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  • Cloud Hosting – What does Cloud actually mean?

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    “Cloud Hosting” is possibly one of the most used, but yet also most misunderstood terms in current use across the Internet. Cloud means many things to many people, yet has the ability to generate images of limitless potential & strictly imposed limitations – all at the same time. Among those who have not really used [...]

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  • An Open Letter to Comment Spammers

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    Dear potential spammer, In case you haven’t noticed, it’s a rare occasion that a piece of marketing junk submitted here as a comment against a post will actually appear. We filter all comments before they’re posted and if our automated spam filters fail to catch them, our manual review will. Either way, we do not [...]

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  • Website relaunched!

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    With traffic to this website steadily increasing, I’ve been spending some time attempting to look at how I could get more relevant and useful content surfaced onto the site’s homepage. Link to this post!

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  • Get started with WordPress & Nginx; 15 minutes from fresh OS to WordPress

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    In earlier posts I briefly talked about the dramatic performance improvements you can get by using Nginx to run your PHP / WordPress websites and touched on some of the vital steps that need to be done to start tuning WordPress for performance. If you’re interested in the idea of using Nginx but wondering where [...]

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  • Replace radiator valve without draining system

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    Replacing radiator valves without draining your central heating system is something that can be achieved with a few simple additional tools (bungs), a heating system that’s in reasonable condition,  and a small helping of luck! This is a perfectly safe & viable way to do small changes or radiator removal / replacement / new valves etc without [...]

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