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Friday, 23 January 2009 08:50 |
Now offering quality fast webhosting
One of my common customer queries is to help manage their website, perhaps making some minor changes or a total rewrite. Often this results in difficulties knowing where the website files actually are, where the domain name (e.g. compology.com) is registered and other issues surrounding having a website and managing your internal email. To this end we now offer a full service aimed at existing and new customers to provide:
- Fair pricing for high quality service - this is not a no-frills, low cost service with no-frills low quality service to match!
- We will help move your existing website to our hosting service as part of your standard hosting fees
- We provide unlimited POP3 mailboxes and MySQL databases within your account, you are only limited by the total space it all occupies and the volume of traffic that goes though it each month
The website will have a new section devoted to our hosting offering soon, but if you're interested now please do get in touch, new accounts can be setup the same day. |
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Sunday, 28 December 2008 08:44 |
Why you'll (not) love a Mac
I have met a few customers recently pondering the move to Apple Mac, especially when confronted with the Vista operating system installed on most new PC computers. Here's my quick considerations as to why the Mac may not be quite the computing nirvana you're hoping for:
- "Vista is horrible, I don't want it" - mostly said by people that have yet to see it, let alone use it. It's not very different to XP and in many respects somewhat better. If you're happy using XP then Vista is no problem especially when you've been given a few tips.
- Price of a 15" Mac notebook (MacBook Pro) is £1369, a similar spec laptop with Vista/XP will cost less than HALF that amount.
- All your previously bought software (Office in particular) won't work on the Mac, so make sure you add that to the price and throw all that PC based software in the bin. All Macs need software specifically written for them.
- Your core line-of-business software won't work on a Mac. I've yet to find a company using LOB software that will run on the Mac operating system. The Mac can run Windows XP, either in a window or by starting up in Windows mode which gets round this, but if you're doing that, don't forget you need to buy the Windows license and wonder why you didn't get a PC in the first place.
- Support is more difficult. Whilst I can help with most simple Apple problems, you'll find many support companies can't.
My point really is once you're past the shiny exterior and fancy packaging, and get down to the real business of using the computer, it simply doesn't fit the business environment. |
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Thursday, 04 December 2008 10:38 |
Faster Hosting for Compology
The site has recently moved to a new hosting platform which should mean quicker loading times. At times our website wasn't the quickest and hopefully you'll notice an improvement. |
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Tuesday, 16 September 2008 09:29 |
Dropbox - Free forever
From the previous entry you'll know a bit about this service. More information is now available on the pricing policy and it's good news. Provided you store less than 2GB of data, it remains a free service. If you want more, a 50GB dropbox will cost you $10US/month, or about £6. I'm convinced it's a must-have service for the price.
www.getdropbox.com |
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Tuesday, 16 September 2008 09:29 |
Dropbox - Free for now...
Dropbox is a small and easy to use application that allows you to save a copy of your work in the 'cloud' (somewhere on the internet). You've probably seen that before, but where it shines is it synchronises the files on your computer that you specify with the online folders, all without doing anything other than saving them in a chosen folder.
It goes further - you can install the software on a different computer and it will synchronise the files to that computer as well. Save a file at work to your dropbox folder, when you get home it will be in the same folder on your home computer. Amend it at either location and it updates at the other automatically, pretty cool.
The final bit of magic is it will allow you to share folders of your choosing with other dropbox users. For example, you can share a photos folder with your family members and suddenly sharing photos with those people is a doddle, just put a photo in the folder and it's available to everyone else you shared it with, so much simpler than faffing around with email.
At the moment the software is in the testing phase (beta) and is free. Whether it can be sustained as a free service remains to be seen, plenty of other companies offer free online file storage but to my mind not with the simplicity this offers.
www.getdropbox.com |
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