Feb 3 2012

With Ten Years Experience … Design Students Trust Us …

By Stephen K
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Here at BigWetFish we have been providing hosting accounts for ten years.  From humble beginnings we have developed into a webhost that thousands of people trust to keep their website on line when they need it.  We thought we would post a few reasons why you should choose us to host your student portfolio site. We love hosting student websites and have always offered amazing student discounts.  Take the 2012 student plan.  You get all … Continue reading »

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Dec 2 2011

We’re Different (we don’t use the hosting handbook!)

By Giles W
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We say it on our homepage and we mean it. When it comes to the hosting handbook we don’t even own a copy of it. While we can’t write the book on everything we can take observations of other companies, their strengths, their shortcomings, and their reviews from clients. When we take all that into account then we move forward with our well formulated plan for success. We have worked directly with many companies and … Continue reading »

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Nov 28 2011

CYBER MONDAY!!!

By Giles W

Our Black Friday Sale was such a success that we are back again but this time for Cyber Monday. The deals mirror those of Black Friday with ONE MAJOR DIFFERENCE. One random order using one of the promo codes will receive a full year of credit for their hosting package. The details: An existing client who buys another hosting account (shared or reseller) between midnight 27 November to midnight 28 November (UK Time) will get 50% discount … Continue reading »

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Nov 24 2011

Black Friday Sale – 24 hours only

By Stephen K
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UPDATE: the sale is now over and we had our best day of the year! Thank you everyone who participated. Greetings! I have just spent a short time in Orlando Florida (where we have our USA based servers) and we thought we would mark ‘Black Friday’ with a sale of our own!  Many shops in the USA are opening at midnight for the sale of the year – check below and we may have a … Continue reading »

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Nov 20 2011

Google Apps

By Giles W
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Ok. No we are not Google. We do not have thousands upon thousands of servers and multitudes of dedicated data-centers at our disposal. Any geek knows that Google has rock solid services and can handle almost everything, besides some 100 minutes back in 2009, and other little flubs. Also almost everybody loves gmail. There is a point to this post and its not what you might think. At some point people would ask, “If gmail … Continue reading »

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Oct 30 2011

Guest Post: I’m married to a Fish geek

By January W

I have found that in my life there are two areas that I thought I was prepared for but realized later I was not. The first was being a parent, no amount of changing diapers prepares someone to actually be parent it only prepares them to change diapers. The second is being married to a geek. I am a nerd and figured that was close enough to being a geek that it wouldn’t be an … Continue reading »

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Oct 24 2011

CP Remote Rsync Backup Script

By Stephen K
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We talk a lot about the importance of taking backups at Big Wet Fish for our VPS and Cloud server clients. What would happen in the unlikely event of server failure or if data were to be deleted accidentally? What steps as a server owner do you have in place to restore your data in the event of a data loss situation. Professional backup solution licenses such as R1Soft start at £10 per month. A … Continue reading »

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