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Network Admin and Founder Joe Rinehart

When I established the domain config.com back in Jan of 1994 a little over a year before the Internet became commercial, I knew it would eventually change society! At the time, I couldn't understand why everyone wasn't on and that we had two directions to pursue. The first being communications and the second being commerce. Ironically, it has happened to config.com in that order.

Config.com started providing Internet access to our rural area in 1996, first as a resellor for a Cleveland Ohio company, then in Jan of 1999 becoming the first facilities based ISP in our rural Portage Ohio County. Three quarters of our County was long distance to Akron, Ohio at the time. These days we provide the remote dial-up Internet access a company that transmits MRI images to the Cleveland Clinic and also for the fifth largest school system in Ohio, the Akron public schools remote digital academy which we save them a bundle annually!

Our first web site project was putting the first National center for missing children online for Dr. Ward in 1994. Even during the period when we were focused on selling dial up Internet access we found ourselves building, hosting web sites, and maintaining our own network infrastructure. These days we provide web hosting services for over 500 domains World-wide!

I also knew that if we wre to ever compete with the big boys, I'd have to make myself available for emergency network issues and aim for providing the highest quality of services possible. These days, I'm still available and find it challenging to see how long I can keep my personal contact information available as we grow larger ;)

In 2004 We became a National provider and 2005 Internet access we sold our first Internet access dial-up accounts in Canada and Puerto Rico too! We've also been consulting and hosting web projects World-Wide snce 1999 thus making us an International services company.

We hope that you consider config.com Internet services for your dial-up or DSL Internet access or commercial small or medium business web hosting provision! I was once told we should advertise "We have live people who answer our phones!" so Buddy, consider this such an advertisement... We hope others will see the light too! After all, it's about the quality, isn't it?

Written by Joe Rinehart
Sunday, 11 May 2008
How to Have Your Company Advertised on a new huge 450,000 page internet cancer directory with key word text links to your corporate site- Developed by former Microsoft and Boeing employee specializing in directory systems that compete with the major sites for a fraction of the cost. Some top medical and health sites are paying $26,000 a day in pay per click! Prelaunch investment: $3500 a month (investment 10 months. Mo. 11 and 12 FREE-$7000 value). Plus optional bonus: 4 full page ads in the USA's only full size newspaper on natural health and good news called Healthy Referral www.healthyreferral.com over $16,000 in ads. Inquiries: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it and This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
Last Updated ( Sunday, 11 May 2008 )

National E-commerce SEO Information week advertising

Written by Joe Rinehart
Wednesday, 07 May 2008
See the config.com E-Commerce SEO ad in Information Week within the June and July 2008 issues! See our Ad in Information Week http://www.informationweek.com/
Last Updated ( Thursday, 08 May 2008 )

What happened to Microsoft FrontPage?

Written by Joe Rinehart
Monday, 07 April 2008
What happened to Microsoft FrontPage? It is an amazing thing that people constinue to utilize software that hasn't been supported for years or had certainly ever evolved with the Internet, but it's true! In our home office in the heart of Portage County, Ohio we've even seen the former local Economic development director retire to continue the development of the Front Page hosting business he started while holding his government office. Well, in fairness to him, he did a decent job organizing and publishing information to promote our local communities, even though for years we felt a bit bitter and always thought the role of government wasn't supposed to compete with free enterprize. These days, it really doesn't matter much any more to our small company if the local governments wish to sit back and collect our tax revenue while we work with other institutions world-wide and effectively grow in the world of E-commerce while their web sites remain more often than not with stagnant information. Gee whiz, maybe some day we'll even get big enough to have a reason we could argue to move our company to a small tax exempt island with plenty of job opportunities near the equator ;)
Last Updated ( Monday, 07 April 2008 )
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Welcome Cynthia McKay’s Le Gourmet Gift Basket

Written by Joe Rinehart
Wednesday, 26 March 2008
Introducing Cynthia McKay’s Le Gourmet Gift Basket! We are always pleased when we get to help any profit or not for profit type projects that make a such a difference we can tell mom and everyone else about ;) Le Gourmet Gift Basket is such a project. Cynthia McKay of Le Gourmet Gift Basket at Le Gourmet gift basket website - http://www.legift.com telephoned me the other day to discuss our assisting their team with some Internet related public relations and search engine optimization SEO and reverse SEO issues. While a company named Nolan Interactive of New York, New York is doing the on-site SEO and editing the website, we will be working tiogether to reach Le Gourmet Gift Baske Internet traffic goals. Cynthia McKay of Le Gourmet Gift Basket was a lawyer who changed careers to help women establish gift basket businesses and has become a National media personality for doing so. We are looking forward to working with Le Gourmet Gift Basket and Cynthia McKay to help her expose the quality of her exciting women owned businesses on the Internet, The Le Gourmet Gift Basket about page offers more information about the company Cynthis McKay founded to help benefit women which includes
Last Updated ( Thursday, 27 March 2008 )
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Free Banners for our E-commerce clients

Written by Joe Rinehart
Saturday, 08 March 2008
Free Banners for our E-commerce web hosting and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) clients are being made available for a limited time only! Due to a recent opportunity which is causing our config.com traffic to rise we are offering FREE banner advertising for our commercial Internet accounts. To take advantage of this limited time offer, please email your 468x60 pixel banner artwork to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
Last Updated ( Saturday, 08 March 2008 )

Testing Net Audio Ads

Written by Joe Rinehart
Wednesday, 05 March 2008
This is a test... Config.Com, in cooperation with Net Audio Ads, is conducting a test of audio advertising delivered over this website. Services and/or products mentioned in these test ads may not be available here in the Portage County Ohio area.. and may or may not be real. Thanks for visiting. We're glad you've made Config.Com your source for Internet E-Commerce services and social networking! To learn more about audio advertising you may wish to visit URL: http://advertising.config.com/
Last Updated ( Wednesday, 05 March 2008 )

Take Steps to Prevent Domain Name Renewal Scams

Written by Joe Rinehart
Friday, 08 February 2008
Ever since domains became deregulated there have been scams to mislead domain owners into moving their domain registrar! Today, I received an email from Dave Woroch the VP, Sales and Support for Tucows who makes recommendations for protecting domain owners against the domain scammers.I only disagree with him on the point of what is called "Domain Privacy"! The reason is Google doesn't like Domain Privacy because it 's a common spam tactic to make it harder for people to find them to complain. There are also other arguements that don't have as much to do with Search Engine Optimization like there are many people that won't do business with companies that hide their contact info. I've always been a fan of making it as easy as possible to have people find you and that certainly includes allowing them to use "Whois" to find accurate current contact information. I suppose if you don't care about electronic marketing, possibly for a personal domain, then by all means hide behind a cloaked domain! In any regard, Dave does present some good information so I'm publishing it verbatium below:
Last Updated ( Friday, 08 February 2008 )
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config login IS NOT login.yahoo.com

Written by Joe Rinehart
Thursday, 07 February 2008
config login IS NOT associated with login.yahoo.com or yahoo login Several years ago we experienced a flood of extra traffic from the Yahoo Search Engine. At the time it tuirned out their programmers made an error in the configuration file, no pun intended. Every time a yahoo member would read their email, log out, then decide to log back in, KA-Boom they landed at config.com! You may have searched Google or Yahoo for the string "config login login.yahoo.com" which landed you to this page. We hope that you understand while we enjoy the extra traffic sent to use by Yahoo, we really have no control over their servers or have any way to tell you how to fix it. Well, it seems to be happening again... We apologize and can only suggest that you email Yahoo and explain to them what is happening when you get directed to our site. We also know of no way to prevent this from happening to you, except possibly not using your back button to log back in to Yahoo
Last Updated ( Saturday, 09 February 2008 )
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Joombalaia Customization

Written by Jim Lutz
Monday, 04 February 2008
Considering Joombalaia but you like the look and feel of your old web site? Customizing Joombalaia may be the right answer for you.
Last Updated ( Monday, 11 February 2008 )
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Microsoft's Silverlight plugin will give Adobe Flash new competition

Written by Joe Rinehart
Monday, 28 January 2008
I enjoyed a surprise visit today from an old friend Andrew Pardoe who I've known since the late 80's early 90's when he was working on his undergraduate degree at Kent State University. Andrew or AP as his old friends call him has been working at One Microsoft Way, in Redmond Washington for about a decade. As it turns out he is also now the program manager for the Microsoft's new Silverlight multimedia software which for the lack of a better description of anything that currently exists I'll compare to Adobes Flash. Microsoft recently revamped their web site using the Silverlight software which got my attention. Silverlight includes 720p high-definition video which can be streamed from about any type of Internet connection. Andrew demonstrated some of the features to me and I've seen eye candy before, but this has some icing on the cake features. I guess I get turned on over the simple things and when I saw the web pages flipping like the pages of a book, it made a simple concept look like a complex motion picture movie production.
Last Updated ( Sunday, 10 February 2008 )
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What is config?

Written by Joe Rinehart
Saturday, 26 January 2008
CONFIG is an abbreviation for configuration and the computer science meaning is: "The way that the components of a computer network are connected". A dictionary definition of the word configuration is available. Once upon a time... In the early days of Microsoft DOS (Disk Operating System) there were two files that were called upon to start your computer. These were Autoexec.bat (batch file) and the config.sys file. I used to tell people that the config.sys file was what told your computer where everthing was. In reality it also set the parameters for devices like your CD-ROM drive. Here is an example of what the config.sys may look like:
Last Updated ( Tuesday, 08 April 2008 )
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