December 10th, 2007Too many ads mean you need to declutter
November 28th, 2007How to start a blog?
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November 10th, 2007Blog comments: how to make sure the blogger will really hate you
November 8th, 2007Forum under attack .. how to survive?
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November 5th, 2007Don’t give your web design clients prices on the phone .. or mail
October 30th, 2007Start your own business NOW .. the things they didn’t tell you
October 29th, 2007Lyrics and Talk - The GOOD music blog
Last night the folks who manage the payment gateway for the vBulletin purchases rejected my card as being unsecure (this after purchasing some scripts already with it). Anyway… Jelsoft can say goodbye to my money after this. Since my paypal account will receive the necessary funding in 3-4 days, I’d be able to make payment, but I don’t want to anymore.
Just because I wasn’t able to sleep too fast last night, I had some ideas about Lyrics and Talk. The forums have been stagnant for some time and I just got tired of creating threads. So .. from now it’s a music blog. PR3 if I am not mistaken, with some good reviews, news and other materials music related.
Today the project started. I’ll install some hacks on it and tweak the skin some more, even if it’s very close to the final look. Let’s hope in its success 
October 28th, 2007How to chose the best forum script
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October 27th, 2007Video blogs: 5 reasons for me to not create any
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October 26th, 20071 excellent blog is better than 30 crappy ones
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October 25th, 2007How to kick start your new link directory
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October 24th, 2007When traffic boosts do nothing
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October 23rd, 20077 reasons why a media kit is important for your web business
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October 22nd, 2007Too few comments: what does this mean?
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October 21st, 2007Do you want to be efficient? Learn to delegate!
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October 20th, 20075 reasons for having original content on your blog
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October 20th, 2007Quality Host Online .. yeah right ..
I am sick and tired of downtimes. I have been experiencing them for the last week. I spent tens of hours working on some sites to increase traffic and tune up the themes and instead of being able to work on them I have to look on ‘not found’ errors.
First I thoght I have some problems with my ISP. But no, I look at some site that monitors if a site is up and of course my result is: DOWNTIME.
Why did I chose QualityHostOnline.com in the first place? Because the price was OK .. 10 USD a month. And yeah, I was cheap. I just bought the reseller account months ago and then started seeing the problems. Here are they all. I won’t say this host is the worst you can see, but I will make sure I move my sites from there in the following hours .. let’s hope the server won’t die on me AGAIN:
- the reseller account is weird: you have a domain that “represents” your hosting (dojodesign.ro in my case, my portfolio). And then resellable space. Oh wait: the “name” site gets 50% of the resources and you can sell ONLY half of the total. And no, there’s nothing you can do. So .. from all your nice hosting account don’t think you’ll sell more than 50%. Imagine how nice it was for me to have my small portfolio (2MB the most) relax on a 1GB space, 10GB bandwidth account. Don’t bother ask them to change: it’s gonna stay like this.
- this means a lot of issues with the LIMITED resources you have: I am quite a master in getting all kinds of “changes” so that I won’t have my sites fail on me on the 20th or some, when the server says my sites are getting close to the bandwidth limit. Can you host some big sites on a 10 GB bandwidth account? Well, as crazy as it might seem you can .. I was able to.
- support .. I cannot say they didn’t respond. But in some cases it took some hours. I want instant messaging possibilities and not the OFFLINE message they always have on the site
- downtimes unannounced. Let’s set some stuff clear: I don’t have a h