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Visit us at HostingCon in Austin, July 19-21.

Maureen Griffith — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:30:58 +0000

Free Codero bag, booth #442

If you are going to HostingCon 2010, we hope to see you there! The largest gathering of hosted services professionals in the world will convene in Austin, Texas July 19-21, 2010. Visit us in booth #442 and pick up a green Codero bag. Because we are a totally green company we are more than happy to offer free green bags so you can use them instead of paper or plastic to reduce the environmental impact on our country’s landfills. Did you know California is even considering banning plastic grocery bags?

Codero is the largest dedicated server and managed hosting company in the industry to offer eco-hosting solutions across its entire operations. Codero purchased 12,500 MWh of certified renewable energy certificates and joined Green-e Marketplace so that every dedicated server supporting our customers is matched with Green-e Certified energy.

HostingCon is the premier conference and trade show for the hosted services industry. More than 1,500 Internet professionals from over 30 countries are expected to attend with full days of exhibits, speakers and networking. This year’s conference is focused on “Piloting into the Cloud…Setting a Course for the Future.”

If you’re planning on attending and haven’t registered yet, be sure to use the coupon code Codero2010 to receive the following discounts:

$60 discount on Full Conference (with lunch)
$40 discount on Full Conference (no lunch)
$30 discount on Single Day Conference (no lunch)
$10 discount on Exhibits Plus Passes

For scheduled events and speakers, visit the HostingCon website. Look for Codero at other hosting events throughout the year. Hope to see you soon!

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SEO and Website Hosting: Free Webcast.

Maureen Griffith — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 19:53:59 +0000

If you are a search engine optimization (SEO) enthusiast, here’s your chance to learn something new.

Codero recently sponsored a webcast with industry expert and speaker Vanessa Fox. Vanessa is the creator of Google’s Webmaster Central and author of several books. If you missed this informative hour, fortunately you can still listen to it free on-demand.

When you are trying to launch a successful SEO campaign, the last thing you want is to be hindered by your web hosting provider. From her experience on the frontline working for Google, Vanessa offers advice on how to select a web host. She suggests you find out if your hosting provider is thinking about search acquisition the same way you are. Ask questions like:

How do you handle search engine traffic?
Do you block bots when they overload the server?

Managing bot traffic is a big issue for the web host themselves. Enlist a web hosting company that understands how important search engine marketing is to you. And make sure that company has a robust architecture that can handle the load.

The webcast further explains:

What happens when bots overload the server.
How to use a shared site responsibly so you do not cause excessive crawls.
Which server operating systems are used.
And, how hosting services manage parked domains.

Participants also called in with their own personal questions like:

Do I have to buy managed hosting if I do not know how to configure a server?
What are the most effective ways to increase search engine ranking?
If I have dedicated hosting, what specifically can I do to address server speed?

Vanessa is also a contributing editor to SearchEngineLand.com where you can find many more answers to SEO challenges.

Check out, or share, the Codero-sponsored webcast now.

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New source of energy for data centers or simply B.S.?

Maureen Griffith — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:00:09 +0000

What some get energized about, others see as B.S. We’re talking cow manure here.

Digested farm waste (cow manure) could be turned into valuable energy to run data centers. Who knew? I grew up in a small Kansas town surrounded by farms where barnyard by-products were not considered a treasured valuable.

But a recent study by the world’s largest technology company, says otherwise. Hewlett-Packard Laboratories reports information technology and livestock industries have complementary characteristics that could help each other out.

Farmers need to properly dispose of their livestock waste which degrades the environment. Data centers are rapidly growing and consume substantial power. Why not work together for the benefit of both? The study outlines how a hypothetical farm of 10,000 dairy cows could fulfill the power requirements of a one-megawatt data center…about the size of a small computing center at a bank.

The concept would require building computing centers in more rural locales which would be a boon to those communities. H.P. engineers report a dairy farmer who rents land and power to technology companies could recoup an investment in about two years.

What a way to cash in on manure. At Codero, we rely on farms of another sort to power our operations. We made a commitment and substantial investment in 2009 to operate our data centers more efficiently and become an environmentally-friendly green hosting leader in our industry. Our dedicated server solutions are powered with 100% certified renewable energy sourced out of wind farms from the Pioneer Prairie Wind Farm, located in Howard County of Iowa. Confirmation is performed by the Center for Resource Solutions, the nation’s leading independent certification and verification program for renewable energy: Green-e. A Case Study by Green-e Marketplace offers more details about our search for the best renewable energy option.

Do you have an opinion on alternative energy sources? Is your organization doing something innovative to sustain the planet? Let us know. Comments are most welcome.

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Headline: Free SEO and Website Hosting Webcast.

Maureen Griffith — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:15:35 +0000

Are you doing everything you can to ensure your website is discovered by searchers? Do you know what to look for in a SEO-focused hosting service? Do you fully understand the connection between site architecture, hosting and SEO?

If you are a SEO consultant, in-house SEO, web developer, web designer or other type of Internet enthusiast, you might appreciate this no-cost opportunity to learn more. Codero is sponsoring a free webcast with a widely respected industry expert who has been called a “cyberspace visionary.” Our speaker will be Vanessa Fox, creator of Google’s Webmaster Central and author of the book Marketing in the Age of Google: Your Online Strategy IS Your Business Strategy. She will address the technical aspects of SEO, particularly as it relates to hosting. You’ll find out there is much more to SEO than keywords, back-links and content. The webcast is a quick, easy way to gain insight about which databases to use, how hosting services manage parked domains and aggressive bot traffic, and how to diagnose hosting issues and their impact on SEO.

Join us: Tuesday, June 22, at 1 PM EDT
Vanessa Fox presents
“SEO & Website Hosting: What You Should Know”
Registration is open at Search Marketing Now.

Hope you can make the webcast!

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Revealing the Faces Behind Online Classifieds.

Maureen Griffith — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 20:21:58 +0000

Are you one of the millions who love to shop on the Internet? Convenient and easy, online spending is still just a fraction of total retail store spending but it is increasing each year, according to eMarketer and the National Retail Federation.With the recession, free online classified services in particular are rising in popularity including Oodle, Craigslist, and Backpage. According to a study completed in 2009 by the Pew Internet, in the past four years alone, the number of online adults who have used the online classified ads has more than doubled. Almost half (49%) of Internet users say they have ever used online classified sites, compared to 22% of online adults who had done so in 2005. But along with the rise in using online classifieds has come a rise in crime.

Craigslist, an online bulletin board community with sections devoted to jobs, personals, for sale, housing and more, has been called a breeding ground for fraud since its inception in 1995.

Craigslist relies on community policing…meaning it wants its community of users to report security issues and scams. Although the Internet company offers personal safety tips to “sidestep would-be scammers,” criminals continue to conceal their faces behind the mask of online classifieds. How can you know who is really on the other side of your transaction?

One of the most publicized crimes associated with online classifieds was in April, 2009, when Julissa Brisman, a masseuse and model from New York City, was killed at a Marriott by a medical student who answered her ad on Craigslist. Police also suspect this “Craigslist Killer” to be responsible for robbing two other women who advertised through the site.

In addition, in 2007, Donna Jou, a San Diego State University student, disappeared after placing a classified ad on Craigslist as a math tutor. John Burgess, a three-time sex offender answered her ad. He was later convicted and sentenced in 2009 to five years in prison for involuntary manslaughter for her death.

The common denominator to most of the crimes on Craigslist seems to be anonymity. Users are allowed to post ads anonymously, so criminals can hide behind their web browsers and prey on the unsuspecting public.

Do classified websites have to be structured anonymously? SafeList, a new online classified service company and a Codero client, doesn’t think so. In fact, the Donna Jou ordeal only added fuel to the fire for the founder and chairman of SafeList, Karim Pirani. He is more inspired than ever to launch his gated classified website that only allows users whose identify has been verified.

Karim says people are accustomed to presenting required identification in other areas of life and the Internet should be no different. For example, you would not drive a car without a driver’s license, testing and insurance…yet you are allowed to surf the web around the world with no restrictions in place. In fact, Microsoft’s chief of research and technology officer, Craig Mundie, suggested the need for driver’s licenses for the Internet when he spoke at the World Economic Forum in February.

When it comes to the Internet, the need for safety and security is paramount because in order to consummate transactions, it is almost mandatory for the two parties to meet face to face. SafeList, now in beta-testing, will be the first and only verified identify classifieds and coupons portal.

In an effort to curb the criminal activity in an area that is growing increasingly more sophisticated, the SafeList premise is simple…if the system knows who you are, you are less likely to commit a crime. Although anonymous screen names are available, behind each name, SafeList knows each participant’s true identity. SafeList is zip-code centric as well so advertising coupons or “Deals of the Day” are all highly targeted to customers who can truly take advantage of your offerings.

As a variety of new crimes on Craigslist continue to be exposed every day, it is a welcome reprieve to build a web community that enables its members to participate in all types of activities free from fear and suspicion. If personal interaction is essential (as in the case of dating, in-home services, tutoring, care giving, etc.), SafeList even requires an additional level of verification that includes a criminal background check to further protect your interests.

With the limited rules on the wide open plains of the Internet, it is refreshing to see a company like SafeList taking responsibility and protecting its users through a very simple concept: verified identity.

What are your thoughts on online classified services? Do you use them, and if so, do you feel safe?

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New Marketing Tool Races to Finish First: MS Tag.

Maureen Griffith — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:21:40 +0000

Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco, held in May, was the perfect venue for the launch of new products and services. One of interest to the many web enthusiasts in attendance was Microsoft Tag. It just ended its beta program and is now offering services free of charge. Much more than mobile bar coding, MS Tag is similar to QR-Code tags but appears to have distinct advantages. One can transform traditional offline media instantly into live links simply by snapping (scanning) a photo of a “tag” with your Smartphone camera. The MS Tag is much smaller than QR codes ( ¾” compared to 1 ¼” ) and it is optimized for both print and video display. Branding and design can be incorporated directly into the barcode itself. For example, tags can be customized to include a company logo or other graphical treatment. The barcodes are so visual, they were on exhibit at New York’s Museum of Modern Art.

You can snap or scan a tag image from your mobile phone and have instant access to websites, discounts, promotions and more. Can you imagine your business cards with a branded tag on it driving prospects to a special promotion on your website?

The MS Tag system works on most major mobile platforms including Windows Mobile, J2ME, iPhone, Google Android, BlackBerry and Symbian S60. The tag reader can be downloaded for free to your web-enabled camera phone.

Long URLs are easily handled and content can be dynamically changed. In addition, recent improvements to MS Tag include a new Heat Map and availability of Tag’s Reader in Italian, French, Spanish, Turkish and Simplified Chinese. CNET provides a great explanatory video about MS Tag below.

Microsoft is recording new uses for Tag every day including some of these creative implementations that make offline media and objects interactive:

On a new walking tour of historical Chicago skyscrapers, MS Tag can be used to download information about the site you are visiting, complete with a map.
TV Guide used tags on their magazine’s pages to reveal a YouTube experience with actors from its popular TV programs.
A record company put live links in the palm of fan’s hands and uses tagging as a new way to market their artists, music and merchandise. They incorporated MS Tags in print, social sites, video content, posters, merchandise catalogs, music samplers and more.
Wheaties cereal featured Olympians such as Shaun White on their boxes with tags. Once scanned, the tags take you to a social mobile experience and you can follow Wheaties on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
With all its endless possibilities, where will MS Tag take you?

Create your own tag for free right now. Are you already working with MS Tag yet…tell us how?

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A Venti for Your Thoughts.

Suzya — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:32:10 +0000

Tim Rowe CEO and founder of the Cambridge Innovation Center opened an entrepreneurs Cafe in a temporary space near the MIT campus. It is currently called the Venture Cafe and it is a place where investors and entrepreneurs can meet to get to know each other and build a solid relationship.

The Venture Cafe is currently in Beta and they are looking for a new name. If you would like to participate in the discussion about a new name check out the facebook fan page.

For a more information on The Venture Cafe check out Entrepreneur.com Daily Dose.

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The Internet Take Over.

Suzya — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:36:16 +0000

I found this while browsing the internet. It was done by a company called Jess3. They are a “creative agency that specializes in web design, branding and data visualization.” The video is called The State of the Internet definitely a must watch for anyone.

JESS3 / The State of The Internet from JESS3 on Vimeo.

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Take the Price Match Challenge!

Sara Newkirk — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:27:49 +0000

At Codero, we are dedicated to creating products and services that help our customers succeed, and take great care to competitively price them. As a sign of our commitment to offering top value to our customers, we recently launched the Price Match Challenge, allowing customers to receive a price match on any dedicated and managed hosting service we offer if they find a publicly advertised price from a competitor for identical products and services.

For full details about the Price Match Challenge and other current promotions, please visit www.codero.com/specials/.

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Hosting For Haiti.

Sara Newkirk — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:09:26 +0000

Following the January 12 earthquake that wreaked havoc on much of Haiti, an estimated 1.5 million people have been left without a home. At times like this, organizations like the Red Cross are critical in getting aid, shelter and other supplies such as food and water to these survivors.

In an effort to support the American Red Cross relief efforts, the hosting community has come together to encourage our employees, customers and friends in the industry to help make a difference. Simply visit HostingForHaiti.com to learn how your donation can help support the American Red Cross in their relief efforts. Then spread the word – share the link with others and follow the progress on Twitter by following @hostingforhaiti. Be sure to use the hash tag #hostingforhaiti in your posts.

If you’re a Web host and you’d like to join this industry-wide effort, e-mail info@hostingforhaiti.com to be included. Please post a blog and spread the word to your social network.

Not only is it a good cause, but every dollar counts – so please help make a difference!

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