Toolbox

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Welcome to the WizOne Solutions Toolbox! This page is aimed both at people checking me out and at fellow developers. It will give you some insight into how I solve problems and the extra-cranial sources of the magic.

Read them all or jump to a specific one: Project Management | Productivity | Invoicing | Domain Names and DNS | Web Site/Web Server Infrastructure | Utilities

Click here to skip down and read disclosures and stuff about this page.

Or, check out my motivations behind creating this page by reading the blog post.

Project Management

Productivity

Invoicing

Domain Names and DNS

  • DNS Made Easy - www.dnsmadeeasy.com - awesome redundant DNS! They also let you brand their nameservers to look like your own. Do a WHOIS on my site some time and you’ll see it’s true! I used to use DynDNS for similar purposes, but I’m not even looking back after switching.
  • Name.com (http://www.name.com) – my favorite. The link goes to a domain name search page.

Web Site/Web Server Infrastructure

  • Immediate VPS – www.immediatevps.com fantastic support, good boxes. I’ve only experienced one outage with them due to a DDOS attack, and they handled it promptly and issued me SLA credit as promised.
  • midPhase – www.midphase.com - they’ve actually been surprisingly good, and, from what I’ve seen, the community agrees. No problems to mention, support is decent, price is right.
  • URPad – www.urpad.net – click my link, and then search for “urpad lowendbox.” As of the time of writing, you can find a smokin’ $5.99/mo. deal for a VPS with good specs. These are usable for production sites, according to a trusted source (and my own experience so far, at least with the uptime).

Utilities

Affiliate Link Disclosure and stuff

Some of the links to these services are my affiliate links, so if you sign up or purchase them after clicking (sometimes for a period of time), I’ll get a commission. It doesn’t make anything more expensive to use them. It just compensates me a bit for the recommendation. Please use the links if I am indeed the one who recommended a particular service to you. It’ll help keep me afloat and give me a bit more time to contribute and develop stuff that’s more interesting!

(Oh, and you’ll see that some of the links say wiz1.us – that’s a shortlinking service that I wholly control. It uses Drupal’s ShURLy module, actually! I use it for the links just to see how many times people click on them. Contact me if you have concerns.)

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