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		<title>Client Area Upgrade</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re going to be updating our client and support area this evening.
For a short period of time, the client area will be unavailable.  Virtual servers will be unaffected.
Thank you for your patience.
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		<link>http://blog.smart-vps.net/33-client-area-upgrade.html</link>
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		<title>Cloud Computing for Small &amp; Medium Businesses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The term cloud computing has certainly been the recipient of much hype in recent times.   However, it&#8217;s become a service that&#8217;s proving very useful, and will certainly be growing in the future.
From a technological point of view, cloud computing offers advantages of reliability, scalability and speed of provisioning.
From a business perspective it offers lower [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.smart-vps.net/23-cloud-computing-for-small-medium-businesses.html</link>
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		<title>The new need for speed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google&#8217;s recent announcement that they well be factoring in the speed of website in the search results has caused some concern for webmasters:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/04/using-site-speed-in-web-search-ranking.html
If your website is currently being served in a shared hosting environment (or even on an old dedicated server that&#8217;s seen better days), now is the time to consider a modern virtual server [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.smart-vps.net/28-the-new-need-for-speed.html</link>
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		<title>The importance of back-ups</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Backups are one of those things similar to insurance, that we hope we never need to use, but when we do need them, they&#8217;re essential.  Back-ups are the insurance policy for your data.
Just like insurance, it&#8217;s also something we don&#8217;t like to think about too much, or spend much time over.  If a back-up isn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.smart-vps.net/18-the-importance-of-back-ups.html</link>
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		<title>Easter Opening Times</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the Easter weekend, Friday 2nd April to Monday 5th, the following departments will have limited availability:

General Enquires
Billing

Please wait until Tuesday for a reply if you need to contact the above during this time, thank you.
Technical support for existing customers will still be available as normal.
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		<link>http://blog.smart-vps.net/8-easter-opening-times.html</link>
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		<title>Monthly means monthly</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;d like to clarify that our displayed monthly prices are indeed what you pay on a monthly basis.
Unfortunately, there&#8217;s quite a few hosting companies around that advertise a monthly cost, only for the potential customer to find that to pay that price they must pay for a year (or two) upfront in advance, and that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.smart-vps.net/16-monthly-means-monthly.html</link>
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		<title>Opening to the public soon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re hoping to be able to launch our public ordering system at the beginning of next month.
We&#8217;ll be offering managed virtual private servers, for those who need the power of a VPS without needing to be a server guru.  Full set-up, automated back-ups inclusive, pro-active monitoring, and more.
Until now, we&#8217;ve been working through  personal contacts [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.smart-vps.net/6-opening-to-the-public-soon.html</link>
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