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Lifetime Host Hosts You For Life

YoungUpstarts

Lifetime Host ( www.lifetimehost.com ) is a new web-hosting solution for small businesses and individuals that is offering the industry’s first-ever lifetime web-hosting service for a one-time fee. Lifetime Host offers unlimited bandwidth, full feature email and control panel, as well as 24-hour tech support.

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“Fantastic” beats “efficient”

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

In fact, at WPEngine we’re already doing it in several ways: Contributing everything back to open source. We build our own WordPress plugins and make them open-source and free. Instead of nickel-and-diming customers, we earn their loyalty by genuinely improving their blog, not just supplying bandwidth and a CPU.

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The Other Amazon Deal this week. Drupal founder attracts over $100 Million in 3 months.

Scalable Startup

is the for-profit company founded by Dries Buytaert, the inventor of Drupal, to support his open source project. When Open Source software projects are launched, the progenitors often start a for-profit sister company to garner some income from training, support and consulting. Because they are open source.

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Choosing Technologies for Your Web Startup (Part 2)

crowdSPRING Blog

Some of the big guys (notably Google, Facebook, LiveJournal) have embraced open source and the results are trickling out to us. Cloud computing” is simply a new pricing plan for hosting. Is the technology open sourced? Nothing quite like that is available on the market, but there might be, soon.

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Standing Cloud Launches Business Edition

Feld Thoughts

In March I wrote about Standing Cloud ’s public launch of a free service to test drive open source applications. As reported today in TechCrunch, Standing Cloud has now launched it’s Business Edition , a service that enables users to also host applications on any of four cloud providers.

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11 Low-Hanging Fruits for Increasing Website Speed (and Conversions)

ConversionXL

One guy got an 8.47% conversion rate improvement by moving his landing page onto a faster host. 2 Host your static files in the cloud that uses a CDN. Tell your web host guys to set it up, you’ll love the results. 4 Tell your hosting provider that you want Memcached installed. 6 Use a fast web host.

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

www.readwriteweb.com

You dont /have/ to build vendor lists and out-source. Posted by: Peter Cooper | September 10, 2007 7:23 AM It wouldve been nice to hear a mention, or at least suggestion, of the role open source software plays in the development process - even if to say it shouldnt be used. Posted by: Dave | September 10, 2007 7:44 AM Hey Peter.