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Friday, March 28, 2008
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Sunday, March 23, 2008
Friday, March 21, 2008
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Zen Web Hosting
As a web designer / web master I use a lot of different hosting companies.
I all my ten years of service I have never come across a worse web host than Zen Internet from Rochdale, UK.
First they have tried to claim they had no name servers - or that rather for me to point my domain to them I would have to pay an extra £15 a year and transfer my domain registration to them. I even had the misfortune to speak to tech support operatives so stupid and badly trained that they actually believed the idiocy they were peddling - who tried to make me feel stupid for thinking I could point a domain to a name server without paying an extra £15 a year for domain management services. "There are free DNS services if you don't want to use ours" they chirped. That's right I will use american name servers for my UK hosting, that will really help me to get listed in Google.co.uk
I eventually figured out through trial and error that if I pointed my domain to the server IP address, it resolved just fine.
Onto the next hurdle, I try and install a php script that uses IonCube loaders (a way PHP developers can stop anyone from stealing their work) - only for it not to work. Out of all the linux hosting companies I have used, again they are the first not to use this as standard.
Oh dear.
Here is part of one of the emails I got fromt their tech support for your amusement:
The registrar that I am "having problems with" is Network Solutions - one of the worlds biggest and most respected registrars. They allow me to point my domain to a name server, A record... wherever I like. Zen Internet, it is you who have the problem. Idiots.
I all my ten years of service I have never come across a worse web host than Zen Internet from Rochdale, UK.
First they have tried to claim they had no name servers - or that rather for me to point my domain to them I would have to pay an extra £15 a year and transfer my domain registration to them. I even had the misfortune to speak to tech support operatives so stupid and badly trained that they actually believed the idiocy they were peddling - who tried to make me feel stupid for thinking I could point a domain to a name server without paying an extra £15 a year for domain management services. "There are free DNS services if you don't want to use ours" they chirped. That's right I will use american name servers for my UK hosting, that will really help me to get listed in Google.co.uk
I eventually figured out through trial and error that if I pointed my domain to the server IP address, it resolved just fine.
Onto the next hurdle, I try and install a php script that uses IonCube loaders (a way PHP developers can stop anyone from stealing their work) - only for it not to work. Out of all the linux hosting companies I have used, again they are the first not to use this as standard.
Oh dear.
Here is part of one of the emails I got fromt their tech support for your amusement:
The aforementioned £15/year charge is for the use of our nameservers, if your domain is not hosted with us. We do not have any qualms about you using third party domain registration and nameservers, and many of our customers use such a service and simply update their A and MX records accordingly. However, as it seems that your registrar does not provide you with DNS services the only way to add A and MX records is to update your package with them, or pay for the use of our nameservers to provide DNS for a third-party registered domain.
Again, this is a completely optional service and was presented to you as a solution to the problems you had with your registrar.
The registrar that I am "having problems with" is Network Solutions - one of the worlds biggest and most respected registrars. They allow me to point my domain to a name server, A record... wherever I like. Zen Internet, it is you who have the problem. Idiots.
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
50 Most Powerful Blogs
Great article in the Guardian about the world's most powerful and influential blogs - with links.
My came in at number 34.
Teehee not really.
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Web 3 Graphics SEO in Manchester
My came in at number 34.
Teehee not really.
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Web 3 Graphics SEO in Manchester
Colorzilla Firefox Extension
Like the colours* used in a website but want an easier way than printscreening and pasting it into photoshop?
This is a nice little Firefox extension for web designers which will instantly find this out for you.
Hover over a page element and it tells you what colour* it is in RGB and web format.
Colorzilla
Nice!
*Or "color" for you Americans...
Colin @ Web 3 Graphics Web Design In Manchester - Quick House Sale
Monday, March 10, 2008
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450
Intel Core 2 Duo Quad Q9450 - 2.66ghz
1333mhz fsb
12mb l2 cache
lowest price in uk at time of writing: £201.32
Although it has still not been put on the shelves by heavyweight's Microdirect or Aria the Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 is widely available on the internet.
Benchmarks are available on HardWare.info
The question everybody is going to want to know from this cpu is how does it compare to its 65nm 8mb cached sibling the q6600, and will it be as good at overclocking as the notorious G0 stepping chips.
There is a small but noticeable improvement, probably enough for CPU enthusiasts to want to upgrade. Though lets be honest if anyone already has a Q6600 there isn't much need to...
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Article - Web 3 Graphics Web Design In Manchester
Go Compare News
Has anybody seen Go Compare recently?
The Insurance Comparison site seems to have disappeared...
The Insurance Comparison site seems to have disappeared...
Quick House Sale
A New Website: Quick House Sale
Colours Used:
Tags: Quick House Sale, Sell House Fast, Sell My House Fast
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Scrapbooking Supplies
Scrapbooking Supplies
Scrapbooking Website I am making. Scrapbooking templates, digital scrapbooking programs, free scrapbooking fonts...
Really like the design of this website. Check out the blog also.
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Mozilla Firefox Search Engine Addons
You can find the list of for Mozilla Firefox search engine addons here:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:4
I mostly use Google.com , Google.co.uk , Flickr and Ebay.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:4
I mostly use Google.com , Google.co.uk , Flickr and Ebay.
Monday, March 3, 2008
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