My Credit Card Story (Part II)

I'd actually wanted to update my blog earlier on but it wasn't so easy during the past few days. You can blame it on the lame internet connection here in Malaysia. I love my country, but sometimes it just sucks having such an unstable Internet connection here.

I also busted about 4 hours of my own productivity time just 2 days ago by going to a local cyber cafe and played Warcract DOTA. Got beaten flat even as a team and went back poorer by $3.50! LOL.

Oh Yes, back to my story about my credit card fraud. Well, ladies and gentleman. The culprit will be caught and the merchant bank has successfully traced his name and IC number (yes, he is Singaporean - too bad).

Complete with house address and mobile number. How cool is that?

So, here's what I did:

1. Submitted the verification form back to my credit card bank
2. Stated that this person is not authorised by me to perform the $4000 transaction
3. Mailed it
4. Went to the police station to report the "crooks" details
5. Go home and relax

Kinda simple but thats exactly what I did. You should be able to envision that what ever you're doing, the money will come. No worries. Just hang in there, do what you have to do and wait for the best to happen in your life.

Sounds a little creepily close to the Law Of Attraction I might add. Hmmmm.

Yeah, I'm still in Ipoh and it's like 12:37pm as I write this post. Feel exhausted shopping all day with my friend and enjoying the fresh seafood. Remind me to put up some nice pictures of the food we ate. Just the pictures thats all.

Till next post.

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Good Web Hosting Service - Who Needs It?

So, who actually needs a good web hosting service? Start with you. Think about it. I mean there's tons of cheap ones out there just hungry for your attention. Then, occasionally you'll be tempted by those Adwords advertisers who write out great ads that grabs your attention.

Before we go any further I'd like to share with you how I started on my selection.

Back in June of 2006, which was somewhere last year I wanted to start by making money on the internet. Really, guys... actually it's a business that you would start not how to many money and all that crap stuff. That is exactly why you can stop dreaming. Back then, I was just as green as anyone.

Heck, I didn't even know what the heck is a good web hosting service.

It was like a 'black box to me'.

Little did I realise that in order to have a webpage like this blog you are reading, with a good URL in place you need a good web hosting service to back it up to store your web pages. Of course, technical stuff on the web was not my cup of tea. Now it is, but back then - wow, I was so spaced out by all this jargon.

Okay, I'm going to give you a few pointers on what to look out for. Just 3 main tips you can keep an eye out.

1. Good 99% Uptime.

Why all the fuss about uptime?

Here's the thing. Imagine you are out for the entire week on a trip and you left your internet business to run on it's own. You got your emails running in an autoresponder (don't worry, I'll cover more on this next time), your web traffic is pouring onto your websites. Nice right?

Imagine if suddenly that good stuff just stopped - during your out of town trip. For an entire week. It sucks. I knew a few friends who disregarded having a good web hosting service which has bad uptime. Your web host should have at least 99% uptime.

2. Great (and friendly) Support

There's nothing worse than paying monthly for a web host and then finding out that your emails and request never got answered. Multiply that by 365 days a year. Imagine all the businesses ideals and fancy scripts you couldn't install all year long?

So far, I've seen some good web hosting service companies actually have "live chat". That's really hardcore and I applaud them for that. It's enough if they answer you within 24-48 hours by email.

Another story I have got to tell you is I've heard some buddies of mine got their hosting shut down because of some darn faulty script or that some software they uploaded. Not cool.

A great support is useful in case you wanted to check something if it's ok and if you got questions.

3. Nice (fancy...) Features

No good web hosting service would be complete without the inclusion of nice fancy features. Usually a 5 GB bandwidth is enough. As for web space, if you got 1GB - it rocks alright. I'll bet you that this whole page is not more than 60KB. Enough said.

Don't be greedy. Those unlimited web space things seems too good to be true. They usually are. Besides, why pay more for so much space? You're not going to run a movie site are you? Oh and the answer to that is not to go from a good web hosting service to a mega-host. But just upload it on google or youtube. Period.

Before I end, the answer to how I got started is to pick an all-in-one-solution. Which gave me a fairly affordable price per month. At the same time, having all 3 characteristics above....

.. and more! ;-) Not Just ANY Good Web Hosting Service but the best.

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