Category: Blog News

Blog News: Update on Website Downtime & Emergency Network Maintenance (Dec 9)

Website Downtime Update

My web host HostGator.com experienced major networking outages and required emergency maintenance yesterday (Friday, December 9, 2016). This caused all of my blogs/websites and millions of websites around the world to go offline for about 12 hours (starting around 2pm MT yesterday). Here’s more details about the issue if you’re interested.

I spent most of yesterday clicking the refresh button hoping my sites would be back online. I was very frustrated and wished there was something I could do. I was told to be patient and that it was their #1 priority to fix the issue. Thankfully, it looks like HostGator has FINALLY fixed the issue and all sites are finally working again 🙂

We are currently experiencing network issues affecting a number of customer sites. Our sincere apologies for the disruption. Please know we are working to resolve the matter immediately. At present, we’re working to correct a networking issue affecting the following servers:

  • All gator2000 and gator3000 series servers.
  • All web2000 series servers.
  • Multiple VPS servers.
  • Multiple dedicated servers (Linux and Windows).
  • Multiple Cloud and Optimized WordPress servers.

Sorry for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience and support.

Raymond Lau

BLOG NEWS: Newspaper Interview – Black Friday Tips from those on the Inside

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I was recently interview by Camilla Cornell from the Toronto Star and Metro news. The article was published in yesterday’s newspaper.

I was asked to talk about my blogs and share some of my best Black Friday tips.

The article was titled Black Friday Tips from those on the Inside

I’m grateful of your support and can’t thank you enough for continuing to read my blogs. I started blogging deals in 2010 as a fun side hobby and it someone blossomed into my full-time career – it’s been a fun and incredible journey. I’ll continue to work hard and happily wake up every morning at 5am so I can sour the net/flyers and share all best and hottest deals with you.

Sincerely,

Raymond Lau

Merry Christmas from Ottawa Deals Blog

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Merry Christmas everyone! Have a safe and happy holidays!

Your continued support means the world to me and I look forward to sharing more hot deals with you in the new year.

Stay tuned for a comprehensive list of all the best Boxing Day deals! Check back later as I’ll be updating the blog with all the hottest Boxing Day sales.

Merry Christmas from my family to yours.

Raymond, Le and Emma Lau

nCrowd.ca has Foreclosed and rebanded to BoomStreet

nCrowd Extra 30 Off Select Local Clearance Deals Promo Code (May 16-17)

nCrowd.ca has foreclosed and re-branded to BoomStreet. I immediately stopped posting all nCrowd’s deals on my blog when I first heard rumours about it.

If you have any unused nCrowd vouchers or have not received purchased merchandise from nCrowd, you should have no problems getting a refund if you contact the credit card you used to buy the deal on nCrowd and request a chargeback. Simply call your credit card company and tell them nCrowd is no longer in business and the credit card will process a chargeback.

It’s unfortunate nCrowd is no longer around. They were the company that purchased a bunch of Canadian daily deals sites (Ie. TeamBuy, DealFind, Dealthons, etc…). I urge you to stay around from Boomstreet and not buy any deals from them.

Moving forward, I will only feature daily deals for the best and most establish daily deals sites in Canada (Groupon, LivingSocial, WagJag, Buytopia and Tuango).

Click here to read an article about nCrowds foreclosure and more details about this on CanadianDealsAssociation.com.

EXTENDED: nCrowd.ca – Extra 10% Off All Deals Exclusive Promo Code (Until Aug 1)

Save up to 90% on local and product deals at nCrowd.ca

Extended Update: Thanks to popular demand, nCrowd.ca has generously extended my exclusive 10% off all deals promo code until August 1, 2015 so don’t miss out! The code was originally suppose to expire on July 8, 2015.

I’m proud to announce nCrowd.ca is now a sponsor of my blog! I’ve bought many deals on nCrowd and highly recommend their site.

nCrowd is a major player in the deals industry. They’ve recently acquired many Canadian deals sites like TeamBuy, DealFind, and Dealathons. nCrowd features local deals in most Canadian cities as well as a large selection of product deals that ship Nationally.

They’ve offered me an exclusive promo code to share with you. For a limited time, save an extra 10% off all deals on nCrowd.ca when you enter my promo code DEALSBLOG at checkout. This exclusive offer has been extended until August 1, 2015 so don’t miss out!

Deals featured on nCrowd is already discounted 50-90% off so you’ll find lots of amazing deals with the extra 10% off. The codes is valid on all deals featured on nCrowd (all local and product deals).

Click here to visit nCrowd.ca and see all their terrific deals.

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year 2015

Happy New Year!

I would like to wish you and your family a joyous, healthy, and prosperous new year! Thanks for reading and supporting my blog!

Cheers,

Raymond Lau