…and hopefully the last! After the debacle with UrgentVPS, I’ve now moved teamtownend.com to WizzVPS. While it’s too early to comment on the service, the support has been excellent so far. In fact, Layershift (WizzVPS’s parent company) found me on twitter when I was complaining bitterly about UrgentVPS.
In order to meet increasing performance demands we are in the process of moving teamtownend.com to a VPS server package. This should result in faster page load times for you, and for my clients. Hopefully the move should be completed with zero downtime thanks to this method of moving hosting.
It is with great pleasure that Ed Townend Does Design can announce his partnership with Kiriix Limited. This alliance means that Kiriix benefits from the design expertise of Ed Townend Does Design! in its eCommerce ventures, from graphical elements to colour schemes to CSS.
Kiriix is a UK web host based in Thurnscoe, Rotherham, whose selling point is highly personable and knowledgeable support. Kiriix also has several endeavours in eCommerce, including Lightfoot Wines and Subcool Gadgets (currently under development). Ed Townend Does Design! is proud to be associated with such a strong brand.
This is a work in progress so you won’t see any results quite yet, but keep an eye on those eCommerce projects!
Don’t think this means Ed Townend Does Design! is too busy to work on your project though. Please contact me to discuss your requirements for graphic or web design.
Yesterday my hosting account got suspended due to another domain using excess bandwidth. This meant visitors to my site were redirected to an error page, and I couldn’t log into the control panel or even access the site via SSH or FTP. Normally this would be a disaster, as you’re locked out of your own site at the mercy of customer support. Not for me however!
I had configured my domain’s DNS servers to use freedns.afraid.org, which in turn pointed to the ukhost4u account. Sure, this adds an extra layer of requests to the loading time, but when the hosting goes down, all I had to do was import the latest database backup on my home server, flip the DNS records to my own ip at freedns, and my site was back online with minimal downtime. Slightly annoyingly after that work, ukhost4u’s customer service turned out to be excellent, and we had the issue resolved in a couple of hours. Now I just need to swap the DNS records back again…