Author: Alan
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Cheap links are dead, Google Disavow Tool come online
On 17th October Google released their disavow links tool. Webmasters now can tell Google which links to ignore. this is much needed since Google annouced that links can actually harm you and spurned a whole new industry of negative SEO (and less straight ‘reputation management’ companies). Google’s Disavow Links Tool allows any webmaster or site…
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Is AOL e-mail unreliable
I keep getting [code]retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period[/code] or [code]retry timeout exceeded[/code] when e-mailing aol.com. I have done some research and it seems that aol e-mail has been pretty shakey in the past, but I am concerned it might be something to do with my server set-up. But…
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Extracting data from tar.gz
cpanel creates backups in tar.gz format, sometimes you want to recover a single file from the tar gz file. If on linux you can extract everything into a spare directory and work from there using the following command suitably edited tar -zxvf mybackup.tar.gz -C /home/myrecovery If you need to see what is in the…
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GoDaddy service fails millions of websites.
Today, Monday 10th Sepetember, Godday has crashed. TheMain site Godaddy.com is accessible but technical problems means that millions of sites have been offline. Even sites that are not hosted on godaddy have been impacted, as any forwarding of sites via DNS A records seem to be impacted too. In the case of ‘badlywired’, even…
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The Benefits Of Using Cloud Computing
Cloud computing is a wonderful bit of technology that is changing the way that we use computers throughout the world, and it’s particularly of benefit to businesses. Moving to the cloud removes the need to install software on every computer in your business network. It also allows more home based working. The way that cloud…
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Moving WordPress Server
This is really just a quick note. Much can be found on WordPress codex describing the steps when moving server, but this one caught me out. I decided that I would move all my wordpress sites off my shared hosting reseller account to a VPS (Virtual Private Server). As I had paid for WHM/Cpanel, it…