For every free Dropbox plan, it comes with 2GB online backup storage that has a public folder in which you can publish HTML web page files that are publicly accessible around the Web. It will give you a URL that you can hand out to your friends so they can view the page on the …
Make A Website was moved to Hawk host a few days ago and here’s my initial review of them. If you have been to their official site, you may have noticed the hosting coupon code for 40% discount off the initial payment you make to them, which seems to be only valid throughout the month. …
It’s the first time I move kavoir.com to another host from Dreamhost (the last move to Linode was about some of my other sites). The entire move was great except that I was not quite familiar with cPanel and choked a little bit on the transfer and setup of all the interconnected files and database …
Funny I should use “zipped” for an RAR compressed package. Anyway, you can easily zip or unzip a zip file or tar compress a package, but how does one do it with an RAR file? WinRAR is well distributed across all Windows systems. But on Linux, you have to first install the command package rar. …
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The Planet seems to be running quite a series of promotional discounts off their dedicated server hosting plans recently. After the release of this promo code which I can’t possibly find anywhere on their official website now, here’s yet another one for you: bgsv Uppercase won’t work. Just copy and paste the lowercase version. It …
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When you have a VPS or dedicated server to manage, typically you’d have a bunch of different mysql users granted the privileges of every particular database for the sake of security. While this works well in segregating the privileges and preventing hackers from gaining access to all databases upon the compromise of only one mysql …
MySQL: How to backup ALL databases as root with mysqldump at once? Read More »
I was with RackSpace Cloud Servers which is owned by RackSpace along with Slicehost where my servers are actually placed. So you can also say I’m moving from Slicehost to Linode. However, the fact that I’m leaving them doesn’t mean they are not good. To the opposite, they are absolutely one of the best VPS …
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cd is the command in Linux to change the current working directory. While you can change to your home directory by cd ~, you can change to the previous directory or last directory you were in by: cd – Which would come very handy when you are working across multiple directories back and forth. To …
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Overture: Apply this Rackspace Cloud promo code to get $25 rebate / refund discount of the Rackspace Cloud managed hosting. Read some reviews of them. Update: I’m very pleased to warn you that this The Planet dedicated server coupon code is so UNIQUE and POWERFUL that it gives an incredible discount on the plan Dual …
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The Linux command du stands for disk usage which is used to check the amount of disk storage any particular directory or file is using. By default, the simple command: du Would return the disk usage in God-knows-what-unit of each of the directories in the current working directory and those beneath them — in a …
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wget is such a wonderful command in Linux you can ever get. Consider blessed to have it in your SSH arsenal. Now, not only does it allow you to download something neatly from the command line to the current working directory — that’s why WordPress always puts the latest version of the blog script at …
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Dating back 1 or 2 years ago when RackSpace acquired Mosso, it has long been preparing to start its own cloud hosting business. Now here it is, Rackspace has officially launched the RackSpace Cloud from Mosso: http://www.rackspacecloud.com All hosting service packages remain fundamentally the same with those of Mosso: Cloud Sites, Cloud Servers and Cloud …
I don’t know for sure how Google takes the web hosting IP into account of determining your website’s ranking position, but I’m sure they do take that in consideration, albeit not so significantly as a maker or a breaker. Most of my sites are currently on DreamHost and every time I register a new domain, …
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Unmanaged hosting provided by Rackspace acquisition Mosso, Cloud Servers can be really a bargain considering their dedicated support and ease of use from the control panel. The pain lies in the server administration and stuff which I’m still learning my ropes with. But hey, for less than $15 a month, it’s fun! I’ll throw in …
I’ve been DreamHost since 2006 and that’s more than 3 years of hosting experience with them on a shared plan ($9.95 / month). For those who’d prefer scanning instead of reading, I’ll sum up my points in short lists: Pros Affordable price with generous offerings in disk storage and monthly transfer. Full pack of features …
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Debugging a PHP script, you may want to alter the error-displaying sensitivity on a particular page and control what types of errors should be reported. The solution is the PHP error reporting function error_reporting(): error_reporting(E_ALL); // everything error_reporting(E_ERROR | E_PARSE); // only major problems error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE); // everything but notices As the parameters of …
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Recommended to me by many fellows at cnsw.org, I’ve always been a fan of pair.com when I started in early 2006 into the world of online venture. They rarely advertise online (or maybe I just don’t know), and are hardly heard of by many hosting customers even after they have done plenty of research of …
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Update: There’s a better uptime tracking and connection / downloading speed monitor tool to test the responsiveness of your website, it’s Host Tracker. But be prepared that it may consume quite some MBs of bandwidth of your server because it sends HTTP requests from well over half a hundred places around the world. Update: Yet …
Well the title may be a little misleading in that I got only one working hosting coupon of Pair.com. I haven’t personally purchased any service from this hosting company but almost all the reviews about them I came across are positive. To waive the setup fee and enjoy a 10% discount, use the coupon: THG …
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Type: wc -l foo.txt And the system returns: 12 foo.txt Meaning foo.txt has 12 lines. To count unique lines a file has: sort -u foo.txt | wc -l Which will simply exclude all extra lines that are identical.
