Emails that are like a conversation and are exchanged back and forth, with each participant adding their comments above or below existing text is called threading. It lets each participant read the complete conversation as parts are added. That threading on my email servers was broken without my knowledge. I was responding to friends and customers as I usually do by adding my text and pushing reply. Customers were telling me they were not hearing...
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DO NOT USE THIS ISP!
Moving is tough I going to talk about moving from one “shared server” Internet Service Provider (ISP) to another. The first time I did it was at least 12 years ago. Possibly longer. The name doesn’t matter as I am sure they no longer exist. The service and support were so bad, I think it was a one-man operation with a rack of servers in his garage. I only had a few separate websites then....
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After a nice run in the cloud with Amazon Web Service (AWS), Ramblin’ Dan’s Store (RDS) is moving to a new host and new store software. The monthly fees, although low by cloud based standards, were a burden in the overhead costs. That’s the primary reason. Also the commercial based store software required a good bit of maintenance or at least the creators did their best to make it look that way. The store did...
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I had a customer complain to me because I sent him his order with signature required. He was upset because he would have to go to the post office to sign for the parts. I can understand his dismay. It is a royal PITA when what you expect is to just have it arrive. I had a terms and conditions page that said I would ship with this requirement whenever possible. But somewhere along the...
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