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HTML Basics for Online Businesses

2017 Sep 20

If you run an online company, chances are you’ll need to know some basic HTML at some stage. Although it can seem daunting at first, there are a few pieces of HTML code that will be invaluable to you as you build and manage your online business. When did computer coding start? The first electrically...

Setting Up Monitoring With Monit

2017 Sep 20

Welcome back to this next part in our series on setting up a high availability solution using the VPS.net public cloud. In our previous post, we finally got all of our components working together to provide a working high availability solution. This meant that all files and databases were synchronized between servers automatically and we...

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How To Build A Blog Using UK2’s Website Builder

2017 Sep 20

There are many myths around creating your own website. Technophobes claim you need to know how to code, while others…

Configuring Heartbeat And Apache Part 2

2017 Sep 19

In the last part of our high availability tutorial series we looked at configuring heartbeat to move an IP address between the two VPS servers we had set up, and also to restart Apache to use the IP address as it moves over. Unfortunately, heartbeat doesn’t do all the work for us, so we need...

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Ten Tips for Boosting Ecommerce Conversion Rates

2017 Sep 19

There’s always more that can be done to improve ecommerce conversion rates. Online audiences are constantly expanding and maturing, while ecommerce systems become more sophisticated with every passing year. Yet less than one in ten American retail dollars is spent online. That’s remarkably low given our reliance on (and familiarity with) the internet. There are...

How to Create an Email Marketing Campaign

2017 Sep 18

Following warnings throughout the Noughties that spam was destroying email, network filters and junk folders have evolved to the point…

Ten Years of the Hashtag

2017 Sep 15

The hashtag is such a mainstay of internet culture these days, it’s hard to remember there was a time when it didn’t exist. Indeed, when Twitter was launched in 2006, its founders and developers had not yet devised an easy and seamless way to “group” conversations together under one topic. It wasn’t until a year...

The Top 5 Essential WordPress Plugins

2017 Sep 06

When WordPress first came on the scene, website development the world over underwent a seismic shift. Suddenly, it was no longer necessary to be a coding genius to build a website. Users could use a simple, easy-to-learn interface to build a professional-looking website in a fraction of the time with little to no coding knowledge....