Monthly Archives: August 2010

Testing testing (iphone blogging)

Just a brief test of the wordpress iPhone app. Seeing how useful it is on the go. So that rather than just reading a metro or evening standard I can be doing something more productive.

This hopefully is my view right now. Just waiting for a train to Sutton to fix an iPhone

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Never underestimate the power of “Word of Mouth”

the title says it all really, and seriously dont underestimate it. lets just give some background, i do occasional freelance systems admin work in my free time, this includes but is not limited to, server setup and maintenance, site migrations and optimisation and other general geekery relating to webservers πŸ™‚

i was contacted last week by a guy called Rick Anderson of Tailoring the Web to optimise and speed up his server hosting one of his sites Build Your Own Business Website he told me that he had paid for VPS.net to migrate him from bluehost and manage the server for him,

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Spreading the Load

A nice geeky post again πŸ™‚

been looking into different alternatives to VPS.net this last week or 2. i started looking after they experienced there major outage at the UK DC taking all there UK Zones/Clouds out of action for anything from 2 hours to 14 hours in the worst case for me.

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