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New Laptop Review Blog Launched

December 13th, 2008 · No Comments · Wordpress Hosting

Its a busy week for new Wordpress Blogs, but here is another blog laptopreview.me.uk (curiously on a me.uk domain) reviewing the latest laptops and notebooks with video hands on demo’s. At the moment the blog focuses on Acer Laptops including the very popular and compact Acer Aspire One Netbook A150-Ab Netbook which runs a user [...]

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WHOIS Privacy for Domain Names Launched

December 10th, 2008 · No Comments · Whois Privacy

Weycrest have introduced Whois Privacy for Domains Names. This is sometimes known as private domains or private registrations. One of the issues of registering your domain is that your personal data, address, email etc is stored in the WHOIS database for all to see.
This isn’t normally a problem, however some customers were concerned about [...]

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New Online Backup Review Blog

December 10th, 2008 · No Comments · Online Backup Review

Online Backup Review, is a new review site in Wordpress blog form that specialises in the reviewing the latest online backup services such as Depositit, backup software and portable USB external hard drives which can be ordered from Amazon. Might sound a bit boring, but its easy to forget backing up your important work data, [...]

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Number One on Google within Five Days

December 7th, 2008 · No Comments · Google

Registered the co.uk domain for this case study on the 3rd December, then installed the Wordpress Blog into some Weycrest Hosting space. Although Wordpress is Google friendly out of the box, we installed some additional “SEO plugins” and added our customised “ping list.”

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Creating a Custom WordPress Page Template

December 6th, 2008 · No Comments · Wordpress Hosting

Those with Wordpress Hosting might fnd this little Tutorial invaluable. There are times when you want to create a blog page, that looks entirely different from the rest of the blog. This might be because you want to use WordPress to run your entire website (as increasing numbers of people are) but want [...]

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Model Rocket Books

December 6th, 2008 · No Comments · Blogs

Looking for a different Christmas Gift? Model Rocket Books is a new blog, devoted to, not unsurprisingly, model rocket books, model rockets, rocket kits and toys. It will also feature reviews of rocket kits and articles on the science behind small rockets. the site will include some of the best clips on YouTube featuring rocket launches. Check [...]

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Weycrest Comply with Nominet “Best Practice”

November 27th, 2008 · No Comments · Nominet

Nominet the UK domain registry responsible for UK domains (co.uk, org.uk, me.uk, ltd.uk etc) have been carrying out a review of members to ensure they are complying with their “best practice” guidelines. As Nominet members and IPS tag holders We were very pleased to receive the following the email:
Hi Paul
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Depositit for Backing up your Laptop

November 27th, 2008 · No Comments · Online Data Storage

Having reviewed a few online storage solutions we find that Depositit was one of the most affordable backup solutions reviewed throughout all storage bands. Many get you signed you with very little capacity and then raise the price very quickly to quite high levels.
Depositit is the one of the most secure online data backup solution [...]

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Don’t let your valuable domain names expire

November 26th, 2008 · No Comments · Domain Names

This latest Nominet report makes an interesting read. Apparently he number of cancelled domains names which drop from the register and then get re-registered is falling. However, of all the UK domains that are cancelled, as many as 5% are snapped up within at least 10 seconds of their expiry. The another over 10% [...]

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Data Theft is a HUGE Risk!

November 25th, 2008 · No Comments · Online Data Storage

I was burgled the other week, which was one of the worst experiences (especially with our wonderful police force turning up promptly 7 hours later to check things out!) . A lot of personal stuff was taken including laptops and memory sticks, though importantly all of my critical data was backed up to Depositit.
I’ve spoken [...]

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