ToddW Blog

A lot of people these days think SEO is something “magical” and that you need to pay thousands of dollars to SEO your site, NOT TRUE!
On page SEO is very important as well as a properly configured robots.txt file but what comes next is what not many people in the non-SEO world know about, and that’s link building. Most webmasters who hire someone as a SEO think they are doing something “magical” with their site or maybe they believe they have an “in” with the search engines, ha not true! (more…)

I’ve been in the market for another dedicated server and have been shopping the big names like rackspace, serverbeach, theplanet, softlayer, etc.

Times have changed over the last 5 years! And by change I mean prices have increased a LOT! One big change in price/options is that a secondary hard drive is now an option on most systems, and so is RAID.  Both options can tack on a total of anywhere from $50 to $100 MORE per-month!!! To prevent the need of hiring a data recovery specialist I like to get my servers with RAID 1 so if a drive fails it’s not the end of the world!  It’s also nice because when you do cPanel backup it doesn’t backup the ENTIRE drive so if the hard drive died you would have to re-install all your software and cpanel/whm too.

My other new dual woodcrest server is SO speedy I may consider another one of those but only a single CPU as I don’t need this server to be so powerful.

Well my new Dual 3.0ghz Woodcrest server is running great! The loads barely spike 2.0 during peak usage and during the rest of the day are well under 1.0!! This is VERY exciting because my previous Dual Xeon 2.8ghz box was spiking to above 30.0 and loads during the day were never under 3!

My new box nicknamed “Woody” (for the processor sickos!) only has 2gb of ram so I could really speed it up by adding a total of 14gb *GASP* more ram!!!

I have around 10 proxy sites (domains) on the server and about two or three account for 90% of the server load and income.

So I’ve decided to expand my almost year old proxy sites into a complete proxy network!

I’ve got a business plan, profit model and have started by leasing a new very powerful dedicated server. I also have coded a lot of php tweaks and add-ons for the phproxy software to make it run faster and use less system resources.

For the geeks out there the new dedicated server is a dual 5160 woodcrest

With blogs taking over the world (ok not realy) how many people are still reading magazines ?

I actualy enjoy the time getting away from the computer and reading a real glossy and smooth papered magazine !

I currently read:

- Crawl (new off-road magazine that kicks some serious A$$)
- Four Wheeler

- Four Wheel & Off-Road

- Information Week (computer geek magazine)

- US Weekly news & Report