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Any regulars will be familiar with some of the issues I've had over the years with different UK hosting companies

Well our US based stuff is still whizzing along issue free, year after year, and it looks like our UK Directory is nice and stable now its settled into it's new home at Rackspace.

The forum waddles along on a mediocre VPS at global gold, but now the latest site to fall over is my blog

mylocalblog.co.uk - Error establishing a database connection dohhhh!

Migrated the blog over to ezpz hosting as we have had another site over there for a while with no issues, and kaboom, they've both been falling over for the last 2 days

Oh well, suppose it is cheap as chips and you get what you pay for. Now looking at RackSpaces cloud hosting, maybe give that a try....

I seem to have a UK hosting midas touch! All I wanted to do was give the blog a makeover..... 2 steps forward, 15 back.....

Nice one Lina, good update, especially the second link.

cheers for the feedback Highland Spring

Looks like it hasn't struck a chord with many people though. I wonder if it is a case of you don't want to think about it, you don't want to discuss it or more like me you just haven't got round to it.

Well, time to get it sorted and find a decent will writer!

lol, just saw your reply. Actually banned this monkey and deleted all his posts the other day when I was reading a response, and thought I recognize that, cheeky git had re-pasted one of my posts!

Suppose it makes a change from "good info"

hmmm, giving me an idea, now wheres my big book of hypnotism for dummies...

Like it mate, looks great on an iPhone

Looks like they are still dishing them out for updating your places account, use it quick

lol

hdm C- must try harder

Drian A+

I think the on/offline marketing mindset is starting to change. Most of us who are doing online marketing currently probably fell in to it, mainly because a lot of it it, eg SEO/SEM was deemed to be a bit technical, so there is an element of frontier mentality.

My missus runs marketing teams for a major organisation, and has a long history of marketing, degree, professional certs etc. But is very much traditional and what we now call offline marketing. I think larger organisations are now only properly appreciating digital marketing as a separate science, and separating out their on and offline marketing skillsets. There must be a lot of crossover, copy, presentation etc, but digital marketing must have it's own unique challenges, as does off line.

Maybe future marketeers will be expected to be fully conversant with on and offline, but thats a big ask. How far do you go? One minute you are doing copy for a offline brochure, then you are expected to do SEO for your corporate site or creating and updating a facebook page?

Will companies expect on and offline professional qualifications? Maybe Chartered Institute of Marketing, as well as Adwords Certified!

Interesting times ahead, and I wonder what will become of us self taught digital amateurs?

lol it's so true. Trying to explain to my 85 year old Grandma what I do and how that makes money

....it was a lot easier when I just drove a truck for a living