Site Management

HowTo – Managing Your Contacts To Save Time And Reduce Stress

Between Work and Fun the number of contacts that you maintain can leave you with no time for yourself. Here are a few tips you can use to manage how you communicate and receive information. Email It is difficult to say how many email accounts you should have but there are ways to use them […]

HowTo – Understanding And Using Amazon’s Cloud Front Service

Amazon.com seems to be getting into the information processing service on a much stronger level then it has in the past. Moving from a few basic services to now supporting many website backends including popular ones like Twitter.com Amazon’s Cloud Front Service is one of their popular tools that lets you deploy your websites assets […]

HowTo – When You Need To Rename A Lot Of Files Or Folders

There are times when you are managing data that you will need to rename a large number of files.  There are a few ways to do this without losing your mind. A few applications of this process may be when you are moving hosts or when you are given a number of files from a […]

PHP4 Has Seen Its Final Days Official Support – Long Live PHP5

Well after giving its all for programmers around the world PHP version 4 has finally seen its last days of Official Support. What does this mean for you? Well applications that depend on PHP4 should be upgraded in any method necssary to be fully compatable with php5 . Eventually we will see web hosting companies […]

HowTo – Understanding Your E-Mail Needs And Choosing From Services Available

Probably the first thing that you do when you get online is setup your Email Service.  Most users will have a free account from their connection provider Cable DSL Dialup account but when you are developing for business or high level hobby sites how do you choose a service that will meet your needs? The […]

Amazon EC2 Web Services Are They The Future For The Web?

There are a number of large business now using the Amazon backend services to provide powerful computing power for their web services. Cloud Computing, Shared Computing and other type processes are nothing new to computer technology.  In the very early stages most companies that needed access to large and powerful processors would use a remote […]

HowTo – Prevent Hotlinking To Your Image Files With htaccess

Not every site owner wants to restrict access to the images on their site but sometimes you have a reason to do so. You may have a site that has a number of copyright images such as a news or gossip site but for whatever reason you choose you can at least reduce the reuse […]

HowTo – Understanding WebServer Http Error Code Information

When reading your WebServer logs you can sometimes come across some Errors that are not  usual. For the most part you will see 500’s for script execution problems, 404’s For files not found or 301’s for permanently moved files but every once in a while you come across a strange one. Most servers follow the […]

HowTo – DNS Naming Conventions For Your Services FTP, WWW, Mail

Recently I had a conversation with a number of blog developers about proper use of domain names and sub-domains when you are developing your website and infrastructure. The debate was centered around whether or not to use www. in front of a domain name and if so why. To be fair the people having the […]

ClientExec Billing Software

ClientExec is a billing account manager for resellers or hosters. This product may be available for free if you are purchasing a reseller account or if your server sales company offers it along with their Plesk or cPanel installs. The idea behind the software is to automate as much of the back end as posible […]