Bogdan Pop : Web development , Photography , Dj

As I stated in a previous post the troubles I had with some foreign clients, one another issue that came upon me was the next one. I needed to register an Australian domain name for one of my clients. Of course, they could do it themselves, but they had no idea how to and so on.

They didn’t even know that you need to register a domain name in order to be able to host your website at a certain location. They thought that someone should “somehow configure the internet” to display your website for a specific domain name.

So, I turned to the domain registration services offered by PayLess. I checked their website a bit, their prices, tested their support and turned out they are great. Next thing I asked my client if they want me to register their domain for them, or if I should only guide them through the domain registration order process, which I did. Now, they are extremely satisfied with the outcome of the entire project.

They were also delighted of how PayLess treated them, so I guess this is a big plus for my company, as I referred my client towards PayLess. Referrals should come soon , shouldn’t they.

My company, Raptor Design, has done a few shopping cart templates in the past year for foreign customers. These customers were usually big companies, which had large dedicated or collocated servers, and unfortunately, they did not have control panels installed (like Plesk or CPanel), so they could not just click in fantastico and get their shopping cart up and running in no time.

So, we had to do all those jobs too, which ate a lot of our time, which was not good at all. Few days ago, I received again such a bid, and I really don’t have enough man power for the installation process of my client’s shopping cart which has to be delayed. This is why I started searching for shopping cart software solutions, and I came across Ashop.

My idea is to give them a try, and use their shopping cart services, as I did when I encountered a client as described above. It will save me time, man power, and money. So, until I find some new coding geeks this should work great, wouldn’t it?

So perhaps I should outsource a bit in order to get passed some small logistic issues I came across. You should give Ashop a try too.

Yes, all of us have lost few, or lots of data, important data, whether it is a photo of a friend, a contract, a project’s presentation that you must do in 15 minutes and so on. Few months back, a friend of mine wanted to start back in my old town, Bistrita, a back-up service (though for digital photos only). He suggested a dedicated server located on the metropolitan area of the city, and a small website, where you get to sign up, upload, download, and know that your stuff is safe and sound.

Of course, it would be a payed service. At that time, I said no to his offer, as I didn’t see anyone doing a back-up like this. I mean, you have external hard-disks, CDs and so many other ways to protect yourself. Plus, the city ain’t that big, and most of the internet users are kids.

Few days ago, I have changed my mind when I found an online backup service that actually works. They have free accounts, and payed accounts too. Amazingly, for just under 5 pounds a month you get 50 Gb of back-up space. That is huge! And it is cheap.

I am currently backed up by Time Machine (as I am a Leopard user, no comments), and my servers (as I own a web hosting company). However, I do not offer such back-up services, and as per contracts, I do not allow my clients to store data other than websites (they cannot use more than 70% of the space for multimedia hosting, and some don’t like this). So, I guess I will check to see if BT has some affiliation system for their backup services, and if they do, I will sign up, and then recommend to all my customers to back-up multimedia files over there, as opposed to hosting accounts, which are, for hosting.

Company website: BT Group

According to Computer World almost 10 percent of the worlds spam is sent from Russia, with a big 30% from Europe. According to Sophos’s Q4 2007 spam report, the country now deserves the moniker of ’spam superpower’ having seen its share of total volumes rise dramatically over the last year, to put it in firmly in second place behind arch-rival, the US.

The amount of spam sent from Russia has more than tripled since the beginning of 2007 until now, and they are on a very high ascending trend. Russia is already prominent for other types of internet criminality, such as malware and exploits, boosted by the near-mythical super-network, the Russian Business Network, which supposedly went out of business in November.

“We think that’s a pretty interesting increase and change in the chart over the years,” commented Graham Cluley of Sophos. “Of course, Russia has its fair share of spammers — and we see a good amount of Russian language spam advertising training courses and goods which are clearly of Russian origin.”

So, in the near future, Russia could take over US for the first place in spam amount.

Source:  Computer World