In a much needed update of this blog I will talk about the
upgrade of one of the dedicated servers that I use.

There are several options with an upgrade.

SERVER HARDWARE UPGRADES

Under the hardware upgrades are:

Additional hard drive(s) and also
Additional 512/1024/2048MB DDR RAM

NETWORK UPGRADES

Under the Network Upgrades are:

Additional IP Addresses
Additional GB’s of Monthly Bandwidth
10Mbps Unmetered Connection

also:

Redundant DNS Services
various Backup Services
Extra Services such as
SSL certificates

Personally I chose not to upgrade the server itself but
to get a bigger and faster machine, while keeping the
IP addresses I already had in use on the previous server.

This was done within a few hours and with no down time
whatsoever for the web sites on the server.
The cost for the service was $30 + the upgrade in price
for the

Yes, it has been confirmed by the Wikipedia Admin, and I just
read it on the Digita Point forum.
And here is the exact post there:

It was decided to switch on the nofollow attribute for all external links in the English Wikipedia. This has been an option for a while, and it was done now because of an influx of spam and talk of an SEO competition targeting Wikipedia. Whether it will stay this way for a while or indeed permanently, no one is really sure. If some links have not changed, I believe this is due to WP’s caching system, and they will be nofollow soon.

In any case, adding links to Wikipedia to promote websites is strongly discouraged. They will most likely be removed, and if continued you can be blocked from editing.

Hope this helps to clarify.

the wub - Wikipedia admin

In terms of SEO the NOFOLLOW will be bad news for many sites

Last time I told you about the choice that I made to
change the server instead of upgrading the one I had.

What I couldn’t have known beforehand was the fact
that some serious issues might arise with the IP addresses
that I had on the server before the change.

Even though I was assured that everything will be done
with ease, and smoothly, and it seemed to go well, after
all - it didn’t. Several of the IP addresses suddenly
went dead on my sites, and the sites with them.

My horror was enormous when while checking the sites and
I didn’t see a few coming up, and dead links were there
instead of my sites. Such disasters shouldn’t be happening
on a dedicated server, unless your server is crashing due
to an enormous flood of traffic, or some hard ware issue.

One of these sites is MP3 Players on Closeout
and the blog that goes with it

The saga described yesterday ended happily today and
everything was solved. For one reason or another the
DC while assigning the IP’s, that I already had has taken
some of these and assigned others to me.

Here follows the message that I received from the friendly
customer service at managemybox:

That is all the proper IP\’s for your server, not sure how it happened but when they did the upgrade they reassigned some of your other IP\’s and assigned new ones, which I only just got all of today. I\’ve added and configured them on your server so as long as you use the IP\’s listed above you should have no more problems.

After receiving the message I was able to set up my
sites under the newly assigned IP addresses and the
sites that were down for like 18 hours were online
and functioning properly within minutes.

This time all ended well, and even though this chang

Today I read an article on ITNews at TechRepublic that left me
with a bad taste… Imagine what would you do if something
similar happened to you: Your registrar pulls your site after a complaint

The other side of the coin is though that there are some
registrars that give most extensive guarantees against
unnecessary domain name suspension. You can READ THE
SURVEY HERE

There are definitely great things in the service provided by
GoDaddy.com. For example their change of NS is the best
of all the registrars that I have ever used. Within minutes
it propagates, while with others you could wait easily a day
or even two to three.

But I also do agree with the stand point of Gandi.com -
that they’d rather spend time in what