Tag: hosting
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Hosting 365 and customer service
I haven’t written about Hosting365‘s customer service before now as I have no direct experience of it. I don’t host with Hosting365. However their reputation for customer service has been far from stellar. Almost as bad as Irish Broadband’s, I’m told. Recently appointed marketing director of Hosting365, Ed Byrne is determined to change that. In…
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Blacknight Solutions don't tolerate criticism
Blacknight Solutions contacted me this afternoon and asked me to move all my sites off their servers. They no longer want my business. Why? Because I criticised their customer service after they lost all my podcasts, didn’t tell me about it until I discovered it a couple of weeks later, and when I did report…
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Adding images to your blog post
A picture is worth a thousand words or so the old saw goes and it is certainly true that an image can greatly help the look of a blog post. Several people have asked me recently how to add images to blog posts so I thought I’d put up a blog post explaining how I…
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Hosting problems solved (hopefully!) – site moved
Due to issues with the server this site was on, my hoster agreed to move it to another server this morning. That move happened at around 11am GMT today. Just now I noticed a comment which was made yesterday on one of my posts and which I was not notified of by my blog software…
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Site offline temporarily – apologies
Anyone trying to access this site or my PodLeaders site today between around 12:54 GMT and 13:14 GMT would have seen a screen somewhat like the one below. My hoster told me when I rang them that they were ‘working on it’ but didn’t tell me what ‘it’ was! This is the second time in…
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Site offline briefly – sorry
Apologies if you were trying to access this site or its podcasts at around 1am GMT this morning – the site was briefly offline. The site was offline because I exceeded my hosting bandwidth allowance – due to the unprecedented success of my podcasts! A victim of my own success! Fortunately the nocturnal FrankP rang…
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WordPress.com "major drive failure"
I mentioned in a post earlier this morning that I was having problems accessing wordpress.com blogs – wordpress.com is a hosted multi-user version of the blog software I use, WordPress. The site is now available again but suffered a “major disk failure” according to a message on the wordpress.com Dashboard. The data loss is presumably…