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Website review: IdolBlogLive.com – AI Season 7

admin — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 08:13:59 +0000

One of the greatest things about hosting websites is that you get to feel like you’re part of a global production line of literacy. There are so many websites out there, some good some bad and just some that are “wierd”. It’s just fun being a part of it, especially when we’re able to help it become the best it can be.

One of our newer clients has an American Idol Blog that we’ve had a hard time resisting. Idol Blog Live is run by Slimtainment.com and from all we’ve heard, seen and read, it’s the definitive blog for American Idol fans. Especially with Season 7 rolling around, they’re starting to heat up.

Some of the support guys here catch up on their American Idol news when they’re eating their lunch at midnight. And truth be told, it’s one of the better blogs we’ve seen out there.

The best thing about IdolBlogLive.com is that the blog gets updated daily and oftentimes, it’s updated several times a day. You all know those blogs that get updated only once a year right? Well this isn’t one of them. Sometimes the news gets updated on the site even before it appears on some of the major news outlets.

Features of Idol Blog Live

Constant American Idol News and Updates
American Idol Season 7 Spoilers and Galleries
Live Blog feeds during the American Idol airings on National TV
Lively Chatroom and Forums
Large Picture Gallery of American Idol Seasons 1-7
Videos from latest performances, Music Videos and News Videos of your favorite American Idol Star

IdolBlogLive.com is one of the most popular blogs around and has been highlighted in numerous journals including one of the most famous server crashes ever.

American Idol’s best fan site, we wholly recommend checking out this entertaining blog – IdolBlogLive.com

The technology behind this popular website
IdolBlogLive.com runs on one of Iron Mountain Hosting’s Luxury Clusters, semi-dedicated server clusters, powered by Enterprise Class 4-16 Core servers dedicated to the task of propelling the blog through traffic surges. One of the features of iMountain.com Luxury Semi-Dedicated Cluster is the use of memcache memory caching servers. This caching technology is used on many of the large websites like eBay, Amazon, etc. With dedicated server caching, sites like IdolBlogLive can survive Diggs and major traffic spikes with ease. Caching is available for sites utilizing WordPress, vBulletin, SMF Forums, Drupal, Joomla 1.5 and many other popular PHP scripts.

Website RollCall

admin — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:51:51 +0000

Ok, so this might be a shameless plug for our clients but we figure we might as well take advantage of our Google Pagerank 5 “PR5″ and list some of our client sites.

If we miss your site, feel free to let us know and we’ll add it to the list…unfortunately we host too many domains to list them all but we’ll do a best effort list along with requests.

And of course, anytime you want to just put up our link on your site for a few weeks, we’d appreciate it.

Roll Call and in no particular order:

And I just realized our list is already pretty long and we’ve barely scratched the surface.

I don’t want to hijack the entire page with this so I’ll have to put off the rest for them for another installment. If you are our client and definitely want to be on this list and take advantage of this extra back-link to your site, just email us.

Season’s Greetings!

OntarioWeatherService.com reporting West Coast Weather

admin — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 23:21:13 +0000

We ran across one of our client sites today and thought we should share it with the rest of you since it was so cool.

This weather site OntarioWeatherService.com is run by several guys whose passion is watching the weather patterns and reporting on it. These storm and weather chasers have travelled across several states searching for the best storms and intriguing weather phenomena.

Most recently, they’ve been covering the impact of the California 2007 Wildfires on local weather conditions. Seeing as this disaster covers a dozen areas in California, it has a wide-spread impact on the lives of many Californians. Some of their pictures have even made it into the local newspapers.

The Ontario Weather Service started in 1999 by Kevin Martin, and was a short 5 person e-mail list service for weather forecasts.
By the fall of 2004, Joshua Young offered to help with server space for the site which would later be known as the Ontario Weather Service Forecast Site. A site that forecasts all of Southern California Weather, from Coast to Desert, it covers everything.

The Winter of 2005-2006 proved that the OWS was taking off. Mentioned on the radio and the news for the first time in OWS operations. The word was getting out on the OWS.
A new website layout was developed, giving OWS a more professional look. More people seemed to navigate much easier, and this is the current layout you see now.

The goal is to save lives, and property, and to provide video broadcasting to the public. One day, Live broadcasts during events will be happening! The site continues to grow fast.

So if you’re interested in what’s going on with the weather on the US West Coast, drop on by their site and check it out…we’re sure you’ll learn something.

Ontario Weather Service

http://OntarioWeatherService.com