Greg Tice

Stompernet, Is It Really That Good?

greg — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:29:17 +0000

In a word, yes. It is that good. We have been members of Stompernet before it was called Stompernet. Since we have been members of this group our income has increased at least 5-fold. We are not talking small numbers here, we are talking in the millions since we began our partnership with Stompernet.

Today, September 9th, 2009, the prices change, the number and quality of the tools change and new staff members will be announced soon. If you are serious about making money on the Internet, today is your day. The price is sweet and the product package is even sweeter. You future has changed today, Join now!

Mozy.com – My Experience

greg — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:55:46 +0000

I have been using Mozy.com for online backup of two desktop machines in our office about 7 months now without any significant problems. I have been very satisfied with the price and performance of this solution until last weekend.

On Saturday morning I was trying to perform a small bit of maintenance on one of our websites from home. After determining I needed a file from my office machine to complete the work, I tried to perform a “web restore” from my Mozy.com backup. After logging into my Mozy account, I found and selected the file (a single 30k file) I needed to restore and submitted the job. I figured it may take several minutes until the restore was ready, even 30 minutes wouldn’t be a big deal. So I waited…and waited…and waited. After 45 minutes of waiting I ran out of things to do on the website and threw in the towel.

Several hours later I checked my Mozy.com account. Still waiting… A few hours later I checked again, no dice. At this point I decided to send Mozy support an email. And still I waited.

At 8:22am on Sunday, about 22 hours after I submitted my file restore, I received an email from Mozy indicating my restore request was complete. Great!…but it was easier and much faster for me to go to the office, get the file and put in on the website. For fun I retrieved the “restored” file and opened it successfully. Happily it was the right file.

At 9:26pm on Sunday I received a response from Mozy support explaining why my file restore did not happen quickly. I have reproduced it below.

“Web Restores are done on a first come, first serve basis. Restore build time depends on how many people have requested restores before you. Sometimes they will build quickly, but others it may take quite a bit of time. We ask that you please be patient while the restores build. I can see that the restore finished today. This delay happens when there is a large volume of restores pending.”

This may or may not be an truthful explanation of the situation regarding my restore request. In a previous life, I was in enterprise storage administration and know this stuff should never take this long.

Possibly Mozy does not have sufficient infrastructure to deal with the number of restore requests they receive, I will never know. What I do know is that I will now be giving Carbonite online backup a try. Their price is very similar to Mozy.com and the performance of their restore service can hardly be worse. I am certainly glad this wakeup call happened now rather than when I really needed them to perform.

If you have any experience, good or bad, with Mozy.com or any other online backup provider, I would love to hear about it.

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Stomping The Search Engines v2.0 Is Now Live!

greg — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:17:44 +0000

You can finally get your FREE copy of Stomping The Search Engines v2.0 by Clicking Here.

Brad Fallon and Andy Jenkins have really outdone themselves on this one. My friend, Don Schnure, has done a quick video review of the product. See below…

Stomping the Search Engines 2.0 & The Net Effect

Technorati Tags: stompernet, andy jenkins, brad fallon, don schnure, seo, ppc

Stomping The Search Engines #2

greg — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:49:00 +0000

The StomperNet folks had some major technical challenges yesterday and pushed back their launch until today, September 4th, at 1400 EDT…or so I have been told.

The good thing is they are throwing in some more bonuses.

Click here for Stomping The Search Engines v2.

“Stomping The Search Engines v.2″ will be available today at ~~1500 EDT~~. New start time is 1630ish EDT. (StomperNet folks having trouble getting enough load balanced machines from their host) This follow-on to the seminal “Stomping The Search Engines” is the best organic SEO instruction available today. Get it while you can. Oh, and you can’t beat the price, it’s FREE (do hackers and crackers spell it phree?)

Click here for Stomping The Search Engines v2.

Technorati Tags: andy jenkins, brad fallon, stompernet, seo, organic, search, google

If You Post Via Google's Chrome Browser They Own Your Content!

greg — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:34:00 +0000

Update: Google has apparently re-worked the EULA for Chrome which leads one to believe the original EULA was just something hacked together by one of their legal umm…hacks?

More here…

Just came across a very, very interesting blog post that everyone using Chrome should know about. In part, Google’s Content License in Chrome states, in part,

“By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services.”

Matt Cutts on Chrome Browser Phoning Home

greg — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:31:55 +0000

Matt takes a run at how and when the Chrome Browser phones home. He makes a good point in that it is open source so it is pretty hard to hide this stuff.

Read Matt’s blog posting…

Have you installed Chrome yet? Do you like it??

Technorati Tags: matt cutts, chrome, google, browser

Google Chrome Is Now Available!

greg — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:28:10 +0000

Click HERE to download Google Chrome Beta

Technorati Tags: google, browser, chrome,

A New Browser – Google Chrome

greg — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:27:14 +0000

So finally the long rumoured Google Browser is going to show tomorrow. After reading through the details of the product, it looks like it may be very good. Of course, how much behaviour information it pushes back to homebase will be a concern. Also, Googles ability to get plug-in developers on-board may be the key to widespread adoption.

Firefox 3 Download Day is here! Too bad you can't actually download it.

greg — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:36:10 +0000

Today is the official release day for FireFox 3. At the SpreadFireFox website, they have a big spread about breaking a world record for downloads. Too bad when you click thru to download the new version they are still presenting a link to download version 2.x. I was successful in getting version 3 by hand editing the URL. This is the URL I used to grab the new version for Windows.

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/products/download.html?product=firefox-3.0&os=win&lang=en-US

Almost forgot to mention the websites in question have been up and down for over an hour now. You would expect if they want to set a world record they would make sure they have sufficient backend to cover it.

Anybody else had success?

Technorati Tags: web browsers, firefox, spread Firefox, mozilla

Is MarketingVOX Confused Or Just A Slow Newsweek?

greg — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:02:27 +0000

MarketingVOX is pushing a news story about Google getting it’s wrist slapped by the French court, that from all accounts appears to be over three years old. In the story they cite a CNET piece entitled “Google loses trademark case in France” that dates from February 2005.

Am I missing something here?

Technorati Tags: Google, MarketingVOX, CNET, Louis Vuitton, Trademark, Adwords