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Too busy to blog!

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It’s nearly been a month since I blogged on here, mainly due to the amount of web design work I am doing.

One project is for a home security company, www.guardedhomes.co.uk, offering IP CCTV, gates, railings, shutters, safe rooms & the like, another newish recruitment firm, as well as 3 home page mock-ups for another well-established recruitment company, not to mention a local escort agency!!!! On top of that, I’ve had a few other enquiries & just never seem to have the time for blogging at the moment. When I actually get paid for some of this work will be interesting though :oO

I’ve not been able to do much work on Cashback Shopper, or My Travel Extras recently & absolutely NONE on Love Your Pets or UK Shopping Spree & really want to redesign My Travel Extras to be less cluttered & more Web 2.0, but will have to wait for a quiet spell I guess. Once I get paid, I want to promote my dating sites a bit more I recently bought a number of new domains, but guess they will also have to go on the back burner for now: cheapcarhirealicante.com, webtraveloffers.com, travelcheapinfo.com, cheapsmallbusinessbroadband.co.uk, scifigoodies.co.uk, findmegaydates.co.uk, findmelesbiandates.co.uk, plus I wanted to try to resurrect easylolly.com for some sort of financial site.

On top of this Ei42 have just launched in the US, so I’ve been link building for www.cashbackshoppers.biz, in the hope that I can get some more interest in this, but think this is going to need some articles and forum postings to get anywhere…..I did start writing to schools asking them to consider joining as a way to raise funds for their school, but haven’t had the time to carry on.

Maybe I have my fingers in too many pies & am spreading myself a bit too thin, but we’ll see.

FreshWebz now provides web hosting!!

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Following the nightmare that were my attempts to transfer my hosting from 1and1 to Heart & the subsequent efforts to transfer them back again (because of unforeseen costs), I had started to have problems with 1and1 over my price comparison site, UK Shopping Spree, which had previously been running for months without any issues! All of a sudden, it was supposedly taking ALL the resources of the shared server I was on & I was told the only options were fix the site, or have a dedicated server (from £69.99 per month!). As 1and1 don’t allow access to the error logs for shared server customers, it was going to be a bit of a job to fix the problem within the month demanded.

At this point, I’d had enough & as my .com domains were still hosted at Heart (& I had already paid them for hosting as well) I decided to jump in with both feet & become a hosting reseller as well! Although some of my sites have been offline for about a week (not great), I think I’ve finally got things back to normal (a few tweaks and adjustments are still needed) & most of the sites are back as they were before, albeit a bit out of date :o/  The ones of greatest concern were the membership sites, but hopefully this won’t cause any problems (fingers crossed).

The Heart reseller plan is only £29.99 a month & the features offered are pretty comprehensive, with one step installation of WordPress & Joomla! available, a limitless number of databases & stacks of other tools & utilities that will make it easier for me to offer a much more comprehensive web building service, as well as the web hosting itself.

I do have a couple of web design jobs lined up now, so I don’t really have time to get to grips with all the options for configuring the online version of the web hosting at the moment, but have added my cheap web hosting plans to the FreshWebz site as well as information on buying domain names through FreshWebz. As soon as I get the sites built for my clients, I can get to work on the automated hosting platform.

Busy time!!

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There’s been a lot going on recently including a new blog for My Travel Extras, transferring the travel related posts from this blog; a change of web host (followed by changing straight back again!) & trying to get some more web design business.

First of all the change of web host! I decided that I should move my sites to a hosting company with its servers based in the UK as Get to the Top on Google: Tips and Techniques to Get Your Site to the Top of Google and Stay There suggests that Google.co.uk gives higher importance in the UK rankings to websites where the server is based in the UK. As I use 1and1 & their servers appear as being in Germany, this may be harming my .co.uk domains.

I chose Heart Internet as they offered web hosting at the same price, but with 100 mySQL databases as opposed to the 2 I have with 1and1. I transferred all my domains over to Heart, the .co.uk being free & the .com costing £5 each. Unfortunately, it was only when I had a number of the .co.uk domains transferred, that I realised that I was unable to apply more than one domain to the hosting account unless I paid a “domain mapping” charge of £20pa for each other domain!

With around 30 domains, there was no way it was worth doing that, so the only alternative was a reseller account, whereby I would also be selling web hosting! As this cost a minimum of £25 per month, with no guarantee of selling any hosting, I couldn’t consider doing this & was gutted that I’d spent loads transferring the domains over & now would end up paying through the nose for something I didn’t really need.

I have to say that this domain mapping was not something mentioned anywhere on the hosting section of the Heart site & now I will be very cautious about it if I ever consider changing my hosting again!!! It was only by going through the support database, that I found any reference to it!

I decided to bite the bullet, take the loss & transfer my domains back to 1and1 :o/  Luckily however, the .com transfers had not been completed and so they could be cancelled & the charges refunded. Because Heart also offers a 30 day money back guarantee, I got my hosting costs back too <phew>. I would like to say thanks to the support team at Heart Internet though, who responded to my enquiries within minutes & were very helpful in sorting this problem out, even though they were losing a customer. Excellent customer service – if only Tiscali could be like this, but that’s another story!

I decided to also set up a separate blog for My Travel Extras, removing all the travel related posts from this one. Whether it makes a difference or not I’m not sure, but I presume that travel related content on the travel site would be viewed better by Google, than travel related posts on a web design domain. Fingers crossed this may help bring some visitors to My Travel Extras which has not been setting the world on fire recently and may even benefit the Freshwebz rankings too!

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