So with the month of January quickly coming to a close already, today, I thought I might as well check up on how I was doing with A Few 2009 Milestones I set earlier this month. To simply sum it up, I’ve been pathetic. That’s right, simply awful.
Looking at the five main goals I set, sure they are long term goals that are to be achieved by December 31, 2009, but looking at the pace that I have been going this month, I’d be surprised if I even reached half that milestone. Sure, my other online projects have had its usual ups and downs this month. I’m currently working on getting some soccer articles up and even potentially a music related website (as money always follows passion). However, for ahnternet, things have certainly not gone so well. Thus, I’ve decided to take things bit by bit and actually post them on here for all the readers here because I found myself following commitments that I post publicly. I did this with BloggersWalk before (it has been a while since I typed that name) and it worked out pretty well. Therefore, Static now presents you his weekly posting schedule.
While I’ll have weeks where I post more, it will be most likely off this blog’s niche, which as of is somewhat personal and somewhat making money online blog. Anyways, the days that I’ll be posting are Thursday and Sunday/Monday. These are the two days (or I guess not really days considering a post can come up either on Sunday or on Monday) when I will guarantee a quality post that will hopefully be helpful to you guys.
When does this start? I’ll start it starting this weekend with a post that I meant to publish earlier this month. Let’s see how this goes. 
Today is finally the day that the first African American president is born. He worked tirelessly up to this day, breaking all stereotypes and impressing all those around him despite his unfortunate conditions at a young age.
Watch it LIVE!
Stream is now off air.
So I just read the post over at WordPress blog that WordPress.tv is now open. It seems like a pretty cool visual support/help center for all things related to WordPress.
However, one thing that I’m wondering about is whether this may begin a closing of more and more WordPress tutorial blogs. Sort of like that effect that the WordPress themes database had when it first re-opened…
I guess we’ll have to see, but so far, I’m liking it.
So apparently, my well functioning host had some problems that I didn’t know about. I was with Qoozz for 28 months (that’s right, over two years of excellent service), but a few weeks ago, I stumbled on a thread about a month old over at WebHostingTalk. Pretty much, there was a harddrive crash at Qoozz, it wasn’t recoverable, and Leslie, the owner, wasn’t responding at all for over a month. What was funny though was that the server I was on wasn’t affected or at least I didn’t notice any downtimes or any loss of data. Which was good!
However, still feeling a bit insecure after this unexpected (as if hardwares will give you a notice before failing) disaster, I decided to submit a ticket to just see if Leslie was there. Nope. There was a database error with the support desk and there was just no way of submitting a ticket. So, I decided to check what was up on their forums. Again a database error was the only thing that showed up. Hmm… No support?
Pretty much, instantly, I checked over the offers at WHT and picked myself a new host with a real 24/7 support and a company history of over 5 years. It wasn’t an easy move because being at one place for 28 months, even if you don’t know anyone there other than this one owner, you sort of grow into that place. 
But sometimes you just need to get practical. Of course, I wasn’t emotional over a tiny hosting account there, but it is just that it felt weird.
Anyways, what am I trying to say? It honestly never hurts to be too careful. Now, although this blog is not a big blog, I have quite a few sites, which I won’t disclose, that do pretty well. A data loss would have a critical hit on the websites. Personally, I don’t have a good backing up habit (the last backup is from November 2008) so for sure a data loss would have affected by revenue, traffic, and potentially even the reputation of the sites.
I wasn’t going to risk any of that after having to go through all that work trying to get these sites where they are now. Anyways, that was my primary reason for a switch. Some of you may have noticed a downtime, although I don’t think there should have been any as I moved the site’s files over before changing the domain’s nameservers.
I’m really glad that I was able to dodge a potential disaster.
Do any of you have any bad stories with hosts? Any stories of backing up? Any stories of you barely dodging what could have been a major tragedy? Well, comment away! Oh yeah, and before you go commenting, please make a backup of your site.
Although I wouldn’t consider myself a complete geek, I do know a thing or two when it comes to preventing a virus or a spyware from overtaking the computer. I haven’t had an infection for as long as I can remember. However, when I got up this morning to watch a football match online, I guess I stumbled into a wrong site with my recently bought Samsung NC10, which was somewhat unprotected.
The game was supposed to start at 8am, so I got up accordingly, brought my netbook to my bed, and logged on to the school campus’s wireless connection to watch the game on my bed. While doing a few searches here and there for the game, all of a sudden, I saw that “svchost.exe” was trying to gain access online. Of course, at first, I was a bit skeptical, but something went across my mind and after a few alerts (this was non-activated McAfee preinstalled on my computer alerting me), I allowed it.
Immediately, the computer wanted to restart and I knew that I had made a mistake. Well, considering that the atch today was a big one (Man Utd. vs. Chelsea), I was pretty mad. As both were important, I got on my other laptop and started to work on the NC10.
To cut the long story short, I had to activate McAfee (which I wasn’t so happy doing as I was waiting for my Kaspersky to arrive. Ironically though, McAfee partially got rid of this trojan and gave me enough time to install Ad-Aware 2008. Ran a test with Ad-Aware 2008, deleted TWO suspicious files and am now running McAfee SecurityCenter. It seems like it has noticed two additional suspicious files.
What a great way to start a Sunday. 
I’ve been thinking about this for quite some time now. You may or may not know, but BloggersWalk used to be my awesome blog on blogging, but I wasn’t able to post any more once school started. Now, it’s definitely an abandoned site left for resource purposes. I was thinking of merging it into ahnternet and add all the contents from there into this blog’s collection.
HOWEVER, a few problems I can already see are.
- All the cross-linking I did in the posts between the two blogs will need to be fixed.
- I’m not exactly sure how the authors will work.
- Maybe Google might penalize me for duplicate content?
- A such an unlucky database conflict or crash?
- and a few more…
So, if anyone knows an easy way to merging two blogs, you know what to do, a comment on a link to some article or something would be much appreciate. Maybe I should pay someone to safely do this…
For quite some time now OIOpublisher has been going strong as THE ad management plugin for our dear WordPress. Sure the $47 price tag could be a trivial amount or a lot depending on your situation, but one thing for sure is that they do help you make that money back quick. By quick, I do mean QUICK! However, this all just got better for the month of January.
Well, guess what? OIOpublisher is running an awesome 90% commission affiliate program for the month of January! Heck, you don’t even need to be a paid customer to take up on this offer, so it is an awesome way to get some cash if you are any good at marketing off products!
If you’re a blogger and have been looking to get OIOpublisher, this might just be the right time to get it too! Think about it.
- You buy a license.
- You sell one license through your affiliate link.
- You’re bound to pick up other sales through OIOpublisher.
- Income is positive!
Check it out. 
Okay, so I’m going to talk about something that I know about, but I really suck at. But then why am I blogging about it? Well, because I know about it. It’s just that I don’t know how to do it well… Sort of like you know you should manage your time better, but you never really do as you hoped for.
My Experience
Anyways, today I’m going to talk about why sometimes you just need to splash the cash and just go. Recently, I’ve been working on getting my MP3 player news site and a soccer website (aside from SoccerFansTalk) up. Actually, I’ve been planning the sites for quite some time now, but being someone who likes to go forward with a very clear plan, the two sites are still somewhat non-existant. Ironically thankfully, I grew tired of this and decided to just hit the start button on both websites. Strangely, I’m feeling more and more confident and proud of the website that is coming near completion. I’ll update you guys (and this post) further on when the two sites actually launch in the first half of this year.
Anyways, what I’m trying to get here is that sometimes, you just need to give something a good kick to make it start going. One of the biggest mistakes that you can do is not doing it at all. Even if something may have the potential to fail, if it has that potential to fail, it also has some potential to suceed. By just leaving it idle and playing with a plan, you’ll often get nowhere. Even if your plan is fantastic, no one looks at plans anyways and thus, you’re starting out from the bottom again. You might as well kick start it right now and experience the potential rather than calculating and staring at the potential, which often is false.
Why just go?
In my opinion, if something is not working, it was just a bad idea with no potential from the beginning, or you’re taking a wrong approach to it. If you’ve been on the web making websites for a while, most likely the problem is the latter. So, instead of wasting your time planning or procrastinating, let me tell you some reasons why you should just kick start it to see what happens.
- Your just wasting your domain name and, technically, the days that you rented it for.
- You’re going to have to start it sooner or later anyways.
- I’ve found it a lot easier to dedicate myself to a project once it is physically (although I guess websites aren’t physical things in the first place) in the WIP mode.
Conclusion
I know that this post is quite short compared to the ones I write usually, excluding the daily updates regarding my life. Anyways, I just wanted to get it out there for all of you. I know some people who just start too many that they abandon them as fast as they start them. However, those who take it the long way of writing out a plan and taking it step by step, why not try something different this time? Why not just ditch the “business plan” and just go?
Note: Don’t be stupid and throw $2000 into a meaningless project.
So I guess this is a few of my new year resolutions for my online career and this blog. Every year, I’ve had a tendency to write pretty horrible, unrealistic, and finally unachievable resolutions. Hopefully, this won’t happen again with this year’s.
Blog Resolutions
- Contribute 300 posts
- 500 RSS & E-mail Subscribers
- Create a community and thus, a consistent 15+ comments per post
- Release 5 free premium WordPress themes
- Run a number of contests with prizes totaling atleast $3000 USD
Other Resolutions
- Launching and developing a few sites/forums (soccer, mp3, gaming, webmaster, blogging, etc.)
- Focus more on affiliate marketing
So there’s my seven 2009 resolutions for my life online. Of course, pertaining to academics and general life, I have another set of resolutions. Regardless of where, hopefully I’ll be able to achieve all these resolutions before this year closes. Some of these resolutions actually have many parts to them too. For example the launching of a few sites that I’m interested in, there are many smaller goals I need to achieve. Every time I do take small steps into fulfilling these resolutions, I’ll update the blog by referring back to this post.
What New Year resolutions have you set so far?
Yet another January 1st folks! Let me first start out by saying, HAPPY NEW YEAR!
The first day of the year is, obviously, a very special day for everyone. It’s like a morning of another day, except a lot more refreshing. This is definitely the time to begin something new if you’ve been procrastinating it or holding it back. It is also a wonderful time to make new goals or “reaffirm” previous goals. Also, it is a time to forget the bad events that may have happened last year. To sum it up, it is just a great time to take your life up to the next level.
Sometime tomorrow, I’m going to revise my new goals for this blog and post it on here, as then, I can be a bit more responsible for them. Anyways…
Happy New Year!
