Recent content by ryedale

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    Voip System

    I've used these guys since 2015 Soho66.co.uk - reasonable prices, phones are good, fantastic reliability I've run it on a standard fibre line (75mb) with up to 5 people on the phone at once and it's had zero affect on performance/speed
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    Expanding my business at 16

    £66 a month for a unit including VAT and service charge - are you sure about that? Well done on the business growth though!
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    WooCommerce: Disable checkout without closing the site

    Adding this to the functions.php file does the job. Just used it for a client myself add_filter( 'woocommerce_is_purchasable', '__return_false');
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    Dog Walking - Building up clients before taking the plunge?

    Other than replacing an expensive owner provided lead that she lost for about £20 no One dog got injured but she had tight contracts which prevented any further issues.
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    Dog Walking - Building up clients before taking the plunge?

    It depends what you want or need to make from it really. It's not mega money but My girlffriend left her job to become a dog walker and within a couple of months, she was earning around £1200 a month with a peak of around £1800 in summer. - she charges £10 for a half hour solo walk or a group...
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    TSB Banking

    I've been with them for years and generally very good. The only thing that frustrates sometimes is that they are over keen to block cards when they suspect suspicous transactions (I buy a lot from US) - that's happened about 4 times and you have to be onto the call centre for 40 mins to clear it.
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    recovering files from tsoHost

    Was it a static HTML site? If so, then chances, you'll be able to get a full copy or close to it from from Way Back when https://archive.org/web/
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    Website developer & design recommendations

    Good morning! Those requests are all standard features really. Is the current site a bespoke E-Commerce build or do you know what software it uses? I'd be happy to have a look a at the site if you want to PM me the link or have a chat on the phone to go through some ideas with you (early...
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    New Website (Start Up)

    Hi Dean We'd be happy to have a chat with you about this - it's the sort of project we do all the time. Will send you a PM Thanks
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    Anyone else here use Hi Hosting?

    I'm sure if it's anything like our support centre, Dan will have alarms and alerts going off everywhere and he's onto it. It's always a difficult balancing issue between keeping clients updated and resolving the issue. Probably be a good idea for him to set up a status page away from his main...
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    Need advice on my LTD company and mounting debts. Please help me have some hope.

    Sorry to hear about your father , mine is teminally ill and it's a stressful time. It's not a drastic amount - if you ring HRMC and explain, they are usually supportive and will set up a time to pay arrangement with you where you can spread it over several months.
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    .co.uk transfer and renewal

    All .co.uk domains have the information hidden now because of GDPR You shouldn't be paying anything for privacy.
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    What’s your budget?

    I do the same as Billy Bob Writing quotes can take up two hours per quote and I used to waste so much time on ones that were never going to happen I tend to give a ballpark range before putting the proposal together and that immediately finds out if someone is looking for a £3000 website for...
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    Wanted - Website developer to help start up business

    Hi Rich Welcome to the site Nearly all designers will stay well clear of that sort of deal unless you were bringing something new and revolutionary to the market How do you plan to pay for marking and promotion if you can't affort the design fees?
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    Anyone else here use Hi Hosting?

    Perhaps Dan will come on here soon to update. I'm guessing he's pretty stressed out right now.