I’ll keep writing each time I get a new visitor from National Home Services or their other companies. I’ll stop writing about National Home Services and these door to door energy sale when they start following these rules:

• Requires all sales solicitations to clearly disclose the prices, terms and conditions of all products and services
• Prohibits suppliers from misrepresenting their affiliation with a gas utility, governmental body or consumer group
• Provides consumers with a right to cancel within 10 days after the gas utility notifies them of the switch and 10 days after the date of the first bill if they find that the service is not as promised
• Limits early termination fees to $50 and requires any agreement containing an early termination clause to disclose the total cancellation fee

If National Home Services want people to use Greener appliances like their hot water tank, then stop forcing it down our throat by coming in to my home. If we need something, we will call you.

There are many other web-hosting providers that offer VPS hosting. Here are my top three VPS web-hosting providers that provide excellent performance, support and price. You can’t go wrong with any one of these VPS providers.

If you ask what is VPS? VPS stand for Virtual Private Server. It is something between a shared server and a dedicated server. VPS is like a beef up version of a shared server where you have certain about of CPU, memory and bandwidth to your web sites. Which mean VPS give you more power than a shared server.

Anyone who has outgrown their shared server should consider getting a VPS, it cost much less than a dedicated server.

Ok, here is my list of the best VPS providers:

My #1 Pick
HostGator – HostGator is by far my favorite web hosting provider. I have been with them for 2 years and I have no complaint. Quick, competent support, fast robust servers, does not over sell and very competitive price. I been with many other web hosting provider in the past 5 years and the web hosting provider I stayed with the longest is HostGator. I would only stay with other hosting providers for about a few months and some up to a 1 year, but I would end up leaving for some reason or another. Except for HostGator.

While I was over sea in Thailand, I was worry about having access to the internet and I was worry if my web sites would even load fast enough. When I first arrive in Bangkok I was living with my brother in his condo without internet, but I would go out and pay to use internet at the local internet café. It cost about 50 cent per hour, the price vary depending where you are. The most expensive internet café I have seen in Thailand was $2 dollars per hour and that was on the beachfront in Pattaya.

When I finally have my own hotel room in Pattaya, I stayed in a hotel called Prima Place, south of Pattaya near 3rd Road. I got a wireless internet connection with the local computer store. The internet provider was Maxnet. The first week with Maxnet was fine, there were no disconnection, and it was a little slow because of the wireless signal. However, after about the first week I was constantly getting disconnected or cannot connect to the internet. Sometime it would take hours for me to connect or extremely slow and sometime I did not use the internet for the entire day. It was very frustrating to say the least.

You know I’m a big basketball fan and when the NBA decided to have a basketball team in Toronto back in 1995 I watched the first basket scored by Damon Stoudamire. It had been 15 years since the Toronto Raptors started playing NBA basketball and as I recall before leaving Toronto for 2 months (December 2009) before leaving to Thailand. I was watching my last Raptors game before my trip and I didn’t see any Just Energy logo or recall the commentators mention anything about Just Energy during the Raptors game.

Now I am back from my 2 months trip and watching the Raptors game the night before. I notice at the end of the game there is this new segment called “Toronto Raptors Just Energy Player of the Game”. My first reaction was, WTF are they up to?!?

Many years ago when I was started looking for web hosting providers to host my web sites. It was complicated and confusing. I didn’t know which web hosting provider to go with and which one to stay away. Which web host company offers the best value and how much should I pay.

Well, ever since that time I had been using many different web-hosting companies for the past 5 years. I have gone and sign up with many web hosting providers with multiple shared web hosting accounts and up to VPS accounts. I will tell you which web hosting companies I very like and which ones I do not like.

Currently I have one account with FatCow and two accounts with HostGator. The reasons I have three different accounts because I don’t want too many sites jam into one place. If I have all my sites into one account, it will surely reduce the server performance and I might even get kick out. By having different shared hosting accounts, I can reduce my cost and take full advance of the unlimited bandwidth, unlimited disk space many web hosting providers offer on their shared hosting plans. When I am ready, I will eventually move up to a VPS, but to save money I will stick with share hosting until I am ready to move up.

Check out the new design on HostGator’s web site. I think it is about time they finally change the design. One of the mean reasons why I didn’t sign up with HostGator earlier was because of the look of their web site. Their older design had these 3 generic pictures of servers on top of the homepage, which reminded me of those web site templates over at monstertemplates.com

Also, their older web site was still using html tables and when you add all of that up. It didn’t look very professional. So I never end up signing up with HostGator until I was hit by a Dos Attack. It made me switched to at least half of dozen hosting providers or probably more. Read about my Dos Attack here.

Recently one of my website got DOS. The web site stop responding, it would freeze, or the loading time would take minutes to load a single page.

At the time I was not with HostGator but with a hosting provider called JagourPC. I was on one of their VPS account paying over $30 USD per month. The first year with JagourPC everything went very smooth; my sites were getting more traffic each month. Everything was going great, but out of the blue one of my site started lagging.

At first, I thought it was something temporally, then 2 days pass and then a week pass. The site loading time was getting worst. I submitted many tickets for support and I was told by the support staff to upgrade for faster server performance. I eventually upgraded to the highest VPS JagourPC has to offer and yet the site was still freezing. I thank JagourPC for their quick support response but they didn’t solve my problem.

I brought my Western Digital external hard drive with 1TB or 1000 GB of space two years ago. This is an older model compare to what currently on the market. I have the USB 2 with no Fire wire.

My primary use of this external hard drive is to backup my working files. The worst thing you ever want to do is not have backup copy of your files in case some unexpected memory lost happen. Last time I didn’t have my files backup and my computer got hit by a power surge with no power surge protector. My motherboard along with my hard drives died because of the power surge.

I personally never tried canceling any utility or natural gas contract but I had read some horror stories online where people got scam by signing these long term contracts and successfully got out. I hope this information can help someone who been scam by these deceptive door to door sales by some energy companies.

If you’re a home buyer, especially if you’re a new home owner, watch out for these door to door energy sales. They will dress up with their uniform with their cap and clipboard. Knocking on your door unannounced, promising to save you money, telling you to sign up or you will pay more on your energy bill. They are not there to save anyone money. No strangers knock on your door to save you money, they are doing it because they want your money.

Option #1: Send letter to Ontario Ministry of Consumer & Business Services

Ok, here is the first way to get out and cancel your energy contract without having to pay the ridiculous existing fees. If you have been convinced to buy a product or service based on a false, misleading, or deceptive sales pitch or advertisement, the Business Practices Act gives you the right to cancel the contract. This is for people living in Ontario and British Columbia, Canada. You can read the entire page here. Make sure you follow this instruction carefuly. Many people already successfully cancelled their long term energy contract using this guide. These energy door to door sales tricked you to sign their contract, don’t feel sorry for these douge bangs.

I had some problem with my bankcard while I was on my vacation over in Thailand and I forgot my 4 digit pins on my MasterCard. I was half way around the world and low on cash. I emailed my bank asking them why my bankcard was not working. They emailed me back asking me to call them but for some reason I could not call my bank in Thailand.

That night my brother suggested wiring me some cash with a company called MoneyGram and I’ll pay him back when I get home in Canada.

The next day I got another call from my brother in Canada saying he had wired the money to me. He told me the total amount of the foreign currency he had wired and he told me about my reference number. After I hung up I Google up Money Gram to see which bank in Thailand provide this service and there was a bank called Siam Commercial Bank that use this service. It just happens that the Sian Commercial Bank is probably one of the biggest banks in Thailand. I see their ATM and their banks inside shopping malls and other buildings throughout Thailand.