So, I haven’t posted in 9 months apparently (this is mainly due to being busy buying/renovating a house). Just before christmas I realised that my website wasn’t working (I don’t often check it to be honest), and when I looked into this, 000webhost had disabled my hosting account due to “for violating 20%+ CPU usage limit for more than 1000 times”. It gave me the option to re-enable my account by upgrading my hosting to a paid account (which I…
So, after using 000webhost for a while now, it becomes quite a chore to update wordpress plugins and themes if their compressed file size is over the limit that 000webhost allows. The way I had been doing it was to wait until I had quite a few to update then downloading each plugin manually and extracting it, then using filezilla to upload all the files. This might not sound like much, but it can get quite tedious if you compare…
I got a new phone this weekend, the LG/Google Nexus 4, and I’ve been meaning to write a blog post for a few weeks now, so I thought a good topic would be to talk about my thoughts on Android. My first android phone was the HTC Hero (alternatively known as the G2, pictures on the right), I got this phone back in 2009 not long after it had come out and android was just starting to become a…
After giving them such a good review in my earlier post, I was starting to get very frustrated with the web hosting. The main reason being that whenever I came to do things in the admin panel, I would quite often get Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 67108864 bytes exhausted After searching round, I tried setting “WP_MEMORY_LIMIT” to 96M in the wp-config file, this appears to have done the trick, as I’ve not received the error since…
So I was sick of paying ~£22 a year for the hosting/web domain at one.com due to their lack of UK servers and terrible speed, and decided to switch hosing/domain registrar. I looked around and decided that for the amount that I use my site, it was not really worth paying anything for hosting, and this is when I decided I’d try www.000webhost.com for hosting as they provide a free service that covered my needs (couple of MySQL databases, PHP support, 1.5GB…
So, this is my first post in nearly a year! I massively failed at my original aim to keep the blog updated with an entry per week or so, but I’m going to try and set a more realistic aim of at least one entry per month. I’ve been meaning to get round to making a hard drive clock for months now and as per usual it got forgotten or put to the back of my mind while I…
I recently managed to get a compact PC (eMachines ER1402) for a bargain price for £99.99, in the Ebuyer “MAYhem” sale. After reading around, I decided to turn the PC into a media centre, using XBMC, to allow me to create something compact enough to have either attached to the back of the TV or to tuck away with the AV receiver. I wanted the media centre to be able to stream my High Definition content from my server,…