Site, Sight, Stacey, Stacie and all the other ways you can spell The Site Doctor wrong
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 9:54:08 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
One of the quandaries I've had for a while with The Site Doctor is our name, it sounds silly but I've lost count of the number of times I've had to spell out "site", it may not be too obvious why at first glance but there's two common spellings of "site" -one relates to websites, building etc, the other opticians (sight). Silly eh!
It has never really bothered me in the past but now that I have Stacey working with me we run into another issue -not only does she have a difficult to spell surname (Shapcott), people use so many inflections of "Stacey" it's comical. So this week I've taken it upon myself to sort this and have gone all out creating email aliases (we used to just have name@, name.lastname@, initiallastname@) but Stacey now has Stacie, Stace, Stacee and numerous other counterparts.
In an effort to make life easier for our clients, we've also got a few more domain names that point to our main domain name which include:
www.thesitedoc.co.uk
www.thesitedr.co.uk
www.sitedoc.co.uk
and my favourite:
www.thesightdoctor.co.uk
A little overkill perhaps but for the sake of £20 I thought it was worth it ;)
Moral of the story: Don't have a long winded name that has words that sound similar to others in it ;)
Another successful Multipack meet
Monday, March 10, 2008 12:58:05 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
So Saturday was another chance to meet up with all the Multipack guys in a recently restructured Multipack -same place (The Old Joint Stock in Birmingham), same time (second Saturday of the month). Personally I think it's a good move as the numbers were well up on normal with lots of lovely new Multipackers (I'm no longer the n00bie ;)) from all sorts of interesting backgrounds.
It's great that Multipack is slowly becoming more recognised; at Saturday's meet for example Underscore veteran Darren Beale trekked up from Worcester which was nice as I could finally put a face to the name. Hopefully over the next few months, with a little more self-publication and this easy to remember location/date we'll get more new members.
If you're not sure about coming along just yet, check out the website www.multipack.co.uk and get to know a few of the guys, alternatively there's a mailing list -http://groups.google.com/group/multipack and IRC channel: IRC: irc.freenode.net, 6667, #multipack so plenty of ways to join in.
Rackspace partners with The Site Doctor
Saturday, March 08, 2008 10:24:01 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
There are a lot of changes afoot at The Site Doctor at the moment -not just the new company identity, site and top secret plan but we're partnering with industry leaders to ensure we're able to offer the very best service possible.
Today I'm going to introduce our hosting provider, Rackspace. The Site Doctor has partnered with Rackspace®, Europe’s fastest growing and most successful IT hosting company, to provide our fully managed hosting solutions.
The Site Doctor has chosen Rackspace as our trusted hosting partner as they are completely focused and experienced in managed hosting. Every system and process at Rackspace was built exclusively for delivering a reliable and secure service, with support staff highly trained for supporting complex hosting environments. Rackspace supplies the necessary superstructure - web, application and database servers, network devices, bandwidth and managed services - needed to run any outsourced hosted solution. Solutions are hosted in state-of-the-art secure data centres, watched over by certified staff.
Another reason behind The Site Doctor's decision to partner with Rackspace was Rackspace's award winning and unbeatable level of customer service -nicknamed as "Fanatical Support®". Rackspace employees are available 24/7/365 to meet and exceed your expectations, meaning fast responses to critical issues, unlimited (free) technical phone support, access to their huge online knowledgebase, guaranteed 100% network uptime and many other business-critical support features. By outsourcing to Rackspace, we get the peace of mind that our hosting environment is being looked after by the experts.
Rackspace's commitment to its customers has won them the Unisys/Management Today Customer Service Excellence Award for 2005, in addition to being named Microsoft's Gold Certified Hosting Solutions Partner of the Year and Red Hat's first Advanced Hosting Partner in Europe.
The Site Doctor highly recommends Rackspace because, like us, they hold the highest standards in service excellence and therefore are able to ensure that mission-critical applications will remain up and running in a secure environment.
The new "The Site Doctor" website finally gets online!
Thursday, March 06, 2008 3:26:31 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
Somewhat behind the original schedule we've finally launched the new company website!
There's still more refining to be done to it and there are a few errors but it's far better than the old site :)
Visit the new The Site Doctor website at www.thesitedoctor.co.uk -new customer quotes and portfolio items coming soon!
We've got some wicked new branding designs to share shortly but until it's all published it's all very hush hush I'm afraid ;)