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I do not have a long experience with ServerFreak but had quite a few encounter with them and their service is simply great. Only a month ago I have move some of my important websites to their semi-dedicated hosting. But I did enquire about their service various time through msn regarding different aspect of their server.

The main reason why I did move to their service is due to their great review, and these review are coming from blogs which are well known. Second reason is because of their packages that suites my requirements. Thirdly, they are base in Malaysia but my server is located in United States, I could call them in their 24/7 line, MSN or submit a ticket when I encounter any problem at all.

So here are my experience, last week, I wanted to clean up my database on my old hosting at Exabytes, but accidentally clean up my existing hosting db [yes, pretty dumb of me]. I lost 10 DBs, not one, called them and everything is back in normal within 1 hours. Moreover, this was on Friday, close to midnight.

I do have other great experience is that their uptime is definitely better than Exabytes, but is a little slow due to location of the server. It was down once for around 5 minutes during the early morning for a month plus with them. Other services like setting up my account, facilitating my migration of my scripts and tickets response if doing great so far.

If you are looking for a Malaysia Webhosting service, ServerFreak should definitely be considered. Hope that this ServerFreak review is helpful as I was worried like hell after confirming the deletion of my database.

Okay, the new Yahoo! Meme is here and I have some invites. Overall I think it loads pretty fast and compare with twitter, has a better design, but it does not have much more better features compare to other Microblogging platform out there. I like the built in Image, Video and Music sharing, but plurk has this but not sharing stuff that is currently residing on your PC.

The only chance of this surviving is to get flickr people to do Photo Microblogging at Yahoo! Meme.

As mentioned, I have Yahoo Meme Invites if you like to try, just leave me a comment here saying you wants invite and I will send you through email.

Previously I have posted a pretty good software to check internal pagerank but something happen to SEO Junkie and they are revamping their website. I did not notice it until a person commented on my blog about that. So I begin to search around for the same old software or a new tool which I could use to check internal pagerank. And I am in luck because I found an exact software by SEOJunkie was found in another blog.

So here u have it.

Download Page Rank Software

Creating a community with WordPress MU is not an easy task. I am guessing that most people could only afford shared hosting like me, you will need a webhosting company that would allow wildcard dns. I would strongly recommends Host Gator as I know that they do offer wildcard dns and other configuration needed to run your WordPress MU. Or you could try Dreamhost as I have installed the WordPress MU there before than they works great.

If you do not want to bother about the mumbo jumbo of installing WordPress, uploading plugins, uploading themes, then you can give Blogs.MU a try, firstly they are free if you are using their domain. This is basically a free wordpress mu hosting, but there will be ads and limited control with the free service. I have registered a nice one, http://money.blogs.mu. and the users would be using http://money.blogs.mu/name. Come join my little community.

If you wish to use your own domain, you will have to buy their supporter package that will cost you $9/pack for 10 blogs. Although I am not quite sure about the calculation because 10 blogs meaning you can create 10 MU blogs at Blogs.mu or if we have 9 subscribers to our blog (1 of our own), then the whole package is used up.

You could try out their free service as they have some plugins and themes installed. You will get more with the supporter package. But you can’t ask for more since they are hosting your wordpress mu for free right?

Get your own community and share them here. @ Blogs.mu

Once a while I tend to remove some twitter users whom I follow and at the same time do not follow me back. Of course I do have some of my own criteria and I don’t mind following someone who are providing me with great information on Twitter.

One of the easiest ways to unfollow people who are not following you on twitter is by using Twitter Karma.This is because Twitter Karma will simply search through your contact list, then list those who follow you, those who don’t and mutual followers. Then you could filter manually and when you are done, simply check “Bulk Unfollow”.

It is good to do some clean up when you are following too many people and you do not have much followers. It is important to maintain certain ratio so that people do not perceive you as a spammer who uses a computer to do mass following.

For new follower, I do use TweetLater to do vetting on users and my condition is also base on the ration someone is following compare to their followers. So remember to unfriend people who are not following you back on twitter, provided they are not active or their tweet they do is useless to you. I will explain about TweetLater  service next time.

Twitter Karma