Archive for November, 2007
Proxy Servers and your site
In theory a proxy server allows a user to surf the web anonymously, many students use a proxy to bypass school restrictions when surfing using the school network. This week I discovered that a visitor to your site via a proxy could be detrimental, while checking the Google search results for one of my sites [...]
Scriptlance did respond
I am pleased to confirm that eventually Scriptlance did respond to my withdrawel request over the weekend and actually processed the withdrawel this morning (GMT) as promised. I would still stick to my original advice though about paying freelancers on Scriptlance as thanks to exchange rates and various fee’s etc this has cost me more [...]
Scriptlance – customer service what a joke
If you have ever used Scriptlance you may have noticed how slow the staff are to do anything, you withdraw your funds it takes them upto a week before they process it. A few weeks ago I opened a project on SL and picked a programmer to do the work, I added the funds to [...]
No new server required
After looking at the script running onmysitenow.com and making a few changes to the mysql commands used it looks like the script is running much better, it is suprising the difference one small change to the mysql can make. I may even look at the yzoo code and see if the same changes can be [...]
New server required
After further testing of onmysitenow.com we have found that at certain times the server can not cope with the amount of traffic it is receiving already so I have disabled the counter until I have looked to see if it can be made more efficient and if not is a new dedicated server required. The [...]
onmysitenow.com is live
Last week I announced a small site I was putting together onmysitenow.com. I finished the site about a week ago and tested it by adding the counter to Yzoo and a few other sites. I used yzoo as a test bed as it gets a lot of traffic and if onmysitenow.com can handle it then [...]
On My Site Now
I am just knocking up a small site that allows you to display how many visitors that are currently viewing your site. It will be available for members and non members, members being able to view details of traffic for the past day or so. The visitor counter will look similar to that shown on [...]
Now offering Domain name registration
Just a quick note to say I am now offering domain name registrations via my site at firstfordomains.com so if you are looking for somewhere to manage your domains then feel free to pay us a visit. We are also looking for resellers to resell the domain registration and DNS management service being offered at [...]
it’s been a more than a week
It has been more than a week since I last posted, what am I like? Well last week I gave the php programmer who I had employed to complete a project for me one last chance, we agreed he would give me daily updates and be complete by Saturday (yesterday). Surprise Surprise I got one [...]