Speaker Spotlight: Douglas Hanna of A Small Orange

Posted on September 26, 2012 by Michael Torbert

Douglas Hanna

If you’re in the market for a web hosting provider (or frustrated with your current one) don’t miss Douglas Hanna’s session, The Secrets of Web Hosting without the BS. A returning speaker to WordCamp Raleigh, Douglas knows the world of hosting. He’s the CEO of A Small Orange, a hosting company that makes customer service a priority.

Finding a good hosting provider is about more than just looking at their reviews online and picking someone who sounds good. It’s about understanding the goals for your site and how that provider can support you along the way. Douglas will cover topics like how to choose a quality host and choosing the right package to fit your needs. He’ll also demystify some industry jargon and dispel common myths about hosting.

When it comes to WordPress, Douglas likes the extensibility. “If WordPress core doesn’t do what you need, chances are there’s a plugin that does,” he said. “Very few platforms can combine the ease of use that WordPress offers out of the box with the tremendous extensibility that’s easily within reach.”

One of Douglas’ favorite WordPress features are the iPad and iPhone apps. “The blog I use the most is written by several different people, so I use the iPhone and iPad apps all the time to make quick edits to new posts published by others,” he said.

The most important thing you’ll get from attending Douglas’ session at WordCamp Raleigh is how to choose the right plan at the right web hosting company. Douglas feels that “A web host is essential to keeping your site online, and I want to help attendees make the right choice.”

Attend this session and get even more WordPress awesomeness at WordCamp Raleigh 2012 on Nov 3-4. Tickets are only $40 and you can register online now!

Written by Kelly Phillips

Announcing Cheap Dedicated Server as a sponsor of WordCamp Raleigh 2011

Posted on May 16, 2011 by Steve M

We are very pleased to announce that Cheap Dedicated Server is sponsoring WordCamp Raleigh 2011.

The goal of cheap dedicated server is to find the best highest quality dedicated severs for the rock bottom lowest prices. The hosting market has become saturated, there are so many used car salesmen out there that know nothing about hosting. That is why we test out the competition and give you the top 5 hosts in the dedicated server market and suggest the best and the cheapest hosting.

When your site gets too big for shared hosting its time to get a dedicated server of your own, where you can run the latest version of PHP, modify your lamp stack till your heart’s content, but most importantly when you hit the front page of digg or redit your site weathers the storm and stays up. So give us a try, let us help you find the dedicated server you have needed for a while.

We are proud to be sponsors of WordCamp Raleigh, we love WordPress we use it and recommend it to everyone as both a blog and a CMS. We are also proud to help support the open source community.

Visit us on the web at http://cheapdedicatedserver.com

A Small Orange sponsors WordCamp Raleigh 2011

Posted on May 9, 2011 by Steve M

We are pleased to announce that A Small Orange is sponsoring WordCamp Raleigh 2011. Here’s a note from the guys at A Small Orange:

We’re A Small Orange – a soon to be Durham-based Linux hosting company dedicated to our customers. We provide a wide range of high value hosting options including shared hosting, business class hosting, virtual private servers, and managed dedicated servers. Even though we’re responsible for hosting over 450,000 domains, we haven’t lost sight of our humble roots. Our commitment to customer service continues to set us apart from our competition.

We’re not just making things easier for webmasters, we’re also doing our best to make a difference. That’s why we’re proud to support the local WordPress community through our sponsorship of WordCamp Raleigh 2011. Without strong support from talented developers and users like you, the world wouldn’t have access to terrific open source tools like WordPress. We admire and respect the collaboration and effort required to make projects like WordPress possible.

So, thanks for all the hard work you’ve poured into this project, and thanks for making WordPress what it is today.

The CEO of A Small Orange will be speaking at WordCamp Raleigh about the WordPress Showcase. We’d like to thank A Small Orange for their support of WordCamp Raleigh 2011. Come join us on May 21st and 22nd and meet them.

Site5 Web Hosting Announced as a Sponsor of WordCamp Raleigh 2011

Posted on April 21, 2011 by Steve M

I am pleased to welcome Site5 Web Hosting as a Small Business Sponsor of WordCamp Raleigh 2011.

Site5 is a growing leader in the web hosting industry. Clients have been trusting us with their websites since 1999. We offer web hosting, reseller hosting, cloud hosting, VPS hosting, and managed dedicated servers. Our commitment to customer satisfaction is unparalleled.

We aim to please with our uptime guarantee, areal-time status of all our servers, public stats on each server’s uptime, and a 30 day free trial! We now offer servers in various cities around the world for shared, reseller, and VPS hosting! Our web hosting is designed for WordPress.

Please join me in welcoming Site5 and come along and meet them on May 21st and 22nd at WordCamp Raleigh 2011.