What is additional unusual – a minimum of in this country – is websites getting blocked by an world-wide-web service provider.

I was talking with my shop assistant here and he told me that at his last 2 jobs, social sites had been blocked in the firewall. This block included the obvious offenders- Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, but also incorporated Blogger, WordPress, and Blogspot domains.

Why do I bring this up? I know a great deal of the bands in the globe these cost-free domains as their sole web presence… you may possibly wish to take into account the truth that you’re losing potential fans. If a guy can’t reach you from his desk at work, where he does 80% of his web surfing, chances are he won’t keep in mind to try to check out you when he gets home.

For example, Virgin Media have been facing accusations of blocking sites from its broadband customers; in response Virgin have described the dilemma as a glitch in their network which has been worked around and is currently becoming investigated.

The websites in question are file storage internet site for example Megaupload and Rapidshare which let users to upload and store files, these exact same files is usually downloaded by other users.

Accusations that some customers are actually using the web sites to share music and films illegally only add weight to the theory that the sites were blocked on purpose.

Virgin were quick to release a statement via its Twitter feed denying that they were definitely blocking sites.

The cost of running a site on your own domain is really low, so do not shy away from taking your net presence for the next level due to price, drop 5-15 bucks a month- its possibly not going to break your bank.

There are plenty of totally free services that you simply can piggy back on for your paid domain- by way of example it is possible to use SoundCloud.com to host and stream your music free of charge- allowing you to very easily embed the file into your website, and is not currently being blocked by several corporate firewalls (yet).

Another factor along those lines- don’t place your online multi-media eggs in 1 basket. If you’ve got audio clips, uncover multiple hosting solutions for them, and supply links to all of them… do exactly the same with video- place em on Youtube, Vimeo, Viddler etc. This approach gives a lot more possibilities of men and women getting your content under the corporate radar.

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