I quickly contacted Sarah Perez who is in charge of the website and she told me the following. Her websites are all hosted at Dreamhost who closed down the account because of disputing credit card charges which Sarah had nothing to do with.

Now the funny thing is that you can only get the Dreamhost account access back if you send them a money order or check by postal mail for the amount of the chargebacks. The mail goes to a postbox address that Dreamhost seems to check twice a week.

Imagine that. You are a business owner and need your website and they check the frigging postbox twice week adding to the waiting time.

Support is unreachable it seems. She put in four support tickets and one complaint and tried to phone them but is only receiving voicemail. She cannot reach them no matter what she tries.

I hope everything sorts out soon. Things like that can throw a business back several months.

I wonder why all those companies shoot first. It would be so much better if they at least tried to contact the owner of the account before going on a rampage.

I honestly have not heard about The Last Podcast before which is surely going to change now. I was not able to locate Podcasts there which is kinda freaking me out.. just a little bit. He does seem to provide an interesting perspective about (mainly) Web 2.0. So, two plus four makes six: Grand Effect (I almost wrote Grand Central, wonder how I came up with that) is now home to six blogs that cover a variety of topics.

What I like is that we will remain who we are. This will never be a big anonymous network with hundreds of blogs, it will remain small and exclusive and I’m looking forward to getting to know each and everyone of our network.

Here is the list of all blogs that are a member of Grand Effect:

SheGeeks, Sarah in Tampa, eXtra for Every Publisher, ParisLemon, The Last Podcast! and of course yours truly..

Just to take away that first thought that came up when I heard the name SheGeeks and that will probably be your first thought either. This is not a blog for women, not even close to that. It’s for everyone who is interested in those topics. The articles are well written and I immediately have added her blog to my feed reader. It’s good and I can recommend it, if you have the chance drop by and take a look for yourself (and subscribe to her blog if you like it)

The Grand Effect homepage is not really ready yet and there is much going on in the background. We will add some information about ourselves to the website, better advertising opportunities and include the RSS feeds of all the blogs of the network on the main page.

So, welcome to Grand Effect Corvida.

Grand Effect is mainly used to promote the blogs of the network and will grow over time. It will never be a blog network with hundreds of websites, at least that’s not in the plans that we have with that network. I would not rule it out completely though.

If you have not done so check out the other four blogs that created the Grand Effect blog network. They are Sarah in Tampa, Twitterholics, Earth Loving Tech and eXtra For Every Publisher.

All four of these are well established tech related blogs but each one of them is pretty unique in itself.