Wednesday, 21st March 2007
If you’re depend solely on your web host to do your daily backups, you are risking your web site’s very existence. Most web hosts only keep your web site backups for a day. This practice seems fine most of the time. What I am afraid of is when an inept web host that does not discover a problem with their web server within 24 hours of your last working web site backup. When they finally discover the problem, they may only be able to restore a corrupt web site backup because of their daily backup policy. An event like this may destroy your web site if you do not backup your web site files to your own computer or to a remote server.
This happened to me more than once and lucky for me I do daily MySQL database backups and FTP synchronization backups. I have tested a lot of MySQL database backup scripts and I found mySqlDump Database Backup to work best for me. I use multiple Cron jobs to schedule all my database backups. The output of the script is a “gz” file, which is similar to a zip file. I had to edit the source code …
Tagged As: database-backup, FTP-Voyager, MySQL
Thursday, 18th January 2007
It’s been some time since my last post. I am ready to resume blogging again after a long break. I got rid of a lot of “bad investments” to pave the way for a better year ahead. About one year ago, I updated my blog template and plugins. This year, my blog just got better with some really useful plugins I recently discovered.
There was an older version of this plugin created by someone else. The author of “Similar Posts” upgraded the older version and it is much better and easier to install than the previous one. You will see a list of similar posts on every one of my blog posts.
Sometimes a particular blog post can become a popular talking point for a lot of people. This plugin makes it easy for someone to keep updated on all the latest follow up comments via email.
3. Math Comment Spam Protection
I get loads of comment spam every week. The default anti spam plugin “Akismet” does a fairly good job of filtering comment spam but sometimes a few of them manage to sneak through the filters. This plugin forces the spammer to enter a simple …
Tagged As: Blogging, comment+spam, feedburner, flv, plugins, rss, seo, social+bookmarks, trackback+spam, wordpress
Monday, 20th February 2006
I recently deleted all my html files from my web site. I created WordPress pages instead. I find its easier to edit my pages with the WordPress 2.0 built in WYWISWG html editor rather than editing it with Dreamweaver and uploading the html files to my web server.
WordPress uses Apache’s mod_rewrite functionality to create pages. There are 2 types of pages as I call it. There are blog posts and pages. WordPress pages are not part of the blog archives. I customize the “permalink” of the blog posts to end with a “.html” filename. The cool thing is WordPress doesn’t actually creatre a real html file, it is simply telling the Apache web server that anytime someone requests for a html file, redirect that request to a php file that pulls data from the database. Too bad I haven’t found a way to create html files with the WordPress pages. I can do it with the blog posts by changing the “permalink” options.
How to create “page sections” and pages in WordPress?
Try clicking on any of my “About Me” section pages and you will see that it looks like there are files in the “/about/” folder. I did this by first …
Thursday, 11th November 2004
I visited ShrinkMyLink.com today and here’s a snippet of the message left by their CEO."On November 5th our entire network was temporarily taken offline for over 8 hours because a ShrinkMyLink user has posted a link to an illegal and very offensive website.For several hours we were working with the FBI and our upstream providers to ensure that the relevant information pertaining to this criminal activity was successfully extracted, archived and secured. Unfortunately, due to government policies and the importance of preserving the evidence intact, our servers had to be temporarily disconnected from the Internet.As you can imagine, this outage — while completely out of our control — has cost us thousands of dollars in lost revenue, not to mention losses that cannot be interpreted monetarily (i.e. our customers’ confidence, frustration of their users)."I feel its better to pay money to have your own redirection service with cheap web hosting a few free scripts.
Sunday, 7th November 2004
I recommended Shrink My Link in September in this post of mine. But it seems like they have folded in the past few days or something. I grew very dependent on their service for cloaking my affiliate links on my blog and Google AdWords. Lucky for me, I was left with 1 affiliate program on Google AdWords with a Shrink My Link cloaked URL. But I still lost 1 day’s worth of sales on my Survey campaign!
I believe it would be better to purchase a cheap web host service and install a split tester script and an affiliate cloaking script to store my affiliate links. I would need a generic URL like link.com or something more specific to a particular niche like SurveyWebSite.com. This could then be used for Overture PPC listings.
You may test out one of my new cloacked affiliate links of Google AdWords 1 2 3. Its hidden in a frame with an encrypted URL link. You won’t even see the Clickbank “?hop=myusername” code on the URL!
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