. When we finally broke down and decided to buy an HDTV TV we also wanted to get a new satellite system to go with it.

We headed over to Best Buy to make our TV purchase and actually scored a really good deal with DirecTv where we got the receivers for next to nothing and free installation. It took about 2 days for the installation technician to arrive to set everything up. We had already hung [...] Continue Reading...

Mozy's online backup tool which I once loved, has turned into a total piece of CPU-cycle-eating crap.
After using Mozy for a year and referring many a friend, client and colleague to them, I must say that they have gone downhill in a BIG way and I want to publicly apologize to anyone I may have harmed in the process of raving about this now-craptastic product. Here is how my experience with the Mozy backup product went down:

After an extensive online search, I found that Mozy was the one backup that both PC and Mac users alike raved about. In fact, at the time it was also the only online backup service I could find that worked within a Mac / PC environment. When I found out that it was only about $5 a month for unlimited online storage I jumped on board. In fact, I was so excited after [...] Continue Reading...