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By Jenni Brown

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Heart Internet

Zombie Hunt: Day 3

You wake up happy that you’ve survived two zombie encounters. As you look around, suddenly everything seems brighter. The full-on zombie apocalypse is successfully being eradicated, you’re a level 3 Human, and you now have a really handy umbrella. Your PHP memory settings are so close to being sorted you can practically taste victory…strangely, it tastes uncannily like hot sauce.

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By Jenni Brown

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Heart Internet

Zombie Hunt: Day 2

You’re now a level 2 Human in a world even closer to a full-on zombie apocalypse. Despite your zombie killing success yesterday, T-Virus 2.0 is still breaking out, and the support team is still being infected.

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By Jenni Brown

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Heart Internet

Zombie Hunt: Day 1

You are a level 1 Human in a world on the verge of a full-on zombie apocalypse. You’ve got more important things to worry about though; the awesome website you’ve been working on is coming along really well – but you have a support question. Just how do you fix that PHP memory issue?

By Jenni Brown

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Heart Internet

Hunt the zombies to win a Kindle Fire and much more!

Oh no! Heart Internet has been infected by T-Virus 2.0, and the staff are rapidly turning into zombies! Over the next three days, it’s your mission to track down and slaughter all the zombies to save your favourite hosting company from its greatest threat since The Great Leprechaun Outbreak of 2001. Simply follow the story [read more…]

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By Jenni Brown

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Interviews, Website of the Month

Interview with August Website of the Month winner Project Barnum

One of August’s joint Website of the Month winners was Project Barnum, your first port of call to avoid psychics’ scams. Project Barnum is definitely a different kind of website, so we caught up with founder Hayley Stevens to find out more. Tell us a bit about yourself and Project Barnum. In my teens I [read more…]

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By Craig Cotter

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Hybrid Servers

Hybrid Servers magazine advert sneak peak

Since their launch a couple of weeks ago our Hybrid Servers are literally flying off the shelves (well, not literally, that would be dangerous and like something out of Ghostbusters), but they are selling rather well. They have tapped in to a demand for a product thats sits between VPS and dedicated servers, offering a [read more…]

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By Guest Blogger

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Guest Posts

The importance of grass roots conferences

This guest post is by Kirsty Burgoine, an experienced web designer and developer running her own business in Shropshire. Previously a php developer building custom content management systems, she has worked in the web industry for 6 years and now specialises in building bespoke websites, using WordPress, for clients both large and small. Over the [read more…]

By Matthew Telfer

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Social Media

If your key social media metric is follow count, you’re doing it wrong

When you combine a natural business demand for data to benchmark performance, with a lack of understanding as to the purpose of social media, a business will find itself looking at the wrong metrics. If you are tracking performance based exclusively on any of the following, I believe you are chasing the wrong tail: • [read more…]

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