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I might be looking for a new web host

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I’ve been starting to think about moving my sites to a new webhost. I don’t really want to move, but over the last few months my sites have had a few CPU memory overuse errors that have resulted in my sites being shut down for a few hours and causing me to scramble to try to figure out what wordpress plugin might be causing the problem or what else might be the cause. It’s a pain.

The only saving grace is that with the company that I currently host with they only shut down the affected domain … not every single domain that I own in my account like other companies that I’ve hosted with in the past. That’s helpful.

It might simply be time for me to upgrade my hosting to VPS or to dedicated hosting. I can do that with my current host but in the mean time, while I’ve been holding my breath and crossing my fingers that no more problems occur .. I’ve reading things like this bluehost review so that I can have a new webhost picked out if I do decide I need to move my websites. You know, just in case I need to do it quickly.

Does anyone have some webhosting suggestions?





A new opportunity

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I just got some great news. I’ve been part of the Glam Network for 3 years now. Two of my blogs are listed with them and are part of their advertising network. It’s been a good way to get my sites seen by others as well as a way to make some decent money via advertising.

Well … they just invited me into a very special new advertising network. I have to read all of the details in the information that they just sent me, but it sounds great as far as I can tell. I’ll still have control over my site and advertising choices and when I choose to take part in their offerings. Sounds good doesn’t it?

Darn, I just remembered, I’ve got to call my mother in law. Maybe I won’t be reading the new advertising network information tonight as I’ll be on the phone. LOL She wants to learn more about a health product I was reading about the other day so I think I’ll be talking to her for a while. Sigh …

Looking for Guest bloggers

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I don’t know why exactly but lately I’m having a lot of trouble keeping all my blogs up to date. Actually the amount of blogs I have is the problem. There’s just too many and not enough time in the day.

Coming up with new posts for 15+ blogs on a regular basis is a full time job. Hmmm I wonder if there’s some kind of project management software for multiple blog owners? LOL Yah, probably not.

S now I’m thinking about opening up my blogs to guest bloggers. People who can write about gardening, home appliances, home decor, home life, health etc. Topics that would fit well with this blog and a few of my other blogs.

Guest bloggers can add a short byline to the beginning or end of their post with a link to their main site and up to one link to one of their sites (if relevant to the topic of the article) within the post.

If you’re interested in guest blogging please feel free to leave a comment on this post or use the contact form to get in touch with me. I’d prefer people that currently have blogs that they write in regularly so that I can see samples of their writing style. Thanks!

Our websites should be loading faster now

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In my last post I mentioned that I’ve been spending quite a bit of time this week getting our blogs up to date. I forgot to mention that I also installed a new plugin that should make this page load a little bit faster.

It’s WP Super Cache. I did have an old cache plugin that I’d been using for years, but Super cache allows me to gzip the blog which in turn should really make it load faster. Now, gzip can be a little hard on some shared servers, so I didn’t enable it on all of our blogs (remember we have 17!), but rather I only enabled it on our blogs that get more than 100 page views a day.

I wanted to make my sites faster for my visitors, and I also wanted to make them load faster for Google as it’s rumored that page load speed might be a factor in search engine rankings in the near future. I used a free seo tool or two to check the load speed of a few of our sites before and after enabling super Cache gzip and wow … the pages load a heck of a lot faster!

Do you ever work on your websites to make them load faster for your visitors?

It takes a lot of time to update all our blogs!

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I guess it’s been a little while since I last posted! I’ve been so busy lately with appointments and getting this and all our other blogs up to date!

I can’t believe how much I hate updating the version of WordPress each time it updates as well as all the plugins that update following a major WP version release. Not to mention the plugins that still work, but that for some reason I can’t access from the admin area without getting a “you don’t have permission to access this page” message. LOL So I’ve also been looking for WP plugins to replace the ones I can’t access anymore.

I think I’d rather be reading about adult acne treatments than spending two days or so in a row updating our 17 blogs!

I shouldn’t complain. It’s a lot easier to update all of our blogs now that WordPress has a built in updater, but still it takes time … time I don’t have.

Do you dislike having to update your blog whenever new releases come out?

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