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Yup that's the problem, apart from the larger towns which also have cable, the rest of us are stuck with an ageing copper wire infrastructure

To make it worse, the 1970's estate I used to live on was wired with cheap aluminium cable, which BT used in the 70's and 80's due to cost of copper.

The downside is apparently (so a BT guy told me) this aluminium corrodes quicker, 30 years later, it is past its sell by date. We had no end of phone outages and noisy lines. BT were round repeatedly digging up the roads, and an engineer told me the only real fix was to replace the whole lot, which they couldn't afford to do and instead constantly patched it up.

So if anyone lives in a 1970's/80's house and has a noisy phone line, chances are you local exchange connection is aluminium cable

Don't worry, if you live long enough, you may see it replaced with fibre....

Just tracked it down, they obviously archive their content after a while!

Search Engine Optimization Myths

Must have been quite an adventure for a kid With my bad spelling, I would have fitted in alright!

Well it looks like it will be around for a bit longer, I see MS is continuing to support it until April 2014
Windows XP: The future

I don't think many business people are that naive these days.

Key things most people look for when it comes to shared hosting are reliability, ie you will keep my website up, value for money, and professionalism, ie quality support if things do go wrong.

Although reviews are a good start, googling negative comments is far more efficient to find out what people really think, and this works for any business

I don't think there is any low cost quickfix. It's all about strategy, a well balanced link building program and marketing campaign. A lot of the time this is the same thing, such as forums, promo articles etc.

If you want to specifically want to start driving sales then for a relatively new business it's going to be down to getting good keyword placement. Ideally organic, but as a quickfix till you get there, go for PPC. If you know how your customers are getting to your site, ie which keywords, then get an adwords campaign going.

Your in an extremely competitive market place, concentrate on any USP you have, eg why would I use you over other hosters? A lot of businesses now look beyond cost, online businesses need reliable uptime.

Currently (09.10 GMT) your site is down with an error message:

"We are sorry but we are again down for website fixing..."

If nothing else, change this wording! Apart from it's terrible English, not only are you down, but you are telling the world this isn't the first time!

Outages are the curse of the online world, but scheduled maintenance is a fact of life, so put up a professional holding page. For a hosting company this should be basics

Good call, cracking one which most people forget about.

I'm liking your manifesto

In the forum we've got content writers, marketers, printers, advertisers, web designers, give it a couple of months we'll have you sat in number 10!

Just need a party name. The Peoples Front of Judea? Judeans Peoples Front?

So how does Portugal compare with the UK other than obviously the weather?

Is it a better/worse standard of living? Do they do things better/worse than us?

It almost needs a telecoms alliance of BT, Virgin, Mobile Phone operators? But overseen and controlled by who? If it's a govt dept, it will be inefficient and descend into redtape.

Maybe National Grid could take it on? Make broadband as important and Electricity and Gas? They could prob utilise their own infrastructure, pylons and pipelines? They already have 2 services coming into most houses.

"National Grid is an international electricity and gas company and one of the largest investor-owned energy companies in the world..."
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