plogHost is selling .PH domains for only Php1,499 annually, which includes:
Each domain can be registered annually, unlike the regular $70 for 2 years on domains.PH.
Add comment June 6th, 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.
Add comment June 3rd, 2006
Hotlinking is the use of any files (especially images) hosted on your site and posted on another site. This is technically called bandwidth theft because traffic on the offending site uses up your own bandwidth to serve the files/images.
Here’s a simple way to prevent hotlinking using your cPanel:
* Click on the HotLink Protection button on the home page.
* Enter any other addresses that you will allow to access your site other than the provided defaults in the central area.
* Enter the protected extensions in the Extensions to allow field. Make sure you separate each extension with a comma.
* Enter the address to redirect any hotlinking to in the Url to Redirect to field.
* Click on the Allow direct requests tick box if you want to allow direct URL access to non-HTML files, such as images.
* Click on the Activate button. You’re done!
Add comment June 2nd, 2006
This is a short guide on how to use the File Manager in your cPanel.
1) Login to your cPanel and click on the File Manager link icon.
2) A new window will show with the File Manager below:
3) To navigate to a directory, click on the folder icon (encircled in red).
4) To upload files to the current directory, click on the arrow up icon (encircled in green).
5) To delete/copy/move/edit an item, file or directory, click on the text links and a Properties window will show on the top right side of the window as shown below:
Add comment June 2nd, 2006
You can upload your files and wbepages using ftp clients such as WS_FTP. Follow the guide instructions below on how to upload files using this client.
1) Dowload a copy of WS_FTP here.
2) Unzip the file to a directory.
3) Run ws_ftp95.exe and you will be prompted by this window: click here to view screenshot.
4) With the access codes provided to you, fill up the window above with the ff. information:
Profile Name: < any name you want >
FTP Host: ftp.yourdomain.com OR < assigned ip address >
Host Type: < Automatic detect >
User ID: < username >
Password: < password > (also click on the save password checkbox)
Reminder: If you click on the Startup Tab (beside the active General tab) you can put public_html/ in the Initial Remote Site Folder field. The downloadble file is already configured with this so you need not do this step. You can also fill up the Initial Local Folder with the exact pass to your files in your PC. This way, when you connect to your FTP, the path to both the local and remote copies of your pages are already set.
5) Once connected, the left side of the window will reflect your local files and folders while the right side window reflects your files on the server.
6) To upload, select the file on the left and click the “arrow” button pointing to the right.
7) To download files, select the respective files in the right side window and click on the “arrow” button pointing to the left.
Add comment June 2nd, 2006
A new version of Apache (1.3.36) was just released for Cpanel servers. We don’t recommend upgrading rightaway, because you quite often wind up with more problems than the upgrade is supposed to fix. It is a ‘fact’ that almost every new version of any software (mysql, php, etc….) that has been released by Cpanel has been unstable in the beginning first few weeks of the release. This isn’t their fault, it is just the nature of the beast. The latest version of any software that is just released quite often has bugs or some sort of problems.
This Apache update for Cpanel was just released yesterday, so we recommend to wait at least a week or two at the very least before upgrading to make sure it is stable.
As for the warning message you see when logging into WHM, naturally since the version currently installed is not the latest, the message will say your version is insecure, regardless of any actual real security threat or not.
It’s a balance between stability and security, and only you can decide what you want to side with. This decision is always controversial, because neither having an insecure nor unstable server is any good. In our opinion, we recommend to wait at least a week or two, based on past experiences and what we are already hearing from customers that already attempted this upgrade. People have already upgraded Apache without asking us and have run into problems, problems ranging from Apache not starting to Apache modules not loading to Apache crashing constantly and more. You can also read about problems others are having at the cpanel forums, there’s many complaints there already.
What makes this even worse is that there is no option to even downgrade, so it has to be manually reinstalled or recompiled which results in HTTP downtime during this process.
Add comment May 25th, 2006
In the Philippines, cheap and affordable are interchangeable in the web hosting market. plogHost tries to seperate each one from the other.
Cheap hosting means that you get more for less and thus gives the impression that clients get a huge bargain for cheap web hosting. This is usually measured in peso-per-megabyte in the resource allocation for disk space and bandwidth.
On the other hand, affordable hosting is a little different in our definition. Affordable reflects the ability of the consumer to be able to acquire such a prodyct or service, whether or not it is cheap.
Case in point, fully managed dedicated servers nowadays are cheap and could be had for around Php8,000 in the Philippine web hosting market. However, not every person who wants to get a web host can “afford” such cheap servers.
Thus, a more affordable alternative is to go for shared hosting. It may not be cheap, but most people can afford it.
1 comment May 23rd, 2006
We have disabled the Mchat, Cgiecho, Cgiemail, Guestbook, Counter and Formmails from CPanel’s system wide cgi-sys directory. The are the most commonly exploited scripts since they are in the same location on every CPanel server in the world.
We have learned our lesson that it is better take the side of security rather than convenience. If you are using these scripts, they might not work anymore. We will provide you with alternative scripts to replace them.
Add comment May 16th, 2006
Since register_globals is disabled on the servers for security purposes, some of your scripts and Fantastico installs might not work properly. However, you can enable it on your individual accounts thru .htaccess.
All you need to do is edit your .htaccess in the root folder of your account (or create one via the File Manager if none exist).
Place the ff. line of code in it:
php_flag register_globals on
That’s it.
Add comment May 16th, 2006
Fantastico auto-installer has been installed on Tauren recently. This will replace the old and un-updated Scripts Library (Auto-Installer).
The Fantastico icon can be found at the bottom part of your cPanel. Installations are a breeze as a scripts wizard will guide you and provide tips on what is needed and which directory the script will be installed.
Add comment May 9th, 2006
