Recent content by DGP1976

Hosted in Windows Azure d/c in Hong Kong ...

Hi - a question for you all, and wondering if anyone else has had a similar experience with CN search engine Baidu. Our site ranks quite well in Baidu, and we spent most of the summer optimising our .cn site specifically for Baidu. In short we know what we're doing. However we have started...

version control is key - ensure that your devs are working on different modules, rather than working independently working on the same modules - or you'll quickly end up in a right mess, with conflicts lefts right and centre. Good project management is more important than whether its custom or...

not free, but VERY cheap is Windows Azure hosting. Also gives plenty of storage and bandwidth (handy if you're worried about ddos attack, as provides a nice initial buffer). As their datacentres are dotted about all over the place, you can geo-target your hosting, to your audience (target =...

Drupal all day long. I manage a 20+ language drupal site with 5K+ pages of content and in excess of 50 custom modules. Its massively scaleable and you can do pretty much anything you can think of with. The White House in the USA was also using it last time I checked. For account balance...

just remember to go slow with PPC. Its remarkably easy to blow your budget very quickly, especially if you've not put the budget caps in place, and have lots of *new* campaigns started all at the same time. Personally I'd prefer to do one site per country, every couple of days, to carefulyl...

working just fine for me. Maybe Google applied a patch, and you caught the server at precisly the wrong moment, prior to their JS updating or similar. A cache clearance should fix the problem, as this type of glitch can affect users on my site when we apply a big update (that requires a server...

interesting doc, although not being a mathematician it is hard going! I get the general impression that user do not trust domain names that appear to be trying too hard to match a particular kw search phrase - in the example they gave, the users preferred the meaningless domain over the...