Site Down! For Everyone or Just Me?
So your site is not connecting, and you believe your site is down. But someone across the world is easily able to access your site. So how do you test to know if your site is down right now just for you.
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Special Dreamhost Promo Codes for $200 Discount
The “Happy DreamHost Forever Team” emailed me with 5 special invitation codes which I could give out to a select few people who would get a special deal from Dreamhost hosting besides the usual power packed hosting package.
Experiences with Hosting Downtime, Dreamhost, Googlebot, Shell
The site was down for 36 hours over the weekend as our web hosting provider Dreamhost disabled all sites on the account for overuse of CPU minutes. After multiple unclosed support tickets went with no response… I knew I had to fix it myself and here is how I proceeded …
How to Manage Domain Names Like a Pro
Domain names are your prized real estate on the web and securing and protecting your valuable domain name is essential. As the number of your owned domain name increases, managing domain names requires extra effort and advanced skills. Here are some simple tips to keep your domains fine tuned.
Slashdot was Down!
Thousands of Slashdot visitors were in for a surprise when Slashdot, the top technology starting point of many was ‘not connecting’. Slashdot is famous for the Slashdot effect which crashes servers and makes smaller sites unavailable when they are featured in a Slashdot story.
Is Your Web Hosting Green?
Have you wondered how green your web hosting is? Web servers use electricity, the more popular your site the more electricity is used, and your website can have a major impact on the environment. Today is Earth Day, so I urge you to check the efforts of your webhosting provider towards a greener future.
Fix bbPress Forum Upgrade Errors with v0.9.0.1
Automattic recently released an excellent update of their bbPress forum called bbPress Brubeck 0.9, which was a feature rich upgrade and also important for anyone who integrates bbPress with WordPress and wishes to update to WordPress 2.5. But for the early adopters stuck with a buggy upgrade, they quietly released bbPress 0.9.01, with no formal [...]
Yahoo! Buzz Publishers Get Highest Site Traffic Ever!
What happens when your blog story gets featured on the front page of Yahoo! Get prepared for the highest site traffic ever. As Yahoo! Buzz is getting a revamp (after Yahoo! Picks closed), some lucky publishers are getting an opportunity to join as Yahoo! Buzz Publishers and drive huge unbelievable traffic to their sites [...]
Premium Dreamhost Hosting Support via Phone Callbacks
When your site hosting is down, sometimes email support is not good enough and you demand response from a real human. Dreamhost has enabled an option to get phone callback for hosting support, for the rare times when a you cannot wait for an email response.
Slow Googleblot Crawling: Stop Crashing Shared Hosting Servers
I slowed Googlebot crawling down a few months back. It seemed Googlebot, the Google search bot, was then crashing our shared hosting server repeatedly and my hosting provider Dreamhost intimated that we fix the issues if possible or upgrade to a higher hosting plan. Since private servers are expensive, and my traffic is not spiky [...]
Dreamhost Easy Mode One-Click Wordpress Blog Hosting
Wordpress Blog Hosting was always simple with Dreamhost one-click installation. Now they made it even simpler with an Easy Mode option where they handle all the software management/upgrades, and no files are installed to your account!
Yahoo! Hosting Offers Unlimited Storage and Data Transfer
Yahoo! Web Hosting is offering unlimited disk space, unlimited data transfer, unlimited email storage, and 1,000 email accounts — all for $11.95 a month. Is this truly unlimited hosting as it appears to be?
Hostgator Employee Referral Program: Earn $2500
Now you can make money online by simply referring employees to web hosting company Hostgator, and if they hire your referred expert, you can earn an easy $2500 per referral! Just think the referral income if you ran a placement agency…
Create Custom Wordpress Database Error Pages
The urgent Wordpress 2.3.2 security release enables you to create a custom wordpress database error page, which will be displayed when wordpress has a problem connecting to your database, instead of garbled php coded error messages.
Dreamhost Stops $97 Promo Codes
The QUICK97 promo code will now get only $50 off instead of $97. Dreamhost webhosting runs a very popular affiliate referral program called Dreamhost rewards where webmasters on Dreamhost web hosting could earn $97 per referral, or pass on the benefit to new subscribers by issuing promo codes for a maximum $97 discount. Dreamhost has [...]
