With my business partner we run a hosting company, as most regular readers know. We offer a range of internet related services including hosting, domain registration and the like. (This is not an advert - it's more of an explanation) Over the past few years we have taken (and made) a lot of phonecalls - 9 out of our 10 fulltime staff spend a good part of their day on the … [Read more...] about Bizarre Questions
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Speeding Up WordPress
If your website is slow then people will either get annoyed with it or simply not visit it. Bottom line - you can lose money.I met Donncha in real life for the first time a few months ago and one of the things that I was anxious to talk to him about was Wordpress' speed or lack thereof, as both my own sites and those of clients etc., seemed to suffer from performance … [Read more...] about Speeding Up WordPress
SkyCon Talk Topic
Rather than try to reinvent the wheel and in order to keep in tune with the Open Source / Technical flavour of Skycon.... I've decided to give the talk on email filtering using MailScanner... Since that sounds very uninspired I'll see if I can come up with a sexier title. How about: Mine's big enough! - Filtering 50,000 users' mail using open source technology It doesn't have … [Read more...] about SkyCon Talk Topic
How Not To Run An Adwords Campaign
If you're going to run an advertising campaign using Google Adwords (or anything else) you'd want to ensure that your website is actually online. It's even more important if you're actually advertising hosting.... Spotted this morning on Irish ISP Test: Company Business-class hosting .... Since I can't click on my own ads I typed in the address.. which led me to a page … [Read more...] about How Not To Run An Adwords Campaign
DomainFest Gets Techcrunch!
I'm off to LA at the end of the month to Domain Fest. While I've been really looking forward to the trip I'm now really excited, as I just got word that a cool conference just got even cooler !! We are excited to announce that Michael Arrington, editor and founder of the definitive web 2.0 blog, TechCrunch, will top the list of the biggest industry names to speak at the first … [Read more...] about DomainFest Gets Techcrunch!