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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?





Strange emails and twitter followers

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I’m starting to think that my online profile or image doesn’t match my real life image … or else something strange is happening. Why … well … over the last couple of weeks I’ve noticed an increase in Twitter followers who are poker players, gamers or single partier types and now I’m getting emails for singles websites like free online dating and things like that.

That is so not who I am … nor who my online profile makes me out to be or so I thought … so I don’t know why I started getting all these new types of followers and emails. It’s really strange.

Do you ever get Twitter followers or probably even more likely emails that totally don’t suit who you are or your interests?

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?

Getting sidetracked

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I must be on a skin kick or something … I was just checking out various skin products (ie for my dry skin and scarring problem) and I came across this skin id review that sounds interesting.

Of course that product is an acne treatment and it wasn’t what I was looking for … but I know someone would probably be interested in it.

Do you ever go looking for something on the internet – say you’re researching a product or something, and you end up getting sidetracked as you find other interesting, somewhat related things? That’s been happening to me a lot in the last week or so thanks to me doing research on our new washing machine and dryer. LOL

Online University – the new way to learn

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It’s no wonder that with the economy the way it is, more and more people have been taking courses and returning to school. I see stories in the news at least once a week about people who’ve been laid off work have returned to University.

If you have children, still have a job or have to work part time to pay the bills going back to University full time might be impossible for some people. Luckily there is a way for you to get an online degree. I’m talking about Western Governors University.

WGU is a respected University serving over 14,000 students. The University offers accelerated courses and their programs are accredited.

Western Governors University offers a wide range of programs. You could look into getting an online business degree in Business Management, Information Technology Management, Humane Resources Management, Marketing Management or Accounting just to name a few. Other programs that are offered online include their Online Teachers College, Information Technology and health Professions.

If you’ve been thinking of changing careers visit WGU and see if they have a course or program that interests you.

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