on July 2, 2009
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Our Website has been through a lot of issues today. We have been doing some housekeeping on the site which is one of the downsides of managing your own website. When you have a web design company look after it, you should make sure updating, upgrading and backup procedures are a part of what you pay for. We do our own, and did something slightly stupid!
Updates and the like need to be done out of your peak viewing time. 4pm UK time is our peak viewing time, although 9-10am is also very busy. You should make sure that you are not adding to your server’s problems by doing your house keeping at this time!
Having spoken to some ISP’s, they talk about some practices which may sound odd to lay men. There are some companies which take their website off line during the night. They argue that problems during peak time is more expensive than the benefit of offering 24 hr service. So they don’t – and spend the down time to make sure their servers are in peak condition – plus they get eco bonus points by saving energy!
As you can tell, our site is now back in action, and fully patched – however, that doesn’t mean that its safe enough to not back up regularly! If you have not backed up your site – do it now!
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We visited a local company in Mold today and have come away amazed. We visited Kenneth Clark, www.hypnotherapy-mold.co.uk to help him with his website marketing issues. While We discussed issues […]
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THE head of International Business Wales’ operation in North America, Geraint Jones, is confident that it will secure up to eight significant projects over the next year. Mr Jones, who […]
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The most popular search on this site at the moment is ‘Where can I get Funding to Start Up a Business in Flintshire?’ The answer is a bit disappointing. There […]
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on July 1, 2009
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Jeff Greenall took out a £31,000 (US$51,339) zero-interest loan last year to replace his bakery’s 80-year old oven and aging electric boilers. He used the funds to install a new […]
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A FLINTSHIRE firm is backing a young Welsh racing driver who’s aiming for the top. Hywel Lloyd drives for the CF Racing team, which has signed a new sponsorship deal […]
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(LONDON) – European regulators could compel Britain’s state-controlled banks to sell chunks of their assets to comply with competition rules, the EU’s top competition regulator said here Tuesday. EU Competition […]
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on June 30, 2009
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So, you want to get your site to the top of Google? How to get there is a question many people ask. What is more important is knowing your customers […]
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Case Studies are normally stale affairs where someone hits the jackpot with something and then talks about it endlessly – ignoring all the juicy bits where they made a hash […]
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This is the summary of the Welsh Local Government Association confrence, held in Swansea last week. It is a good analysis of where the Welsh economy is going. Basically the […]
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on June 29, 2009
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How will rental income be taxed? This is Money 11 June 2009 My two brothers and I have inherited my mother’s house which had been let for some time to […]
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Deeside-based supermarket chain Iceland is ranked 13th, having posted revenues of just over £2bn for its financial year to the end of March this year. It posted profits of £163m […]
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This story is from the Evening Leader – lets hope its true! FLINTSHIRE workers will not be affected by massive job cuts made nationally by one of the county’s biggest […]
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on June 26, 2009
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This week, 300 men won a test case at an employment tribunal in the North Eastern councils they work (Middlesbrough, Hartlepool and SouthTyneside). This has implications for 12,000 men across […]
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Do you run a business in the CH7 Postcode? You are invited to take part in the relaunch of Mold Buisness Forum on July 1st. That is the only stipulation. […]
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IT security and control firm Sophos is warning users to be wary of spam messages using the untimely death of music legend Michael Jackson to harvest unsuspecting computer users’ email […]
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Clinton Cards is axing 750 jobs after buying back 196 of the Birthdays card stores it placed into administration only a month ago. Administrator Zolfo Cooper said 1,450 positions and […]
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There is a very interesting site here which prints the news today’s date in 1930. You can then compare and contrast with today. Ocasionally, there is a summary, and it […]
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on June 25, 2009
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A SCRAPYARD manager is to face a manslaughter charge over the death of an employee four years ago. Robert Owen Roberts, of Connah’s Quay, is to appear at Flintshire Magistrates […]
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BUSINESSMAN Steve Morgan today launches The Morgan Foundation Entrepreneur Awards 2009 with more than £100,000 in cash prizes and services on offer to the winners. The awards are open to […]
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DSG, the owner of Currys and PC World, does not expect an improvement in the economy until the second half of 2010, as it posted a loss for the second […]
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on June 24, 2009
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O’Brien’s Sandwich Bars has placed its UK subsidiary into administration after being hit by poor trading. The Ireland-based chain, which has 109 franchised stores in the UK, said it had […]
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on June 23, 2009
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We found this very interesting article regarding the ’simple’ idea of whether alcohol is good or bad for you. Lots of business ideas are based on some cutting edge research, […]
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THE following are among the latest planning applications received by Flintshire Council: AFONWEN: Change of use from storage barn to bunkhouse, providing overnight accommodation for Offa’s Dyke footpath walkers, at […]
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on June 22, 2009
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Article printed from SiteProNews: http://www.sitepronews.com So it’s happened. Twitter has gone mainstream. As Twitter users, we knew instantly when Mumbai came under terrorist attack. We laughed at the photo of […]
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on June 19, 2009
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It’s a nice headline, it really is; ‘UK households 25% better off in 2009’. It’s great to think that out of all the chaos we are actually better off. The […]
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MILLIONS of pounds are to be spent at Airbus’s Broughton factory, to help safeguard 1,750 jobs there. The £28.66m investment by the Welsh Assembly Government will support the development of […]
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on June 18, 2009
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Originally Published as part of the Evening Leader’s new Business PULSE series CORPORATE social responsibility and responsible business practice are just some of the major buzzwords in today’s business world. […]
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As was mentioned earlier, the Flintshire Business Week 2009 sponsors evening introduced a number of local companies together in one room. One very welcome contact was from the Evening Leader, […]
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Tailor-made support for your business A week of Business Advice Surgeries is scheduled to start on July 13th. It is an opportunity for you to tap into a range of […]
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