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Oppose SOPA and PIPAIt's time to put your PROXY socks on. As I mentioned before this is going to get ugly. Two new pieces of legislation, Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate, and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House have been introduced to stop online piracy. Unfortunately, this type of legislation will introduce harmful regulations to online businesses, and amounts to overall government sponsored censorship.
While good intentions may apply to this type of legislation, the implementation will be disastrous to the Internet and to small business. I highly encourage you to oppose this legislation by writing your representative in Congress. Keep the internet free and clear of additional government regulations.
As you may have noticed today many popular Internet sites staged a "virtual strike" today offering limited or no web service in opposition to SOPA and PIPA. This included Wikipedia, MoveOn, Reddit, Mozilla and Google.
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Last Updated on Thursday, 19 January 2012 01:40 |
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The Measure of a Website
The measure of a website is not in the number of pages but rather in the quality of the content- and that you even have one of course. You can have a relatively small website (5 pages or less) be extremely effective both from a branding standpoint, but also a conversion standpoint. We’ve seen this in landing pages for years, but when we are talking about a website, I am often asked how big should it be?
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Last Updated on Thursday, 15 December 2011 01:13 |
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Localized Searches
 You probably noticed that some of your searches in Google have started to magically show results in your city even if you didn’t specify a city. This is due to a somewhat new feature in Google whereby they are detecting your location automatically. Someone in San Diego doing a search on “web hosting” is going to find EPhost in one of the top positions. However, the same search originated in Indianapolis, Indiana would likely yield different results.
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 14 December 2011 22:35 |
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Net Neutrality
This is getting real…. real ugly.
I wanted to take a moment and bring to your attention the issue of Net Neutrality and the importance of this topic for all website owners. In its simplest form Net Neutrality means that NO form of content is preferred over another. This means a free and open Internet for all. The issues are complex and cloudy. For instance, some people care that medical records are delivered with priority over a Britney Spears video- thus against net neutrality. Others care that their company message is delivered with equal priority- thus for net neutrality. Both points are very valid.
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Last Updated on Saturday, 17 December 2011 22:42 |
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URL Rewriting using ISAPI_rewrite 2 and 3 with WordPress and Joomla
There have been many requests lately to update WordPress and Joomla installations to use URL rewriting techniques to create SEF links. We use the robust and flexible IIS Web Server from Microsoft as our primary platform for over 10 years. IIS 6 does not support MOD_Rewrite which many Linux converts are used to seeing. Instead we use a tool called ISAPI_Rewrite for our shared hosting customers (also available for dedicated/virtual server customers). Currently we are running ISAPI_rewrite 2 on the shared server and will soon upgrade to version 3. |
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 14 December 2011 22:33 |
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Should I have two websites or one for SEO reasons?
 I met a criminal defense attorney while camping at San Elijo State Beach who asked me whether or not it is better to have a few smaller websites rather than one for search engine optimization reasons. I am often asked this question so I thought I would blog about it.
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 14 December 2011 22:35 |
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Why you should upgrade your computer.
 If you are one of the masses that still running Windows XP on an older machine you should really think about upgrading because it’s a huge source of computer stress and hidden expense. I know you probably feel comfortable wrapped in a warm XP blanket on your trusty old machine. So what if your computer takes a few minutes to load a web page. I am sure you also recall the horrors of digging up printer drivers- so you say why bother- you only use it to surf the web and check your emails. Right?
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 14 December 2011 22:34 |
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