Category Archives: Hosting

Apr
08
2013

Leaving WordPress

by Skippy

I have been thinking about moving Skippy.org.uk and my 365 away from WordPress, as WordPress is a bit overpowered for myself as a lone user, and causes my server to run hard when hit with a lot of users. I am poking my 365 at the moment with a view to making it more automatic. I am looking [...]

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Mar
27
2013

Dealing with TrackBack Spam

by Skippy

  Skippy.org.uk is quite an old blog, and while my 365 Blog is not as old; one of the things that is getting old is TrackBack Spam, Both Blogs are hosted on the same WordPress MultiUser / WordPress Networks install at JustVigilantes.co.uk. WordPress makes it easy to turn off TrackBacks on all new articles in the [...]

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Feb
19
2013

The Saga of Artisteer 4 for Mac

by Skippy

After my Previous post about Artesteer 4 for mac, there has been two sets of movement, that of the people on the support forum, and the glacial lack of movement of the Official Artisteer team. Artisteer are still listing as Mac Version 4 as in active development: Do you offer Artisteer for the Mac OS [...]

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Jan
21
2013

The moving of Projects

by Philip McGaw

I have recently rethought about how I want to lay out my on-line presence. Since getting a job where I can do awesome things, and get paid for them, I am going to start putting more time and effort into keeping PhilipMcGaw.com updated. I have already uploaded and plan to keep up-to-date the write up of FACTs “Art [...]

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Dec
14
2012

Go Skippy Insurance

by Skippy

I have been at skippy.org.uk for a while now, after posting about my eCar insurance problems, I started seeing more traffic for search terms such as: Go Skippy Insurance Skippy Insurance Skippy car insurance and even just: Go Skippy It seems that for Go Skippy Insurance I come up second in google to GoSkippy, who [...]

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Dec
13
2012

Artisteer for Mac Review, and Why no Version 4?

by Skippy

A fair while ago I picked up Artisteer for Mac, it looked like a useful tool: Artisteer is the first and only Web design automation product that instantly creates fantastic looking, unique website templates and blog themes. Design awesome blogs and cool web templates in minutes Export to Blogger, Joomla, WordPress and other CMS products [...]

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Nov
27
2012

Testing Zpanel CP

by Skippy

I have picked up a Xen VPS to test Zpanel Control Panel out on, at the moment I am with Bytemark using there Symbiosis control panel; which while lovely for my interfacing with my server, makes it harder to offload some administration of it to people who also use the facilities; (like 1st Swindon Sea Scouts) the [...]

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Oct
17
2012

Excerpts and why they fail

by Skippy

I read blogs, and news sites, either on my Mac, or my iPhone; but on both of these devices I use an RSS reader (linked to my Google Reader account), on my Mac I using Reeder and here (this post is being written on my iPhone) on my iPhone also using Reeder. (On the iPad [...]

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