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Saturday, June 2nd, 2007
When you decide to have a hosting account, the first question is to decide which webhosting type you need to go with?
Technology has introduced various platforms for webhosting. They can be catagorised as follows :
Shared hosting
Reseller hosting
Semi-dedicated hosting
VPS hosting
Dedicated hosting
etc..
It is crucial to understand the differences among the types of hosting offered. As the Web hosting industry has matured, hosting offers have split into a few distinct categories, each with strengths and weaknesses.
* Shared hosting (sometimes called virtual hosting) means that you are sharing a server with other clients of that company. The host manages the server almost completely (though you maintain your site and your account). They can afford to charge you little since many clients are paying for use of the server.
However, companies other than yours use the resources of that server. That means heavy traffic to one of the other sites on the server can hammer the performance of your site. Also, you typically are unable to install special software programs on these types of machines because the host will need to keep a stable environment for all of the clients using the server.
Offering gigs of disk space with tons of gigs of bandwidth that too at a very cheap rate, is possible only with Shared hosting as resources are shared on a single server amongst hundreds and thousands of users.
* Reseller hosting enables you to resell the shared hosting to your end user clients. Here, the original hosting provider stays anonymous and to your end user clients you appear to be the primary hosting provider. This is good for those people who wish to start a hosting business. Later as your client number increases, the option to switch to VPS or Dedicated server hosting is preferred.
* Semi-dedicated hosting is similar to shared hosting, but here the number of users on a particular server is very less and limited as compared to the overfilled shared hosting servers. This is good for people who cannot afford dedicated hosting but still do not wish to face the cons of shared hosting.
* VPS hosting also known as Virtual Private Server, is an intermediate hosting between shared and dedicated hosting. VPS hosting servers are the small servers that are hosted on a main VPS server. VPS work on logically sharing of resources such as Memory (RAM), CPU, Disk Space, Bandwidth etc. VPS hosting is ideal for low resource consuming websites. The most attractive feature of VPS hosting is that you get root access to the server as if it was your dedicated server. You can install and run applications on your own (provided you do not run out of resources).
* Dedicated hosting can further be classifed into colocation, unmanaged and managed dedicated hosting.
* Co-located hosting means that you buy a server from a hardware vendor, like Dell or HP, and you supply this server to the host. The Web host plugs your server into its network and its redundant power systems. The host is responsible for ensuring its network is available, and you are responsible for support and maintenance of your server.
Good hosts offer management contracts to their co-location clients so that you can outsource much of the support to them and come to an arrangement similar to managed dedicated hosting. Most co-location hosts do not offer this service, however.
* Unmanaged dedicated hosting is similar to co-location except that you lease a server from a host and do not own it yourself. Some very limited support (typically Web-based only) is included, but the level of support varies widely among unmanaged dedicated hosts.
These days unmanaged dedicated hosting start from $69 per month. Support levels typically are provided only in general terms. Ask the host to go into specifics about what support it will provide — will it apply security patches to your server? — before signing up. This service is typically good for gaming servers (like Doom or Counterstrike servers) or hobbyist servers, but not for serious businesses that need responsive, expert-level service.
* Managed dedicated hosting means leasing a server from a host and having that company provide a robust level of support and maintenance on the server that is backed by quality guarantees. This maintenance typically includes services such as server uptime monitoring, a hardware warranty and security patch updates.
Ensure that your managed dedicated host is specific about its managed services so that it does not disguise an unmanaged dedicated offering as a managed dedicated server. This has been known to happen, which is why it is important to do your homework and ask the right questions.
We at http://www.rshosting.com offer UK and US based Reseller hosting, VPS Hosting, Semidedicated hosting, dedicated hosting (with fully managed servers).
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Friday, April 13th, 2007
You must perform this procedure on e-mail clients that will use the POP3 service
1)Click Start, point to All Programs, and then click Outlook Express.
2)On the Tools menu, click Accounts.
3)Click Add, and then click Mail
4)Type Your name in Display name as you would like it to appear.
5)Type your email address people use to send email messages to you.
6)Type mail.domainname under incoming mail(POP3, IMAP OR HTTP) server as well as under Outgoing mail SMTP server.
For example if your domainname is example.com then type under incoming mail(POP3, IMAP OR HTTP) server, mail.example.com and under Outgoing mail SMTP server, mail.example.com.
7)Follow the instructions as above in the Internet Connection Wizard until you reach the Internet Mail Logon page
8)In Account name, type your POP3 service user name, followed by the domain, for example, someone@example.com.
In Password, type the password associated with your POP3 service e-mail account.
9)Click on properties button.
10)Enable: My servers requires authentication in servers tab
11)Enable: Leave a copy of message on the server in advanced tab.
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Friday, April 13th, 2007
You are really going to reply with lots of thanks after reading this thread. Its really fantastic tweaks I have mentioned here below.
If upgrading from a previous version please to do the following or the extension will now work:
1) Type ‘about:config’ in the location bar and hit enter
2) Paste this in the blank bar or scroll down to find ‘extensions.toolbarcleanup.findbarchanges’
3) Right click on this and select ‘reset’ and restart firefox and extension will work again
Sorry about that, I deleted the file it calls on and I forgot when you upgrade it doesnt remove old entries from about:config.
This extension allows you to tweak various aspects of the browser’s UI.
This extension allows you to do the following via Tools->Extensions->UI Tweaker Options:
- Remove ‘For Internet Explorer Users’ from the Help menu
- Remove ‘Release Notes’ from the Help menu
- Remove ‘Go’ menu
- Remove ‘Read Mail (* new)’ and ‘New Messages…’ from the Tools menu (1.5 Only)
- Remove ‘Web Search’ from the Tools menu
- Remove ‘Bookmark Toolbar Folder’ from the Bookmarks menu (Only if empty)
- Remove the ‘Go’ button
- Remove the toolbar separators
- Remove the forward and back button drop down arrows
- Remove the close button from tabbar (1.5 Only)
- Make the address bar corners slightly rounded
- Hide the Search Bar except for the site icon until mouse hover over
- Multi-row bookmarks toolbar
- Show only icons on the bookmark toolbar
- Make non-selected tabs less visible, making active tabs stand out more
- Remove white line under unfocused tabs
- Remove the focus rings around the tab titles
- Show tab favicon only on selected tab
- Relocate the tabbar to the bottom
- Remove the tabbar close button and place on active or hoverd over tabs (1.5 Only)
- Add separators, bold text on status message and other small changes
- Add a keyword when adding a bookmark
- Move the sidebar to the bottom
- Remove the security padlock icon in the statusbar
- Remove the RSS Feed icon from the location bar
- Remove the Min/Max/Close buttons while in Full Screen mode
- Remove the bookmark sidebar search bar
- Remove the location bar drop down arrow
UI Tweaker (Formerly known as Toolbar Cleanup) v1.6.4 – Works with Firefox 1.5, branch and trunk nightlies.
Changelog:
- Fixed a spelling error in description
- Updated the extension description
- Tweaked a bunch of hack descriptions
- Changed any instance of address bar to location bar
- Added a hack to remove the security padlock icon in the statusbar
- Added a hack to remove the RSS Feed icon from the location bar
- Added a hack to remove the Min/Max/Close buttons while in Full Screen mode
- Added a hack to remove the Bookmark Sidebar Search Bar
- Added a hack to remove the Location Bar drop down arrow
- Split the Find Bar hack into 5 separate hacks:
- Remove the findbar borders
- Widen the findbar input field
- Add a separator between the close button and find:
- Add a separator between highlight all and the match case check box
- Make the status messages bold/input field light red when phrase not found
UI Tweaker (Formerly known as Toolbar Cleanup) v1.6.3 – Works with Firefox 1.5, branch and trunk nightlies.
Changelog:
- Added icons in the options menu
- Some spelling error corrections
Hacks that are missing/broke from the latest 1.6.3 version
- Multi-row bookmarks toolbar isn’t working for some
- No combined stop/reload button
- Missing Add ‘Print’ to right-click context menus, allowing users to print via the context menus
UI Tweaker (Formerly known as Toolbar Cleanup) v1.6.2 – Works with Firefox 1.5, branch and trunk nightlies.
Changelog:
- Fixed bug in which only the separator and not the bookmarks toolbar folder was removed from the bookmarks menu
Hacks that are missing/broke from the latest 1.6.2 version
- Multi row bookmarks toolbar isn’t working for some
- No combined stop/reload button
- Missing Add ‘Print’ to right-click context menus, allowing users to print via the context menus
- Needs icons in the options dialog
UI Tweaker (Formerly known as Toolbar Cleanup) v1.6.1 – Works with Firefox 1.5, branch and trunk nightlies.
Changelog:
- Fixed bug in which the remove drop arrows for back/forward buttons and round addressbar hacks were swaped in the options dialog.
- Added back hack for tab close button on tabs (1.5 Only)
- Added back hack for removing Read mail from the Tools menu (1.5 Only)
- Tweaked the extension’s description
- Tweaked a couple hack descriptions
- Added a contributor (Pike) to the about dialog
Hacks that are missing/broke from the latest 1.6.1 version
- Multi row bookmarks toolbar isn’t working for some
- No combined stop/reload button
- Missing Add ‘Print’ to right-click context menus, allowing users to print via the context menus
- Needs icons in the options dialog
UI Tweaker (Formerly known as Toolbar Cleanup) v1.6 – Works Firefox 1.5, branch and trunk nightlies.
Changelog:
- Added a working options dialog (Everything is customizeable now!!!)
- Renamed the extension to UI Tweaker (Did not change the guid so no need to uninstall and install this version
- Added hack for icons only on the bookmark toolbar
- Added hack for relocating the tabbar on the bottom
- Added hack for disabling autocomplete in the search bar, location bar and html input fields
- Removed hack for removing ‘Read Mail (* New)’ and ‘New Message…’ from Tools menu (No longer needed since this is in the branch/trunk nightlies….Please let me know if this is needed for 1.5.0.*)
- Added hack to remove the bookmark toolbar folder from bookmarks menu (will only work if empty)
- Added hack to remove the back/forward drop down arrows
- Added hack to add a keyword when adding a bookmark
- Added hack to move the sidebar to the bottom
Hacks that are missing/broke from the latest 1.6 version
- When make non selected tabs less visible + remove white line under tab are used together the non select tabs are pink. but if you use the remove close tab button then everything is fine
- Multi row bookmarks toolbar isn’t working for some
- No combined stop/reload button
- Missing Add ‘Print’ to right-click context menus, allowing users to print via the context menus
- Needs icons in the options dialog
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Friday, April 13th, 2007
As a website owner you would definitely think of getting some additional revenue from it. Your site is doing well for your products, now you want to have some extra earning from it. How to achieve this ?
Google AdSence can be the answer for your question.
An advertiser sign up with Google for AdWords system and creates one or more advertisements that they want to pay to have appear either on Google’s search result pages or on “content pagesâ€. Those content pages are Web sites run by individuals and organizations that include AdSense.
Here advertisers don’t have to pay for their adverts show up on either Google or separate content sites, but instead pay when the ads are clicked by customers, what we call “pay per click†or PPC. A percentage of the amount that the company pays Google for displaying the ad is then shared with the AdSense-enabled web site owner.
Suppose an advertiser is wiling to pays $1.00 for a visitor to their through AdWords, then Google will pay you certain amount (certain percentage : Google haven’t specified it yet ).
Signing up Google AdSense can be considered as an fast an easy way to earn money by displaying relevant Google ads on your site.
All displayed ads are related to what your visitors are looking for on your site — or matched to the characteristics and interests of the visitors your content attracts — you’ll finally have a way to both monetize and enhance your content pages and will earn if they click on them. For getting a good income your site must have a huge traffic and your visitors should clicks on these adverts.
You have choice for locating these adverts within your page by placing special AdSense code into your page, you can also specify color and sizes also for ads.
It is the simple way for earning without negotiating with your advertisers, no more bills for anyone and no headache for payments.
Not every site is approved for AdSense program. Google has their own terms and condition.
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Thursday, April 12th, 2007
For some reasons, you decided to move your site at new host.
Before moving to new host , plan your migration properly otherwise you may end up in a mess.
When you migrate to new host you get new DNS, new IP and new content ( if you manage for it )
Now you may think that you have migrated so why to keep any data at old server so you may put blank pages over there, keeping the old server still live.
This is most worst mistake which is usually done by webmasters which causes their new migrated site to get banned even though there is nothing wrong in it.
The reason for this is :
Since old server is still live, some Googlebots were using the old DNS/old IP and went to old serever and they received a blank page there, other Googlebots were going to new server they were using new DNS, new IP, new Contents. Due to this Google was getting two different pages at same time hence it consider it as an †Cloaking †and you are banned for such mistake.
How to avoid this :
*) Bring a copy of your site up at the new IP address.
*) Update your nameserver to point to the new IP address.
*) Once you see search engine spiders fetch pages from the new IP address, then be sure to take down the copy of your site at the old IP address.
*) Do not do all of the changes at the same time.
*) Make sure there are never two servers responding to requests for your domain dishing out different content.
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Wednesday, April 11th, 2007
If you are not aware of my.cnf files configuration and want to use mysql server to optimize your database usage then replace this configuration file.
————————————————————————————
[mysqld]
socket = /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
safe-show-database
old-password=1
max_connections=500
interactive_timeout=100
wait_timeout=30
connect_timeout=30
thread_cache_size=8
key_buffer=32M
join_buffer=8M
max_allowed_packet=32M
table_cache=1024
sort_buffer=32M
record_buffer=8M
thread_cache_size=128
max_user_connections=30
thread_concurrency=4
myisam_sort_buffer_size=64M
query_cache_limit=2M
query_cache_size=32M
query_cache_type=1
old-passwords = 1
[safe_mysqld]
err-log=/var/log/mysqld.log
open_files_limit=8192
[mysqldump]
quick
max_allowed_packet=32M
[mysql]
no-auto-rehash
# Remove the next comment character if you are not familiar with SQL
#safe-updates
[isamchk]
key_buffer=64M
sort_buffer=64M
read_buffer=16M
write_bufer=16M
[myisamchk]
key_buffer=64M
sort_buffer=64M
read_buffer=16M
write_buffer=16M
[mysqlhotcopy]
interactive-timeout
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Wednesday, April 11th, 2007
Robots.txt file is a simple text file which is responsible for preventing crawling of your site’s pages. Suppose you have certain pages which are not SE friendly such as pages including repeated keywords, some hidden tags with keywords and some other bugs which may be responsible for getting your site banned from search engines.
The robots.txt file is a simple text file which can be created using Notepad.
It should be saved at root directory of your site. eg.http://www.yoursitename.com/robots.txt.
Format :
User-agent: robot or spider name
Disallow: files or directories.
If you want to exclude all the search engine spiders from your entire domain, Just use this tiny code, but be sure you need it.
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
If you want to prevent your certain directories, you can specify them in Disallow field.
User-agent: *
Disallow: /directoryname1/
Disallow: / directoryname2/
Similarly if you want to restrict specific files then type in the path of the files.
User-agent: *
Disallow: / directoryname1/filename.html
If you don’t want certain spiders crawling your site, which are not useful for you or are just eating up your bandwidth, you can specify them in User-agent. Eg. You don’t want bot of Alta vista (Scooter) from crawl your whole site use following code.
User-Agent: Scooter
Disallow: /
While using robots.txt file you should be careful, It may stop your specified pages from appearing in search engines.There are many hundreds of bots and spiders crawling the Internet, most of them respect your robot.txt file while some may not.
Note :
(*) You can include comments in your robots.txt file, by putting a pound-sign (#) at the front of the line to be commented.
(*) You can find the names of robots which are crawling around your site in your log file..
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Wednesday, April 11th, 2007
Sometimes we get some errors while using outlook express but we can’t understand what they mean and what could be the solution for that.
Following are the usual errors codes with their solutions ;
0×800CCC00 - Authentication did not load.
Solution :
*) Try closing and restarting Outlook express
*) If still getting same error, wait 20-30 minutes for a server reset of your account then try again.
*) It could be a corruption of the user account in Outlook Express. Try setting up a second identity and see if it works.
0×800CCC01 - INVALID CERTIFICATE CONTENT
0×800CCC02 INVALID CERTIFICATE DATE
Solution :
*) Get your certificate re-issued by your authority server.
0×800CCC03 - USER ALREADY CONNECTED
Solution :
*) Close all connections on all machines, wait 20-30 minutes and try again.
*) If you are not logged in on another machine or poplocked then someone may be using/downloading from your account or something is wrong with your account.
*) Sometimes due to improper disconnection your account gets ‘Poplocked’ so to get out of it either wait 20-30 minutes for it to time out or get somebody to shell into the mail server and stop the mail task that is running on the account.
0×800CCC05 NOT CONNECTED TO SERVER
0×800CCC0D CANT FIND HOST – Cannot locate server
Solution :
*) You may have typed wrong mail server in your account settings or the server may be down.
*) Reboot the computer and try again.
*) Data may not be moving across the network properly. Check DNS numbers, remove and then reinstall TCP/IP in Control Panel > Network.
0×800CCC0A MESSAGE DOWNLOAD INCOMPLETE
0×800CCC19 TIMEOUT
Solution :
*) This error may be due to corruption of pop3uidl file. Close the Internet connection and all programs. Search for the file ‘pop3uidl and delete it. Reconnect and it should work.
0×800CCC0F CONNECTION DROPPED
Solution :
*) may be modem or network cable was disconnected. If this happens frequently then try updating the modem drivers or adding an Init string.
0×800CCC10 INVALID ADDRESS – Address not known on server
Solution :
*) Check the spelling in the TO: field of the e-mail. Delete the old message from the Outbox and then try it again.
0×800CCC12 SOCKET READ ERROR – Unable to send Winsock request
Solution :
*) Remove the TCP/IP protocol and reinstall it. In windows, go into Network from the Control Panel. NOTE: You may need your Windows CD for this task!
0×800CCC16 INVALID ACCOUNT – User account not recognized
Solution :
*) Check the spelling of the account name and re-enter the password taking care to spell it correctly.
0×800CCC18 SICILY LOGON FAILED – Logon attempt failed
Solution :
*) Check account information, making sure account is not case sensitive, close Outlook Express, restart the computer and try reconnecting.
*) Create a different identity and see if it will logon on from this identity with the same information.
*) Make sure the account is still active with the ISP.
0×800CCC1A SECURE CONNECT FAILED – Unable to connect using SSL
Solution :
*) Your ISP may not require an SSL connection. Turn off SSL in the e-mail account properties and try again.
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Wednesday, April 11th, 2007
What is Web-Based Email ?
Web-Based Email is an Internet-based email system that lets you send and receive
email messages from a Web browser. All you need to use Web-Based Email is an Internet
connection and the Internet Explorer Web browser (Internet Explorer v5.5 or later).
How do I access my Web-Based Email account ?
You can log on to your Web-Based Email account from your Web browser by going
to the Web address for your account. The Web address is the same as your domain
name, except you replace “www†with “emailâ€. For example, if your Web address
is “www.example.comâ€, your email address is “email.example.comâ€.
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