It’s the first time I move kavoir.com to another host from Dreamhost (the last move to Linode was about some of my other sites). The entire move was great except that I was not quite familiar with cPanel and choked a little bit on the transfer and setup of all the interconnected files and database …
I’ve tried quite a few online backup services to back up my valuable website data — you just can’t imagine what a nightmare it would be to lose all the files that you’ve been working on for the last half year — I even created my own backup programs that automatically syncs and stores designated …
Which seems quite new to me as I have never used any percentage values on them before. Took some tests and I found out that all major modern browsers supported percentage values for padding and margin very well, even IE6. This should come very handy in positioning things up according to the parent width. See …
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Funny I should use “zipped” for an RAR compressed package. Anyway, you can easily zip or unzip a zip file or tar compress a package, but how does one do it with an RAR file? WinRAR is well distributed across all Windows systems. But on Linux, you have to first install the command package rar. …
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One may first think of using JavaScript to do this by dynamically changing the windows status bar URL, but unfortunately this trick doesn’t work across Firefox browsers. The truth is the visitor or clicker will eventually find out that they’ve been referred to the affiliate merchant by you from the ultimate landing URL — sometimes …
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Chances are you have a bunch of different hosts that are housing your website files, for the sake of data safety (never put all eggs in a single basket) and possibly some SEO advantage. If that is the case, you will infrequently come to the need to move some files from one host server to …
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The Planet seems to be running quite a series of promotional discounts off their dedicated server hosting plans recently. After the release of this promo code which I can’t possibly find anywhere on their official website now, here’s yet another one for you: bgsv Uppercase won’t work. Just copy and paste the lowercase version. It …
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There are millions of websites online, each of which has its own unique web address or domain. It’s what the visitors, us, use to type in the browser address bar and go to the site. It universally identifies a website on the web. And it’s something EVERYONE can have. Yes, you can have one too, …
One of the utility commands of Linux that you should know in the first day of your Linux learning seminar is find. To search recursively in the directory somedir for files changed / created / modified within 1 day: find somedir -ctime -1 Or within 5 days: find somedir -ctime -5 To search recursively in …
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When you have a VPS or dedicated server to manage, typically you’d have a bunch of different mysql users granted the privileges of every particular database for the sake of security. While this works well in segregating the privileges and preventing hackers from gaining access to all databases upon the compromise of only one mysql …
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I was with RackSpace Cloud Servers which is owned by RackSpace along with Slicehost where my servers are actually placed. So you can also say I’m moving from Slicehost to Linode. However, the fact that I’m leaving them doesn’t mean they are not good. To the opposite, they are absolutely one of the best VPS …
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cd is the command in Linux to change the current working directory. While you can change to your home directory by cd ~, you can change to the previous directory or last directory you were in by: cd – Which would come very handy when you are working across multiple directories back and forth. To …
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To show all MySQL databases, you can simply type SHOW DATABASES; or SHOW TABLES; to show all tables of the current database. However, if you want to list and display all the MySQL users, SHOW USERS; won’t work. So how to display a list of the MySQL users? As all user information such as user …
It’s really weird that one would like to do this but perhaps you are running some private website dedicated to just an intimate group. Anyway, you can stop search engines indexing your web pages by putting a meta tag in the header section of them: <meta name="robots" content="noindex" /> That’s it. Any search engines abiding …
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This is one of the most common tasks in website development and also one of the most frequently asked question according to some of the keyword research tools. Well, you have 3 ways to achieve a web page redirection. Use PHP header() function to modify and send a HTTP Location header: header("Location: /thankyou.html"); // redirect …
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The Linux command du stands for disk usage which is used to check the amount of disk storage any particular directory or file is using. By default, the simple command: du Would return the disk usage in God-knows-what-unit of each of the directories in the current working directory and those beneath them — in a …
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After we have discussed the advantages and disadvantages of MyISAM and InnoDB, you might want to convert them back and forth and see the performance differences yourself. For small website, the difference may be minor but for a large popular application, MyISAM tables yield better performance results in selecting data records InnoDB tables give better …
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The 2 major types of table storage engines for MySQL databases are InnoDB and MyISAM. To summarize the differences of features and performance, InnoDB is newer while MyISAM is older. InnoDB is more complex while MyISAM is simpler. InnoDB is more strict in data integrity while MyISAM is loose. InnoDB implements row-level lock for inserting …
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