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A quick update on people that need the Crawl Rate Tracker to work with Wordpress 2.5 - just create the table manually.

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Following on from my previous article, regarding Setting up and using NFS on Ubuntu, here’s how I keep backups for quite a few clients.

On a particular site I maintain a single backup server that several clients backup to on a nightly basis.

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If you check the Page Rank of http://bloke.org against http://bloke.org/index.php, which are both, to a human, obviously the same page you’ll see two different results. My domain carries a PR3 whilst the latter carries a PR0.

We know they are both the same, but do the crawlers? No, they don’t.
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I really like Patrick Altoft’s Crawl Rate Tracker Plugin for Wordpress. I rolled it out on many of my sites and more of my client’s sites. I even used it on this site.

But my love for it was prematurely cut short.
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Network File System, NFS, has been around since Noah first networked his ark.

Setting up and using NFS on Ubuntu is surprisingly easy. i9000 Networks needed a slightly revised backup solution in one of it’s sites.

Obviously you’ll need two or more servers. One I’ll refer to as the server which will host the backups and the second/subsequent servers, which are the clients, ie. the live servers that need backing up.

Here’s how I did it.

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I’ve just managed to snap up two super new domain names, can’t believe they haven’t been registered already, www.wordpressexperts.co.uk and www.cubecartexperts.co.uk. Especially the Wordpress one. I’ll no doubt be using them as landing pages for some future SEO campaigns and advertising for i9000.

This morning I upgraded to the latest Wordpress 2.5, along with, perhaps, 500,000 other people…

and I’m liking it! Visitors probably won’t notice a thing on the front-end, but the administration area is where Wordpress 2.5 really stands out.

The upgrade was amazingly easy, I just extracted all the new files, ran upgrade.php and it was all done - perhaps 20 seconds worth of work? Kudos to the developers.

I won’t go on about the new features, 250,000 other people have already told you, just wanted to say how impressed I am with it!

Every once in a while you stumble upon some really useful Firefox extensions that make you wonder what you did before!

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I recently fitted a series of 8 recessed downlights in my living room. It wasn’t as simple as I’d originaly hoped.
There was a requirement for 2 seperate switches to control 400 watts of low voltage down lights.
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I’ve been asked quite a few times recently if I do custom CubeCart programming.
Yes! I do custom CubeCart programming! From mod installation, customisation to full CubeCart installations and skinning.

Please contact me for my rates, portfolio and to discuss your requirements.