I'm having the same problem when setting up new site in my VPS hosting. That's the good thing about VPS, unlike shared hosting you can host as many sites as you want as long as you don't overused your server allocated resources. Anyways, I was trying to set up a new wordpress blog. After creating a new account for the site and uploaded all wordpress files, the homepage was still showing temporary apache page. Initially I thought I should just wait for a while for it to sort it out itself, but nothing is changing after an hour. So, I decided to contact my host servint for solution. As a side note, if you are looking for an VPS hosting, servint is one the best around. It's a little more expensive than other vps hosting but the speed and support is top notch.
Before the support could give me any solution, the site itself solved the problem itself again. The email support was fast though, I waited around only 15 minutes. While waiting for an answer, I haven done something to the account, and it could be the solution to the problem. If not I'm not sure what's causing it? As this is the only thing I've done to the account. If you happened to have the same problems, here's my solution.
You need to create an A host for your new site. If you are using WHM Cpnel, login to your account, find the option edit DNS under DNS zone. Scroll to the bottom and insert your server information for A host, example:
ns1 14400 A xxx.xxx.xxx.1
ns2 14400 A xxx.xxx.xxx.2
It doesn't seems to take effect immediately for my case. Wait for around 5-10 minutes and check your site again. If it's still showing apache page, I think you should contact your hosting and ask them to fix it for you.
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Thursday, November 26, 2009
What's Class C IP
I've just recently searched for the same information and I thought some webmaster might be interested to know what are class C of IPs. If you are doing link building for your site, you should heard something like don't exchange link with the same C class of ips website as it's bad in the eyes of Googgle bot. Google discourages unnatural cross linking of your own sites using the same anchor keywords to achieve high ranking. No one know how true the information was, it's just a rumours how google search engine works to prevent site owner from buying lots of domain and cross linking among the sites to manipulate the rankings. Of course google se has other ways to prevent spamming such as the age of the domain & how trustable the site is. So if you want to make your link building campaign more naturally, it's advisable to get a link from different Class C of IPs than yours.
Let's see how does a normal IP looks like: aaa.bbb.CCC.xxx - I think now it's very clear to you even without further explanation. Did you see the C parts? That's the C class of IP. To determine if your sites are in the same C class of IPs, for example:
111.111.111.1 and 111.111.111.2 are in the "same" C Class
111.111.111.1 and 111.111.222.1 are in the "different" C Class
Some smaller hosting companies manage a single or very few C classes of IPs, thus it's hard to get multiple different C Class of IP with the same hosting company. Some larger hosting companies have wider range of C Classes Ips & even B Class but unless you request your sites to be on a different C Class of IP you might still end up on the same C Class of IPs.
This information was found on a forum, it might not be accurate. But it's an easy way to understand what's class c ip and give you an good idea on what you should look for in finding host for your sites.
Let's see how does a normal IP looks like: aaa.bbb.CCC.xxx - I think now it's very clear to you even without further explanation. Did you see the C parts? That's the C class of IP. To determine if your sites are in the same C class of IPs, for example:
111.111.111.1 and 111.111.111.2 are in the "same" C Class
111.111.111.1 and 111.111.222.1 are in the "different" C Class
Some smaller hosting companies manage a single or very few C classes of IPs, thus it's hard to get multiple different C Class of IP with the same hosting company. Some larger hosting companies have wider range of C Classes Ips & even B Class but unless you request your sites to be on a different C Class of IP you might still end up on the same C Class of IPs.
This information was found on a forum, it might not be accurate. But it's an easy way to understand what's class c ip and give you an good idea on what you should look for in finding host for your sites.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Can I make money online without building my own website?
From my experience, the best way to makes money online is through selling products or making your own website. Selling product isn't an easy task, you have to search and negotiate with local suppliers for a good price. Then you need capital to buy these products online and sell on the internet. It's a time consuming procedure and it doesn't guarantee that you would make any money from it. Of course you could do dropship, but the profit margin would be much lower than holding stock yourself. I'm not going deep into selling product online, instead I'm going to focus on building websites.
It's no surprise why most peoples prefer building website over selling online. Because it doesn't requires a lot of initial investment, you can even do it in the free way if you want. Once you launch your site, you just need to focus on writing contents for your site, there's very minimum maintenance needed. You don't have to answer customer question or deal with return orders. That's the best thing about building a website, if you do it right, the chances of making money online could be much more easier & profitable than selling online.
Don't ever think building a successful website is easy, I've seen a lot of success cases but a lot more failed to make any money online. It takes time & patience before you can see good money coming in, probably a year or two and of course it could be shorter or even longer.
I know it's hard for newcomer, I've been through this before. There's one way you can make money instantly if you are willing to invest good amount of money. I'm not talking about get rich quick scheme, MLM or buying eBooks. Trust me, those what called expert selling making money ebooks online are pretty much useless. Most of them are just a compilation of guides which you can easily find it online for free., there's no what they called secret in making money online. I've bought some and regret every time. So don't ever waste your money on these ebooks, you are just throwing away your hard earned money into the seller pockets.
Yes, the way to make money instantly is to buy an already money making website. You can find a lot of peoples selling it for a year of profit. But be very careful not to be scammed by the seller, make sure the information he gave is accurate and ask if you are confused. Never transfer money to the seller account before he transfer the site to you. You can request the seller to transfer the site first to be safe or use escrow service to do the transaction. It'd be safer for both party.
Be patient not to jump right into BIN (buy it now), do more research and make sure it's what it claims. If there isn't any good site for sell, check the selling forum everyday, some good one will definitely comes by. If you bought a stable source of income, you can easily make it back in a year and that's isn't long at all. After that, every cents you make is your money to keep and you can reinvest it back to different source of income. Another good thing about buying website is that you don't have to learn everything from ground up which takes a lot of time. Through the courses of maintaining a successful money making website will give you a lot of experiences. The website is your properties on the net and all the statistics are valuable information for your future venture.
Buying a website is probably the best way to make money online fast. The biggest profit site you buy the more you have to pay, if you can't afford to buy a large site, try something smaller that's well within your budget. For an established money making website to sell for just a year of profit, I think it's a good deal and investment. But if you sees something that are too good to be true, it's too good to be true.
It's no surprise why most peoples prefer building website over selling online. Because it doesn't requires a lot of initial investment, you can even do it in the free way if you want. Once you launch your site, you just need to focus on writing contents for your site, there's very minimum maintenance needed. You don't have to answer customer question or deal with return orders. That's the best thing about building a website, if you do it right, the chances of making money online could be much more easier & profitable than selling online.
Don't ever think building a successful website is easy, I've seen a lot of success cases but a lot more failed to make any money online. It takes time & patience before you can see good money coming in, probably a year or two and of course it could be shorter or even longer.
I know it's hard for newcomer, I've been through this before. There's one way you can make money instantly if you are willing to invest good amount of money. I'm not talking about get rich quick scheme, MLM or buying eBooks. Trust me, those what called expert selling making money ebooks online are pretty much useless. Most of them are just a compilation of guides which you can easily find it online for free., there's no what they called secret in making money online. I've bought some and regret every time. So don't ever waste your money on these ebooks, you are just throwing away your hard earned money into the seller pockets.
Yes, the way to make money instantly is to buy an already money making website. You can find a lot of peoples selling it for a year of profit. But be very careful not to be scammed by the seller, make sure the information he gave is accurate and ask if you are confused. Never transfer money to the seller account before he transfer the site to you. You can request the seller to transfer the site first to be safe or use escrow service to do the transaction. It'd be safer for both party.
Be patient not to jump right into BIN (buy it now), do more research and make sure it's what it claims. If there isn't any good site for sell, check the selling forum everyday, some good one will definitely comes by. If you bought a stable source of income, you can easily make it back in a year and that's isn't long at all. After that, every cents you make is your money to keep and you can reinvest it back to different source of income. Another good thing about buying website is that you don't have to learn everything from ground up which takes a lot of time. Through the courses of maintaining a successful money making website will give you a lot of experiences. The website is your properties on the net and all the statistics are valuable information for your future venture.
Buying a website is probably the best way to make money online fast. The biggest profit site you buy the more you have to pay, if you can't afford to buy a large site, try something smaller that's well within your budget. For an established money making website to sell for just a year of profit, I think it's a good deal and investment. But if you sees something that are too good to be true, it's too good to be true.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Do I need a VPS hosting?
Let's first understand hosting. You rent a server from a company and use their resources by paying monthly or yearly fees depends on which company you host with. Shared hosting means you share the same IP & resource (CPU, RAM) on one server with maybe hundreds of other users. While VPS gives you your own unique IP addresses & more control over the server such as root access, and also you share the resource with less users. Why do you need root access? Well, this is quite a difficult question for me, but one thing I do know is that you can freely install any third-party software in the server, there's more to root access beside that. If you are interested you can try wikipedia for more information. And dedicated means you are the only user of the server and you have full control over it. Some company even let you customize your own server such as more hard drive space or more RAM in case you need it.
When you are looking for a shared hosting, I recommend you to search for company that allows more concurrent connection or maximum user connection at a time. The more resonable one would be over 50, the more the better. Ask the hosting company if you can't find such information on their site, most if not all have concurent limitation on shared hosting. This is to make sure your site doesn't slow down other users on the same server and it's also one of the bad thing about shared hosting. Normally, if you just start out a new site with little traffic or less than a thousands visitors per day. You should be fine on a shared hosting. But that really depends on the nature of your site, for example if you provide large downloads for user, that'll result in many constant connection to your site, your shared server might not be able to handle even there's only 500 visitors per day. So it's your job to keep track of your own site and traffics, if you see constant downtime of your site or keep receiving 500 internal errors. It's about time to move to VPS. For your first hosting, I do somehow recommend godaddy. Their server is rather slow but the uptime is good. On top of that, they allows 100 - 200 concurrent connection on their shared hosting depends on the plan you decide to buy. I have to say it's quite a lot for a shared hosting, I've seen company offer 50 and even as low as 25 concurrent limitation. It's good for new site if the price is really cheap, but if your site grow fast you'll need a new server very soon.
When you are looking for a shared hosting, I recommend you to search for company that allows more concurrent connection or maximum user connection at a time. The more resonable one would be over 50, the more the better. Ask the hosting company if you can't find such information on their site, most if not all have concurent limitation on shared hosting. This is to make sure your site doesn't slow down other users on the same server and it's also one of the bad thing about shared hosting. Normally, if you just start out a new site with little traffic or less than a thousands visitors per day. You should be fine on a shared hosting. But that really depends on the nature of your site, for example if you provide large downloads for user, that'll result in many constant connection to your site, your shared server might not be able to handle even there's only 500 visitors per day. So it's your job to keep track of your own site and traffics, if you see constant downtime of your site or keep receiving 500 internal errors. It's about time to move to VPS. For your first hosting, I do somehow recommend godaddy. Their server is rather slow but the uptime is good. On top of that, they allows 100 - 200 concurrent connection on their shared hosting depends on the plan you decide to buy. I have to say it's quite a lot for a shared hosting, I've seen company offer 50 and even as low as 25 concurrent limitation. It's good for new site if the price is really cheap, but if your site grow fast you'll need a new server very soon.
What's Google Sandbox? And how long does it takes to come out?
It's no secret that Google is the biggest search engine out there and you'll probably get the majority of traffics from google. You might get more from Yahoo or Bing in rare occasion if they favor your site. Anyways, either you want to know what's sandbox about or wondering why you still haven't get any traffics from google, it's because of the sandbox.
Sandbox effect is a word internet webmaster use to referred to the penalty Google search engine placed on new domains. This is to prevent search engine optimizers (SEO) from manipulating the search engine ranking by creating hundreds or thousands of incoming links in short period of time. Every new domains will be placed in the sandbox for 3-12 months depends on the competiveness of the market. Although there's a lot debating over whether the sandbox effect exist or not in webmaster community, there's indeed some sort of filtering and observation period for every new sites. Sandbox basically is just a part of google search engine architectual to determine a site ranking. So either you agree or not, sandbox or whatever you want to call it does exist to prevent spamming or low quality site. As for how long, it's hard to determine. I've created 3 new sites 3 months back with unique content updated daily. Although it's getting little traffic from google, the index rate is extremely slow. Even if my new content pages were indexed, it doesn't rank well at all for the very long exact keywords. In comparison, another site which I built long time ago, new pages were indexed in almost hours and rank well instantly even though the content is duplicated. You see the difference just because the age of the site? I still can't tell you exactly how long, but i'll let you know when the new site I created is out of sandbox.
Another issues webmaster like to debate over with is the competitiveness of target keywords. Yes, it's true that if the keyword you target doesn't have any or very little competition such as your domain name, you can rank on the first result immediately after google indexed your site. Unless there's any searches for the keyword, it's pointless anyway. Remember the most important parts of getting high traffic is through all your content/inner pages, all these little traffic adds up. If you are in google sandbox, you can't rank well for all these pages. That's the reason why I think the sandbox does exist. But that doesn't mean that targetting one top searches keyword is bad, it's not advisable if you don't want what you are doing. Try concentrating more on your inner pages and create unique articles everyday.
What you can do while you are in sandbox is to build more incoming links to your site, adding more contents. Another things I'd like to mention is that the effect of the link doesn't take effect immediately. You can say there's some kind of link sandbox too, you'll only see result after 3 months, the longer the better. So it's wise to start building in early age. But do not over build incoming link, let it flows naturally. Otherwise, google might put your site in sandbox for a longer period of time. Quality is over quantity. Look for high quality links instead of low quality links. Google have the top phycologist working for them, they know what you'll do to try manipulating the ranking. But they are pre scripted bots afterall, work smartly and you'll beat the sandbox effect.
Sandbox effect is a word internet webmaster use to referred to the penalty Google search engine placed on new domains. This is to prevent search engine optimizers (SEO) from manipulating the search engine ranking by creating hundreds or thousands of incoming links in short period of time. Every new domains will be placed in the sandbox for 3-12 months depends on the competiveness of the market. Although there's a lot debating over whether the sandbox effect exist or not in webmaster community, there's indeed some sort of filtering and observation period for every new sites. Sandbox basically is just a part of google search engine architectual to determine a site ranking. So either you agree or not, sandbox or whatever you want to call it does exist to prevent spamming or low quality site. As for how long, it's hard to determine. I've created 3 new sites 3 months back with unique content updated daily. Although it's getting little traffic from google, the index rate is extremely slow. Even if my new content pages were indexed, it doesn't rank well at all for the very long exact keywords. In comparison, another site which I built long time ago, new pages were indexed in almost hours and rank well instantly even though the content is duplicated. You see the difference just because the age of the site? I still can't tell you exactly how long, but i'll let you know when the new site I created is out of sandbox.
Another issues webmaster like to debate over with is the competitiveness of target keywords. Yes, it's true that if the keyword you target doesn't have any or very little competition such as your domain name, you can rank on the first result immediately after google indexed your site. Unless there's any searches for the keyword, it's pointless anyway. Remember the most important parts of getting high traffic is through all your content/inner pages, all these little traffic adds up. If you are in google sandbox, you can't rank well for all these pages. That's the reason why I think the sandbox does exist. But that doesn't mean that targetting one top searches keyword is bad, it's not advisable if you don't want what you are doing. Try concentrating more on your inner pages and create unique articles everyday.
What you can do while you are in sandbox is to build more incoming links to your site, adding more contents. Another things I'd like to mention is that the effect of the link doesn't take effect immediately. You can say there's some kind of link sandbox too, you'll only see result after 3 months, the longer the better. So it's wise to start building in early age. But do not over build incoming link, let it flows naturally. Otherwise, google might put your site in sandbox for a longer period of time. Quality is over quantity. Look for high quality links instead of low quality links. Google have the top phycologist working for them, they know what you'll do to try manipulating the ranking. But they are pre scripted bots afterall, work smartly and you'll beat the sandbox effect.
Monday, November 16, 2009
Best Netbooks
There is no deny that the netbooks is the current hottest portable computers on the market. What's a netbooks you ask? Basically it's the smaller & lighter version of laptops/notebooks, and the screen size are usually under 11 inches to be categorised as netbooks. So what's the big deal? Many people seems to wondering why the big fuss over netbboks, isn't it just a smaller laptops? Yes it's, and that's what people want today's. Netbooks are much lighter and featuring longer battery life up to 10 hours compared it to 3-4 hours laptops. And that fits the purposes of having a portable computer! Don't you agree?
I myself bought a netbook a few months back and loving it. I need a portable computers that are light to carry around and last long enough with a single charged, ntebooks serve the purpose well for me. You think 6 pounds and 3 pounds are not much of a different, believe me it does make the difference. I owned a 14 inch Dell laptop before and I gave it to my brother after I bought a netbook. It feels so much comfortable when using it on a bus/car because of the size and weight, and it doesn't take up too much space on a coffee table with friends. Hey, Starbucks we can sit there all day long and we doesn't need your plug!
Now to the main parts. What's the best netbooks out there? Before I bought my netbooks around 6 months back, I've done a lot of research on net and decided to buy the Asus eeepc 1000HE. Asus eeepc 1000HE is one of the most popular netbooks out there because of what it offers and price. It's not perfect, but it's a well rounded netbooks for its price. To tell the truth, I haven't found one that's perfect yet as there's always one bad thing or downside in all the netbooks I researched. Even the best netbooks, you can easily find a few bad reviews from users. The best netbook for you is all depends on the downside you can oversee, either to be the hardware or price. For example, the Asus eeepc 1000HE has great matte screen that's bright and crisp. There's very mininum flex on the keyboard and it got the top of the line specs in the netbook categories. But the mouse button is some of the worse on the market, it's stiff and very hard to press, and you can hear very loud clicking sound which is the main reasons why some peoples give up on this netbook. Do a search on amazon reviews and I guarantee that's the most complaint on Asus eeepc 1000HE. It's unbelievable that the manufacturer can't even make a decent mouse button, did they even try it themeselves? I can get over with this is because I'm used to using sensor pad, the multi gesture touch or whatever it is called is working very well dor me. When I'm at home, I'll just plugin a usb mouse.
My second candidate was the Toshiba NB200. The price was a little bit higher, but what you get is a stylish and very well desgin netbook that stands out of the crowd. It could be the best looking netbooks out there at the moment. I'm was tempted and seriously considered to buy. What kept me from choosing the toshiba nb200 is the higher price and most importantly the speaker sound. The sound volume when set at maximum is just around 30% of what you get on asus eeepc 1000he. Personally I don't like to use a earplug or headphone, but some people prefer to use headphone and they can get over with this. As for me, this is a break deal. Some times it's just personal preference.
After I bought my netbook, I haven't been reading or searching for the newest out there. There might be a better one that came out after I bought mine. If you ever come across the two model I mentioned above when researching, you know what's good and bad about them. Compare to the other ones and see which suit you best. I heard the Samsung nc100 is not a bad netbook either and I think it's even cheaper than asus eeepc 1000he with the same specs.
I myself bought a netbook a few months back and loving it. I need a portable computers that are light to carry around and last long enough with a single charged, ntebooks serve the purpose well for me. You think 6 pounds and 3 pounds are not much of a different, believe me it does make the difference. I owned a 14 inch Dell laptop before and I gave it to my brother after I bought a netbook. It feels so much comfortable when using it on a bus/car because of the size and weight, and it doesn't take up too much space on a coffee table with friends. Hey, Starbucks we can sit there all day long and we doesn't need your plug!
Now to the main parts. What's the best netbooks out there? Before I bought my netbooks around 6 months back, I've done a lot of research on net and decided to buy the Asus eeepc 1000HE. Asus eeepc 1000HE is one of the most popular netbooks out there because of what it offers and price. It's not perfect, but it's a well rounded netbooks for its price. To tell the truth, I haven't found one that's perfect yet as there's always one bad thing or downside in all the netbooks I researched. Even the best netbooks, you can easily find a few bad reviews from users. The best netbook for you is all depends on the downside you can oversee, either to be the hardware or price. For example, the Asus eeepc 1000HE has great matte screen that's bright and crisp. There's very mininum flex on the keyboard and it got the top of the line specs in the netbook categories. But the mouse button is some of the worse on the market, it's stiff and very hard to press, and you can hear very loud clicking sound which is the main reasons why some peoples give up on this netbook. Do a search on amazon reviews and I guarantee that's the most complaint on Asus eeepc 1000HE. It's unbelievable that the manufacturer can't even make a decent mouse button, did they even try it themeselves? I can get over with this is because I'm used to using sensor pad, the multi gesture touch or whatever it is called is working very well dor me. When I'm at home, I'll just plugin a usb mouse.
My second candidate was the Toshiba NB200. The price was a little bit higher, but what you get is a stylish and very well desgin netbook that stands out of the crowd. It could be the best looking netbooks out there at the moment. I'm was tempted and seriously considered to buy. What kept me from choosing the toshiba nb200 is the higher price and most importantly the speaker sound. The sound volume when set at maximum is just around 30% of what you get on asus eeepc 1000he. Personally I don't like to use a earplug or headphone, but some people prefer to use headphone and they can get over with this. As for me, this is a break deal. Some times it's just personal preference.
After I bought my netbook, I haven't been reading or searching for the newest out there. There might be a better one that came out after I bought mine. If you ever come across the two model I mentioned above when researching, you know what's good and bad about them. Compare to the other ones and see which suit you best. I heard the Samsung nc100 is not a bad netbook either and I think it's even cheaper than asus eeepc 1000he with the same specs.
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Why Build your Own Computers?
I still remembered building my own very first computer and it takes me over an hour to double check everything before I pressed the power button. It was more than a decade ago where the manual instruction sucks and you have to cmos your computer? I'm not too sure what it's called, basically you have to tun on the power for 3 seconds and shut it off just to let the electricity run through the motherboard, then change the jumper back and turn it on. Luckily, you don't have to do all this shit nowadays and most manual are very well written. Manufacture even made their motherboards easy to work with by implementing some safety features that prevent you from plugging the wrong way.
I just recently built another new PC, it wasn't too difficult but unfortunately I got a defective board! So I have to drive all the way back to the shop and have it tested and changed. That's the downside of building your own computers when it's not working as it should. The very critical moment is when you turn on the power, if you sees something on the screen, cheers! You can start installing Windows or whatever in your computer. If you sees nothing, black screen but cpu is still running, you are most probably got a defective board. That's the reason why people don't want to build their own computer, instead buy a new one directly from companies.
Let's take a look at the advantages and disadvantages of building or buying computers. Why build your own computer when you can buy the whole set? Because it's cheaper and you got the choices over your hardware. If you are a gamer or you are very picky with the sound system, keyboard or other hardwares, you might want to consider building your own. With the same price, you can easily build a computer that's better than buying in a set. Maybe a better keyboard, better graphics card, more RAM or faster CPU. This is the scenario where you want better specs on a tighter budgets. The downsides of building your own computer is time consuming and got the higher chance of getting defective products.
If you have the money and willing to pay for your time, then buying computer might be a better choice. Buying computer in the past might not be as good as building your own, but companies have gotten cleverer in offering different computer targetting different gropu of users. If you are a gamer, they would include a more powerful graphics card, cpu or more RAM. If you just need a computer for internet and wording, then an integrated graphics is more than enough. And this should lower the cost for budget minded consumers. If you buy from HP or Dell, they already tested it and make sure the computer is working fine before you buy it. OS for your choice such as Windows is already installed and ready to use. All you need to do is plug in the power supply and you are ready to use. If there's any problems in the middle, just send the whole computer back within the warranties and they fix it for you. Computers from HP and Dell some times includes bloatware or unnecessary software in your PC. If you have the proper knowledge you can uninstalled it though.
If you want hassle free experience and don't care too much about the hardware as long as it works, buying a computer might be a better choice. I know some user doesn't care their keyboard sounds like a piano as long as they can surf the net and play some movies. If you are very picky person over quality of products, you might want consider building your own. It might takes long time in researching and building, but I think it'll save you more time in future. Once you have experience building a computers, whenever you meet a problems or hardware failure, you'll be able to fix it on your own. Sending back to manufacture could possibly left you with no computer for weeks or even months.
Building a computer might not as hard as you think, you just have try it once. The computer you build will last you years to come.
I just recently built another new PC, it wasn't too difficult but unfortunately I got a defective board! So I have to drive all the way back to the shop and have it tested and changed. That's the downside of building your own computers when it's not working as it should. The very critical moment is when you turn on the power, if you sees something on the screen, cheers! You can start installing Windows or whatever in your computer. If you sees nothing, black screen but cpu is still running, you are most probably got a defective board. That's the reason why people don't want to build their own computer, instead buy a new one directly from companies.
Let's take a look at the advantages and disadvantages of building or buying computers. Why build your own computer when you can buy the whole set? Because it's cheaper and you got the choices over your hardware. If you are a gamer or you are very picky with the sound system, keyboard or other hardwares, you might want to consider building your own. With the same price, you can easily build a computer that's better than buying in a set. Maybe a better keyboard, better graphics card, more RAM or faster CPU. This is the scenario where you want better specs on a tighter budgets. The downsides of building your own computer is time consuming and got the higher chance of getting defective products.
If you have the money and willing to pay for your time, then buying computer might be a better choice. Buying computer in the past might not be as good as building your own, but companies have gotten cleverer in offering different computer targetting different gropu of users. If you are a gamer, they would include a more powerful graphics card, cpu or more RAM. If you just need a computer for internet and wording, then an integrated graphics is more than enough. And this should lower the cost for budget minded consumers. If you buy from HP or Dell, they already tested it and make sure the computer is working fine before you buy it. OS for your choice such as Windows is already installed and ready to use. All you need to do is plug in the power supply and you are ready to use. If there's any problems in the middle, just send the whole computer back within the warranties and they fix it for you. Computers from HP and Dell some times includes bloatware or unnecessary software in your PC. If you have the proper knowledge you can uninstalled it though.
If you want hassle free experience and don't care too much about the hardware as long as it works, buying a computer might be a better choice. I know some user doesn't care their keyboard sounds like a piano as long as they can surf the net and play some movies. If you are very picky person over quality of products, you might want consider building your own. It might takes long time in researching and building, but I think it'll save you more time in future. Once you have experience building a computers, whenever you meet a problems or hardware failure, you'll be able to fix it on your own. Sending back to manufacture could possibly left you with no computer for weeks or even months.
Building a computer might not as hard as you think, you just have try it once. The computer you build will last you years to come.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Proof for the Future
Hey, by the time I was writing this, I'm sure there isn't a single visitors here yet. I didn't keep track of it, it has been 3 months since I started this blog to post my random things. It's still fairly new and I really didn't do much.
The reason why I'm posting this message is to let my future visitors know that I'm not earning any money from this blog at this moment, and hopefully I'll be able to earn decent income in future. I don't know when will the day come, but if it does, I'll post it again and refer back to this post.
I'm the kind of person who believe in working hard and I'll prove it to you through this blog.
The reason why I'm posting this message is to let my future visitors know that I'm not earning any money from this blog at this moment, and hopefully I'll be able to earn decent income in future. I don't know when will the day come, but if it does, I'll post it again and refer back to this post.
I'm the kind of person who believe in working hard and I'll prove it to you through this blog.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Make Money Online
How to make money online or work from home is some of the most popular searches on the web. Hey, who doesn't want to work comfortably at home and spend more time with family and friends or even travel? These are some of the priveliege working from home, no more boring day job. But it's possible to earn enough money to live a comfortable life? Yes, it's possible but not easy either. Internet is a free market, peoples comes in and out fast, once a market becomes over saturated it falls. If everyone can make money online so easily, then they'll be no more day job. It's about balance. Remember not to put all eggs in one basket, diverse it. A venture that' s making you a lot of money today does not mean it'll continually making you money in future, internet is a fast changing market. Once you have made enough money on the net, invest it in other areas or set up an offline business. Also those who live in 3rd world countries would be easier to live off with the same amount they earn in developed countries because their living cost in so much lower.
There's many ways you can earn online and it's hard for me to get in details with every one of them. I'll guide you to the few that you can actually earn money in long term and tell you which you shouldn't even try. I've been in this market for a while now but sadly I'm not making a lot of money. I can tell you my experience that takes me years of research, don't ever try to get into get rich quick scheme, MLM program, paid to surf, paid to read, paid to click or paid survey. It might earn you a little money, but think long-term and don't waste time on these program like I do before. Believe me and you'll save a lot of time.
So what's the working method of making money online. Here's a quick list: eBay, selling, affiliate, adsense, CPM or publising ads on your site.
eBay can earn you good money only if you have product to sell. I've done dropship before and it's earning me good money, but it also takes time to manage the business. What's dropshipping? Dropshipping means you don't keep stock, you work with the company and sell for them. You can get your order through eBay, your own site or other portal than forward your customer order details to your dropship company and they'll ship it for you. Normally, you set the price yourself, the dropship company will charge you at wholesale price and you sell it for your retail price. The price in between is the money that you'll earn. Actually, it might not sound as easy. First you need to find a dropship company who are willing to work with you, the best way is to visit them directly. Then, there's a lot of fees involve in the transaction such as shipping, ebay fees and other charges. If you can't markup the price high enough, you might not make decent enough money. So before you decide on dropship business, calculate all the fees invlove and make sure you can actually make enough money through this.
If you don't like the idea of droshipping, then affiliate might be the right one for you. Affiliate is where you refer peoples to purchase at the company you associate with, and they pay you commision for it. It's kind of hard to explain how you should do it, every affiliate marketers have their own way to promote a product either through free or paid ways. The idea of paid way is you create a selling page, then buy traffic through companies such as google adwords, Yahoo or Micorsoft adcenter. You pay these companies for each click they send you, we also called it PPC (pay per click). Get these peoples to click on your affiliate link and buy at the company site. To make PPC marketing works, you need to research and find the best niche that doesn't have too much competition and the affiliate commision is high enough to cover your cost and also earn you good money. It's not easy at all and it can takes a lot of time to research and trying to make it right.
The free way is what I'd would recommend, but you need to be patient. Building a site from ground up and start receiving traffic from search engine isn't an easy task either. If you are determine and willing to update your site daily, I'm sure you'll do very well after a year if not shorter. The trick is to get traffic to your site through the free way such as forum, search engine and social bookmarking site. There's a lot more to talk about such as how to do SEO and such thing. For your first time building a website, I don't really recommend you to go deep into that. SEO (search engine optimization) is a way to manipulate the search engine (mostly google) to rank high on search result. It's all about traffic we are talking about it here. If there's no traffic/reader on your site, that's mean no sell and no money. The good thing about building traffics through content is that you can either put advertisement such as google adsense, affiliate link or even sell link on your site (google doesn't recommend this). There's way for you to make money from your site as long as you got good traffics to your site. So what's considered as good traffic? Well.. it really depends which market you are in & where you want to earn money from (adsense or affiliate). If I have to explain everything clearly, I'd probably need to write another 2000 words.
The bottom line is don't think about making money first when you just start out making a website. Keep writing good content everyday and you'll eventually receive traffics from many sources. Then start out by using google adsense on your site and see how much it can make for you. After you gain more experineces through your course of building website and researching, you can easily start out another website with clear direction. If you want to learn how to build your own website, read our previous post. The keyword is Wordpress. Want the free way, use blogger like this site.
There's many ways you can earn online and it's hard for me to get in details with every one of them. I'll guide you to the few that you can actually earn money in long term and tell you which you shouldn't even try. I've been in this market for a while now but sadly I'm not making a lot of money. I can tell you my experience that takes me years of research, don't ever try to get into get rich quick scheme, MLM program, paid to surf, paid to read, paid to click or paid survey. It might earn you a little money, but think long-term and don't waste time on these program like I do before. Believe me and you'll save a lot of time.
So what's the working method of making money online. Here's a quick list: eBay, selling, affiliate, adsense, CPM or publising ads on your site.
eBay can earn you good money only if you have product to sell. I've done dropship before and it's earning me good money, but it also takes time to manage the business. What's dropshipping? Dropshipping means you don't keep stock, you work with the company and sell for them. You can get your order through eBay, your own site or other portal than forward your customer order details to your dropship company and they'll ship it for you. Normally, you set the price yourself, the dropship company will charge you at wholesale price and you sell it for your retail price. The price in between is the money that you'll earn. Actually, it might not sound as easy. First you need to find a dropship company who are willing to work with you, the best way is to visit them directly. Then, there's a lot of fees involve in the transaction such as shipping, ebay fees and other charges. If you can't markup the price high enough, you might not make decent enough money. So before you decide on dropship business, calculate all the fees invlove and make sure you can actually make enough money through this.
If you don't like the idea of droshipping, then affiliate might be the right one for you. Affiliate is where you refer peoples to purchase at the company you associate with, and they pay you commision for it. It's kind of hard to explain how you should do it, every affiliate marketers have their own way to promote a product either through free or paid ways. The idea of paid way is you create a selling page, then buy traffic through companies such as google adwords, Yahoo or Micorsoft adcenter. You pay these companies for each click they send you, we also called it PPC (pay per click). Get these peoples to click on your affiliate link and buy at the company site. To make PPC marketing works, you need to research and find the best niche that doesn't have too much competition and the affiliate commision is high enough to cover your cost and also earn you good money. It's not easy at all and it can takes a lot of time to research and trying to make it right.
The free way is what I'd would recommend, but you need to be patient. Building a site from ground up and start receiving traffic from search engine isn't an easy task either. If you are determine and willing to update your site daily, I'm sure you'll do very well after a year if not shorter. The trick is to get traffic to your site through the free way such as forum, search engine and social bookmarking site. There's a lot more to talk about such as how to do SEO and such thing. For your first time building a website, I don't really recommend you to go deep into that. SEO (search engine optimization) is a way to manipulate the search engine (mostly google) to rank high on search result. It's all about traffic we are talking about it here. If there's no traffic/reader on your site, that's mean no sell and no money. The good thing about building traffics through content is that you can either put advertisement such as google adsense, affiliate link or even sell link on your site (google doesn't recommend this). There's way for you to make money from your site as long as you got good traffics to your site. So what's considered as good traffic? Well.. it really depends which market you are in & where you want to earn money from (adsense or affiliate). If I have to explain everything clearly, I'd probably need to write another 2000 words.
The bottom line is don't think about making money first when you just start out making a website. Keep writing good content everyday and you'll eventually receive traffics from many sources. Then start out by using google adsense on your site and see how much it can make for you. After you gain more experineces through your course of building website and researching, you can easily start out another website with clear direction. If you want to learn how to build your own website, read our previous post. The keyword is Wordpress. Want the free way, use blogger like this site.
More Webhosting Company
I lost track of some info while I was writing the basic of webhosting. I keep telling myself not to forget to include a list of popular web hosting, but I forgot. Guess my memory is going downhill. Back to the topics, while I was searching for web hosting on different sources I always came across some of the same company name. This list of web hosting companies might be the one you are looking for. Once you have come down to the final list, look up for reviews before you decide. Here's the list of webhosting companies that seems to be more popular: Hostgator, lunarpage & bluehost.
Hmm... I thought the list would be longer, I guess my memory is getting on me again. Anyways, if you are looking for VPS host, here's some good one: Servint, wiredtree, futurehosting & burstnet. As for dedicated server, sorry I'm still far from using a dedicated server and haven't had time to check it out.
Hmm... I thought the list would be longer, I guess my memory is getting on me again. Anyways, if you are looking for VPS host, here's some good one: Servint, wiredtree, futurehosting & burstnet. As for dedicated server, sorry I'm still far from using a dedicated server and haven't had time to check it out.
Basic to Webhosting
Since I'm providing guides to subdomain in my last article, I thought I'd write a little more about it for those who are interested in finding a good host. There's literally hundreds of provider on the market and the competition is fierce. It's good not to get tricked by all the false advertising. If you are not sure which to chose, it's always best to do some research on the internet and look for reviews. webhostingtalk.com is a good place to start your hosting searching and ask question. But before you ask, try to read the beginners guide and search the board topics first before you post a question as many new comer question has already been answered. Be careful when you are on some top web hosting reviews site, those comparison site could be made by some hosting company itself to promote their own products. Thus, the best way to find the web hosting company is through forum and community site.
I'm not going to promote any web hosting company here, so don't worry. Instead I'm going to tell you my own experience with some of the hosting company I use. Before I start talking about my own experience, I'll give you some tips in finding the right hosting company for the right price. If you don't have a Paypal account or credit card, you might find it a little hard to buy a webhost, in that case you might want to seach for your local hosting company that accept direct transfer as payment method. If you have paypal, then everything would be much easier and also you got a lot more choices. Through my research I still found US based hosting company provide the best speed and price, I could be wrong though.
We are talking about basic web hosting here so I assumed that you are new to this. For your information, there are 3 basic hosting on the market, shared hosting, VPS and dedicated. Since you are hosting a new site with little too no traffic, you might want something cheaper. I know it's always tempting to use hosting companies that offers unlimited bandwidth and that kind of shit even if you don't really need it, those are just their marketing ploy. No company can provide unlimited bandwidth out there, if they can they will be out of business long ago. They knew a new site isn't going to use even a tiny bid of those bandwidth, in fact they have ways to deal with even high traffic site on shared hosting. What you don't know is most shared hosting if not all have concurrent connection limit. What does that mean? That means if the shared hosting have 50 concurrent connection limit, it only allows 50 connection to the site at once. If there's more than that, other of your visitors will be prompted with errors page. Most hosting company should have this information stated on their site, somewhere deep and well hidden that not even 1% of chance you'll come across. Most people doesn't know that, and the company will just laugh at you at the back saying yes we can provide unlimited bandwidth only if you can use it.
Most shared hosting have all basic software and stuff that comes with your hosting. Some allows you to host more than one site and some offers better service. But it all comes down to price when you are on tight budget. And I'm one of those webmaster that are constantly looking for cheap web hosting. Currently, there's two I use namecheap and godaddy. Namecheap was relatively new to web hosting, and I found their server rather slow and their support basically can't help you at all. But they have the cheapest at just $2.99, the catch is you have to pay for the whole year. So if you are not satisfy with their service after few months, you can't get any refund. From my experience, I host my site with them because I know I wouldn't receive too much traffic in the first years but I'm looking for long term, so I don't mind paying them one year of hosting. I check my site very often, the speed and uptime wasn't too bad either, although I do have problem with one of my site that keeps going down and it frustrate me.
Most shared hosting with priced under $5 requires to pay one year in advance. Only godaddy I know of requires to pay just 3 months. Godaddy was much cheaper in the past at just $3.99 and they allows monthly pay which is great for testing. But that's the past. Now it cost $4.99 per month for shared hosting, and you have to pay 3 months in advance for the first time. Although I hate godaddy doing some sneaky thing to one of my larger site, they are not a bad hosting for smaller site. I can't complain as other host might just suspend my site. Both namecheap & godaddy are reputable companies and they are some of the biggest domain registrar out there. So you have one less worried about getting scam. I recommend them both for your first web hosting, chose between them based on your preference.
I'm just telling you my experince with the web hosting I've been with, there might be better and cheaper hosting companies I'm not aware of. And that's your job to find the best one out there for your needs. There's one thing I do realized is that you'd probably stick with your first web hosting company longer than you wanted even if you don't like it. So choose wisely. Good luck!
I'm not going to promote any web hosting company here, so don't worry. Instead I'm going to tell you my own experience with some of the hosting company I use. Before I start talking about my own experience, I'll give you some tips in finding the right hosting company for the right price. If you don't have a Paypal account or credit card, you might find it a little hard to buy a webhost, in that case you might want to seach for your local hosting company that accept direct transfer as payment method. If you have paypal, then everything would be much easier and also you got a lot more choices. Through my research I still found US based hosting company provide the best speed and price, I could be wrong though.
We are talking about basic web hosting here so I assumed that you are new to this. For your information, there are 3 basic hosting on the market, shared hosting, VPS and dedicated. Since you are hosting a new site with little too no traffic, you might want something cheaper. I know it's always tempting to use hosting companies that offers unlimited bandwidth and that kind of shit even if you don't really need it, those are just their marketing ploy. No company can provide unlimited bandwidth out there, if they can they will be out of business long ago. They knew a new site isn't going to use even a tiny bid of those bandwidth, in fact they have ways to deal with even high traffic site on shared hosting. What you don't know is most shared hosting if not all have concurrent connection limit. What does that mean? That means if the shared hosting have 50 concurrent connection limit, it only allows 50 connection to the site at once. If there's more than that, other of your visitors will be prompted with errors page. Most hosting company should have this information stated on their site, somewhere deep and well hidden that not even 1% of chance you'll come across. Most people doesn't know that, and the company will just laugh at you at the back saying yes we can provide unlimited bandwidth only if you can use it.
Most shared hosting have all basic software and stuff that comes with your hosting. Some allows you to host more than one site and some offers better service. But it all comes down to price when you are on tight budget. And I'm one of those webmaster that are constantly looking for cheap web hosting. Currently, there's two I use namecheap and godaddy. Namecheap was relatively new to web hosting, and I found their server rather slow and their support basically can't help you at all. But they have the cheapest at just $2.99, the catch is you have to pay for the whole year. So if you are not satisfy with their service after few months, you can't get any refund. From my experience, I host my site with them because I know I wouldn't receive too much traffic in the first years but I'm looking for long term, so I don't mind paying them one year of hosting. I check my site very often, the speed and uptime wasn't too bad either, although I do have problem with one of my site that keeps going down and it frustrate me.
Most shared hosting with priced under $5 requires to pay one year in advance. Only godaddy I know of requires to pay just 3 months. Godaddy was much cheaper in the past at just $3.99 and they allows monthly pay which is great for testing. But that's the past. Now it cost $4.99 per month for shared hosting, and you have to pay 3 months in advance for the first time. Although I hate godaddy doing some sneaky thing to one of my larger site, they are not a bad hosting for smaller site. I can't complain as other host might just suspend my site. Both namecheap & godaddy are reputable companies and they are some of the biggest domain registrar out there. So you have one less worried about getting scam. I recommend them both for your first web hosting, chose between them based on your preference.
I'm just telling you my experince with the web hosting I've been with, there might be better and cheaper hosting companies I'm not aware of. And that's your job to find the best one out there for your needs. There's one thing I do realized is that you'd probably stick with your first web hosting company longer than you wanted even if you don't like it. So choose wisely. Good luck!
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
How to point Subdomain to another sever host?
I've just recently done the same thing for one of my site. It's actually quite simple, but I don't know how I spent so much time in looking for guides on the net. It's frustrating.
Alright, here's my situation. I have a site mydomain.com and just recently I've created a sub.mydomain.com and wanted to point the subdomain to another sever host. Why? Because it's a huge traffic site and I don't want to add anymore strain to the main server, therefore I bought a new cheaper host for the subdomain.
Are you looking for imformation to do the same thing? You are lucky to find my blog as I'm going to tell you based on my experince and guide you through step by step. Peoples might have thought you are using 2 server, you must know hosting very well. No! I'm just a webmaster and my programmer do all the shit for me except the hosting thing of course. There's a lot of information on the internet actually, if you are willing to spend some time researching, you'll find a way to fix it. The problem is most information they provide are very brief, maybe they thought it was easy and you should be able to understand. I admit I'm not the brightest one, but I can at least understand and follow instructions. When I saw peoples posting something like NS, A record or Cname, I started to get headache. How the hell am I suppose to understand all of them without more explanation, I'm searching for guidance because I'm new to this so please expect everyone to be hosting junky.
Skip above part if you just want to know how to do it:
Please excuse for my whinning, I just have to let it out as it's taking me freaking long time to figure it out. Before you follow my instruction, there's one information you should know. After you edit anything on your server or domain register, it does not reflect on your site immediately. Most of the time you should see changes within minutes to an hour based on my experience. Patience is the key to success, so wait before you start scratching your head. It could be the delayed on your hoster side too, I'm not sure. Anyway, I made some changes yesterday and it doesn't work after waiting for like half an hour, so I just go to bed and guess what happens? Yes, everything is now working as how it should be!
I'm not going to assume you already done the domain part, so here's what you should modify in your domain registrar side. I'm using Namecheap:
1.) Go to manage domain
2.) Select the domain you want to modify
3.) If you already pointed the domain to a nameserver(NS), click transfer dns back to us. After you done that, you should now have the option to modify "All host record". Now click on All host record under the sub-domain settings, enter your subdomain name in the first field, your subdomain hoster namesever on the second field (example: ns22.domaincontrol.com) then chose A (address) from the drop down list. Continue the same with the next line, ususally you have two namesever with the hosting company.
4.) Click save.
5.) Trasnsfer back your main domain dns to your main host by clicking transfer DNS back to webhost. (your main server)
The second part is adding A record on your main domain server. Remember it's not the subdomain server, you don't want to do any editing on your subdomain server. It's going to be a little different depends which company and control panel you use. I've experience in both WHM Cpanel and Godaddy. I hate Godaddy, but their control panel is quite good. Anyways I'll teach you how to do it in both.
If you are using Godaddy hosting:
1.) Login to your account, open your hosing list. Click on manage account and it'll open another windows.
2.) There's bunch of options on top of the menu. If I remember correctly, hover settings or something else, find and select DNS manager. It should open a new window again.
3.) Now you should see your main server DNS information. At the very top, you should see the A record settings and this is where you should add your A record pointing it to sub.mydomain.com IP.
4.) Fill in the A record information. Enter your subdomain name and the IP of the second server, then save it.
5) You are done. Wait until it takes effect.
If you are using WHM Cpanel:
1.) Find the option Edit DNS Zone and click on it
2.) Select your domain and click edit. (I found out that it's not working in firefox, use IE if the same thing happen to you)
3.) Scroll down to the bottom and add a new entry. Eample: sub.mydomain.com. 14400 IN xx.xx.xx.xx A
4.) Click save and you are done. Just wait until it take effect on your site.
Here's some of the main point you should remember. You only edit information on 1) Your domain registrar & 2) Your main domain server hosting. You are not doing any editing on the new host you bought for your subdomain. Basically, all you need to do is add an A record on the main domain server and point the subdomain to second server IP. Tha's it, you are done. Simple!
Alright, here's my situation. I have a site mydomain.com and just recently I've created a sub.mydomain.com and wanted to point the subdomain to another sever host. Why? Because it's a huge traffic site and I don't want to add anymore strain to the main server, therefore I bought a new cheaper host for the subdomain.
Are you looking for imformation to do the same thing? You are lucky to find my blog as I'm going to tell you based on my experince and guide you through step by step. Peoples might have thought you are using 2 server, you must know hosting very well. No! I'm just a webmaster and my programmer do all the shit for me except the hosting thing of course. There's a lot of information on the internet actually, if you are willing to spend some time researching, you'll find a way to fix it. The problem is most information they provide are very brief, maybe they thought it was easy and you should be able to understand. I admit I'm not the brightest one, but I can at least understand and follow instructions. When I saw peoples posting something like NS, A record or Cname, I started to get headache. How the hell am I suppose to understand all of them without more explanation, I'm searching for guidance because I'm new to this so please expect everyone to be hosting junky.
Skip above part if you just want to know how to do it:
Please excuse for my whinning, I just have to let it out as it's taking me freaking long time to figure it out. Before you follow my instruction, there's one information you should know. After you edit anything on your server or domain register, it does not reflect on your site immediately. Most of the time you should see changes within minutes to an hour based on my experience. Patience is the key to success, so wait before you start scratching your head. It could be the delayed on your hoster side too, I'm not sure. Anyway, I made some changes yesterday and it doesn't work after waiting for like half an hour, so I just go to bed and guess what happens? Yes, everything is now working as how it should be!
I'm not going to assume you already done the domain part, so here's what you should modify in your domain registrar side. I'm using Namecheap:
1.) Go to manage domain
2.) Select the domain you want to modify
3.) If you already pointed the domain to a nameserver(NS), click transfer dns back to us. After you done that, you should now have the option to modify "All host record". Now click on All host record under the sub-domain settings, enter your subdomain name in the first field, your subdomain hoster namesever on the second field (example: ns22.domaincontrol.com) then chose A (address) from the drop down list. Continue the same with the next line, ususally you have two namesever with the hosting company.
4.) Click save.
5.) Trasnsfer back your main domain dns to your main host by clicking transfer DNS back to webhost. (your main server)
The second part is adding A record on your main domain server. Remember it's not the subdomain server, you don't want to do any editing on your subdomain server. It's going to be a little different depends which company and control panel you use. I've experience in both WHM Cpanel and Godaddy. I hate Godaddy, but their control panel is quite good. Anyways I'll teach you how to do it in both.
If you are using Godaddy hosting:
1.) Login to your account, open your hosing list. Click on manage account and it'll open another windows.
2.) There's bunch of options on top of the menu. If I remember correctly, hover settings or something else, find and select DNS manager. It should open a new window again.
3.) Now you should see your main server DNS information. At the very top, you should see the A record settings and this is where you should add your A record pointing it to sub.mydomain.com IP.
4.) Fill in the A record information. Enter your subdomain name and the IP of the second server, then save it.
5) You are done. Wait until it takes effect.
If you are using WHM Cpanel:
1.) Find the option Edit DNS Zone and click on it
2.) Select your domain and click edit. (I found out that it's not working in firefox, use IE if the same thing happen to you)
3.) Scroll down to the bottom and add a new entry. Eample: sub.mydomain.com. 14400 IN xx.xx.xx.xx A
4.) Click save and you are done. Just wait until it take effect on your site.
Here's some of the main point you should remember. You only edit information on 1) Your domain registrar & 2) Your main domain server hosting. You are not doing any editing on the new host you bought for your subdomain. Basically, all you need to do is add an A record on the main domain server and point the subdomain to second server IP. Tha's it, you are done. Simple!
Monday, November 9, 2009
How to Build your own Website
Building a website is not rocket science, maybe it was difficult in the past where there isn't any tools to help you. You need to learn basic html coding to create a simple page, but updating and maintaining the site can be time consuming. Who have the time to do all the shit? The other reason why peoples don't build their own website is because the hosting is very expensive. Even if you get a free host like yahoo geocities, anyone still remember that? You get full of ads at the side bar, who like a site that stuff with annoying ads that pop right in your face? And just very recently, yahoo has finally closed their free web hosting geocities after such long time. Why? Simple, because there's other free service out there that are hundred times better and it's free of advertisement. On top of that, they even provide free tools to help you set up the site.
Web hosting is getting cheaper and cheaper in recent years thanks to the fierce competition in the market. Additionally, free open source website development tools such as wordpress, joomla make building a website much easier, as simple as this blog. If you are looking for a totally free and the fastest, simplest way to blog, blogger which you are looking right now is the best for you. You create you own account, if you already have an gmail account just sign in with the same user and pass. Blogger.com pretty much gives you every control over your site from simple choosing a list of existing blogger template and colors to practically change the whole look of your site if you know what you are doing. My blog which you are looking right now is the default template with no modification at all. There's a lot of free template for blogger made by other users on the net you can use, just follow the instruction and paste the code in and you are done. I'm too lazy to find my blog a nice template, I just want to post my random post as fast as I could. Anyways, just letting you know that there's choice for other template than this.
Alright, for those who are a little more tech/web savvy and have your own domain and hosting. You might want something a little more complicated and flexible. I'd recommend you to use wordpress. Wordpress is an free open sources website development tools, in a nutshell it's a ready built website that you can set up immediately. I don't want to go through the complicated process, I'll just make it simple. Assume that you already have a domain and hosting account. First you need to create a database, then upload all wordpress files in your hosting root directory. After it's been completed, visit your site and follow wordpress instruction to have your website set up. Once you are done with the configuratio, your site is basically ready to use. Wordpress is a very powerful open sources tool and it give you full right access to the code. That's mean you can modify however you liket if you have knowledge in PHP coding. If you don't, it's okay, you don't need it anyway. Wordpress have thousands of free template and plugins developed by the community for you to download. You can find literally all kind of add on script such as comment, rating, poll voting...etc. Adding all these plugins is simple too, log into admin backend, chose plugin installation, upload, activate it and you are done. Just read the developer instruction to learn how to properly install and use the plugins.
Beside Wordpress, there's other similar website building tools such as Joomla and others. Wordpress and Joomla are few of the most popular one out there. Both are free to use and features powerful CMS (Content management system). The cms is something similar to blogger where you can add new, edit and delete post. It manage every part of your site on the backend. I personally prefer Wordpress as it's the most popular blog tools out there with many developers supporting it. It's much easier to use and edit compared to Joomla. I've used Joomla before and it's very hard to do even simple modification unless you are an expert programmer. On the other hand, I found wordpress rather easy to understand and modify. I'm by no means a programmer, but I do have basic knowledge of PHP through my course of maintaining various site on the web.
Of course, if you are willing to learn there's nothing impossible. Since you are searching for how to build your own website, you must be new to website developement. I highly recommend you to use wordpress, I knew someone with no prior experience in building website successfully set up his own site. You just need a little patience and reading, that's it.
Web hosting is getting cheaper and cheaper in recent years thanks to the fierce competition in the market. Additionally, free open source website development tools such as wordpress, joomla make building a website much easier, as simple as this blog. If you are looking for a totally free and the fastest, simplest way to blog, blogger which you are looking right now is the best for you. You create you own account, if you already have an gmail account just sign in with the same user and pass. Blogger.com pretty much gives you every control over your site from simple choosing a list of existing blogger template and colors to practically change the whole look of your site if you know what you are doing. My blog which you are looking right now is the default template with no modification at all. There's a lot of free template for blogger made by other users on the net you can use, just follow the instruction and paste the code in and you are done. I'm too lazy to find my blog a nice template, I just want to post my random post as fast as I could. Anyways, just letting you know that there's choice for other template than this.
Alright, for those who are a little more tech/web savvy and have your own domain and hosting. You might want something a little more complicated and flexible. I'd recommend you to use wordpress. Wordpress is an free open sources website development tools, in a nutshell it's a ready built website that you can set up immediately. I don't want to go through the complicated process, I'll just make it simple. Assume that you already have a domain and hosting account. First you need to create a database, then upload all wordpress files in your hosting root directory. After it's been completed, visit your site and follow wordpress instruction to have your website set up. Once you are done with the configuratio, your site is basically ready to use. Wordpress is a very powerful open sources tool and it give you full right access to the code. That's mean you can modify however you liket if you have knowledge in PHP coding. If you don't, it's okay, you don't need it anyway. Wordpress have thousands of free template and plugins developed by the community for you to download. You can find literally all kind of add on script such as comment, rating, poll voting...etc. Adding all these plugins is simple too, log into admin backend, chose plugin installation, upload, activate it and you are done. Just read the developer instruction to learn how to properly install and use the plugins.
Beside Wordpress, there's other similar website building tools such as Joomla and others. Wordpress and Joomla are few of the most popular one out there. Both are free to use and features powerful CMS (Content management system). The cms is something similar to blogger where you can add new, edit and delete post. It manage every part of your site on the backend. I personally prefer Wordpress as it's the most popular blog tools out there with many developers supporting it. It's much easier to use and edit compared to Joomla. I've used Joomla before and it's very hard to do even simple modification unless you are an expert programmer. On the other hand, I found wordpress rather easy to understand and modify. I'm by no means a programmer, but I do have basic knowledge of PHP through my course of maintaining various site on the web.
Of course, if you are willing to learn there's nothing impossible. Since you are searching for how to build your own website, you must be new to website developement. I highly recommend you to use wordpress, I knew someone with no prior experience in building website successfully set up his own site. You just need a little patience and reading, that's it.
Saturday, November 7, 2009
The best combination of Software to stay Virus free
Ever since I lost over $100 in my account because of Trojan virus as I believe, I started to be very careful with my web activity & the security I chose to use. If you too have a Paypal or internet banking account associate with your personal information & credit card details, you'd want to be extra careful when using the internet. Viruses, spyware, adware, malware, trojan horses are everywhere and it's on an upward trend since the start of internet days. Maybe it's not as scary as it sounds, with the necessary antiviruses software and some other securit tool, you can keep your PCs free of viruses. Don't ever think... no my computer can't possible get infected with viruses as I just only check my email and login to my facebook account most of the time. I learnt my lesson and hopefully you are not the next victim.
I use 3 security software, avast, zonealarm and trojan hunter. I have all sort my banking account on the internet as I'm a web developer, it's necessary for me to check my account very often. I've been using the combination of these 3 software, and it kept me safe for more than 5 years since I lost my money. I'm pretty sure my PC isn't fully clean, some spyware or malware might still be hieen within my files, but it keeps the dangerous high security risk viruses and trojan away from my PC.
You might think that with 3 software installed in my PC it's going to cost me alot? No exactly the opposite, it doesn't cost me any money! And I don't mean I'm getting pirated software. There's a lot of good antivirus, firewall, trojan horse software out there for free. But don't expect to get the full protection out of a free software, but with 3 free security software, that's probably more than enough to keep your online account safe. Of course, that's my own opinion, if you have the money to spend, it's always recommended to buy the full version of the software. It never hurts with a little extra protection, don't you agree?
Before I changed to avast, I was using norton. Both are good in my opinion, avast and another great antivirus software are AVG. I changed because norton is working slow on my PC and eating up a lot of computer resources. To tell the truth, I never really use the antivirus a lot, well yes it's there active in my taskbar icon, but I never bother to do any scanning or it catches any viruses intruding either. In fact I started to update the virus definition database longer and longer in between. It's bad, but sometime I'm just too lazy. There's an auto update of course, but my internet connection was too slow and I turn it off and do manual update from time to time.
The security software I think it's a must is the firewall. Everytime there's suspicious connection trying to access your computer, it'll block them and ask for your permission. For example when I open my firefox browser, zonealarm will pop up with a message and ask for internet connection confirmation. It's a little more work, but it's not as bad as you'd have thought. On a side note, you can give absolute access to those software you trust so zonelalarm won't keep asking for permission everytime you open the program. You can get zonealarm free version at its official site. I highly recommed you to get the full version as it also includes spyware protectio. Zonealarm for me is the most important security software on my computer that I cannot live without. It's a great software and I've paid for it. For me, firewall got to be the best and other just average or a free version is enough.
And if you are like me have banking account on the internet and do a lot of transaction. I recommend you to use trojan hunter for some extra protection. Trojan hunter are specialized in catching and blocking trojan horses which is important for us as it trying to steals your password by placing backdoor script on your PC. It's recommended for you to update the virus definition very often.
Last but not least, these security software are necessary and it gives you extra protection against viruses, trojan horse, spyware and adware. But there's always precautious steps you can do to reduce the risk of getting infected. First, never click on a link on your email. Check who is the sender first and check the link location by hover over the link. Even it's from a friend, it's always save to double check before you click on it. If you accidently click on it and it brought you to some weird website, close the site and scan your computer with your antiviruses software before you access any account on the web. Second, avoid download an attachment from annoymous. Third, visit only autorized website. By taking these pre-cautious step, it'll definitely helps to reduce the risk.
I use 3 security software, avast, zonealarm and trojan hunter. I have all sort my banking account on the internet as I'm a web developer, it's necessary for me to check my account very often. I've been using the combination of these 3 software, and it kept me safe for more than 5 years since I lost my money. I'm pretty sure my PC isn't fully clean, some spyware or malware might still be hieen within my files, but it keeps the dangerous high security risk viruses and trojan away from my PC.
You might think that with 3 software installed in my PC it's going to cost me alot? No exactly the opposite, it doesn't cost me any money! And I don't mean I'm getting pirated software. There's a lot of good antivirus, firewall, trojan horse software out there for free. But don't expect to get the full protection out of a free software, but with 3 free security software, that's probably more than enough to keep your online account safe. Of course, that's my own opinion, if you have the money to spend, it's always recommended to buy the full version of the software. It never hurts with a little extra protection, don't you agree?
Before I changed to avast, I was using norton. Both are good in my opinion, avast and another great antivirus software are AVG. I changed because norton is working slow on my PC and eating up a lot of computer resources. To tell the truth, I never really use the antivirus a lot, well yes it's there active in my taskbar icon, but I never bother to do any scanning or it catches any viruses intruding either. In fact I started to update the virus definition database longer and longer in between. It's bad, but sometime I'm just too lazy. There's an auto update of course, but my internet connection was too slow and I turn it off and do manual update from time to time.
The security software I think it's a must is the firewall. Everytime there's suspicious connection trying to access your computer, it'll block them and ask for your permission. For example when I open my firefox browser, zonealarm will pop up with a message and ask for internet connection confirmation. It's a little more work, but it's not as bad as you'd have thought. On a side note, you can give absolute access to those software you trust so zonelalarm won't keep asking for permission everytime you open the program. You can get zonealarm free version at its official site. I highly recommed you to get the full version as it also includes spyware protectio. Zonealarm for me is the most important security software on my computer that I cannot live without. It's a great software and I've paid for it. For me, firewall got to be the best and other just average or a free version is enough.
And if you are like me have banking account on the internet and do a lot of transaction. I recommend you to use trojan hunter for some extra protection. Trojan hunter are specialized in catching and blocking trojan horses which is important for us as it trying to steals your password by placing backdoor script on your PC. It's recommended for you to update the virus definition very often.
Last but not least, these security software are necessary and it gives you extra protection against viruses, trojan horse, spyware and adware. But there's always precautious steps you can do to reduce the risk of getting infected. First, never click on a link on your email. Check who is the sender first and check the link location by hover over the link. Even it's from a friend, it's always save to double check before you click on it. If you accidently click on it and it brought you to some weird website, close the site and scan your computer with your antiviruses software before you access any account on the web. Second, avoid download an attachment from annoymous. Third, visit only autorized website. By taking these pre-cautious step, it'll definitely helps to reduce the risk.
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