Test if cache and gzip is working for your website
This is the tool to test if gzip is enabled, and if browser caching is set up and working for your website: https://redbot.org
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Using nohup when initial input is required?
While you can use nohup for getting the command running even after logged out via SSH, there are times when you need to interact with the command first before it can go on with the job, such as with rsync. In this case, you need this instead of nohup: jobid is usually 1 or you …
Super Cheap Cloud VPS: 1 Core, 1024MB, SSD, Managed – Just $21.25 / Month
Some of my sites such as ConvertHub has grown out of the 512MB box I have had for over 2 years at Linode. It’s been great but as I’m fed up with managing the server myself (I’ll come to that later), I went ahead looking for a solid VPS plan with WHM / cPanel that’s …
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Make phpMyAdmin Show Exact Number of Records for InnoDB Tables
By default, phpMyAdmin shows an estimated number of records for InnoDB tables that have more than 20,000 rows. It can vary by every fresh as much as 50% or even more. Makes it hard to get an exact number of records for the tables as we have to explicitly run an SQL query to do …
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KnownHost Coupon Code (75% and 10% Off) and My New Office
I’m having Kavoir moved to Knownhost and now that I have 2 different VPS packages with them, I’m qualified to have an VIP coupon to spread out for 10% off any hosting package purchased with it. It’s one of the best managed VPS hosts around if you search for their reviews on WHT. I’d highly …
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Add Wildcard DNS Subdomain *.example.com in cPanel
Lots of people ask this question and most of them probably made the matter complicated by editing the DNS Zone from WHM in the DNS Functions. But they actually should just do it in cPanel which is A LOT easier. Just log in your cPanel which manages the domain that you want to add support …
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Global Data Center Facts – Power Usage [Infographic]
Data centers are the fastest-growing energy vacuums in the IT industry in the UK, Europe, and beyond. As data centers grow larger to store the world’s data, their energy us is growing, too. Utilizing more environmentally-friendly power sources is tremendously important for the data center industry. Using renewable energy saves money, conserves natural resources, and contributes …
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SSH Web Hosting as Socks5 Proxy for VPN Tunnels via PuTTY
Few know that those who have web hosting are at the same time endowed with a free VPN (Virtual Private Network, a very safe connection to transfer important data). With a few simple steps by the help of PuTTY, the tiny legendary SSH program, anyone with a web hosting account can have a private VPN …
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Review: Why I love WiredTree hosting
This is the second time I wrote a review of WiredTree and also the second time to have signed up a VPS account with them. The last time it was a 512MB VPS (VPS512) that has now been upgraded to VPS1000, doubling everything, RAM, disk storage and monthly bandwidth (tripled!), yet the price tag stays …
Microsoft Office 365 Review & Screenshots – What will you get?
Office 365 is a set of team collaboration / productivity web applications for professionals, businesses, government agencies and education institutions. It currently offers 3 different plans: For professionals and small businesses, $6 / user / month, basic features For midsize businesses and enterprises, $12 and more / user / month, advanced features For education And …
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DreamHost Promo Invitations – $100 Off!
DreamHost just gave me 5 promo invitations that could be used for new accounts only. Whoever uses one of the invitation codes to sign up with them would get $100 off for a two-year plan. Just use one of the 12-digit invitation code in the “Promo Code” field when signing up at DreamHost: 737871080684 599411300419 …
My WiredTree Review and Some Discount Coupon Codes
Update: Here’s my most recent review of WiredTree. I had an enjoyable experience with WiredTree (Some Coupons) half a year back when I was starting a joint venture with one of my friends and needed managed VPS hosting. Joe Doss was very helpful in answering my concerns and questions before sign-up. After testing out their …
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Use stat command to display file system meta information of any file or directory under Linux
PHP has a stat() function that returns an array containing the meta information of a file such as owner, size, time of last access, last modification or last change. It’s basically the stat command under Linux that returns and shows the file system meta information of any file or directory: stat myfile.txt Which returns: File: …
How to slow down the frequency Googlebot (search engine crawler) visits your site?
Googlebot is the indexing program of Google that visits your site to fetch the content to determine your search engine rankings. With a popular website, tens of thousands of pages can be a problem in that Googlebot may visit more than you want because it’s expending your precious bandwidth and even crashing your server. Every …
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Rackspace Referral Discount
By Rackspace I mean Rackspace.com the managed dedicated hosting service, not RackspaceCloud.com the cloud hosting. I’ve been talking a lot lately about Rackspace Cloud so I thought I’d make it clear. 😉 Check them out, they are pretty much the most expensive host you can find on the web. Their most basic server costs over …
Rackspace Cloud Promo Code
Vital Update: According to the partners program manager at Rackspace Cloud, Kenard Horsley, who informed me of the decision via email, the promotion of $25 discount for Cloud Sites will be ended on 18th, March (2010). All the promo codes will be annulled by then except for Cloud Servers. If you intend to sign up …
Create and moderate your own hosted vBulletin forums, free!
Jointly Hosted Forum is now open for forum applications. Please follow the steps outlined in this post to get your own forums. You will own a section of forums dedicated to topics of your choice (must be family-friendly) and be a moderator of the forums and users. The service is completely free for all, though …
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Jointly Hosted – Non-profit shared dedicated hosting service
Jointly Hosted is one of our latest ventures. Basically it’s a non-profit shared dedicated hosting service that provides dedicated hosting at shared hosting price tag, yet much better in terms of server performance than other shared solution providers. How do we do that? We make no profit by selling servers themselves. The server is provided …
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DreamHost Discount Code: Firefox 3 Sucks!
Why haven’t Google integrated their toolbar into Chrome yet? Firefox 3 absolutely sucks in the loading time and browsing speed. Scrolling through a heavy web page with lots of visual elements such as images is just a pain in the ass and on average, I have to restart the so-called most advanced modern browser 3 …
Free HTML website hosting service
I’m a fan of Linode and recently as I was able to acquire 2 moderately decent domains for a free HTML hosting service, I decided to start offering free static website hosting on one of my Linode VPS servers. In case any of you might be interested in opting in the alpha testing of Free …