BadlyWired.com

Alan’s Personal Techy Website

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • This site is proudly powered by WPMU DEV

    WordPress is great and Multi site is even better, if you want a network of blogs. WPMU Dev gives you a low cost way to build a multisite wordpress installation with all the features you need to create you own fully monetised (or free) blog network. It is no surprise that WPMU Dev  is celebrating…

  • Can you trust facebook?

    Well there is one thing you can trust facebook to do, that is protect their interests. We have a site called appcent.re   which is pretty basic, and we created a facebook user name   facebook.com/appcentre.   Amazingly facebook, with their launch of Appcenter, failed to grab the international spelling of appcentre. So initially, we were getting dozens…

  • Number one in Google

    There are a lot of articles claiming to tell you how to get to number one in Google.   Being at the top of Google can bring you many riches and rewards. Because of the rewards of being number one on Google, every one wants a short cut, and there are hundreds of SEO firms out their that…