You may have noticed the panic in my eyes if you were near me the last 48 hours.

I had major issues with the readersheds shed server but hopefully it’s sorted now..(touch shed roof, turn around) and I am sorry for any inconvenience this has caused to you sheddies.

It also means I am a few days behind calculating the shed votes.

So the judges should get their emails with the shortlist tonight

Ironically I had a slight blip on the shedblog server as well..

Lucky they are hosted at different companies.. then I may have just given up on it all!

but it does give you a warning if you do run a website to make sure you have backups of everything (lucky I do, but 4500 images is a pain to FTP around the place)

so over the summer you may see some changes to readersheds

I may be dumbing it down to just concentrate on pictures of your sheds and your build details and may rewrite it from the ground up.. or even shed forbid go with an off the shelf system (if I have time to convert the data) but may stick with Coldfusion as I find it easy to write the code quickly

also thinking about using a thirdparty static hosting away from the main site - any recommendations? Amazon s3 is the first one I am looking at.

so thanks for your wossname and hopefully Shed Week will happen without any more hiccups!.

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I am pleased to announce we have a new sponsor for readersheds.co.uk and the shedblog.co.uk.

Walton Garden Buildings have taken on the mantel of main sponsor for the next 6 months on your favourite shed based websites.

Walton Garden Buildings were originally founded in 1878 by Edward Charles Walton and originally sold beehives. The company has grown considerably in size and stature since and now occupies a 23 acre site employing over 180 staff. They have now become one of the leading manufacturers of garden buildings and are always expanding their range of products and services.

Now in 2008, Walton Garden Buildings have become well established online with a dedicated team working to improve their online pressence and customer service.

Despite the changes in the company and their move online, Walton Garden Buildings are dedicated to supporting British manufacturing and also work with the Forest Stewardship Council to help promote responsible stewardship of the world’s forests.

Read more about Walton Garden Buildings here.

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Going away for a few days..

back next week..

so if you share your shed, dont worry It will be live when I return

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Our clever friends and hutties over at Thurgarton Iron Works ask me the other week if I wanted a keyring for my shed, ok I said, I did not expect such a great bit of brass work, with readersheds.co.uk on it and a reminder that the keyring is for your shed!

Lovely work, look out for a competition where you can win one soon, if any sheddie would like to buy one post a comment and I will see how much Thurgarton can do them for.

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We have having some issues with the main shed server and thus it’s either crashing or timing out.. but please bear with us…

I am sure if we all place our hands on our puter screens and think of nice warm sheds, then it will all work again.

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Yesterday I sent out emails to all my sheddies.

Firstly to tell them about the 1 million hits but more importantly to ask them to update their details and maybe add some more images.

But had a lot of emails bounced, so I will have to remove those sheds from the site, to make things easier to manage
It’s a shame as some of them were blo*dy brilliant and will be missed from the site.

So if you are a sheddie that can’t find his/her shed, then contact me with your name of your shed and the email is was registered under.

also I have changed the search on the shedpage to just search the sheds and not the rest of the site.. lookout for Web 1.9 wossname soon

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I have recently moved hosts for readersheds (and this blog) and just looking at the inbuilt stats for readersheds.co.uk

For January this year we finally hit over 1million hits.

Looks like February is looking to be a good month too (thanks b3ta)!

Thanks to all the sheddies and of course the Radio1 listeners that upped the number of visits.

Hits - A hit represents a request to your web site for a file such as an image, a web page, or a CGI script. One web page may contain several related resources, and as a result, a visitor viewing one web page may trigger several hits.

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Last week I put a call out for sheds for this years Shed of the year.

One of the wossname that actually listened to my call was the fine fellows over at B3ta, if you are easily offended that maybe not worth clicking…

And the first entry for Shed of the Year from the b3tans, Is G’s shed.

Thanks to G and I hope he gets new shed soon.

disclaimer: I have been a memberon b3ta for 5 years 4months and 26 days, which means nothing as Iam not funny enough to post apart and just lurk, but my icon is a dalek, which is great

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The New URL for readersheds.co.uk is now www.readersheds.co.uk so please update your bookmarks etc.

There may be a few errors and 404’s but bear with me, and if in doubt go to the home page..

Look out for a new design and new Shed 2.0 features in the coming months.

Thanks for your support and Share your shed.

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The main website www.readersheds.co.uk, Will be down on the weekend as I’m moving servers.

So I have disabled the share your shed feature and change your shed and add comments until the site is back up.

So please bear with me, while I carefully move the spiders to their new  home.

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