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February 2010: Blog Summary & Income Report

March 2, 2010

February. Such a short month. Only 28 days. Never the less, these past 28 days were very interesting for TechPatio, as the table below will show you. Maybe it’s because of the winter or maybe TechPatio.com is just growing? Well, have a look at the table and then I’ll discuss a few of the numbers [...]

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TechPatio Reaches 1000 Tweets on Twitter & 200 RSS Subscribers

February 23, 2010

Who would have thought it could take me around 6 months to reach a 1000 tweets on Twitter? That comes down to just about 5 tweets per day. Well, I’m not sure my @TechPatio account has been active for exactly 6 months, but it’s plus/minus a few months at the most, so no big deal.
The [...]

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TechPatio Switched Web Host Again: CS New Media

January 30, 2010

As it turns out, VPS hosting was not for me. Just to recap, here’s the hosting history of TechPatio.com for the past almost 7 months (since TechPatio was first launched):

Surftown shared web hosting plan. I’ve been a customer there since 2004 – (a few months).
Surftown VPS beta hosting as part of a small “VPS beta [...]

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TechPatio Will Be Moving To VPS – Again!

January 22, 2010

Back in November, I was accepted as part of a VPS beta test program with Danish/Swedish hosting provider, Surftown. I moved TechPatio.com to the VPS server and now the beta test has been concluded. I have recently ordered one of the final VPS server solutions for TechPatio and so I will be moving the site [...]

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from TechPatio

December 30, 2009

I hope it’s not too late to wish you all a Merry Christmas – otherwise consider this an early greeting for Christmas 2010
Happy New Year
2009 is close to an end and a new year (2010) is just around the corner. 2009 was great for TechPatio for one reason: It was the year this [...]

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TechPatio Reviewed By Thesis Theme HQ

December 29, 2009

Somone over at Thesis Theme HQ reviewed TechPatio.com recently and compared the current site design and layout (as of December ‘09) to the one I had before switching to the Thesis theme, back in August 2009.
She did a really fantastic and lengthy review of my site and I’m really happy to see how much effort [...]

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Caroline Wozniacki’s Breasts Are Really Popular

November 17, 2009

Who would have thought that the most searched term to arrive here on TechPatio, would be “Caroline Wozniacki breasts“? Well, in October, 5% of all my search engine visitors came here looking for them.
Caroline Wozniacki breasts were the 4th most searched term in Google on September the 8th, 1 hour before her quarter final match [...]

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TechPatio Finally Moved to VPS Hosting

November 11, 2009

Earlier today I posted a little bit about my issues with moving techpatio.com to another form of hosting, so called VPS (Virtual Private Server), with Surftown.
It seems I have finally solved the worst problems and at least now the site is running and e-mails are able to be sent out (comments etc.).
While there still may [...]

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TechPatio Moved To VPS Hosting – For Five Minutes

November 11, 2009

I was selected as one ouf hundred beta-testers for my hosting provider’s, Surftown, new VPS service (Virtual Private Server). During the test phase they offer a “root VPS” and “application VPS”. I asked for application VPS as I’m only running WordPress.
After having spent some time uploading all my techpatio.com content, images, database etc, I finally [...]

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