Computing & Internet

Looking For The Best Webhosts?

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I mentioned in a previous post that my hosting is free. It is not that I do not love free but free hosting doesn’t come with technical support and since I am such a noob, I feel lost when something happens to my blogs. Sometimes, I do seek help from my host but I feel bad about it.

A few days ago, I wrote that I am contemplating hosting my blogs on virtual private servers and my friend recommended a guy to me but I do not like him because he never respond to my email when I need help but replies me within minutes when I ask him about my billing. Yes, he is also a host of one of my blogs.

So once again I am in the market looking for a supportive and reliable web host. I am not looking for cheap hosting but one that comes with maximum up time and solid customer support.

My search led me to a website that compares top ten best web hosting companies. Actually, I love comparison charts like this because I could get the lo-down on the top ten companies all in one glance.

This is not only a review of the top ten web hosting sites but if we buy hosting packages via this website, Top10Webhosting.com, we are entitled to a discount on hosting packages offered by Monster Host and LunarPages.

If you are thinking of getting your own domain name and hosting, now is the time! I heard that domain name registration will be more expensive next week, so act fast!

Blogging

Experiment On Spam Comments

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A thought came to me with all the spam comments I am getting. I usually clear my spam folder a few times a day, in fact, each time I log into my Admin panel. I know some people could not care less about checking their spam folder but I do it because I know some legitimate comments are mistakenly considered as spam by Akismet, especially comments by bloggers who network actively.

And so I check it in case there are legitimate comments there and to avoid misunderstanding.

So now my experiment is to see how many spam comments this blog receives within twenty four hours. I know it will be a few hundred but am not sure if it will go up till a thousand within a day. When I deactivated Akismet to upgrade my WordPress database the other day, five spam comments came through just for that period of time that did not even last five minutes. Hah… is that a record or something?

I still do not get how spammers work but the joke about all this is that there are such spam comments that said that if we would like our URL removed from the spam database, to email that spammer. Hah… I can only imagine that should we do that, we would be spammed a million times more. What do you think?

General

Metal Buildings Are So Popular

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I surf the internet a lot because I like to check out on trends and popular things. One of the things that are very popular right now are Metal Buildings. These aren’t exactly new, if you ask me, but they are making a comeback recently perhaps people start to realize that metals buildings can save us a lot of money compared to a brick building, I think.

Metal Buildings come in many shapes and sizes and even color to suit our usage and requirements and could be custom ordered just to fit the right spot in our backyard. There are many commercial uses for such metal buildings as well because they are very cost effective and keep the capital outlay low.

Although I do not see the “beauty” in metal buildings, I do appreciate that it is a very flexible and versatile building where they can be used for just about anything whether in a family home or commercially.

I have a friend who has a metal building set up in his garden and he uses it as his “private space” away from the main house where he could get some peace from the noise. He said that he could work and think better in there. Aren’t men funny?

Blogging, Computing & Internet

It Was A Bad Izea

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Ted mentioned on the blog that they have decided on a new name for Argus and it is not one of those that he asked for our opinion and vote. Well, I am glad that the four have been discarded. I HOPE they have!

And I really hope that it will NOT be Izea. Do you know what is Izea? Well, it’s just plain ol’ IDEA pronounced by a non-English speaking European. Don’t get me wrong, I am not dissing Europeans but this is the way my European friends speak English because it’s not their native language.

Most of their English words are pronounced with a “Z” in it even though the spelling does not. An “idea” can end up being an “izea”, you know?

Maybe I am weird, but I don’t get it why Posties were all saying that Izea is a great name. Well, I just think that was a bad Idea and hopefully, HOPEFULLY, this is not the name that will be revealed during PostieCon.

Finances

Engaging Debt Consolidation Services and Credit Card Debt Elimination

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While surfing the internet this morning, I chanced upon a site on debt consolidation. Some people mentioned to me before that debt consolidation is not the perfect solution to Credit Card Debt Elimination but I have friends who have engaged the help of companies that offer Debt Consolidation Services and they managed to clear their credit card debt slowly but surely.

Having said that, I believe that there is not one single solution that is the best. It just depends on our own needs and whichever method that that could help us without much compromising on our part. Debt is an ongoing accumulation process and we cannot expect to clear it in a single stroke. Therefore, we cannot expect a miracle in any way that we choose to overcome our debts.

Some people have asked me why I prefer to use cash when I could easily swipe my many credit cards. The reason is that I don’t want to tempt myself with the convenience of using credit cards. It is way too easy to train myself to use credit cards and fall into the bad habit of charging first, pay later.

Many people do this thinking that they could easily pass off their credit card debt by the end of the month but more often than not, they would have miscalculated their budget and may not be able to settle their outstanding bills at the end of the month as expected and that is when interest would start to snowball!

So now you know!

WordPress Issues

Yahoo!!!

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I’m so proud of myself! I spent the past thirty minutes upgrading my WordPress database for my four WordPress blogs. Actually, I attempted to upgrade two blogs from version 2.0 to 2.2 in early August but there was a plug-in conflict that made my upgraded hang. It was unclean and I left the blogs like that hahaha!

Now, two months later, I finally found the time to sort things out and once I found the error, did the upgrade for all three of my blogs and upgraded two 2.2 to version 2.3, one 2.0 to version 2.3 and one 2.2 to version 2.3. Can you believe that I have to take this long to do a simple task like that? Hah! I just took that long 😀

Well, that just shows how free I am this morning. Total earned from sponsored posts within the past 24 hours – ZERO. Well, it happens SOMETIMES!! I hope it would a regular habit, though!

I just have to laugh at myself. Upgrading went so smoothly and to think that I kept bugging my host to help me with the upgrade because I was afraid that I would mess up my blog and then lose all my posts or screw up my blogs. Bleh! Thankfully everything went well! Yahoooo!

Trivia: Total number of spam comments that came in while Akismet was deactivated: FIVE

Computing & Internet

Cop Shoes & Boots

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When I came to the website of CopShoes, I suddenly remember a friend of mine who liked to dress in cop shoes and there is a guy who is a little mentally slow who would run away because he thought that my friend was really a cop. I don’t know where my friend bought his Rocky Boots though, because we certainly have never even heard of the internet before.

If it is not obvious enough yet, CopShoes is the ultimate online store that carries a wide range of what else but Cop shoes, and boots. Besides Rocky boots, you can also find Bates Boots, Altama, Converse, Danner and many other major footwear brand names.

I have browsed through many online stores and shopped regularly online and Cop Shoes is one of the easiest site to navigate. You can shop by brand name or style and it would not take you long to look for the shoes or boots that meet your requirement.

Although I have not shopped at Cop Shoes before because I have no use for these boots, I was told that the prices here are very competitive and they re backed by a solid reputation with excellent customer service. The most important thing with online stores though, is the quality products and it looks like Cop Shoes have these all in their police and military boots and footwear.

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