Simonthegeek

UK Reseller Hosting Comparison

At the moment I have active reseller accounts with 4 of the UK’s biggest web hosts. To be honest, I’m not really totally happy with any of them and I’m still on the lookout for better options, but finding genuine reviews on the net seems to be a nightmare, so I thought I’d write up a little comparison for you.

I guess I’m still looking for the ‘perfect’ reseller account, so if you have ideas please feel free to let me know. (I need somewhere to keep 200+ domains and 120+ active sites).

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SBS CAL’s reset to 5 - where did my licences go?

This has happened to me on a couple of different Small Business Server 2003 boxes, so I thought I’d post the solution up here - to remind me as much as to help anyone else :)

Used to have more than 5 CAL’s but now they have suddenly disappeared? This will be caused by one of 2 things: More »

Link swaps - not what they used to be

Hmmmm…. It might be time to change your search engine marketing plans. I’ve just read an interesting article about some changes to the way Google handles reciprocal links.

It turns out that all that time you have spent writing to relevant sites asking for a 2 way link swap may have been wasted as Google now marks you down if you have links going both ways, because it realises that these links have been manufactured purely for the benefit of SE rankings and therefore presumes that your content must be rubbish. More »

Sony Ericisson K850i keeps switching off

My K850i keeps switching itself off and/or rebooting the whole time. It’s pretty damn annoying and it looks like I’m not the only person with this problem. A quick Google search shows that this might be a big thing.

If I fnd a fix I’ll let you know. Otherwise there will be a pretty expensive brick for sale on eBay shortly - any bids?

Samsung i600 running WM6 - finally!

The Samsung SGH-i600 can now be officially upgraded to Windows Mobile 6 Standard.

I went through the process with my unit, it worked well but there are a couple of steps missing from the instructions, which is always a little worrying.

WM6 runs pretty smooth on the i600, but there is no Java runtime, which for some people will be a deal breaker. More »

RoadSync on the Nokia E61 - still more annoying than useful

Now that Microsoft have started to let people license the new ActiveSync technology Dataviz have released an updated version of their flagship product - RoadSync.

I tried it on my E61 and it’s better than Nokia’s Mail for Exchange, but still not that awesome. Unless you are hooked up with Exchange 2007 you miss out on most of the new features and it still doesn’t sync all the sent items and stuff. More »

Entourage on an SBS domain - outside the LAN

Setting this up was really quite a frustrating experience, so hopefully I can save a few minutes of hair-tearing for someone else by posting the details of my (now working) setup:

Entourage Account Settings: More »