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Competition to win hosting for your Blog

Stuart Ryan — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 08:00:53 +0000

In the spirit of helping out fellow bloggers it is time again that I gave away some free hosting. For some years now I have run my own dedicated server to support my blogs and other sites that have assisted with my degree at University.

I thought however, that this time I would do something slightly different. This time around entrants will need to tweet their entry to the competition, each person is allowed to enter up to five times maximum and all you have to do is answer the following question in a single tweet (for example less than 140 chars).

How would blogging enable you to share what you have with the world?

Entries must end with “@StuartCRyan #BlogHostingComp” so this gives you ~110 characters remaining for your entry. If you also wish to tweet this page to help spread the word please do (however it will have no impact on your entry to the competition).

Rules of the competition:

Entry will be open until 11:59pm 31st December 2011 and the winner will be drawn on the 3rd of Jan 2012 at 9:00am and the winner(s) notified on Twitter.
This is a competition of skill and merit and is in no way random. If I see two entrants equally deserving I will award them both a prize.
I will be reading every tweet and will be making the selection of the winner and my decision is final.
Entrants must have a twitter account to participate
Entries must end with “@StuartCRyan #BlogHostingComp” to be considered valid
If the hosting is misused in any way shape or form, I reserve the right to withdraw the service
Free hosting will be for 12 months minimum, possibly longer at my discretion
The winner will have to supply their own domain name
Entrants do not have to follow @StuartCRyan however I certainly welcome it if they wish to do so

The hosting on offer is 5GB disk space with 10GB transfer/month and offers unlimited mysql databases and I can always help you out getting your blog up and running.

So get the message out and get your entries coming in I look forward to helping out a fellow blogger soon.

Stuart

Time to get Vivid Wireless – Deal to get your first month FREE!

Stuart Ryan — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 22:02:56 +0000

Vivid Wireless… it has been making many regular appearances on my blog lately… why? Because I use the service and have to admit that despite the odd technical issue here and there I am pretty stoked with the speed of VividWireless, the quality of Vivid Wireless customer support and the service in general (have even been playing World of Warcraft on it recently).

I just received an email from them yesterday letting me know that they have a new deal where you can get your first month free (and I am happy to admit I will get a month free as well for anyone I refer).

All ya have to do is go to http://www.vividwireless.com.au/friends then when you activate your service in the refferal field enter . Simple as that, you get a month free and so do I… so poke around, you can see what I have been saying about them (and even the interview I did with their CEO).

So I thought considering I am probably sending a few people their way through my blogging I would throw this one up as well. So if you have any questions or even if you just want to get a free month on Vivid it is a great discount.

Stuart

iStockPhoto discount coupon for 15% off your next credits purchase

Stuart Ryan — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 20:52:39 +0000

I have used iStockPhoto for the stock images I use on all my blogs for many years now. As I have been delving back into blogging again a lot recently I have found myself frequenting the iStockPhoto site more frequently to get stock images to spiff my posts up just that little bit more.

Today I went to visit the site and found that they were offline for maintenance (no biggie there we all have to do it) but I did find a little gem for everyone once they come back online.

iStockPhoto has put out a promotional coupon code for 15% off your next purchase of 50 or more credits. So if you have been thinking about getting some credits at iStockPhoto or even if you have never heard of them before, now would be the time to head over and take a look. The Coupon code is “15ISTOCK4″ and expires on December 17th 2010.
Stuart

O’Reilly books at 50% off!

Stuart Ryan — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 22:58:31 +0000

This one is good news for all you geeks out there. It looks like O’Reilly Media have extended their discount offer of Buy X eBooks get X eBooks free (where X is however many you want to purchase). O’Reilly I would think are most famous for their “Liama” and “Camel” book series for various programming languages including everything from Perl, to PHP to C/C++.

So the good news is you can get 50% off any eBooks you purchase. You can visit http://oreilly.com to see all the books that the have available. As below you get the eBooks in multiple formats, all DRM free.

The coupon code you have to use is “BXGXF” as per the below email I received, they had a thing at the bottom saying “Forward to a friend” LOL so I hope they do not object to me mass releasing it to the interweb.

Some of the books that I have purchased and have read/am currently reading that I would recommend are:

And just in case you are wondering what I have in my collection you can see the image below of all the O’Reilly eBooks I have.

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Turnkey Internet has Intel Q9550s @ $20 off/month Dedicated Hosting Special Coupon

Stuart Ryan — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 00:26:58 +0000

Just received this email from Turnkey Internet (whom I currently host with). To summarise in short and sweet terms Turnkey Internet has a dedicated hosting special on their Intel Quad Core Q9550 servers normally $129 USD a month for only $109 USD a month after a $20/month discount off the regular price. This is only for the month of June so get in quick. I personally have a Q9550 server with them that runs VMWare ESXi Server, so I personally would say take a look at that option but the deal does come with Microsoft Windows free.

Summary:

Link to the Special –> Turnkey Q9550 Special
Turnkey Coupon Code: 20OFFJUNE2010
Expires: June 30th 2010

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Greetings,
I am writing today to tell you about an exciting new opportunity!
We are offering you an exclusive $20 discount off our Q9550 servers! These servers are already offered at the unbeatable price of $129/month, and include:

Q9550 Quad Core 2.83 Ghz
8 GB RAM
250 GB SATA II Drive
FREE Windows
4000 GB of Bandwidth

Head over to the website and use the code 20OFFJUNE2010 to take advantage of this limited-time offer.
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
To your success,
Ryan McClung
sales@turnkeyinternet.net

* This offer is available for new purchases only, and expires June 30th. Limit: one per customer.
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Disclaimer: I chose to share this deal of my own free will, hey it is a good deal and I have a Q9550 with Turnkey Internet at the moment. This post does contain affiliate links back to the Turnkey Internet Site but this has in no way influenced the content of my post.