All Posts Tagged With: "hosting"
GoDaddy Unfairly Acquiring Domains
Although I’ve purchased just about everyone of my domains from GoDaddy.com (except this one) I’m beginning to worry that maybe I’ve made a bad move in doing so, as every week I keep reading awful stories about how GoDaddy has treated its customers.
The latest story is about how GoDaddy took over ownership of the FamilyAlbum.com [...]
Testing New Beta Comment Guard Plugin - Please Help
I”ve just uploaded Angsuman’s Beta Comment Guard Plugin that offers to block spam comments without creating any fuss, and more importantly without creating any load on a server’s CPU or bandwidth like SK2, or without relying on querying external databases like Akismet.
I have a major spam problem on this site so it’ll be a good [...]
Free Hosting Competition Update
The February competition to win free hosting for a whole year has a clear winner so far in Enblogopedia as he’s been the only person to enter!
The competition will run for the whole of February so there’s still plenty of time left to enter. All you have to do is enter your site’s details [...]
February Competition: Win Free Hosting!
For the last month or so I’ve been on my own dedicated server all by myself (Pentium D 830 3.0ghz Dual Core, 4GB RAM and two 300GB in RAID1) apart from hosting a few sites for mates which are only getting a few impressions a day, and I’m starting to feel a bit selfish. [...]
27Jan2007 | Everton | 6 comments | ContinuedSuccessfully Moved To My New Server
Well, the move has just been completed and apart from some site loading speeds, all seems well. For those that are interested here’s my new server spec:
Pentium D 830 3.0ghz Dual Core
4GB RAM
3ware 9550SX-4LP RAID card with two Maxtor 7V300F0 300GB in RAID1
Dedicated Maxtor 7V300F0 300GB backup drive
If you are looking for advice with [...]
9Jan2007 | Everton | 0 comments | ContinuedHow To Create Your Own Hosted Blog Part II
gHacks have just posted the second part to their guide to creating Your Own Hosted Blog. Martin has some sage like advice in this installement:
Hosting is essential of course but you should not be to afraid to make errors. I switched hosts three times before I found the one that offered me everything that [...]
Server Issues Finally Over - Moved To A Dedicated Server
My server issues are finally over. PowerVPS just made me an offer I couldn’t refuse for my own Dedicated Server. I’m not going to give the price as I think they’ve done me a special deal to stop me leaving as I couldn’t afford their standard Dedicated Servers, but it’s as good as, [...]
3Jan2007 | Everton | 4 comments | ContinuedTime For A Dedicated Server - Need Help Choosing
My site outages are getting ridiculous now and I’m trying to get PowerVPS to let me end my contract early as they can see first-hand the problems I’m having. I’ve wasted so much time over Christmas trying to keep this site alive, and I’m really now understanding the true value of the free hosting I [...]
3Jan2007 | Everton | 3 comments | ContinuedSite Problems Were Caused By A Massive Spam Attack
Matthew who installed APC for me has finally cracked (I think) what was causing my site problems over the last two weeks. It looks like over the last two weeks I’ve been under a massive site attack, receiving around 350 spams a minute, that was overloading my server. We think what was happening [...]
31Dec2006 | Everton | 4 comments | ContinuedI Need Wordpress MySQL Help, And I’m Willing To Pay
As you can tell by my awful page loading speeds, I’m having big Wordpress MySQL problems. There is something on my Wordpress site that is constantly hammering my database and CPU, and neither my host or I can work out what it is. The load just creeps creeping up and up, and every couple of [...]
31Dec2006 | Everton | 1 comment | Continued



