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News, developments, and event related to the QOT  website.

Migrated from Dreamhost to Knownhost VPS Hosting

QOT successfully migrated from Dreamhost shared hosting to Knownhost managed VPS hosting today. After a few days unavoidable downtime, we are back to share our learning experience with you over…

Read QOT on Amazon Kindle

Now there is a new way to read Quick Online Tips (QOT) – on the Amazon Kindle. Recently Amazon had launched Kindle Publishing for Blogs, a fast track self publishing…

Dreamhost Server Crash Analysis

Our Dreamhost server crashed and our site has been offline for a large part for the last 2 days! This again gives us an opportunity to share what happened and…

Huge Core Dump Files in WordPress Folders

What are core dump files, and what do they signify in WordPress folders? I was surprised to see my WordPress folder sizes increasing and FTP revealed huge ‘Core’ dump files…

500,000 Pageviews!

After a long journey of several years, QOT traffic finally managed to cross 500,000 pageviews this month; to make that sound grander, that is half a million pageviews! Here are…

New Advertising Option: 125×125 Square Ads

QOT now supports a new advertising option for 125x125px ads via a new advertising service called BuySellAds. These square ads will be displayed on all pages of the site above…

Introducing QuickPress WordPress Theme

We are happy to launch QuickPress, a 3-column, widget-ready, SEO-optimized, Ad-ready, compatible wordpress theme which is useful for all types of bloggers. The premium theme is released free of cost,…

Akismet Blocks 1 Million Spam Comments

Akismet is a powerful wordpress plugin that blocks spam comments and today Akismet clocked 1 million spam comments on this blog. Actively and efficiently stopping spam in the background, Akismet…

QOT Live on 9rules Blog Network

You heard that QOT was accepted by 9rules blog network to become a member. After fulfilling all requirements, this blog is now live on the 9rules blogging network, which features…

9Rules Selects QOT! Round 6 Results Out

9rules blogging network has announced the round 6 results and QOT has been selected to join the network. Recently 9rules Vol 3 launched in a new avatar and opened its…

The BBC Effect: Hot Traffic Analysis

Last week QOT was featured on BBC Click, their flagship technology programme and a rush of traffic followed, but it was unlike the traffic you get from other social media…

QOT Featured on BBC Click Webscape

A sudden spike in site traffic led me to the source – BBC Click! Click is the BBC flagship technology programme and Kate Russell presented her latest selection of the…

15000 RSS Feed Readers!

Today our blog crossed an important milestone as our feedcount crossed 15,000 RSS feed readers for the first time. Its amazing that every new post buzzes across to 15,000 feed…

QOT on Business Standard Newspaper

Hey! our blog QOT got a mention on the Business Standard newspaper, a respected financial news daily that features the best of economic news and financial events across India. I…

QOT Readers Can Now Read Full Text Feeds!

Yes! we are trying free full text feeds again. As we cross the 14500 RSS reader milestone today and celebrate 2 years on wordpress, I thank the QOT readers who…

2 Years on WordPress!

Time flies! 2 years have passed since we moved QOT from blogger to WordPress on this domain name. The journey has been great with this blog increasing in popularity, fame,…

QOT Finally Gets 8 Google Sitelinks!

As I checked the Google Webmaster panel today, Google had finalized some Sitelinks for our site after so many years. Honored by this rare privilege for a few big sites,…