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Tech Talk: How to move a Live Site to a new Host

Posted on December 9, 2011 by Michael

In this week Tech Talk I am going to focus on the proper way to transfer a live website from one host to another.  I hear horror stories all the where even “hosting companies” do not do it properly.  I am going to assume you do not have access to, or want to use a Control Panel migration like cPanel or Interworx,  If you have those system see their instructions for moving, referring here for DNS changes and Register Changes only.

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Teck Talk 1: How to install Office 2007 on Linux Mint 10

Posted on November 4, 2011 by Michael

Welcome to the first tech talk here at MP Technology Group.  Orginally I had planned to show you how to use FuelPHP, FFmpegPHP2 and FFmpeg to automate transcoding large media library’s.  That tach talk has been pushed because we gotten alot of requests lately from small business wanting to shed the Windows operating system, and move to something else, but want to keep their Office Applications.  Now alot of people say just use Libre Office, Open office, or some other free office suite.  For the Home user the open source office suites are just fine, but when you have used Word and Excel for years and years the training and lost productivity often prevents business from switching, also the User Interface of the open source systems are stuck in the 90′s and most people do not find them “attractive” or “sexy” and while it may not impact the performance of the applications it does effect people’s PERCEPTIONS of them, and as they say PERCEPTION is REALITY.

So with out further ado
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