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WordPress Page Loading and Hosting Tips
October 14th, 2009 | Author: Jim Hutchinson
During the past few weeks my blog and other sites had been painfully slow. The page loading time was in excess of 15 seconds. When in the WordPress dashboard, I would click a button to update a setting and go do something else for 2 minutes while the page loaded.
As a marketer, we are told that we have 7 seconds to grab the attention of visitors. If the page takes longer than that to load, there is a good chance they will go someplace else.
The slow loading became so frustrating that I called our web host, Pagematic. Since some of the sites I run are on a Virtual Private Server (VPS), things that others do on that server can affect the performance of my websites. For instance, if someone ran intensive or poorly written scripts on their VPS, the entire srever can slow down. In this instance, Pagematic located the sites that were running scripts which are not allowed on the server and shut them down. Read the rest of this entry »
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Top 5 Reasons People Hate Go Daddy
July 12th, 2008 | Author: Jim Hutchinson
Of all the domain registrars where you can register a domain, the one with the loudest voice is Go Daddy. Ironically, they are also a service that people love to hate. They may have lower rates than many other services, but while reading through the list below, ask yourself if that low cost, high profile service is worth the discounted rates.
- Too many ads, especially when registering or renewing a domain (2 pages worth before getting to checkout)
- They try to be everything to everyone, offering more services than necessary, which over-complicates all of their offers.
- Menus are over-crowded, making navigation tough.
- Tech support reads answers to your questions from a web page you could have read yourself.
- Changing name servers requires looking in multiple places, with some links buried out of sight.
Yes there are other low-cost services, but I have come to know and like DirectNIC. While their prices are a little higher, their website interface is easy to navigate, support is helpful and fast to respond and managing large lists of domains is far easier than I have seen elsewhere.
So when comparing domain registration services, you have to look at the entire picture, not just the up-front costs. Choose wisely.
Jim Hutchinson
Are You a Tweeter on Twitter?
April 11th, 2008 | Author: Jim Hutchinson
What Twitter Is
Twitter is part blog, part instant messaging system. It is more discussion-oriented than social networks because it does not have the other content such as video, photos, or long profiles. Twitter is the social web on hyper-drive. You can use Twitter through your cell phone, on the web site, or through another program written like an instant messenger, but for Twitter.
Twitter is predicted to be the big ticket next year. People looking at it from the outside do not understand why they should, but once you join and start using it, every other social networking site appears to stand still. Twitter is like blogging with just an RSS feed in real time. You may not have a question or need to get a particular piece of information, but the stream of real time reports from across the event allows you to know about everything as it happens.
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The Frustrations of Moving Websites
September 22nd, 2007 | Author: Jim Hutchinson
There are times when you may want to move your existing website to another web host. Maybe the services where your site is now hosted do not include everything you want to build your business. Maybe the support or customer service is not up to the standards you once expected and/or received.
When you choose a new website hosting company, moving your site their can be frustrating. Not all the services transfer at once, making it a very confusing time for all involved. As an example, even though your web pages could should up at the new host within an hour of changing the name servers (an integral part of DNS), the mail does not transfer allow with it.
When the mail does transfer, usually shortly after the web pages do, you may not be able to access the mail from your home computer using your email program, whether Outlook, Outlook Express, Mozilla Thunderbird, or any other program.
The reason for that is due to the schedule your Internet Service Provider (ISP) is on for updating their records. Those records allow you to access other websites because you connect to the Internet through them. Your ISP maintains a list of hosts called the DNS database.
While you are waiting for the site to transfer, you should transfer all of your files to the new server. Once in place, the only thing you can do is wait for the other servers on the Internet to update their records.
Once you can access your new site, go through all of the pages, check the forms if you have any and make sure all of the links are working properly. Your new web host should be available to answer any questions or address any concerns you have, before, during and after the move.
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Jim Hutchinson is the Project Manager for Website Managers. He has studied Internet Marketing from some of the most influential leaders. Many of those resources are available on Affiliate Referral Sources.
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