Does anyone know of some that are good? I looked through amazon.com and the selections was pretty crappy or over 1000 bucks . Please advise :eek:

Originally posted by rewdog
Does anyone know of some that are good? I looked through amazon.com and the selections was pretty crappy or over 1000 bucks . Please advise :eek:

It's hard to find a book simply about webhosting. The subject is too broad of a category. Just like you would be hard pressed to find a single book that describes how to run an automobile company.

the first thing you need to do is determine what aspects of a hosting company you want to know more about. Some examples might be:

1. OS
2. Web Servers
3. HTML Basics
4. Scripting in Perl/PHP/VBScript/Java
5. Mail Servers
6. Security
7. Marketing
8. Forming a business
9. Employee Management
10. Scrounging food from your family for six months
11. Taxes and other Business chores.
12. How to survive on 15 minutes of sleep every 3 hours.

Frankly, we have easily over $1000 worth of the above type of books in our library and every one of them has been essential to running our business.

Originally posted by uuallan

10. Scrounging food from your family for six months
12. How to survive on 15 minutes of sleep every 3 hours.

:)

easily the most important points in your list.

Greg Moore

Originally posted by uuallan
12. How to survive on 15 minutes of sleep every 3 hours.

What's sleep? :yawn: :sleeping:

Originally posted by Planet Z


What's sleep? :yawn: :sleeping:

You know how sometimes when you are sitting in front of your computer typing up an e-mail explaining, for the 1,431st time, that that the path to perl is /usr/bin/perl and you realize that it is 15 minutes later then when you hit reply button and you don't know where the time went...you were sleeping :D.

Well, I have over 1000 dollars in books also, but im a impulse book buyer, some are REALLY great, others just gather dust. If you mean webhosting, that would simpily be the web serving software you use. If you use apache, then get a book on apache, there are plenty out there. :)

could some of you maybe post the titles of good/great hosting, business management, and/or sleeping managment books you have in your extensive $1000+ libraries? This could help the rest of us not buy so many books, but get the best ones!!

EDIT :// Realized that some may have read that as insulting (maybe it is just me) so please, do not take the above as insulting, thanks!
-Dogma

Look for books published by New Riders is my little tip.
And O`Reilly for updated references.

Dogma.

This thread pops up constantly, do a search for Linux Books, Apache Books, etc and you will find a ton of them mentioned on this board. As a start, check out this thread:

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=14571

Happy reading!

Aloha

also ya might want to go to www.bookpool.com for some great deals on books pretty much best price around and great service from them.
A very happy cutomer for years.

we got a 3rd place on there logo creation contest a long time ago kinda neat one of our designs became one of there bookmarks for a while (a book with a red dot) they now use that red dot in there logo

whheee

they do have very good prices