For the term Octopus Dogs. Yes, I know, it’s weird that they are attempting to get ranked for this term but hey, it’s somewhat interesting. I think they are also trying to rank well for some other weird terms too. Look at the Google Search here. You can see that Webwobot is ranking at number 2. Let’s try to beat the big and power photo site Flickr. That would be a good accomplishment. I am thinking that this term isn’t that competitive, but since Flickr is at number 1, it could be a little difficult to kick it off that spot. Perhaps a number of backlinks will be powerful enough to push Webwobot to number 1? Of course, Webwobot itself is no slouch too. Let’s see how this goes. And I wonder who will be searching for term “Octopus Dogs” on Google anyway? Perhaps Scolls can tell us.

If you like, please blog about this and help by linking back to the Webwobot forum with the term “Octopus Dogs”. I am sure Scolls will be pleased.

Oh, by the way, Flickr’s Octopus Dog photo is about a hotdog or sausage being sliced to look like a octopus (I mean the many tentacles ), so don’t freak out or puke all over your keyboard. Your mom is sure not going to like cleaning your puke infested keyboard.

Nope, they didn’t pay me to review their services. Neither did they threatened to cut me off if I don’t write a good review. Actually they should. This is a fair and unbiased review and it’s all my opinion. Don’t beat me up if you disagree, okay? I am just their paying customer. Our webhost is HostPC. I have been using this Webhost for about 3 to 4 months now and it’s been quite good. The only serious downtime was for about 2 hours or so. However, I did face some intermittent FTP access problem once in a while.

Speed wise, you tell me. I find the speeds quite reasonable myself (this is all the way from Singapore), although it is not like blazing fast, but I don’t think there is a need for that anyway. And nobody using the site complained about the speed. Performance wise I have no problems too. I am using 2 databases, one for my directory and one for this blog. Again, I had acceptable speeds and no lag, which I expect since both these sites have very little traffic.

Now we go to the support. I have to say, their support isn’t the greatest. In fact, I have send questions to their support staff which wasn’t even answered. I mean, at least do a simple reply for their customers. Email support seemed not to be their main priority. So you are forced to use their ticketing system, which is a bit cumbersome. But they do reply if you use this ticketing system at least. Weird that they leave emails to support addresses unanswered. This is not that good.

Overall, I think this is quite a good host. And it’s reasonably priced (aka cheap) as well. Their control panel is DirectAdmin, not Cpanel. This is probably where they saved some money and pass it on to their customers. Although DirectAdmin is not as feature rich as Cpanel, it’s still pretty powerful and user-friendly. I would highly recommend this host if you are looking for a budget plan.

Don’t be surprised, but I added one more listing to the Authority Sites Directory. Yes, one. That makes it a grand total of 377 listings there. When will I complete 400 listings? I really don’t know. Looks like it is still a long way off. Anyway, the weekend is here, so I guess I will have some spare time to update my directory. I have been promising myself to update my directory for weeks now, but there isn’t much motivation at all. Google seem to hate my directory, dragging most of them into supplemental hell. And nobody seem to bother visiting my directory too. Wait a minute….could it be that because Google sent my pages into supplemental, that’s why nobody visits my directory? Chicken or the egg? Both please and if you have, I will add ham into the mix.

I wonder how many of you started a project or a business, full of high hopes and aspirations, but gave it up after a few months? I have seen a lot of directories start with a lot of promise, the owner does a lot of promotion, new articles and features appear, only to shut down very soon after. I guess this is part of the business world, and a directory isn’t much different from a normal business. Except if you have a free directory.

So could it be motivation? Could it be profits? Or results? Or could it be that I am just plain lazy and stupid? Who really knows. But what I know is that I need to add more listings.