When choosing the right package for your needs, you will have to compute for your monthly bandwidth requirements by checking what kind of files you are going to serve in your site and the estimated number of people going to access it.
For example, if you are serving a podcast with 5MB of mp3 twice a week, then that’s 5MB x 2/week x 4weeks/month for a total of 40MB per visitor downloads. Say you have 30 subscribers and they all download your podcasts for the month so your total consumption would be 1,200MB for the whole month.
Also take into consideration your pageviews and other image files you may also have on your site or blog.
December 29th, 2005
This is a cool new tool for searching WHOIS data or simply looking for available domains.
Check out: http://www.ajaxwhois.com
November 20th, 2005
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
WordPress version 1.5.1.3 is remotely exploitable if the web server on which it runs has register_globals = on in the PHP configuration. perl and PHP code exists to automatically exploit vulnerable WP 1.5.1.3 sites, allowing the attacker to (try to) execute code on the victim’s account.
For all those with Wordpress installed on their account, please follow these instructions.
August 14th, 2005
An excerpt of the article written by Mr. Chris K. posted at thehostingnews.com sums up the ins and outs of becoming a hosting reseller:
What is a web host reseller account?
A web host reseller account is a web hosting account that allows you to create hosting packages to sell to your clients. You can also host multiple sites of your own using the disk space allotted to the one hosting account.
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July 29th, 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
NameSearchDomain explains about expiring domain names:
It is annoying to find that you have a great idea for a site but when you start searching for a domain name to match you find every possible combination has been registered. Don’t worry all is not lost there are still the expired domains to check.
Not everybody reregisters their domain names. For whatever reason, financial or otherwise good domain names come back onto the market. These are expired domains and you can get your hands on them.
Full entry here.
July 4th, 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
Standards are made for conformance or interoperability between different organizations, institutions, formats, and others. It is also defined as a specification by which others may be measured. There are lots of standardization organizations, like the ISO (International Standards Organization) and IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission).
The world wide web (or the graphical portion of the Internet as you already know) has also a group that leads in its standardization. The W3C (World Wide Web Constorium) was founded by the father of the web himself. Although it is not a crime not to follow the lead by the W3C, it defeats the purpose of establishing standards. Even most web browsers are designed to support such standards. Most notable are the present Mozilla browsers like Firefox, Opera, and Safari for the Mac. The current version of Internet Explorer (IE6) have issues of not being compliant.
Web Design
It is noteworthy to develop web sites that are standards compliant. Preferrably, we should create sites in XHTML (Extensible HTML) format that relies heavily on Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for design and document layout. Many of the savvy web developers here are already practicing creating sites in XHTML, but for those who are new to this, here are some points to be noted.
First off, what is the difference between HTML and XHTML? Aside from the additional ‘X’, XHTML separate the function of “mark up” and “layout and design”. The mark up only identifies which part is a paragraph, a line break, a table cell, a header or others. We then use stylesheets to layout and design the pages. This way, we would not have a hard time changing our design.
Take this example. Assuming you created a static website containing about twenty pages you and wanted to change the background color. Normally, in HTML, you would change all the bgcolor attribute of everyone of those twenty pages. However, if you linked this pages into a stylesheet instead, you would have just modified the stylesheet once and you are done.
Aside from that, here are also things that are new to XHTML.
- Every XHTML documents should have a DOCTYPE declaration
- Every XHTML elements should be nested within the
- Properly nest XHTML elements.
- Tag names and attribute names must all be in lower case.
- XHTML elements must always be paired with its closing tags, like
<p>paragraph</p>
- Standalone tags like
<br> should also be closed like <br /> and <hr />.
- Attributes must be quoted.
- Do not minimize attribute, like
<input readonly /> should be <input readonly="readonly" />.
- Replace the name attribute with the id attribute.
- The title element and the xmlns are mandatory.
- If you use the
lang attribute in an element, it should also have the xml:lang attribute
The W3C also has an authoring guide which one can follow in order to have pages that are easy to maintain, look acceptable to users, and can be accessed by those with disabilities.
The W3 Schools have references that covers XHTML tags, attributes, and events.
June 11th, 2005
The Internet’s domain name system (DNS) allows us to associate domain names with IP addresses to enable us to access one’s website easier. Christopher Heng suggests tips on how to choose your domain name. His tips and that of Jumpline.com are generalized as follows.
- You are getting a domain name for your website. Most likely, your domain name should be your website.
- Prefer brand name domains rather than generic name domains.
- Choose a domain name that is as short as possible, if not then make it as easy to remember as possible
- Try to avoid hyphenated names.
- Avoid trademarked names.
- Do not shell out too much money on pricy domain names since they should generally have competitive prices by now.
- Register that name as soon as possible
- Try choosing an appropriate Top Level Domain (TLD)
More on TLDs
According to the Internet Corporations for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the TLD is the rightmost label in the domain name. There are different types of TLD like the generic TLD (gTLD) and country code TLD (ccTLD). There are 14 gTLDs and more than 240 ccTLDs. So what are these gTLDs and what do they stand for?
- .aero - reserved for the members of the air transport industry
- .biz - restricted to business
- .com - commercial
- .coop - reserved for cooperative associations
- .edu - educational establishments accredited in the US
- .gov - United States government
- .info - information (unrestricted use)
- .int - international organizations established by a treaty between governments
- .mil - United States military
- .museum - reserved for museums
- .name - reserved for individuals (either nick, or real name)
- .net - network
- .org - intended for non-profit organizations
- .pro - reserved for credentialed professionals
As much as these gTLDs are for those intended users, some of these can be registered without restrictions, like the .com, .org, and .net. The same is true for the ccTLDs. Some ccTLDs require that one should reside in the specified country before he will be able to register that domain. Although .gov, .mil, and .edu are reserved for United States institutions, others can register it by having a second level ccTLD.
June 5th, 2005
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