So, after further exploring the depths of the inter-web and all it’s glory, I came across a website which basically finds out how much your website (or any website for that matter) is worth.

The site works out the sum by a number of different factors, such as how old is the web address, the rank in search engines such as Google and how many pages of your site it knows about, how many other websites link to yours, daily visitor traffic and even how well your website is coded by checking the validity of the HTML Code and such…

 So, what did it come up with?…

Well, apparently my website, www.lloydengland.com, is worth $509 aka £263.72p and if I wanted too, apparently could sell adverts on my site for $5 (£2.59) each per month! When taking into account that up until now I’ve spent about £50 on my website in total (that includes the .com and hosting up until now) – if I happened to want to sell it to some random person who I happened to find who is also called Lloyd England (or strangely wanted lloydengland.com) I could make a nice little profit!

However, my joint venture abc1 site www.abc1uk.co.uk is on the other hand worth $233 (£120.62), so not as much as my persoal website – but still!

Anyways, the site in question with all these amazing figures is www.dnscoop.com. (Currency conversion - 1 GBP = 1.93010 USD)

Every time I come on here and write a blog post I am faced with a line of ‘drafts’. Blog posts which never quite made it to being published for whatever reason. They’re there, all huddled together in a dusty corner of a server rack – waiting to be posted… waiting to be shown the light of day… but… the chances are slim, and if they were people they would know it! So, lets get that feather duster and lets have a quick glance at the posts which you never did see….

 First, there’s post number 13, or at least what would have been my 13th post, no I’m not that superstitious… that would have been posted but it was just never was. So, June 27th 2005 was the first and last day that my 13th post entitled ‘Pondering’ survived…

Secondly, ‘The What If Machine’, written on 30th November 2005, yet again never saw the light of day… what if it had been posted? (See what I did there in my all amazingness way?) Well… one day a blog along this topic still might occur… might…! So keep your eyes peeled!

The blog post solely titled ‘Post #35′ comes in third… it was never even given a name!

Then follows a string of posts all written while in America last year, none of which were ever privileged enough to be given the publish treatment, one by one called; ‘For the wrong reasons?’, ‘It’s all good folks!’, ’3000 miles away and it’s only just getting started’, ‘My Last Week’ and finally, ‘Sunday’.

And last but not least, ‘The parcel that never arrives’, written only a few hours ago in fact! What about? Well… parcels of course… what else would it be?

It’s up to you to ponder what they’re all about… hey! What if one was about you? Maybe Post #35 was… but… how would you know? Come on! I’m not that strange honest – they weren’t all written for the wrong reasons, some were truly all good folks… it’s just when the time came it just didn’t happen, maybe somewhere 3000 miles away it’s all just getting started and it may all happen again? From every Sunday to every Last Week – all over again – well – we can dream can’t we? Sometimes that parcel truly does never arrive…

Well it took over a day, but the website’s move to a new host and server is complete at last. After a few problems were over come and sorted, it was just a case of waiting while I uploaded my entire site to the new server in Linux’s crazy compression format and wait for for it to extract all the files to where they were meant to be!

So, if you had come across my amazingly cool and hip maintenance message over the past day you now know why! Hopefully everything should be working as it should – and other than yesterday and today, you shouldn’t even notice any changes! I get a bit less for my buck now, but its pretty decent and will do everything I need (for now!)

At the same time I also renewed my .com address for a further two years as it was due to expire in the next few weeks! So hopefully long live the site!

In other news (kinda), I’ve started to fix the problem with the gallery, it now looks a bit better than it did the other day, but still not 100% – I’ll keep trying to fix it though over the next few days.

Well, it’s been four years and now the time has come to say goodbye to my web host! Elixant, the company which host my website are closing down in March, and for the first time my portfolio’s site’s history – its going to have to move…

So, a little recolecting; I was with the Elixant team from the very start of thier company back in 2002 when I was priviledged enough to be given a free hosting account. Since then they’ve become a paid only hosting company, but in that time they have still given me the same support and service as if I were a paying customer (Even though I recently paid to increase my disk space!). But now due to thier own commitments they have decided to close it down to give them more time for thier studies.

And so this is it, I’m on the hunt for a new hosting provider, one which is Linux and has SQL databases! (And not a 100% requirement, but I do like Cpanel ) So, if anyone knows of any companies which are cheap and decent – tell me please!

I’ve been looking at WebFusion – (http://www.webfusion.co.uk/hosting/fusion-professional-linux/) which is £7.46 a month (thier cheapest with a MySQL database… but with diskspace at 3GB and monthly bandwidth at 25GB… I would never use anywhere near that… so I’m thinking it maybe a waste of money.

My current hosting account gives me;

Linux, 1GB diskspace, (not sure how much bandwidth – but I’ve only used 160MB this month so far so…(even though I’ve known it to rise to around 500MB+ on busy months)), 10 sub domains (even though I only use 1), 10 MySQL databases (30MB), unlimited email, Cpanel!

So, something similar to that would be great Wish me luck hunting!

Hey folks, so the other week – well it must be a couple now but I havn’t blogged in a little bit it seems, I managed to get an interview – exclusive I might add – with Sherri Shepherd for the unofficial site I run about the digital UK channel ABC1; www.abc1uk.co.uk, which some if not most of you already know I do!

Anyways, for those who don’t know, she plays Ramona in the ABC comedy Less Than Perfect over in the states, which in turn is shown in the UK on ABC1. After emailing her agent who seemed enthusiastic, I sent off a bunch of questions. Now, I expected to have to wait a few days – even a few weeks for a reply, but behold the very next day I got her response!

 So, then I got on to the task of publishing it to the site, and after a short while it was online! Amazingly about a week later, someone signed up to the forums, apparently Sherri herself, and replied to the forum thread about the interview! Now, I’m not 100% sure it was her – but – its pretty cool to think about!

You can read it at: http://www.abc1uk.co.uk/interviews/sherrishepherd.php