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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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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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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 …

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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: …

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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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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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