OziFree Blogs get a free make-over

OziFree Blogs get a free make-over

Well it was overdue, and the blog system needed spam-bot proofing, so we got to work and revamped the entire site.

Bloggers now get a choice of 5 different templates or themes to choose from at the moment. Basically, there is Red - Blue - Green - Gold and this default bluish theme to display your blog in.

All the bugs and glitches have been attended to, so no more error messages about headers already being sent or page not found etc.

We have added a code number into the signup system to try and stem the flow of the thousands of pea-brained spammers and their blog-bots from creating useless wasted space blogs about their viagra experiences!

Spammers creating accounts manually, will still have to contend with posting manually, and park their bots elsewhere while on this site. Any promotional sites chasing click-thru’s, adverts, backlinks or page rank will be carefully monitored until they are producing a nice referer result for their site owner, and then we will edit them to reflect our own sites and products after you have done all the hard work. So spammers - be warned.

Genuine Bloggers on the other hand are more than welcome, and can blog away to their hearts content, using one of the best free blog sites available here in Australia.

Written by Bloke on December 1st, 2008 with no comments.
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The joys of having your very own dedicated server

The joys of having your very own dedicated server. There aren’t any. Unless you count the faster access speeds, better data transfer in other words, less downtime etc.

No-one mentions the downsides. Like the greatly increased monthly costs, or the hourly fees for a “remote-hands” techies to re-boot it, or just thump it for you. Lets not forget the constant upgrading of server software, almost daily in fact just to stay ahead of the scammers, hackers, and dickheads.

Then there’s the stuffups, like when you forget you are logged in as “root” and you upgrade a users site for them, then they come back screaming because they cannot overwite the html file that is now owned by user “root”. No matter, a quick “chown -R” should fix that.

So you try to offset your costs with a few Google Adsense adverts, and the money really starts to roll in, and you find that in no time at all you are earning nearly $10 bucks a month! Yep, that certainly goes a long way towards paying for that server not.

Written by Bloke on October 16th, 2008 with no comments.
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