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Archive for March, 2009
Tips For A Happy Hosting Experience
In: General
30 Mar 2009Smashing Magazine carries an interesting article called “9 Steps To A Happy Relationship With Your Hosting Provider“. Not quite related to VPS per se, but the principles hold – Don’t choose based on price alone, check their uptime, reputation, etc.
Always take your time to choose a good host. Once you have a number of sites [...]
Although a Virtual Private Server can handle quite a bit of load, one of my favorite tricks is to use an external mail server such as Google Apps for business to handle emails. The user gets about 7GB of space, great POP and IMAP support and an excellent anti-spam filter to boot. Signing up for [...]
What Color Is Your Server?
In: General
19 Mar 2009In line with Earth Hour 2009, I’d like to ask a question – are you aware of your hosts’ Climate-Positive stance? Running a myriad of servers can use up a lot of energy, not to mention the disposal of used hardware.
I’m really glad that my favorite host ServInt has recently completed their audit to be [...]
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Free Server Monitoring – mon.itor.us
In: Services
18 Mar 2009While Virtual Private Servers give the flexibility of hosting multiple websites and hundreds of email accounts, you need to make sure its all up and running. Nothing is worse than receiving a call from a client (that’s paying you premium monthly fee) that a service is down. You should be notified of it before they [...]
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A Great Tool to Manage Your Login Information
In: Software
13 Mar 2009While a VPS allows you to host multiple sites, sometimes with the various FTP logins and databases, managing all those usernames and passwords can be quite a handful.
Here’s a little tool I find helpful (OS X only, sorry) – Its called Domain Brain. Besides FTP and Database, it also manages your Admin login for your [...]
Missing DNS Setting in Plesk 9
In: Plesk
11 Mar 2009Its supposed to be a simple thing. In Plesk 8, I was able to see the icon for DNS zone management. So I played around with the permissions, making sure I granted permission for the client to access DNS zone, etc but still no go… I just could not locate the DNS icon in the [...]
ServInt Essential VPS Review
In: Reviews
7 Mar 2009I’ve been using Virtual Private Servers from a well-known provider since 1999. Administering it was mainly from shell access and occasionally from their custom control panel (which was buggy and did not have the functions I needed).
After a few years I found the service to be lacking in many areas and started to look for [...]
Why Another Blog on VPS?
In: General
5 Mar 2009A big shoutout to new visitors! Thanks for dropping by…
I’ll get straight to the point. Why another blog on Virtual Private Servers?
A little background – I’ve been using them since 1999 and have found them to be an excellent way to run a web design or hosting business. Over the years I’ve garnered a wealth [...]
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I've been using Virtual Private Servers for the past 11 years. I'd like to share these experiences here, so I'll be writing Tips, Tutorials, Guides and other helpful hints...
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- admin: Haha... yes. I think I might have published this one a little too early, I've been compiling but hav [...]
- unmetered vps: So uhm.. where is the comparison? [...]
- tayfun: thanks for the hint. I have been searching this dns stuff and i was about to get crazy :) [...]
- Infrenion: Nice post, I would recommend using WHMCS Billing system (http://www.whmcs.com) and Vision Helpdesk S [...]
- michael: Thanks. This helped me. You know how frustrating these simple things can be!! [...]
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