I signed up for Revver as another place to upload videos.  Two major problems:

1) If uploading through their site, the upload always stopped at 99% and would never complete.  This was in just about every browser on  Mac and Windows machines on high speed.

2) By using an outside service I finally got a video uploaded and they rejected it because I put my url at the end.  You’re apparently not allowed to even do that for fear a viewer might not click one of Revver’s ads.  This alone makes the whole thing useless to me because sometimes I have to put an address for people to get more information.

I signed on to Lunarpages to host several secondary sites, after they were recommended by an acquaintance.  I didn’t have any downtime or email problems.   They could run a little slow sometimes.  I did have two issues:

1.  I hated their control panel.  The panel was very slow to load a lot of the time and while its simplicity may appeal to some people, I wanted a lot more.

When I started working for a particular company, Siteground was their web host.  It didn’t take long for me to find out all I needed to know about that group.

Though not as bad in the uptime department as Mosso, Siteground’s servers did have a very frequent habit of simply going to sleep.  The site would go down for hours, the secure server certificate wouldn’t work or email would go down for no reason.  Plus they were charging more than they needed to for add-on services.

Mosso is a Rackspace property focused on “cloud” technology.  When a client of mine was researching web hosts, Mosso promised fabulous uptime, the ability to keep resource hogs in their place and an easy method of expansion.  I wasn’t thrilled with the $100 a month price tag, but the person who chose it was given the impression that the company would essentially have at least a near-private server.

Vidmetrix is a video distribution site where you can upload a video under 100 MB and have it sent automatically to your accounts on a list of major video sharing networks.  You are also supposed to be able to track videos uploaded to a number of other networks.  And it’s free.

Needless to say, I had high hopes for Vidmetrix, even though the site didn’t seem to have  much information.  I signed up for an account and inserted links for the four videos one of my companies had on YouTube.  The next day I was able to see some pretty good statistics on views for all four videos.  I liked that part.

This is a general entry because they come from so many places. I won’t go into too much detail because what you really need to know is that you should never click on a link to any account you may or may not own that comes to you in an email AND you should never call a customer service number sent to you in an email. These scammers are good at masking links to they look like they come from Capital One, or Ebay, or PayPal, or a hundred other places.