About Our BlogSTARS!
Our Bloggin’ Team!
About Amy: Amy met the owners of Lunarpages about 6 years ago on Lunarforums.com and like a classic girl to geekess cybertale, now lives in California with her very supportive & patient family [basically they accept Lunarpages comes first], their pet Chameleon “Google” and neurotic dog “Baxter Boomskibutt’. She avoids chick chat because it evokes emotion and the need to bish slap, needs 8 shots of coffee just to turn up to work and function, is a tragic romantic [i.e. trusting and gullible], has been known to walk head first into walls and consistently trip [her eyes are never off her phone screen], has the worst sense of direction we have EVER seen [it's that whole other side of the world flip] and she is a self-confessed internet junkie who is connected unless in a REM state. She writes for PingZine on a regular basis [because Keith harasses her until she caves], contributes random stuff at oisv.com and lately has become a ConfeRenceAholiC and world traveler [we never see her]. If anyone knows web hosting.. it’s Amy.
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About Mitch: Known to some as the media rock star of the Web hosting industry, Mitch Keeler joined the Lunarpages team because he was excited to see the directions they were going. Having been on both sides of the fence inside of the Web hosting industry he tries his best to help everybody out. Mitch is also the author of the Lockergnome’s Guide to Web Hosting eBook, the Firefox Facts eBook and the host of the most popular Web hosting podcast, The Web Hosting Show. When not in the Web hosting trenches Mitch can be found writing for anybody who will have him.
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About Dani: Her mom still calls her Danielle, but everyone else knows her as Dani. Usually found living in Iowa, Dani recently visited the Lunarpages crews in Las Vegas and Los Angeles after 3 years as a total recluse. Since she typically only goes out to watch movies (and to eat popcorn), her excursions invoked a huge shock to her system, however, she did enjoy having the chance to see the real Lunarpages Webhosting datacenters and people.
Spending her free time on Ruby on Rails tutorials or movie reviews (with the occasional time spent writing horror stories), Dani has 2 cats, lives with her mom, and is still single. No wonder eh? :)
The above image of Dani is her typical online persona called Elista, who is a character in the online fantasy interactive novel for her endar.org site. She also runs the famous RubyAsylum.com site where she pens fantastic tutorials on Ruby on Rails for Lunarpages customers. Long Live Ruby (and Rails, because well…DHH is hot)!
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About Tiara: Tiara grew up in St. Charles, Missouri, a small (but growing!) town just outside of St. Louis. After completing her Bachelor of Arts in English at the Honors College of Adelphi University in New York, she took the longest road trip of her life and moved to California (much to her mother’s dismay), where she’s currently enjoying the strange, sunny winter. Considering herself a writer, poet, and musician, Tiara wears many hats in her spear time. Recently, she won some awesome awards in New York for her poetry and playwriting, has completed the first major draft of her first novel, In Jesus’ Name, and fronts the band Me & Mildred Against the World. A geek at heart, Tiara also knits and can quote Back to the Future off the top of her head.
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About Keith: Keith used to have a bad habit of talking about everyone in the Hosting Industry and liked to share his opinions with anyone that would listen. Then one day he had a dream. A dream to put his thoughts on paper (real paper, magazine-style) and Ping! Zine was born. Now he spends his time talking about other people that write for him and going to lots of parties. When he isn’t at his office talking about people, he is on the golf course talking about other people.
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About Samuel: Samuel has always been fascinated with the Internet and envisioned amazing possibilities for the web. In 1998, at the age of 21, he began working for several successful Internet startup companies. Within one year, he branched off to begin his own advertising and design agency in New York City.
The company quickly experienced its ascent from an entrepreneurial venture into the global powerhouse of cutting-edge design, animation and programming that is MindSmack.
Samuel is President & Chief Executive Officer of MindSmack.com, and all the girls swoon as he walks by ;)
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Stefan Mischook has been designing web pages since 1994. Over the last 10 years he has worked on web projects of all sizes and types giving him a broad perspective on web design.
Along with his web design experience, Stefan is also knowledgeable in many programming languages and web technologies including PHP, JSP, JAVA, among several others.
He now runs www.killersites.com and www.killerphp.com
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About Ryan: Ryan Jones is a musician, turned philosopher, turned unemployed, turned photographer. Graduating from Fresno State with with degrees in Philosophy and English, Ryan moved from Fresno, CA to the Inland Empire in late 2005 as a Corporate Trainer for Longs Drugs. He currently runs a photo lab training facility in Ontario and is a professional photographer for both Longs and his personal photo business, RCJones Photography. When he’s not taking pictures, Ryan enjoys imported beer, walnut shrimp, music that most people don’t like, and not putting his philosophy degree to use whatsoever.
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About Ben: A life long “ginger” Ben has worked in the hosting industry since 2002.
He started his own hosting company to help pay for college and has worked for companies like Touch Support, HostForWeb, and HostGator.
Now Ben does consulting for hosts seeking to increase their sales conversions or needing PPC management. In his free time he travels as much as he can and writes for his new baby Reseller Hosting Guide. When not busy working on a web site you can find him on WebHostingTalk ranting on and on about niche marketing, the use of landing pages, and split testing.
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About Kaanon: I was born, I began to be awesome.
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About Katrina: Katrina grew up near Los Angeles and served in the U.S. Air Force. She worked With NASA at Mission Control in Houston, Texas (did we say Thunderbirds are GO?). She is number 5 of 6 children with 4 older brothers who along with Dad, are all into electronics and computers. Katrina has two sons, 2 grandkids and a cat. She is an avid full-time RVer about to start tour of the U.S and work with RV parks to modernize data processing and websites for business growth. Her interests include computers (using, learning, and teaching), bathtub boating, crocheting, making soap, and teasing Amy in her spare time. There is a lifetime ban on her at Sears Craftsman Tools Section for hugging and drooling on great tools. Mmmm. Toools. She has been working with Lunarpages for the last four years managing the rowdy tech support staff who work the night crew.
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About Todd: Born much more awesome than Kaanon, I showed a propensity for problem solving. I started out in the computing world programming a simple game on a then new Commodore 64 (using POKE and PEEK, yeah, I’m gettin old, but I can still take you…). In high school I learned more about Basic and began taking classes in my other main interest, art and drawing. I combined these disciplines in college, learning all I could about graphic design, typography and programming (C, C++ and Visual Basic). Currently I focus my energy in the design arena, only dipping into brief fits of programming, creating clean, beautiful, web standards compliant designs for the web. Like this blog you are currently reading. :)
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Hartland Ross
About Hartland Ross: Hartland ran a franchise business while in university and he also held the title of Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Dynamic Achievement Group which is a training, coaching and development business based in Vancouver BC.
He has 12 years of experience managing, instructing, training and mentoring teams of managers in various industries including two internet start ups and he holds a Bachelor’s of Science degree. Through speaking with world recognized marketers, attending conferences and practical business experience, he has spent the last number of years gaining knowledge in the principles of marketing and business development. Hartland was a board member of Young Entrepeneurs Association for 2 years as the events coordinator facilitating and organizing speaker events in Vancouver.
Hartland founded eBridge Marketing Solutions in 2001 and is responsible for helping clients to grow their businesses and for the client experience.
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Mike Boon
About Mike: Mike’s association with Lunarpages is through eBridge Marketing Solutions where he plays a key role in helping clients produce quality content for the World Wide Web.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree with a double major in English and History and has been writing marketing content and producing marketing collateral for over eight years. A passionate copywriter with a keen SEO sensibility, he adeptly writes for both human visitors and search engines. A versatile resource in this regard, he writes everything from press releases, newsletters and website copy to case studies, articles and blog entries.
