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A proper Back Up Solution for Websites
16th December, 2011

If you are still not following my Blog then please start now, just add your email address in the right hand column. Now, it’s Christmas Time again, something like 25% of all eCommerce is taking place in these 3 fraught weeks and the impact across the Internet is under severe duress.  When you read that […]

New Servers – New Services
16th November, 2011

You’ll have noticed that Google are updating virtually everything, from their search engine results through to this very Blog that I am writing on.  Soon to be announced will be the end of Blogger and Picasa as these trade names may well be ‘retired’ – don’t worry not that much will change, you’ll still be […]

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Going it alone
10th October, 2011

I’m wondering if anyone has any comments, I am thinking of going it alone on Hosting, at the moment I use a mixture of Reseller, and Virtual Server Hosting to manage my clients websites… but due to frequent and often repetitive problems which I shall list in a moment I am seriously considering setting up […]

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Email Servers, Outages and Problems
15th July, 2011

I feel you all need a clear explanation for what has been going wrong with our email recently.  This does not effect all clients obviously, but the majority of clients that ‘Host’ their websites with us, also host their email with us, so here goes: Our email is actually handled by three servers, they have names like […]

Setting up Websites on Localhost with IIS7
7th May, 2011

I struggled today to find the ‘best’ way to set up testing websites in IIS7.  Here’s what I ended up doing. Sort your workspace – these steps were based on my set up with a new Windows 7 machine, Dreamweaver CS5 and IIS7.  I also installed a handy piece of software called Hostsman, which will […]

Holiday Troubles – hey ho!
2nd May, 2011

I have always been told that running a one man show carried risks and that I was subject to 24/7 work and that Holidays were fundamentally off-limits if I ever wanted to take one.  I was also told that when I take a holiday then all income stopped, no work, no cash… hmmm. It’s really […]

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Email – Best Practice & Outages
18th October, 2010

We’ve all experienced that sinking feeling when you realise that your email is just not working.  You hit ‘send and receive’ a couple of times, an error message pops up – ‘wrong password’, or worse your emails bounce and you site just thinking to your self – “what’s going on – what have I done […]