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    Declare Your Independence from Mediocre Web Hosting!

    Have you been itching to dump your current web host, but waiting for a good deal to come along? Your wait is over! Now is the best time ever to say goodbye to your restrictive, antiquated hosting company with our July “Declare Your Independence” promotion! Today, through July 31, 2013, you can...
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    Liberty Reserve - officially offline and down!

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22680297 Liberty Reserve has been shut down after the arrest of it's founder, Arthur Budovsky, on suspicion of money laundering. The question now will be what happens to the money that people had sitting in their accounts. It's been hit and miss for years...
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    25% off for life - E5620 Dedicated Servers

    Hands-on Web Hosting is currently offering a 25% off discount on our E5620 Servers (for life). This is a limited time offering and available for new purchases only. Server: E5620 2.4Ghz Quad Core Dedicated Server Space : 1 TB Disk Space Memory: 12GB Memory (12 MB SC Cache) X-Fer : 10 TB...
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    CloudFlare CDN integrated to all Hands-on Web Hosting Accounts

    Over the past several weeks, Hands-on Web Hosting has been integrating CloudFlare on all Shared Servers. This process has now been completed for ALL servers and we're proud to announce that users can install CloudFlare on their hosting accounts with just a couple of clicks in our control panel...
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    Hands-on Web Hosting - Cloud Offer

    Hands-on Web Hosting is pleased to be the first person to post in this forum. Cloud Servers start at $75/month with the following MINIMUM specifications: Cores: 1 Vcore Space: 2 5GB disk space Mem: 1 GB memory. Bandwidth: 3 TB All Cloud Servers come with the following: Access: Full ROOT...
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    Free Hosting Offer - UK Servers - through end of March 2013

    For a limited time, Hands-on Web Hosting, a leader in X-Cart Website Hosting is offering a promotion for free hosting through the remainder of the month (March 2013). The longer you wait, the less money you save! The offer is extended to any new hosting account signup that is made prior to...
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    Offensive Super Bowl Ad Sends Users Scrambling

    Hands-on Web Hosting, a leading provider of cPanel shared, VPS, dedicated, e-commerce and cloud based hosting solutions, today launched a special promotion at the request of numerous users of GoDaddy in response to their distasteful Super Bowl 2013 commercial. Fullerton, CA, February 4, 2013 –...
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    Transferring money to India using Xoom.com

    Has anyone had any experience using the company https://www.xoom.com for transferring money to someone in an Indian bank? They actually do a number of different countries, but the fees just seem really low (even after exchange rates etc). From what I've seen on at least the few different...
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    Google Analytics Bounce Rate - Have you checked recently?

    For those that are not aware, there is a percentage listed inside of Google Analytics called "Bounce Rate." This essentially relates to the percentage of users that come to a website and leave after viewing just one page. A high bounce rate is not necessarily a bad things as there's a number...
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    WHMCS Exploit (New for 10/5/2012)

    A new WHMCS Security Alert has been issued today. It has to do with a gateway module called "Boleto". It is advised to change the permissions on the /modules/gateways/boleto/ folder or remove the folder if you don't need that module...
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    New Web Design launched! - Hands-on Web Hosting

    Hi folks, I figured I'd pop in here and let you know that we have finally launched the new design of the Hands-on Web Hosting site. After several months of planning, several weeks of programming, and several days of testing, it's finally live! We took modular design to a whole new level with...
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    Don't Steal Content - you'll look like an ass!

    The other day, a client signed up with us and then promptly entered a ticket to let us know that they found us because of another site. They wanted to know why our site looked so different than the cheezy one that he had found. The answer - the other company stole our content! OUR Page...
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    Woman wins Lottery, still collects Food Stamps!

    Twitter is abuzz regarding Amanda Clayton and her continued use of Food Stamps http://now.msn.com/money/0307-lottery-foodstamps.aspx http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/07/amanda-clayton-michigan-lottery-winner_n_1327156.html What do you think? Is it an abuse of the system that someone who...
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    Site Ownership when webmaster splits

    Up for discussion; Person 1 owns a company Person 2 is an employee of Company (their webmaster) Person 1 owns company domain name & registered in their name Person 2 registers for web hosting in their name (with domain of company.com) Person 1 has paid all invoices over the previous year via...
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    New 2012 Tax Laws, 1099-K and W4

    This affects US Tax Laws Is it too early to start talking about the new tax laws that went into effect for 2012 but likely people won't even hear of them until January 2013 when it's too late to go back and figure everything out? In particular, I'd like to discuss the new 1099-K that's been...

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