I’m not sure about you guys but if your like me who writes on multiple blogs, you tend to become more Dependant on external services like web hosting companies.

Like many bloggers online who spend hours and hours fine tuning their personal or professional blogs and websites. Developing engaging content to keep visitors entertained and amused. We tend to glance over these technical issues like web hosting and adopt a “it’ll be fine for now” attitude. But if it the content that brings these visitors the website should be protecting it?

What happens when your web servers crash and all the hard work is lost because you decided earlier on to save a few dollars per month on hosting.

The reality is many bloggers out there aren’t protecting their most valuable assests, their time and content. While a 2 dollar hosting plan may seem like s a sweet deal, your missing out on some great features like daily backups and load balancing.

When considering a hosting package you really need to compare features with other web hosting services online to find the best deal.

Identifying the best web hosting, can be an overwhelming task, I recommend searching Google for “compare web hosting” which should provide you with a variety of web hosting comparison services that allow you to compare hosting features and prices.

Running an online blog can be very liberating and cathartic experience but at the same time it be very frustrating when having to deal with web hosting and domain registration issues, more so if you have your blog or website hosted overseas.

If your not so tech savvy, its a good rule of thumb to select a web hosting provider or domain registra that be available to your beck and call in your timezone. Last thing you need are issues that can be resolved or priority accelerated after a simple call drag on for days as emails fly back and forth through there ticketing system.

Unlike webhosting, the domain registration process usually is a fairly simple process where even non tech savvy bloggers like myself can feel like professional at the end of registering a domain. You won’t need to have a web hosting plan to register your domain name, it’s usually a good idea to register the domain first as there may be other people looking to register the same domain as you.

Once you’ve developed enough content for your blog then you should start to consider your webhosting package.

I hope you all had a great Christmas break and looking forward to the new year. Having a few weeks break allowed me to kickback and do a little research to see what other online opportunities are available for the New Year. I stumbled across an interesting online service that many allows bloggers to share their opinions about online services or products and get paid. This is done through a blog advertising network. While there are several online services out there, this particular one is done through the Smorty blog advertising network. While their services doesn’t seem to have many financial services available at this time, There seems to be a lot of companies looking for product based and online gaming reviews which may interest those of you that run more general or entertainment focus blogs.

Like anything else, do a little bit more research and identify some of the pros and cons of each blog advertising network. Depending on the networks bloggers can earn anything from $6 to $60 per review.

This is M. Night Shyamalan My LIfe My Card - American Express Card Ad.

Interesting Ad.

I can’t see this Ad making it to TV but wanted to list it here for fun.
I think this is part of the film project, which is cool.

I’m not sure if this was an actually ad, but it made me laugh.

The ad is for Virgin Credit Card - Low rate credit cards, though think sends out a different message.

Halifax Ads bring out some of the best Banking ads I’ve seen. If banking actually had this much action I would have taken up accounting.

I love this Ad, Pierce Brosnan in Visa James Bond commercial.

I wonder how many Tomb raider fans applied for a Visa card after seeing this ad.

Virginmoney credit card meets enter the dragon.

This ads is great, I was in tears. I think it has great viral potential.
Anyway enjoy the video and pass it on.

Don’t forget to watch MTV prepaid card ads.

I just love this ad, wish my bank managers we this hip.

We’ll for those of you that are regulars, you’ve probably noticed the changed, I can’t help changing the colors, I felt the red color was a little too strong.

Though I have this weird feeling that the color will change in a months time HEHEHE.

I also made updates to the following pages namely the Bopo Prepaid Card review and updated the Bopo prepaid visa card fees page so that it was clearer to read the Bopo fees.

I’ll be following up the Bopo card review article with my own tutorial for when I apply for the Bopo Card. Since I’m going to talk about Prepaid cards I might as well jump in the deep end and see if my current spending habits are Bopo card ready.

I’ve nearly completed the Prepaid Visa Card Comparison table. You’ll be able to quickly glance and compare the fee structure from the available Prepaid Visa Cards providers, this will be uploaded to the Prepaid Visa Cards website.

Well it took sometime but we finally got around to integrating the latest wordpress theme.
We hope you all like it.

I’m still reviewing the Comparison data for the Prepaid visa cards Vs Standard Credit Cards, I’m hoping to have it online for you all by next week.