March 30, 2011

Hoarders: Buried Alive

To know that there are so many people out there that are serious hoarders is pretty frightening. The Learning Channel has an interesting hoarding show, Hoarders: Buried Alive, which is about people who have had a traumatic life experience and have turned to hoarding for one reason or another. Their homes are not only over flowing with items but are in severe need of hard core repair and a major cleaning. It is just mind boggling!

I think that the Animal Planet has the other hoarding show that is about folks hoarding animals. These people, who for the most part, are very lonely people, are turning to animals, but way too many animals.  It isn’t surprising to see on this show that many people have 30, 40, 50, or some times even more, pets (mainly cats and dogs) under their care and you can only imagine the damage and the filth that these people are living in.

These shows are an interesting insight to a growing problem with hoarders. At the end of each show they provide you with information on how to help some one that you might know with this type of problem.

Good Numbers To Show For It & Green Too

Recently I’ve been spending some time checking out several web site hosting directories, which by the way, have been extremely helpful. I’m very grateful for sites that take so much leg work out of researching products and services such as webhosting. I’ve been wanting to see which webhosting providers are actively doing what they can to be eco-friendly in today’s ever growing Green movement. From what I’d heard there are numerous providers out there and I wanted to see for myself and see which ones are making that effort and find the one that fits my needs and wants. It’s time to make a switch.

SuperGreen, FatCow, iPage, HostPapa, HostGator, netfirms, ThinkHost and coolhandle are all good choices, but I’m seriously leaning heavy towards SuperGreenbecause they are cutting their carbon emission by 20% by using good reliable green Dell servers as well as being active participates in tree planting projects, which is a big deal if you ask me. Check out the ratings that they received from webhostingfan.com – pretty good numbers if you ask me.

Rating:

Customer Service – 5 of 5 stars
Features – 5 of 5 stars
Price – 5 of 5 stars
Reliability & Uptime – 4 of 5 stars
Technical Support – 5 of 5 stars
User-friendliness – 5 of 5 stars