Microsoft

Online Advertising – My experience with Google vs. Linkedin

I’ve advertised Online for numerous years with Google Adwords both for my Websites as well as for various clients Websites and businesses (I’m a WordPress Website specialist). I’ve typically been extremely happy with the results received through Google Adwords advertising. Recently however I decided to run Ads on Microsoft Bing/Yahoo, Google and Linkedin to see [...]

The Microsoft Support Virus Scam

I work from home which has the very unfortunate result of me being home to receive a multitude of scam phone-calls. I regularly assist people to recover their WordPress Websites when they have been hacked so like to understand how scammers and hackers gain access to computers, software and Online services (as this often helps [...]

How to choose the best WordPress Host

The minimum requirements for a self-hosted WordPress Blog or Website are: PHP version 5.2.4 or greater MySQL version 5.0 or greater WordPress.org adds that they ‘recommend Apache or Nginx as the most robust and featureful server for running WordPress, but any server that supports PHP and MySQL will do. That said, we can’t test every possible environment …’. In theory these [...]

My First PC and Internet

Back in about 1994 my sister and I were lucky enough to own a state of the art IBM PC (for those too young to remember, IBM used to make PCs and then sold this side of their Business to Lenovo). This hardcore PC had a massive 64MB RAM with an Intel 486 DX4/100 processor. [...]