Image via WikipediaThis site, and several others, will be offline for up to an hour tomorrow. The server already got a RAM upgrade recently, but it's now getting a CPU upgrade.While the performance of this site and most of the others on here hasn't been an issue there are one or two sites that might perform a bit better with slightly beefier hardware. In any case I thought it … [Read more...] about Site Downtime Tomorrow
Archives for May 2008
House Buying Saga Continues
Image via WikipediaWhile I'm still getting emails alerting me to new properties for sale in Carlow every few hours I decided to check out prices in other parts of Ireland.Why oh why did we base our business in Carlow? If we'd based ourselves closer to the Shannon (ie. Limerick, Clare, Tipperary) the cost of houses would be significantly lower.Of course the infrastructure and … [Read more...] about House Buying Saga Continues
Testing Zemanta On MovableType With Swiftweasel
Image by N'ayez pas peur!! La Fabrique de Blogs via FlickrI enjoy playing around with new "toys", so I was delighted to get an email earlier this evening from one of the Zemanta team earlier this evening to let me know that they'd added support for Movable Type.The concept behind Zemanta is intriguing. It's a browser plugin that integrates with serveral of the more popular … [Read more...] about Testing Zemanta On MovableType With Swiftweasel
Paypal Merchant Fees
Since I can never find the information when I need it.. here are the current Paypal merchant fees (as of May 20th 2008)Monthly Sales Price Per Transaction €0.00 EUR - €2,500.00 EUR 3.4% + €0.35 EUR €2,500.01 EUR - €10,000.00 EUR 2.9% + €0.35 EUR €10,000.01 EUR - €50,000.00 EUR 2.7% + €0.35 EUR €50,000.01 EUR - €100,000.00 EUR 2.4% + €0.35 EUR > €100,000.00 EUR 1.9% … [Read more...] about Paypal Merchant Fees
Hittail Premium Service Launched
Hittail have launched their premium service. While it may be a bit expensive for a hobby site the pricing is very reasonable if you intend using it for an ecommerce site.Why?For one very simple feature - the option to transfer keywords that hittail has "found" into your Adwords account.The only thing that is a little annoying is that there are limits on the number of keywords … [Read more...] about Hittail Premium Service Launched