A huge letdown from what used to be a good company by Bob Stovall

For the past 36 hours, I and several clients have experienced extreme slowness and several complete outages to our web service, unresponsive FTP service and long interruptions to email service. The explanation I have received is that some (arrogant) genius decided that one of the busiest days on the Internet was a good day to upgrade systems. It ended in disaster and now most of mine and my clients sites that are served from the Virginia Data Center are now offline. Response from Tech Support has been non-existant. It is impossible to get through if only for an update or information. No one from viaVerio has used our alternate email addresses to notify us of the outages and to keep us updated on a resolution. The only explanation I can come up with for this is that they just don’t care. This is a company that I have done business with for 16 years, but it looks like what was once an excellent relationship is coming to a bitter close. That’s a shame. But unfortunately, it seems to be the trend in customer service permeating businesses throughout the world. Verio is a multi-national, owned by NTT (the Japanese telecom giant). [...]

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by Bob Stovall

Here’s a deal I felt I had to pass along. Today is Cyber Monday and HostGator is repeating their Black Friday sale on web and email hosting. 50% on your first invoice means you can get professional hosting for as low as $2.48 per month for up to three years. You don’t have to type in any coupon codes or know any magic incantations to get the discount. The discount is automatically applied to any new web hosting account opened before midnight tonight, Monday November 28. All the details are available at the HostGator website. Get 50% off on web hosting TODAY ONLY! No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

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Put technology to work FOR you! by Bob Stovall

Make technology work FOR you! A short while ago, we posted a review of Open-Realty 2.5, the latest version of the popular real estate listing and website program. You can read the review here

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Pre-installed WordPress, Joomla, Open-Realty hosting by Bob Stovall

I’ve got some news about a special project from OrangeCat.net that could benefit all of you tremendously. Learning to use new technologies effectively can save you time and money. Lots of time and money. But the learning curve of most software, especially web software can be intimidating. Tech manuals are written by tech people for tech people. They assume a basic knowledge of the subject that you may not have. That’s not your fault. The time you spend running your business eats up a large part of your day. You’d rather not spend your precious family and personal time studying how to use the latest whiz-bang software. I recently had a customer tell me that even though they knew that having a blog could really help them gain new business as well as retain current business, she just didn’t have the time to invest in learning how to setup and use a blog. Now, that’s something we can all relate to. That customer’s problem got me to thinking. Why couldn’t there be an easier way for busy business persons to have a website complete with all software set up for them? Why couldn’t it be delivered turn-key and ready-to-go ? [...]

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Never give up! by Bob Stovall

Ever feel like quitting? Ever felt like you didn’t have what it takes to reach your goals? This six minute video has something to say to us all. Known YouTube ERROR: If you get a message that the video is no longer available,reload the page and try again. No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

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