Where to find what..

As you can see I’ve changed the functionality of my blog. I figured I wasn’t a writer anyway. My last post dated six months ago. I love writing inspiring sales copy, news letters, and high converting landing pages. But blogging just isn’t my thing. Sorry. So here’s a brief description of how my new home page works: in the footer you can find the links to my social networking pages, twitter, photo page (flickr) and vimeo.

From the home screen you can find my blog, a page with all the info on wytze van de belt, my photo page and a contact form with my contact info so you can reach me if you’d want to get in touch.

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Every now and then I’ll post some thoughts on industry events, happenings or just some random musings to the blog. But I don’t expect to do this a lot.  I usually post daily on Twitter, so if you’re interested in what I’m working on go follow me on twitter. If you’re interested in the internet lifestyle and you want to find out if it’s really that great, I suggest you keep coming back to my site :)  So to sum up; the site will be more about me, then it’s ever been before (don’t you love narcisme ;)) But it’ll more or less be a portal to my life online :)

That’s it folks, have a good one !

In the United States, which is our main market, 163,3 million people are currently using the internet. So we’re talking about unique, not devices. In the Netherlands 11,8 million users are currently browsing the web, which comes down to just a bit over 73%.

If I do the numbers on the U.S. 163,3 million users comes down to just 71 percent. I would have expected that number to be higher.

The Asian Pacific is responsible for 41,3% of the worldwide internet audience.. a tremendous market – obviously. But also a though market due to the censorship and all.

I’d love to talk to some folks and businesses who have proven success in the asian markets. If that’s you; please contact me.

Because webservers are constantly running and making calculations they are sucking a high amount of power, and creating a lot of heat which then needs to be cooled in order to maintain stability. Having a ‘green’ server changes nothing about this process, but ‘green’ labeled servers are often equipped with more energy efficient components and in our case we have an alternative cooling solution in place.

I guess the bottom line is; no matter what industry you’re in, you too have a role in the global effort to reduce levels of carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere..

But this is not the point of my post.

The camera was purchased for its unique image processor to capture full frame 1080p video we need for the video tutorials on our Affiliate Marketing Education Program. Shockingly enough no computer within my business was able to successfully edit the video stream. ..that sucked.

I did some research, and as I spent more time researching more people recommended a Mac to do the job. I was skeptical, boy was I skeptical. I’ve used Windows for as long as I can remember. I didn’t want to learn a whole new operating system. But Final Cut Studio is the best there is for editing video, so I was on board.

You know what they say, ‘if you do something bad; do it right !’ so I ordered the fastest Mac Pro available, packed with a big fat 30” flat screen. Where Dell takes weeks to deliver your order, Apple shipped within 7 days, and this was even between Christmas and New Years. I was impressed.

The Mac worked out of the box, just plugged it in and it told me exactly what to do. Honestly, a much better overall experience than I ever had with Windows. Editing pictures in Photoshop CS4 is a piece of cake on the 30” Flat screen. It saves a lot of time on zooming and overall positioning. Video editing is lightning fast, no more hangs and weird crashes like Adobe Premiere used to deliver all the time. As many people said, it’s indeed a trustworthy solution. A little side note, even my girlfriend understood the system right away. She used it to do some text editing in Word, and I didn’t have to help out once..

I’m happier with my choice then I could have imagined when pushing that ‘order submit’ button so I guess the overall lesson is. Don’t be afraid to try something new and don’t be afraid to make the investment into something that you work with. If you spend a lot of time on it, it’s usually worth it..

Update: Totally coincidental, I just came across this video on Matt Cutt’s Blog lol. Fits the subject nicely.

• 16 GB of RAM
• Quad Core Opteron @ 2,5 gHz
• 10k RPM Raid 1 Array disks

Obviously a lot faster than most desktop computers, which on the other hand means that it consumes a lot of power. This is just one server and I expect us to soon scale up.

In a time where a lot of companies refuse to pay extra for anything, I’ve decided to set a company standard for Carbon Dioxide Free Hosting. Starting with this server, all our new servers will be upgraded to the Carbon Dioxide Free plan.

I’m not some weird bio activist, but I do believe that we should do everything in our power to avoid hurting the environment, and compensate for the damage we do to the environment. Heck, even Google with over 700.000 servers worldwide tries to build datacenters in the sea to reduce the carbon dioxide exhausted in the cooling of the servers.

If they set an example by doing it for datacenters of that size, you should keep it in mind when you make your next hosting purchase..