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Looks like Twitter's not far away from a full scale advertising model, after purchasing a malware protection company, dasient.

Twitter Acquires Malware Protection Company

So then we will have twitter spam and adverts

I disagree Chloe. Although search engine algorithms can be unpredictable, an experienced SEOer, with access to a private network and a few heavy hitting PR sites can pretty much estimate how long it will take to get movement for a given keyword.

Factor in a bit of breathing space for the uncertainty factor, and you've got a quote. Meet your quote, and I'll even give you a bonus

All pretty straight forward stuff really. Also works well for home improvements...

Oh no!!!!! Don't tell me you're having problems with Rackspace! We're still at the warm and cosy stage!

I always use the Planet (now softlayer) as a base line, 3 years outage free hosting, which I couldn't dream of in the UK, and still use them for our US based stuff.

Hoping (praying) we are going to have the same experience with Rackspace.

To be honest, nothings really changed since the Napoleonic wars. We win a war, everyone cheers, then all the sailing ships got laid up, crews dispersed and left to look for work.

Another ruck, get the boats out again, find a crew, find some cash from somewhere to pay for it all.

Pretty much follow the same theme through to the present day, although it has given our military it's famous gallows humour and an ability to improvise and make do with a lack of equipment that brings other Armed Forces to a grinding halt. Doesn't make it right, just the way it is

Awww Sandra, my favourite topic

As I've burned through most of the big UK hosters over the years, can happily provide you with a "don't touch with a barge pole" list.

If you want bombproof hosting, with first class support, then in my opinion there is only one place to go at the moment.

Rackspace US owned, but worldwide, data centres, including 4 in the UK.

Maybe pricey, but they are very good. Very impressed with the techies, and serviced received.

If I stay outage free, then saving 24 hours of downtime in 12 months more than makes up for any savings I could have found with muppet and muppet hosting company.

Can only speak for their dedicated servers. Have also got some cloud stuff with them, but only small scale so not a big enough test to prove either way. But if you are a Cloud fan, then it is a very cheap alternative.

I'm just an old techie cynic, and yet to be convinced on anybodies implementation and version of "the cloud", other than places like cobweb which host our exchange email, which then makes perfect sense.

Don't start me on ropey VPS servers like this one thumbsdown

They're not that daft, they can spot fraudulent patterns, plus if you spot unusual activity on your account, flag it!

Beginning this month, our adsense revenue quadrupled for 2 days, then went back to normal. Flagged with our account manager as suspicious activity, as our traffic hadn't increased 4 times, so it was definitely out of character.

Looks like it was some kind of cpc error on their part, but got thanked for flagging, and it turns out a few other big sites had also flagged it. Always good to stay squeaky clean and build up a positive reputation, they will then give you the benefit of the doubt if something untoward does happen.

Yup, though you could also call it Yahoo

AltaVista or is it Yahoo! Search

I loved siteimprove.com and we used them for ages, does everything you need, but they have just become uncompetitive.

Been with site24x7.com now since last March and very happy with the service. Have it set up for 3 of our sites, and we get notified via email and sms if we have any problems. Monitoring is website content matching (nothing worse than a server up, but the websites hung!) and we have an auto escalation if an outage goes past 60 minutes.

Very flexible, you can set up actions, ie if an alert happens, then do this.. or run that etc. Reports give you everything you need, and we run the web monitor in an iframe on our admin panel for convenience (although there's no need to do this).

Costs us $153 per year for 3 URL's and a further $8 (I think) for extra URLs.

So piece of mind for pennies!

We have hardware, server and IP monitoring run from the hosting side, but 24x7 is great for the web layer.

As Dreamraven says, can you offer some insights to Press releases or examples you have done? Certainly not something I'm particularly any good at, so be interesting to see some of yours if they worked well for you.

Interesting analysis, must admit do tend to see mainly self promo stuff on twitter, and I've scrapped the auto tweet from the forum and try to do more personal ones. Just balancing time/effort versus reward etc, but reckon your right, interaction is the way to go.