About two weeks ago at the cPanel Seminar I was lucky enough to meet Keith Duncan, the Publisher of the Ping! Zine Web Hosting Magazine. I’ve personally have been a subscriber to Ping! Zine for over a year, and have enjoyed their articles and opinions on the industry for quite some time.

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I hope you enjoy the magazine as much as I do, and hey, nothing beats free right? Props to Keith for getting us this great deal! …

I was reading over the WordPress news clips and came across a contest at

Is everyone ready for another WordPress Plugin Competition? I know I am, especially with all the cool stuff going on around WordPress development, this would be a good time to get the ball rolling again. This time I have some help (thanks Ajay), more readers, maybe some more sponsors, more prizes and we hope to see lots of good code, fun projects, meet lots of nice people and help the WordPress community along the way… read more

Well, I love plugins. Whether they are for WordPress, vBulletin, or Joomla, I hook up my scripts with plugins until they can barely function. I also know that we at HostGator are new to the blogging world, and this wouldn’t be a bad way for us to get our name out there. So after contacting Mark Ghosh, who runs Weblog Tools Collection, we decided to sponsor a few prizes for the Plugin Competition. He was thrilled to get more sponsors, and we were happy to be listed on such a big and influential WordPress community.

To First Place: A Basic Dedicated Server for 6 months (Valued at $1,059) Pentium 4 2.8Ghz, CentOS, 1024mb Memory, 80gb SATA Hard Drive, 1500 Gigs of Bandwith per month, Cpanel/WHM Included, One free domain name for one year

To Second Place: A Swamp Hosting Plan for 1 year (Valued at $194.40), 200gb of Space, 2000gb of Bandwith, Unlimited Domains, Email, FTP Cpanel/WHM, MySQL, PHP4&5, Ruby on Rails, One free domain name for one year

To Third Place: A Baby Hosting Plan for 1 year (Valued at $134.40), 100gb of Space, 1000gb of Bandwith, Unlimited Domains, Email, FTP, Cpanel/WHM, MySQL, PHP4&5, Ruby on Rails, One free domain name for one year …

I have just been informed by Brent that there are some big Dedicated Server promotions going on right now, and I thought this would be a great time to start letting you guys know about these things!

As seen on http://www.hostgator.com/dedicated.shtml there are a few changes!

First, starting today any new BASIC server will receive two free months of service on top of the first month of payment. That is three months of service, for the price of one!

That means if you sign up for a BASIC dedicated server today, you would not have to pay again until August 4th of 2007. That is three months of service, for the price of one. If you can find any other host in the industry that would offer something like this please let me know.

* Note that this is applicable to new servers only. Existing customers must sign up for a new server for this offer to apply. This offer does not apply to upgrades. This offer expires on 5/10/07. This offer has expired!

Second, our PRO server now comes with a choice of two configurations at signup. This will apply to all new servers, or servers that have not yet been set up and turned online. Your two options are;

At signup you can choose which setup you want in the server details. If you specify neither, you will be given 4 gigs of RAM and 4x500GIG Hard Drives by default.

This is a really great chance for any of you who are on the edge about getting a Dedicated Server, and should give you plenty of time to get things running smooth and bring in enough income to cover the cost. If you already have a Dedicated Server with us, you may want to look into moving to one of our powerhouse PRO’s. They’ll likely last you a very long time!

Hope you all enjoy the new setups, feel free to comment here or see our discussion at… the HostGator Forums. …