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    Moving to Ireland

    Not closing the UK company, but we opened another in Ireland to handle EU clients/suppliers for VAT simplicity and certain regulatory stuff.
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    What is the quickest business bank account to set up?

    Metro - about 2 hours Lloyds - 1 day after appointment Tide - 4 days ( mostly due to their app faults) Fire - 1 week The others, cant recall but none have been particularly long *if* they've gone ahead
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    Working out profit margin with VAT

    £450 inc vat is £375 exc VAT So your profit would be £55, less ... Inc or ex vat ? This is a fee you pay to send it not charged to the purchaser ? This is a fee you pay the platform on the _sold_ price presumably, so £67.50 So clearly a loss maker :(
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    Finding Whois information

    Unless the domain registrant chooses to make their address and/or name "public" then no.
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    Displaying a Holiday Lists and GDPR

    Who are you displaying it to ?
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    How to block entire Countries by IP address/range

    Adding several hundred thousand IPs to a deny list is going to grind your site to a halt, assuming the host doesn't remove the ability to do it for causing issues to the server - if you're looking for that level of control they need to be blocked at the firewall on a dedicated server rather than...
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    Problems with Hostinguk.net

    Anything less than 24 hours may have a short-term impact, but no long term damage. Greater than 24 hours or down for a while then back but on a new IP address, we've seen that negatively impact things for a while with a knock down 2 or 3 pages and then a slow build back up
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    HTTPS everywhere to use it or not?

    It (theoretically) prevents the "naughty people" from seeing the data, so limiting access to those gov'ts and hackers with the deliberate backdoors and other exploits - hopefully reducing MITM< attacks There are other side-effects (which is why google pushes it so much) like you getting...
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    Time to Leave TSO Host

    It depends on who is doing the acquiring, why the host was available to be acquired and wheat the plan for the clientbase is. For some it's a pure scale/numbers game - the more brands the more likely someone is to "lad" on one of them and if they leave to land on another one (the EIG method for...
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    Recording of cashback

    It's a refund from supplier (as they've ripped you off massively on the exchange rate)
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    How to stop site getting hit by same IP

    They _really_ shouldn't be giving you the ability to block anything on a shared server - the potential for deliberate or accidental breakage is enormous !
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    High Physical Memory Usage

    If blocking the intensive access drops the load significantly, then yes, it's probably the amount of "visitors" causing the resource spikes. If it happens even with the blocking then the server is overloaded and further investigation is needed - what do top/atop/mtop tell you ? Caching or...
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    Security flaw in Wordpress or just the way it is?

    WF has an "annoying habit" of taking sites offline, which appears to be where the site-owner has automatic updatesleading to the .htaccess becoming unparsable
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    .uk or .co.uk ?

    We've had a few clients go through the 'rebrand' to use their .UK rather than the .CO.UK they used before - I advised them a while ago on reply-to settings for their mail clients so it'd sift over to the new email address formats For "links" under their control (facebook ad targets, navigation...
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    Vidahost website being down is raising questions for me

    They also take into account "distance" from their network (in ASNs) which _could_ be a way of them measuring "cost" to crawl a site, with preference being to those they peer with Bing appears to take the geo location details from the IP range into account where a domain is a GTLD rather than a...
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