Even if you are totally satisfied with your current web host, it is worthwhile keeping an eye on what is being offered by the competition.  I have had to move hosts a couple of times when a previously great service suddenly declined.

Obviously, what we all want is cheap web hosting, but expense shouldn’t be the only factor you consider. Some hosts start out with really low cost plans to gain a share of the market but then the service they offer suffers when they become popular and their infrastructure cannot cope. If your website is important to you, it is probably worth paying a little more and going with an established hosting company like Hostgator, BlueHost or LunarPages.

Whoever you go for, you need to do your research and check out the multitude of online reviews.  After you’ve compared prices and features, the only way to really decide is to see how other webmasters got on with the hosting companies you are interested in. Check out top14webhosts.com which provides detailed and balanced reviews of the most popular hosts, like this Hostgator review.

Caigslist was originally developed as a San Francisco mailing list by Craig Newmark, but has grown into one of the most popular sites on the internet. It has expanded to cover cities across the world providing forums, classified adverts, online dating and a variety of other useful functions.

However, it can be difficult to find what you want on the site because it is so vast. As a novice user, the hundreds of categories and pages can be very off-putting. So, a number of sites have sprung up to help people use Craigs List, such as craigslistinfo.info.

The site has some great information about dating at craigslist – something you may not have thought it was good for. Craigslist is quite different from many dating sites in that it doesn’t require users to divulge a lot of personal information.  This means you can remain anonymous and know that your personal information is safe.

Bebo is one of the many social networking sites that allow users to share photo and video, connect with friends and blog about their lives. The site was started in January 2005 and is very similar to MySpace and Facebook.

Although it is not as popular as Facebook and MySpace it was one of the top one hundred websites in 2007 (according to Alexa) and is particularly popular in the United Kingdom – find out more a bout bebo.
Unfortunately, like many social networking and video sharing sites, it is not so popular with businesses and organisations like schools and college’s. They consider it a waste of their employee’s and student’s time. Their web-servers are often configured to prevent users from viewing Bebo.

To get around this  you can use a ‘Bebo proxy‘ – a site that allows you to view Bebo through it’s servers, masking your request so it cannot be blocked by your local network.

Visit Bebo Info for more information on how to unblock Bebo and, once you can view it, how to get the most out of the features it offers.

Supreme Tracking is an online package tracking service and shipping rate calculator.

The shipping rate is an important factor when customers are deciding whether to buy products online. The services offered by SupremeTracking.com enables e-commerce businesses to incorporate shipping price calculation and package tracking facilities to their websites. It works through integration with the Windows .NET framework and ASP internet applications.

They offer a variety of tools that dynamically calculate shipping rates and track packages delivered by the leading US shippers, including Federal Express, United Parcel Service and DHL WorldWide Express.

The shipping calculator allows users to choose a shipping option and calculate a shipping cost based on the package weight, desired delivery time and the destination. The tracking module then supplies the status and location for the packages being delivered.

Their catalogue lists the available online package tracking and shipping price calculator components, which you can purchase for each individual carrier, or in bundles that include several carriers.

There can be few people who haven’t visited or heard of the video sharing site YouTube – especially since the recent take over by the internet giant Google. Since it’s creation in 2005, YouTube has become one of the most popular destinations for people wanting a few moments of video entertainment. In fact I know of a couple of people who watch it instead of TV.

It has become so popular that some organisations and businesses see it as a threat to the productivity of their workers and so they prevent people from accessing the site through their internet connection. This is quite common in schools and offices.

View YouTube is a site that helps you to get around this.

It explains how to use a proxy server (a site allows you to view YouTube through their server) to indirectly view video content. This type of utube proxy effectively unblocks the restrictions that some networks apply.