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We got this announcement from one of our upstream providers:
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As a part of our quarterly facilities testing and inspection, we will be conducting a full-load generator test at our DLLSTX4 datacenter on Wednesday, July 26th, 2006, from 0800hrs to 1100hrs CDT.
This test is necessary in order to continue providing you with our high availability offerings, and will require a cut over of power from the utility grid to the generators for the duration of the test. We do not anticipate any downtime for our customers during this maintenance window; however, this email is to serve as notification of the test being performed. To ensure that our NOC Engineers are able to address any problems that might be encountered (in the highly unlikely event that your server suffers a power interruption), please make sure that you have updated your server passwords in Orbit.
Again, we want to reiterate that we do not anticipate any downtime as a result of this maintenance. Thank you for your cooperation with us during this generator test, and please feel free to let us know if you have any questions.
July 20th, 2006
In the last 48 to 72 hours, we’ve been having connectivity and uptime problems with the Windows servers here and we’ve tried hard to find the cause and fix them asap.
Apparently, Plesk released a very insecure version and the installation of this version was compromised before a patch was released and updated it. There were malicious files that were intended to be used as a backdoors has caused a lot of problems with the server and which made services to be restarted, only to fail again and again. This caused the server to repeatedly reboot or crash.
We ahve made changes in the protocols for the Windows so that this incident will not happen again.
Our sincerest apologies.
June 10th, 2006
SEO Philippines is launching a keyword ranking contest with over PHP 130,000 in prizes.
Contest Mechanics
1. Contest starts June 1, 2006 12:00 noon and ends September 29, 2006 8:00 PM.
2. The domain where your contest entry page is hosted should have a 2006 registration date. If your domain was registered before January 1, 2006, your entry page is disqualified.
3. The contest is open to all Filipinos. It’s also open to non-Filipinos who can be present at the awarding ceremonies. If a non-Filipino should win and he’s not physically present at the event, he is disqualified from the contest.
4. To win the top prize, you must be #1 for the keyword phrase isulong seoph (without quotation marks) in Google.com.ph on Friday September 29, 2006 at 8:00 PM. During the awarding ceremonies, there’ll be a public viewing of the Google.com.ph SERPs to determine the winners.
5. For the purpose of this competition, indented listings in the SERPs will not be counted.
6. To qualify for the Bonus Prize, you should have at least one of the following text links on your entry page. Should you qualify for any of the awards, a Google cache: search will be performed on your entry page during the awarding ceremonies. If the cached version of your entry page does not have at least one of the required text links, your entry will be disqualified.
* SQL Server (link to http://www.lakesidesql.com)
* SQL Performance (link to http://www.lakesidesql.com)
* SQL Database (link to http://www.lakesidesql.com)
* SQL Performance Tuning (link to http://www.lakesidesql.com)
* SQL Performance Monitoring (link to http://www.lakesidesql.com)
* Database Performance (link to http://www.lakesidesql.com)
7. Contest updates will be posted on the SEO Philippines discussion group and blog:
* http://groups.yahoo.com/group/seo-philippines/
* http://www.seophilippines.org/
8. In order to win, contestants must register, read and acknowledge the full contest terms and conditions by posting a “I have read the contest mechanics and I agree” comment on the contest terms and conditions page. Contestants who do not comply are not eligible to win.
Contest Prizes
First Prize
* PHP 10,000 from Marc Macalua
* 1 year Linux Reseller Hosting worth PHP30,000 (5 GB diskspace, 100 GB bandwidth, 1 free .com/.org/.net domain, 1 dedicated IP address, anonymous nameservers) from Ploghost
* PHP 5,000 from Alleba Filipino Search Engine Philippines
* Bonus Prize: PHP 25,000 from Lakeside Technologies ***
Second Prize
* USD 100 from Philippine Photo Gallery
* 1 year Linux Reseller Hosting worth PHP20,000 (3 GB diskspace, 50 GB bandwidth, 1 free .com/.org/.net domain, 1 dedicated IP address, anonymous nameservers) from Ploghost
* PHP 2,000 and 3 domains for 1 year from YDS Web Solution
* Bonus Prize: PHP 15,000 from Lakeside Technologies ***
Third Prize
* USD 100 from JNB Web Promotion Search Engine Optimization Services
* 1 year Linux Reseller Hosting worth PHP10,000 (1 GB diskspace, 30 GB bandwidth, 1 free .com/.org/.net domain, 1 dedicated IP address, anonymous nameservers) from Ploghost
* PHP 1,000 and 2 domains for 1 year from YDS Web Solution
* Bonus Prize: PHP 10,000 from Lakeside Technologies ***
Fourth Prize
* PHP 2,000 and 1 year Linux Hosting (1 GB diskspace, 1 GB bandwidth, 1 free .com/.org/.net domain, cPanel) from Kabarkada Web Design and Hosting
* PHP 1,500 worth of gift certificates from Bitstop Network Services
* PHP 500 and 1 domain for 1 year from YDS Web Solution
Fifth Prize
* PHP 2,000 from Healthy Culinary Creations
* PHP 1,000 worth of gift certificates from Bitstop Network Services
Sixth Prize
* PHP 2,000 from Cerveo GeoVisitor
* PHP 500 worth of gift certificates from Bitstop Network Services
Seventh to Tenth Prize
* PHP 500 worth of gift certificates each from Bitstop Network Services
Visit SEOPhilippines.org for more info.
June 3rd, 2006
Choose from any of the cute-candy buttons below to link us from your site:
Thanks!
April 28th, 2006
We’re glad to inform you that we have a new promo for all .PH domains you registered with us.
If you renew your .PH domains between now and June, 2006 for 2 more years, we will extend it for another year. That’s 3 years extension for the price of 2.
If you register a new .PH domain between now and June, 2006 for 2 straight years, we will extend it for another year. That’s 3 years registration for the price of 2 years.
That’s 33% savings all in all.
To avail of this promo, just login to your Client Center account and open a support ticket requesting for an advanced renewal billing for 2 years.
New domain registrations will automatically get the additional extension.
April 10th, 2006
We would like to inform everyone that starting February 1, 2006, all additional VAT fees will be set to 12% from 10% as mandated by law.
Our prices will remain at the same low prices as they were over 3 years ago when we started plogHost. Still we are looking for ways to add value to our service along with more features and facilities.
Should you have further questions or comments, please feel free to contact us thru the Client Center.
February 11th, 2006
The latest release for Wordpress verison 1.5.2 is now available for download here.
We request all clients to update their installation of WP the soonest possible time.
August 22nd, 2005
We would like to stress the importance of using our Support Ticket System in the Client Center.
Here are a few points we’d like to share with you:
1) Using the support ticket system in the Client Center allows us to identify you and your account immediately, thus, allowing us to respond to your needs more quickly.
2) The Support Tickets send out relevant alerts to all our staff allowing the properly concerned department or suppoer personnel to address your issues quickly.
3) Easy to monitor. All discussions are stored and all people involved will be able to review and update the tickets at the appropriate time. Unlike plain emails, no one can claim that tickets were not responded to.
4) Safe and secure. We occasionally receive support requests via email or instant messages which are not validated. Not validated in the sense that we cannot ascertain the identity of the proponents. With the Client Center, we can always be sure it is the respective client (or his authorized representative) who requests the ticket.
5) It tracks our performance. We can easily trace the time stamps of each ticket and review how fast we address tickets. That way, we will know when it is time to add more staff to our team.
We hope that you have deem these points as critical to our service to you. Always give us a visit even if to say thank you or commend one of our staff for the special attention they give to you. Our forums are always open for discussion and we’d be glad to see you at our corporate blog (www.ploghost.com/blog/).
July 6th, 2005
Promoting one’s website or web blog is a never-ending task. Most people would ask me how do I do it. It’s not a secret actually, as far as the common tricks are concerned, but a rigorous and consistent effort for SEO is something that must be considered regularly.
I will discuss some of the basic aspects of good search engine optimization techniques I have used and have found quite effective. Note however that these methods might not be the best solution for you but it could provide you with a good insight on how to go about it and maybe refine your own style as well.
1) Content is still king. The more content you have, the more phrases and key words there are for GoogleBot to crawl and index. This is very self-explanatory. Corollary to this is the use of English as the primary language in your texts. Well, if you’re using Tagalog or some other local dialect, chances are, you’d only get hits from people who search for these words and you’ll only get a handful of them.
2) Don’t forget the basic HTML standards. Make good use of the < TITLE > tags. I’ve seen a lot of sites (even corporate ones) that have “Untitled page” as their page titles. Others bother to put titles but they end up placing something like “Yugatech.com” alone and not adding any more descriptive phrases in it. Be more creative and be more descriptive. It would make a lot of difference if you had something like “Yugatech.com - personal portal and online folio of Abe Olandres”. Everyone knows that META tags don’t cut it anymore but hey, it still is a good practice if you do. The least you could do is place the description, keyword and author META tags.
3) A text is a text and an image is an image. We are often tempted to put all sorts of images in headings and titles just to make use of the coolest fonts you just installed yesterday. It’s no biggie but GoogleBot won’t be able to read that like us. If you are so tempted and really wanted to put an image instead of just plain text, don’t forget to fill up the < ALT > and be as descriptive as you can — that one GoogleBot can surely read.
4) Get linked. The more inbound links you have, the more important Google will think your site is, and the higher it will rank it. But they must also be relevant links, meaning, sites with similar theme, interest and content.
5) Update, update, update. Google will only crawl your site again and again if you have fresh content.
6) Make it public. Like any other internet user, if you password protect your content or you require login to areas of your site, then GoogleBot won’t be able to get in and crawl it as well. This is especially true with member sites like forums and the like.
7) Target your keywords. This means you have to be realistic about the keywords you choose to achieve higher page rank or search results for. If you want your site to show up in the first page for the keyword “web blogs“, then you’re up against millions and millions of other websites who are also vying for the same. Why not narrow it down to something like “pinoy web blog“? At least you only have a potential half a million or so competing for it. Case in point: search for these two key phrases in Google and you will see two of my websites on top of the list.
Study/monitor your site stats. And I am assuming here that you have one. Check your stats and see what key phrases and words are often searched for. Then, double check it with Google to see what page your site is positioned. Then, update your content and add more of them or much better place them to each other. If you have pinoy in one sentence and blog in another sentence, why not write “pinoy blog” the next sentence. The closer and the more often these words appear on your page, the higher the probability that it is more relevant to the search keys.
9. There is more to Google AdSense than just making bucks. Some of you may be aware of Google’s AdSense and it’s older brother, Google AdWords. The idea here is that, AdSense takes into consideration the quality and consistency of content on a certain page. The kind of ads that appear in it will ultimately dictate the keywords which are most relevant to that page.
Republished from ym old article in Pinoyblog.
June 22nd, 2005
We launched this blog so that we can share our knowledge to all Pinoy bloggers and likewise better serve our hundreds of blogging clients.
As the pioneering Philippine Blog Host, we should have done this a long time ago. But it’s not yet too late. We are still the first one to launch a corporate blog in our field of service. From now on, we will use thig blog as a supplement point of service. There will be lots of resources to be posted here, as well as tutorials, helpful hints and tips on blogging and web hosting in general.
June 1st, 2005
