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Shoutmix going gone?

December 20, 2011 10:46 am | 2 Comments - Posted by

While I was restoring my other blog (from being hacked) I noticed this was written on my Shoutmix Box

Important Notice from Shoutmix

Important Notice from Shoutmix

Up in the screenshot (or in this website) you’ll notice the note “Important Notice” so I clicked and it took me to Shoutmix’ announcement that you can also view by clicking here >> Shoutmix Announcement / Shoutmix Open Letter

Shoutmix Open Letter

Shoutmix Open Letter

As a loyal user of their service, I read the letter thoroughly. It seems things are not really working out for the Shoutmix company while we guys are enjoying and relaxing. I would love to go for the paid plans, however, the thing is I have too many websites that I put Shoutmix into which will be very costly for me. I am a free user at the moment but given the chance (and funds) I would really love to put effort into purchasing their service.

So, there are only two solutions I could think of:

  • Look for an alternative for Shoutmix which is as good as it is – that does not have spams and pop up ads which are really bad.
  • Totally remove the chatbox which will make websites boring but well..

I think I’ll be going for the last option since I do not know an alternative to Shoutmix, for now. All free users have until January 1, 2012. Sad to see Shoutmix is going gone indeed being free :(

 

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Back on Track and UptimeRobot!

June 16, 2011 7:18 am | 1 Comment - Posted by

I haven’t been posting anything ‘techy‘ instead, I have been posting loads of personal stuffs here. I’m sorry! But anyway, I make up for that today. And actually, my desktop is full of to-posts for JQ. I was not supposed to make a new post as well because I was going to move my websites from Hostgator to my new hosts. But what the heck!

My Shared Hosts!

Now, a picture above is a screenshot of my UptimeRobot dashboard for my shared hosting accounts. I was really happy because all of them are showing up 100%! I know that there are some instances that services like UptimeRobot might be inaccurate, but at least, it’s close to the real deal right?

At current, as you can see – I’m hosted by Zyma (my first ever 100% uptime host even without the server monitor) of Zyma.com, comes next is Host1me (host1me.com) owned by a good friend and web designer Soulmenj (soulmenj.com), lastly HostMantis (hostmantis.com) who provides really affordable hosting plan prices! They were recommended by Ate Ana, also known as _geekgirl in Twitter another hosting addict! (I forgot her domain, but I’ll post about it some time in the future)

Honestly, my shared hosting hosts really are good! Other than the price and up time. I just need to work on the backups but I haven’t studied how Rsync works. And if I’ll be able to use it in them.

As for UptimeRobot or uptimerobot.com they’re an awesome website/server monitoring service! Even better, they’re 100% free and you can setup as much as 50 monitors! I originally find out about it on WHT (webhostingtalk) when I was looking for something to check server status of my Resellers (for my clients) I failed to find one like that on WHMCS but at least I found UptimeRobot.

With their service, you can easily setup your monitors (done with a few clicks, no need to be asked by passwords and such like HyperSpin) they also monitor custom ports, but the most important for me are ports 80 (HTTP), 21 (FTP) and POP3 (110).

You will be notified if any down time occurs either via Twitter or your Email. As for me, I set it to update me via email since I have it connected on my phone. I tried the Twitter setup but it looked rather, spammy to my direct message box so I disabled it.

I hope soon they’ll have the widget option! I will surely love that. I tweeted and asked em about it because it’s what I’m looking for to display on my hosting website for my customers. I hope they’ll have it soon and that they’ll stay free even so.

Anyway, that’s a wrap for today!

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Should I put a Shoutmix Widget?

March 24, 2011 2:07 pm | 2 Comments - Posted by

Hmmmm, I’ve been thinking about this.I feel like on my sites that don’t have a chatbox everything is so boring. So, what do you think, should I have a shoutmix widget over here?

Having one is really great when it comes to interacting, plus I hardly have link exchanges. So, I’m thinking of putting one later! It sounds like a great idea to me :)

But I’m looking for more suggestions about it. I hope I get some from you, friends! God bless and have a nice day. I’ll be looking for more options about this after doing work! Til then.

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