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Right, I appreciate that I've been neglecting Angry Mob somewhat recently, but it had been for a good reason: I've started a web hosting business. I've had a website since around 2004 and I've always been happy with the service I received, but I'd never been entirely happy with the limited price structure offered by most hosting companies. I had a basic hosting package costing nearly £40 a year that only gave me 10gb a month bandwidth, yet even 10gb was excessive whilst I worked to build various blogs / websites and build up a readership. I would rather have started with 1gb bandwidth a month and increase it as I built up a following. However, I recently exceeded 10gb (thanks to the Jan Moir Google storm last month) and hosting is now costing me nearly £60 per year, and bandwidth is 30gb. Yet I don't really need 30gb, I need nearer 15gb maximum - and I doubt I'll ever exceed that again.
After a few years of developing websites, messing about with social media and ending up with Angry Mob and a few other friends websites that I had made for them I finally took the plunge and set up my hosting company; one that specialised in providing packages for those people or businesses just starting out online that don't need a huge amount of bandwidth for the first few months of hosting so shouldn't have to pay for it either. Blue Globe Web Hosting was born and is now live.
What makes Blue Globe unique is that it is offers a range of hosting packages (both Linux and Windows 2008 servers) that start small from just £4.99 a year, so that starting your first website or blog needn't be expensive. I know you can get a free blog with Wordpress.com or Google Blogger but sometimes you might want more freedom to own your own hosting space, install the blog platform of your choice, own your own domain name and have complete creative freedom over the design and layout of your blog - with no advertising either (unless you want to advertise things on it).
You can find out more by visiting www.blueglobewebhosting.co.uk. As an introductory offer (1 week only) we're doubling the bandwidth and storage space offered by our large package (£29.99 per year, full details here) if you take it out for two years (one-off payment of £59.99 recurring every two years). So for less than £2.50 a month you'll have a blog hosting account (choose from Wordpress, Buddypress, Nucleus or Geeklog) with 40gb bandwidth allowance per month and 16gb of diskspace.
All Blue Globe hosting accounts also offer a unique referral and ad system. This means you get extra bandwidth for the life of your account for every person that signs up to a Blue Globe hosting account and gives us your referral number. Furthermore, if you are prepared to put an advert for Blue Globe on your website / blog - or even just a little logo link back to Blue Globe - we'll give you extra bandwidth each month for as long as that advert / link is on your website.
This system is completely unlimited, meaning that you could have a blog hosting account for just £4.99 per year but you could earn virtually unlimited bandwidth through advertising Blue Globe on your site and getting us referrals.
Anyway, advertorial over. You can follow Blue Globe on Twitter for latest offers and you can visit Blue Globe's website for full details of our data centre and 100% Dell Servers etc. I will now return to blogging about the Daily Mail in the hope that some of you bloggers* or aspiring bloggers will choose Blue Globe as your web host.
* If you have a Wordpress.com blog and you want to move it to your own domain hosted by Blue Globe this is an easy process (export / import and redirect your Wordpress.com blog to your new domain name). Likewise, if you have a Google Blogger account we have created a step-by-step guide that can move your Blogger blog to Wordpress on your own domain hosted by Blue Globe, move all of your subscribers, posts, comments in around 20 minutes. You even redirect visitors of your Blogger blog straight to your new site from any posts on the Blogger page. |
