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Google +1 integration is pretty straightforward, although these can often be complicated by the fact that most businesses don’t directly manage their own web content or rely on a trusted, efficient vendor to update their website in a timely fashion.
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One of our web development workstations completely stopped uploading this morning, causing us to spend several hours troubleshooting. Download speeds upwards of 20MBPS, upload… Nothing.
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You can see the latest addition to the network of websites that we support:

Connecticut Tattoos and Piercings

This website supports the marketing efforts underway for New Haven Tattoo studio Graphic Images. Graphic Images offers one of the strongest portfolios of tattoo artists anywhere in the Tri-state area and serves New Haven county, Hartford county and tattoo enthusiasts from Boston and New York who travel I-95 based on the strength of the body art they demonstrate.

3PRIME provided complete copywriting, CMS website setup and will be uploading graphics to the portfolio in the coming days. From there, this website will serve as a significant asset in the company’s online marketing efforts.
This website is provided with our managed hosting service.

Just two weeks ago, 3PRIME began performing work for the New England Kitchen Design Center. The Kitchen Design Center is a local company and they provide their clients with flexible home improvement help. They’re able to act as a general contractor or in more of a support role for Do-It-Yourself enthusiasts. They came to us to improve their standing and visibility online.
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A new client of ours had wanted to switch from their hosting company for a while now but had been hesitant to do so because of how abrasive the company had been with her. With help from 3PRIME they were (finally) able to make the switch, but not without receiving a few parting shots from their old hosting company, which we will call DisgruntledHosts.com. The following is an unaltered correspondence between Doug S. of DisgruntledHosts.com and our client.

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One of our clients websites went down this afternoon, and one thing that really irks me is when a hosting client’s site goes down, but the hosting company’s website is still running fine.

So I go to check and see, and Verio.com was down (1:09EST). So at least they’re all down.

I thought I’d see if they posted on a twitter page and news, and discovered that Verio also hosts Twitter!

Now, the twitter status page was working, but the main twitter website was not.

We’ll be keeping an eye on this, on behalf of FloorMall.com, the online flooring store!

Update (1:22PMEST)
Floormall and Twitter are back up.

This question comes from an Internet associate:

I’m actually creating my own website right now (and no, it’s not cosmetics-related) and I seek some advice from you regarding hosting. Just like you, I buy all my domains thru GoDaddy, only so far I never had to worry about hosting and FTP upload. I am reading horror stories online about GoDaddy hosting services and I’m having a hard time evaluating where the truth is… Some love it, some hate it!

Is GoDaddy a decent option for hosting? Or is it for suckers/newbies who don’t know any better?

Regarding hosting, I do recommend GoDaddy, but it may be that I am highly familiar with it, so I am used to ignoring the upsells they send you through when you are setting up services with them. I have had sites run poorly, I have had problems with hacking, but overall, with over 100 sites hosted with them I’d say they are good bet.

For someone better, and at $60 per year paid upfront very comparable in price, we use KnownHost.com. It takes longer to setup, you have to wait for emails and such (24 hours) but the control panel is much more powerful and the service is somewhat more reliable. Main difference, they don’t provide telephone support. So if you you want more personal support, go with godaddy.