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| Dug up a Hostgator Coupon today |
| 2008-02-18 19:01:27 |
So here we go. Slowly, slowly catch a coupon. Today I can give you a coupon code for one of the biggest, most respected hosting providers in the US. There are many coupons for Hostgator littering the web and the problem is that most of them don’t work.
The last man/coupon standing is:
HGC25 - the [...]...
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| Got some Lunarpages coupons :) |
| 2008-02-16 18:22:27 |
So coupon mania hasn’t come to an end yet. Here are two Lunarpages coupons that will save you some money if you sign up with this host.
When ordering you will have to type in:
25OffHosting - $25 off any 12/24 months hosting plan
2FreeMonths - will add two additional months to the end of your web hosting [...]...
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| HostIcan Coupon - Save $50 now! |
| 2008-02-01 19:29:13 |
Unfortunately this post turned out to contain inaccurate information. Please go up one post and you will find my new working HostIcan coupons.
I’ve got good news for all the readers of this blog who have been looking for a great coupon deal from one of the best affordable hosts around.
This coupon will give you [...]...
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| HostIcan coupon 2nd try |
| 2008-02-01 19:22:53 |
First of all my previous post about a HostIcan coupon was a blunder and I probably let a few people who wanted to try it down because it didn’t work. First of all I would like to apologize for that and give you some more info on how this mess up came about but first [...]...
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| Hosting companies are resourceful when it comes to making money |
| 2007-09-25 19:33:26 |
I noticed that a lot of companies are very resourceful at finding ever new ways of making money. There are obviously those hosting companies that lure you in through the front door with a fairly cheap flat rate and then charge you extra for everything else you could possibly want from a host. None of [...]...
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| A list of free keyword selector tools |
| 2007-09-21 19:30:32 |
I hope my list of free keyword selector tools is as complete as possible but if you know any that didn’t make it on this list comment and I’ll add them.
Search engines proprietary keyword tools:
Yahoo Overture - http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/
Google Adwords tool - https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal
Free keyword selector tools:
Aaron Walls - http://tools.seobook.com/general/keyword/ (Ignore the fopen() error and try until [...]...
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| Hide or remove the navbar in Blogger |
| 2007-09-11 19:30:42 |
I had a blogger.com blog previously and one of the first things I did was to remove the navbar. Since then blogger has updated to a new system and I wasn’t sure whether the old css trick would still work. The good news is that it still does work even though your blog may [...]...
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| Google and Sprint WiMax Deal |
| 2007-07-28 16:25:21 |
WiMax is the next generation wireless technology that will allow wireless broadband access for the “last mile” with DSL speeds. The promise of WiMax is that it will operate over large distances that lie outside the reach of traditional WiFi networks.
Sprint is betting on this new technology and building up a network ahead of the [...]...
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| Bluehost CPU quota |
| 2007-07-02 16:23:53 |
The CPU quota is surrounded by a lot of mystery, speculations and rumours. Recently, Alligosh, Bluehost’s principal systems administrator dropped into the bluehost forum and gave an exact definition of what constitutes the CPU limits.
The Bluehost CPU quota defined:
The CPU quota is calculated using a set number of runtime CPU seconds over a set number [...]...
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| Bluehost introduces FastCGI |
| 2007-06-27 15:42:20 |
Bluehost introduces the option to switch on FastCGI in cpanel. This is another step to make Bluehost more competitve and offer their users an ever growing arsenal of useful tools to optimise their websites. In short FastCGI accelerates the apache web server performance hence will speed up your sites. If you want more information about [...]...
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| Dreamhost sucks until further notice |
| 2007-06-21 16:29:47 |
A couple of years ago I heard good stories about this host and always thought about recommending them but then came the first day of researching this host….
It was a couple of days prior to the writing of this post that I googled whether I could find any negative stories about Hostmonster (”Hostmonster sucks”). One [...]...
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| Hostmonster Coupons - is there one? |
| 2007-06-10 16:20:54 |
I like blogging about web hosting coupons since I think they offer a good and affordable way for beginners to find a plan with a good host. Since I list Hostmonster in my reviews I thought I try to find a coupon to list here. So I googled and a lot of results came up [...]...
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| Lunarpages coupon |
| 2007-06-07 16:40:24 |
This particular Lunarpages coupon isn’t advertised a great deal for obvious reasons - it costs Lunarpages a lot of money. You get 26$ off and one month free hosting if you sign up through this Lunarpages coupon page .
Lunarpages has a lot of great features and all plans are affordable considering the features they [...]...
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| Powweb save $10 coupon |
| 2007-06-05 16:14:30 |
If you are looking at getting a good hosting plan then June is your month as Powweb offers a $10 coupon to new accounts opened in June!
Powweb’s coupon will bring the price of your one year plan to $59.24! Powweb offers 300 GB storage, 3000 gigs transfer, blog hosting, free scripts, good support and [...]...
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| Lunarpages speed test |
| 2007-06-03 17:14:11 |
First of all the Lunarpages speed is good.
Recently I did a bluehost speed test on request. I thought it may be interesting to see how other big web hosts like Lunarpages compare. They have a speed test site at http://www.lunarpages.com/speedtest/ . So what speed did I get? When I downloaded the 5mb file I averaged [...]...
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| Good Windows Hosting |
| 2007-06-01 17:07:49 |
Good affordable Windows hosting is hard to come by. Recently I added Easy CGI to my affordable web hosting review directory.
If you are looking for Windows hosting plans that support .Net, ASP and all the other Microsoft goodies the following hosts will suit you:
Easy CGI:
Advanced - 1000GB transfer, 100GB storage, $7.96/month
Advanced X2 - 2000GB transfer, [...]...
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| HostICan sucks - or does it? |
| 2007-05-28 17:43:54 |
One of the elementary jobs in researching and writing a decent web hosting review is to perform a “sucks search query” on your favourite search engines and see what comes up. Here’s the good news - I did this for you.
Google’s number one hit for HostICan sucks is the hosticansucks.com website which is owned [...]...
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| Lunarpages forum |
| 2007-05-25 17:44:49 |
Most of the time good web hosts have good forums. Lunarpages is exemplary for this rule. Before you sign up you can go to their pre-sales section and ask any questions you may have. In the pre-sales forum you will get assistance from both members and moderators. Beginners can turn to the forum for [...]...
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| Bluehost forum |
| 2007-05-22 17:04:33 |
This review of bluehost’s forum complements the bluehost review on my site. The bluehost forum is just a user to user forum. At the beginning when Bluehost launched this forum technical admins like the mail expert Rando would come in and provide some advice but now it’s strictly a user to user forum. Once in [...]...
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| Hostgator forum |
| 2007-05-20 23:25:25 |
This review complements my Hostgator Review. Once you’re signed up it’s a plus if you can get good support from admins and fellow members. Hostgator is a pretty relaxed forum as you can add a signature and as long as it’s not Spam you can post links to your own site. They even have a [...]...
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| Powweb forum |
| 2007-05-16 23:24:54 |
Powweb’s forum has a lot of posts and is very well structured. There are a couple of different mods like Doc C, IanS, and CrocHunter. The forum is rather strict as you have to get about 30 posts under your belt before you can add a signature and sometimes posts are deleted without warning. In [...]...
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| Hosting forums |
| 2007-05-14 22:37:17 |
One of the ways in which I choose the web hosts hosted on this cheap web hosting review site are the hosting provider’s very own customer support forums. Many of these hosting forums are busy member to member places where you can ask pre-sales questions and general hosting queries. There are some that are [...]...
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| Bluehost retroactive upgrades |
| 2007-05-12 23:21:17 |
Bluehost’s recent upgrade was a pretty substantial increase on many fronts. Bandwidth and storage both went up by 40% and domains and ftp accounts were increased to unlimited. As a long time Bluehost customer who has been a customer of other web hosts I know that usually the plan you buy is the plan you will stay on.
At Bluehost they are very happy to retroactively upgrade your account for you when you email support. So you never get stuck with a plan at signup time, Bluehost will always upgrade it´s customers to the newer plans.
Go to Bluehost...
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| HostIcan achieves perfect score |
| 2007-05-10 22:50:38 |
All of the webhosts I reviewed are award winners in different categories. HostIcan’s latest accolade is a perfect score by Real Metrics for the category of shared hosting. HostIcan’s performance was measured on the basis of support response time, web speed, uptime and peak uptime. One of the reasons that made me create this site is the fact that nowadays webhosting providers like HostIcan offer a supperior business grade service at an affordable price.
Go to HostIcan ...
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| Redirect to www. with htaccess part II |
| 2007-05-08 23:59:39 |
There is a very handy plugin written by Mark Jaquith that allows you to redirect to www. with a convenient wordpress plugin. Many people including myself set up their blog and then realise later that it´s set up to ignore the www. Obviously, if you´re really slow (like me) you only realise once you´ve got quite a few incoming links.
Mark´s plugin ensures that your blog pages don’t lose page rank and that you will get a clean 301 redirect which is search engine friendly and will make the Googlebot rejoice.
In an earlier post I already gave you the plain .htaccess method for enforcing www.
At the moment I´m also looking into a PHP method to achieve the same goal with headers but that is still being tested. I´ll keep you posted.
P.s. When you are messing around with .htaccess and you delete your directives and the redirection still seems to persist you need to clear your browser cache! Took me a whole day to figure this out…...
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| Lunarpages CPanel evolution XP |
| 2007-05-07 23:15:31 |
Lunarpages now has an option to move to the new CPanel Evolution XP. For this purpose Lunarpages have set up a special server. Initially it is supposed to be a test server for foreign language customers who want to trial this CPanel skin. But I know that you can request to be moved to this server even if you’re an English speaker. Just email support and ask to be moved with your primary domain name and the last 4 digits of your credit card that Lunarpages has on file for you.
Go to Lunarpages....
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| Hostmonster’s CPanel |
| 2007-05-07 00:05:14 |
Hostmonster uses the new CPanel evolution XP skin which is very well structured and easy to use. As the name suggests the layout of this skin follows the design of the MS XP user interface. The icons and grouping of certain categories in the CPanel make this a very user friendly CPanel design. Hostmonster users have many queries in the forums but I have rarely seen somebody complain about the layout of the CPanel.
Above you can see what the CPanel Evolution skin looks like. It supports 21 languages, tooltips, startup tips and more.
Go to Hostmonster or read my Hostmonster review first....
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| Bluehost speed test |
| 2007-05-03 23:18:42 |
Yesterday another member at Bluehost asked me to test their download/site speed by downloading a 15 mb .wma file from his site. The download achieved an average speed of 140 kb/s (kilo byte per second) which is quite fast. My Internet connection is a 6 Mbit DSL line so it may be slower for other users with lower bandwidth deals.
For more info on bluehost’s speed and all other features please read my bluehost review or go to bluehost directly....
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| Crazy egg at Lunarpages |
| 2007-05-02 00:45:15 |
Crazy Egg is a revolutionary new web stats software that allows its users to track various aspects of your site and offers a wholly new visualisation of the traffic on your website. Lunarpages customers get a free trial of Crazy eggs web stats. Here is what you can do with crazy egg.
Create a test setup:
Lists - An overview of the all the clicks on your site
Heatmap - Where are your visitors clicking? Take a look at the heatmap.
Overlay - An exact overview of clicks and percentages of total clicks and where they occur on your site.
Blocking - Block your own IP and localhost
Automatic Archiving
RSS and email notifications - you can keep yourself updated about the activity on your site.
In this test version of Crazy Egg you can only track up to 6000 hits and 4 pages. Mind you that there are sites that create more or less hits. Although I don´t know how the tracking of Crazy Egg works exactly, a hit is usually caused by every file that is loaded on your server. I.e. if your page a...
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| Lunarpages increases hosting specifications! |
| 2007-04-30 23:50:27 |
Lunarpages increased the bandwidth and storage on its basic plan. The storage was increased from 250 GB to 350 GB and the bandwidth was increased from 2500 GB to 3500 GB. With these new specs you can really host a big site at Lunarpages.
There´s also good news for business customers as the bandwidth was also increased to 3500 GB. For more details on Lunarpages, it´s plans and technology please read my lunarpages review....
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| Blog hosting |
| 2007-04-25 00:23:20 |
If you want to join the ranks of bloggers you will have to find good blog hosting first. In case you are not a an experienced webmaster already you might want to find a host that allows easy one click script installation of your blog. Most of the blog hosting providers in my web hosting reviews offer this service in the Fantastico script suite. The blog scripts currently included in this installation service are B2Evolution, Nucleus, pMachine Free, and Wordpress. By the way, if you haven’t realised already this blog runs on wordpress.
Other important things you need to look for in a blog hosting provider are bandwidth/transfer, uptime, storage and all the other usual goodies like email/webmail, databases, supported scripting languages, .htaccess support etc. Many webhosts I reviewed have very generous bandwidth and storage allowances and unless you run a very popular blog (and I mean very popular) these hosts will meet most blogging newbies requirements....
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| Becoming a webmaster for dummies |
| 2007-04-23 00:41:35 |
Today with the abundance of free scripts and designs you can easily become a webmaster with no or very little html knowledge.
Choose a design for your website at open source webdesign or open web design
You will need to download a FTP client to upload your website to your web hosting company. I suggest the free ftp client Filezilla
You will also need a html editor to customize your site. I suggest the free CSE HTML editor if you have some html knowledge. This is your tool to customize your website template. To understand the basic html I suggest you take a look at htmlcodetutorial
Finally take a look at my cheap web hosting reviews and choose a host that suits you. Your web host will give you a username and password. To connect to your web host via ftp/Filezilla you will type in your website url, your username and password and the port (usually 21). Then you can drag and drop your files from your hard drive to your web host. Now check your website´s url and ………...
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| A transfer from one Web host to another |
| 2007-04-22 00:15:55 |
Transferring from one web host to another can be quite time consuming. You need to download and upload all files from your old host to your new host. If you have dynamic content you need to import and export all your data. Nowadays some hosting firms offer to make the transfer for you if you sign up with them. Some of the hosts I reviewed are offering to make the transfer for their new customers.
HostICan will buy out your previous contract up to $40 and do the site transfer for you.
Hostgator also offers a free website transfer service.
Lunarpages does not offer to do the transfer for you but they add on up to six months of your previous hosting contract for free!! In addition they offer a 90 days money back guarantee...
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| Whitelisting an IP for MySQL in CPanel |
| 2007-04-19 23:36:19 |
I guess this allows an IP to connect through your web host´s firewall.
In CPanel go to
Update Billing Info >
Update Now >
Customer Preferences >
MySQL Whitelisted IPs
Enter the IP
Done ...
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| Hostgator is growing fast! |
| 2007-04-18 22:03:50 |
Hostgator is one of the fastest growing hosting companies in the industry. They recently announced that they are renting an additional 1700 in their datacenters in Dallas and Houston. You can read more about their data centers in my hostgator review. In the future you can expect to see bandwidth and storage upgrade announcements from Hostgator....
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| Lunarpages goes the extra mile |
| 2007-04-18 00:49:53 |
Companies often think of extra ways of assisting their customers and offering services that are useful to them in order to excel. Lunarpages‘ core competence is the running of a successful web hosting business and one of the biggest threats to them and their customers are hacking attack. Popular Php scripts are one of the biggest liabilities in a shared hosting environment as they frequently have many security holes and phpbb for instance is notorious for vulnerabilities.
The only time I ever got hacked in 5 years was through a phpbb security loophole of the standard installation! Lunarpages frequently scans the most popular free scripts for security leaks and warns it´s customers and points them to the necessary updates. The policy of disabling sites who don´t execute the necessary update may seem a bit rigid at first but it ensures the smooth running and safety of all servers at Lunarpages.
Read my Lunarpages review for more details on this host....
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