Cheaper Web Hosting and a Discount for Readers

One of the recurring themes in Videoblogging for Dummies is that online video storage space is cheap and easy to come by. In addition to the many free video sites out there, I also recommend using a web hosting provider to store and serve your videoblog site. Nothing will give you as much satisfaction as knowing that your site won’t suddenly get a bunch of advertisements on it, won’t disappear overnight, and won’t mysteriously change it’s terms of service to permit it to sell all your data and information to a third party.

I’ve also been a very satisfied Actionweb customer for 7 or 8 years, something that is extremely rare in the web hosting industry. The perk I love that they offer is the Virtual Receptionist, a challenge-response email bot that blocks most of the thousands of spam messages I get per day.

But aside from leaving one account at Actionweb, I recently switched to Dreamhost for a lot of my web hosting needs. They have all the features you could want, including one-click installation of WordPress blogs, community sites, and photo galleries. And they’re pretty inexpensive, starting at $7.95/month. Anyway, if you want to sign up, but you’re a bit daunted by the setup fee, I have a deal for you. Because you’re a reader and vlogger, you can use this discount code when you sign up to get $45 off your setup fee: VLOGDUMMEES1 (no matter what plan you sign up for).

That discount code will be good for a while– at least 3 months, so if you’re thinking about signing up, you certainly have a bit of time to ponder it!