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Web Hosting Rating

[ 2 Comments ] Posted on 09.18.08 under Web design & development

Just found another awesome web hosting rating website.
They review the best and most economical website hosting companies, and have lists of them.
You can sort the lists into categories, such as:

Unix Hosting
Windows Hosting
Reseller Hosting
VPS Hosting
Dedicated Hosting
Collocation Hosting
Managed Hosting

I have seen some very awesome website hosting reviewed on Web Hosting Rating, such as Web Hosting Pad, which offers extremely cheap hosting, with unlimited hosting space & traffic, and a free domain for life!

They even have a page of web hosting articles that you can look at when deciding which kind of hosting is best for you, and what you need for your website.

If you’re starting a website of your own, or if you don’t like your current hosting or it’s just too expensive, you should take a look at www.webhostingrating.com!

Thanks for reading

Display ads and get £15 a month on each site +£35 for doing almost nothing!

[ 1 Comment ] Posted on 09.06.08 under Online Money-Making, Web design & development

Hey,

Sorry it’s been so long since I last posted on the site :S

But anyway, I’ve found a way of displaying ads on websites, and getting paid for it, no matter how many visitors or page views your website gets!
So, you can do this if your website isn’t even read by anyone

Basically, there are 3 sites you can sign up to. On each one, you get paid £5 a month for every website you have links on. When you sign up, you get a £10 bonus (£15 on one of the sites).
If you own more than one website, you can display ads on all of them, and get paid for each one!

I’ll post proof of payments I have received at the end of this post

The ads are only small, like in the image below, and don’t take up very much space
However, you must put 3 ads on each site you get paid for:

Here are the websites you can use:

The Ad Network

The Ad Network is probably the best site to use. You sign up and get £10 for signing up as soon as you implement the ads on your site… Plus an extra £5 if you put the ads on your site within 72 hours of signing up! So you get £15 for not doing much at all, and then they pay you another £5 a month for keeping the ads on your site.
Click here to sign up to TheAdNetwork and start earning for nothing!

Freebies4Webmasters

This site is just as good as TheAdNetwork really… Just get paid £10 via Paypal for signing up, and £5 a month for keeping the ads on each one of your websites.
Sign up to Freebies 4 Webmasters!

Money4Banners

Personally, I haven’t actually signed up to this website. They didn’t approve my site for it, and I’m not sure why, but I’m currently trying to find out the reason. I know people who use it, and they say it’s good, so you can decide for yourself. This site works in the same way as Freebies4Webmasters
Money4Banners!

Proof of the legitimacy of these sites:
Well, recently I received my first payments from these sites, and I’m posting proof here…
£15 from TheAdNtwork in email:

£10 from Freebies4Webmasters in email:

Screen shot from my Paypal account:

These sites are all ran by the same company, but you can still sign up and use all of them

Thanks for reading, and as always, feel free to comment!

Shark_of_Mirkwood

Flashmint offering $100 to $800 in Blog Contest

[ No Comments ] Posted on 08.23.08 under Contests/Competitions, Web design & development

Alright, I’m a bit late, but I just found out that Flashmint have been holding a contest to see who can design the best Wordpress theme for their blog.
The winner gets $500, and their theme will be used for the blog.

Also, you can get up to $300 for simply advertising Flashmint. Just post a link on your website or blog, and the site that brings most visitors to the Flashmint site gets $300.
Runners up get $200 and $100, respectfully.

Flash Mint – a leader in Flash Designs area – arranges a contest for bloggers and designers with $1000 fund. Find out the details.

Well, I’ve done my part by advertising it here, and if I have time, I’ll design a theme for them