A warm welcome to all my visitors, My name is Shane Holland , I work as a Digital Innovations Specialist assisting companies and entrepreneurs in hopping aboard the 22nd Century, with a particular interest in blogging and revenue generating websites. I am  based in a small seaside town in Kwa Zulu Natal, South Africa – called Margate and it’s an awesome place to live. I work from a spectacular home office, overlooking the Indian Ocean, watching whales and dolphins playing in the waves. For the last four years I have been working towards earning a comfortable living on the internet...

What is a Blog in a Box Description: The Blog in a Box , is a complete out-of-the-box solution for the blogger or entrepreneur that wish to take their web ambitions truly global. I am not one to spew sales speech,  so I am just going to tell you about a few basic requirements of operating a high traffic blog in plain English; if you require specifics , please feel free to send me a mail So here goes.. To succeed in this industry you need to have your blog on your own dedicated URL and then to host your Blog on a server dedicated and configured, especially for your blogging platform. The Installation...

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I can not emphasis enough the importance of having good quality hosting. Slow shared servers and abused and overworked ip addresses are the greatest enemy to anybody who conducts their business online. Not just in blogging, but with everything on the internet, if you are slow – you suck. When I chose my host, I explored every option and spoke to as many of the hosting companies as possible, as I knew the immense importance of my decision. I had almost settled on another company when I came across Single Hop Dedicated Servers, who are based in the banking...