February 11, 2010
I am not sure how many have been reading the Microsoft Confessions at Beta News, but they have been quite interesting. As a quick synopsis, Joe Wilcox at Beta News talked to some people who were layed off from Microsoft and the stories were interesting. Judging from the comments I can tell that a lot [...]

February 03, 2010
I have often wondered why web hosting plans are sold by technical specs… computers too for that matter. Don’t get me wrong, technical specifications of a product are pretty much as detailed as it gets for buying purposes. It can tell us exactly what we need to know. However, without some form of training in [...]

February 01, 2010
I hope everyone had a delightful holiday season. For myself I had a variety of projects that ended up taking more of my time that I had planned, but now I am here again providing more useful commentary than a well-trained yak. Which is fairly considerable considering how considerate the abilities of a well-trained yak [...]

January 05, 2010
Before the holidays I managed to interview Haralds Jass, CEO of dedicated server hosting company Superb Hosting, on the moving of their corporate headquarters to Honolulu, Hawaii. That interview will be out at Web Host Magazine next week Wednesday.
The interview was fairly informative and a few points caught my interest. Two points in particular [...]

December 29, 2009
I hope everyone’s holidays are going fine and that you are not working overly hard this season. There are two things that holidays always bring to mind, (three if we are talking about this particular holiday season) and that is cooking and pictures.
I look forward to two basic chores each year. One taking pictures and [...]

From Web Host Blog
December 16, 2009
If you haven’t had the opportunity to watch someone who has never even thought about HTML or coding create a web site, I highly recommend it. Especially if you are a programmer, web designer, web host, customer service, well any job or hobby that has to do with web sites. The amount you can learn [...]

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November 11, 2009
Budget hosting or free? This is an age old question. I have seen successful movement upmarket in this dilemma (UK hosting firm 34SP.com discontinued free hosting products and even created a higher resource, higher priced product) and now I am seeing a return to the free hosting model from LimeLabs. Until now the idea of [...]

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November 10, 2009
There are a few cardinal rules when it comes to computer security. These rules are easy to follow and can prevent quite a lot of computer viruses and malware infections. The first rule of course is to use strong passwords. The second rule is to update your software. The third rule is to use some [...]

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