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Do you want to increase the search engine ranking of your WordPress blog? Check out these 9 SEO WordPress plugins that Shawn Jooste from Elite Blogger has pulled together for us. The best place by far to find traffic is from search engines. The art of Search Engine Optimization is often very daunting for new bloggers. Even some experienced bloggers just see SEO as a cloudy puddle of mud they would rather not play in. Wordpress by default is pretty decent at letting search ... Continue reading

You might consider yourself pretty handy with a personal computer but dedicated servers are a totally different story.  Web servers and all their associated technologies introduce a new level of complexity to the world of computing.  This is true whether the platform is Windows, Linux or Unix.  Because of these technical challenges and responsibilities, many opt for managed hosting as a less stressful alternative.  While the concept involves a seamless... Continue reading

Contrary to popular belief, e-commerce is much more than selling stuff online.  It involves marketing, transactions and security among other vital aspects.  One of the most important areas that often doesn’t get enough attention is storage.  Of course you can rely on your hard disk drive, but that should never be your only source of storage.  Anything could go wrong at your place of business whether it is hardware failure, theft or some other dis... Continue reading

If you are looking to earn profits as a reseller, you should carefully weigh all of your options before deciding on a service.  You probably know all about reselling traditional hosting packages but you may want to consider a private label hosted exchange service.  From small to large, businesses of all sizes are increasingly exploring ways to maximum their reseller potential and hosted Exchange is becoming a popular option.  Microsoft Exchange has a dominan... Continue reading

First Impression Contrary to the other web hosting companies that I have reviewed, StartLogic offers more diversity in terms of its plans. It features plans that are both targeted to the average beginner as well as the advanced developer. This is evident in the case of offering dedicated servers. In addition to the conventional means of customer support, StartLogic also offers a number of other useful tools to help you overcome any problems you are experiencing. Server upt... Continue reading

GoDaddy is one of the largest and cheapest web host around. Ideally suited for experienced webmasters, GoDaddy offers large amount of space and bandwidth at the cheapest price. ( Visit Godaddy ) GoDaddy offers much more than just domain names and simple website hosting, but can handle just about anything you throw at their service. GoDaddy has a variety of web hosting options, different packages and a host of additional features that make it a great option for hosting a pe... Continue reading

Here it is a tricky one. PHP is a feature-rich programming language and they even have a simple HTTP Auhtentication included. The bad news is that this type of Authorization does not work when your PHP is installed and working as CGI. It works perfectly when PHP is installed as a module though. However, there is a workaround available which can make HTTP Auth for PHP working even when in CGI mode. First you need to create the following .htaccess file: <IfModule mod_rewr... Continue reading

ModRewrite is a powerful feature of the Apache web server. It provides an easy way to modify/manipulate URLs. As complicated as it sounds a regular webmaster can benefit from this feature in many way. I will list here the ones I consider most useful for the regular webmaster. Create easy to remember URLs or also known as COOL URIs, other call them Search Engine Friendly URLs. For example you have some complicated site driven by some server-side scripting language: PHP, Per... Continue reading

In case your web hosting account is not configured to server certain mime types with the proper content type. You can change this using .htaccess file. For example if you need to configure your server to display ASX files: AddType video/x-ms-asf asf asx For windows media audio WMA AddType audio/x-ms-wma .wma A comprehensive list of mime-types can be found here There is one more useful feature of the AddType directive. Most of you most probably know that Internet Explore... Continue reading

Blocking users by IP address is pretty simple with .htaccess. So here it is the example: Order allow, deny Deny from 192.168.0.10 Deny from 212.155. Deny from 1.2.3.4  5.6.7.8 127.0.0.1 Allow from all Let’s take a look at the code line by line: The first line “Order allow, deny” tells the web server the “Order”  in which the Allow and Deny directive will be evaluated. It simply says: Give access to all hosts that are not present in ... Continue reading