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Just last week after getting one of my sites on Digg, my server literal could not handle the load and just went down. That was the last straw! I have like 8 high traffic websites on 1 shared server and enough was enough!. I first started looking at a dedicated server at cost of $70 a month and more. I considered that and then I had Jamie from Pulse Internet come to me about just getting a Virtual server. Now I worked in IT if for a long time and have used VMware for a few years so I know all about how a virtual server works.

I know that sometimes if the parent box does not have enough memory and power the virtual server would just take a crap. Jamie showed me a few sample sites that were running on a VPS and I was very impressed by the load time and quality. He told me that for $20 a month I can have my own VPS running on CentOS andI have full control over the server, re-boot’s applications, storage, everything!. So I said what the Heck I moved Upchuckr.com over to this server and the new centosforums.org was moved over to it.

I am very, very impressed by the ease and the functionality of the server. It is $20 a month which might be more then you are paying now but it is so very worth it.

Pulse internet allows you the pay by the month so you are not locked into anything. If you want to give them a test drive take a look at the banner below. You will not be sorry, feel free to come at me with any questions

Here’s the top 5 claims made by the Wanna be  SEO Experts:

1. Top 10 Search Engine Placements for $19.95/month - Search engine optimization companies that promise “fully-automated technologies” creating “full websites that have thousands of pages” for only $19.95 a month are not offering an SEO solution, they’re selling spam. They might claim these “content-driven” sites are search engine friendly; however, more than likely they’re scrapping content off other websites and creating reconstituted spam.
2. We have “special” relationships with the search engines - No matter what these SEO spammers say to you, they do not have special relationships with the search engines. They can’t get your pages indexed any faster than Joe SEO down the street. They don’t have the inside scoop on Google’s algorithm.
3. You don’t have to change your website.We host the domains and create the websites that we submit for you. - This spammer’s statement really scared me. So for a fee, they create microsites which YOU HAVE NO CONTROL OVER using your company’s brand, and spam them over the search engines. Even if they generate traffic that converts, the minute you stop paying the spammer, the traffic dries up, because the spammer just changes the DNS and points that traffic elsewhere.
4. We’ll submit your site to thousands of search engines and directories, getting your websites all over the World Wide Web. - Search engine optimization isn’t about getting your site into “thousands” of search engines and directories. Most companies only need to worry about the top 3 search engines: Google, Yahoo and MSN. All three search engines actively crawl the internet looking for new content, so you don’t have to submit your site to them, just employ some good link building techniques to be where the search engines are crawling.
5. We guarantee our search engine placement results! - Most business owners want a guarantee on their investment, especially when it’s on something they completely don’t understand. However, in search engine optimization there are no guarantees no matter what the SEO spammers say, because in the end, it’s the search engines, and not SEOs that decide what’s relevant and should have top search engine placements. The only guarantee I’ll give you is that there’s some loophole in the contract that let’s the sp