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How do i track the hits my website gets?

Matthew — Fri, 25 May 2007 13:28:56 +0000

The first way to check hits is by server side scripts. These usually come provided by your host and are normally found on your control panel. These applications such as Awstats will produce reports every so often and show hits.

Another way is to use a hit counter script and place this on your website. This will display the number of visitors to the visitors that you get.

A third way is to use a remote website thats purpose is to monitor other websites.

What is the difference between Windows and Linux Hosting?

Matthew — Fri, 25 May 2007 12:09:40 +0000

There are somethings that run on Windows and not Linux. Windows hosting will support ASP / ASP.net and MSSQL where as currently Linux will not. If you need the listed applications then select a Windows hosting package, if not choose Linux.

cPanel 11 Upgrade

Matthew — Mon, 14 May 2007 21:27:27 +0000

Shared Hosting servers have now been upgraded to cPanel 11. VPS and Dedicated upgrades are ongoing, clients on such packages are welcome to upgrade themselves by following these steps:

1. Login to WHM.
2. Scroll to cPanel and select the bottom link, upgrade to latest version.
3. On the current page now showing select the text link upgrade settings.
4. Set the update manager to Automatic (CURRENT tree)
5. Save the changed setting.
6. Click Upgrade to latest version link and then the button on the relative page.

The update will take 40-60 Minutes.

After the update has taken place you may wish to update the skin to x3 for users on your server.

This is done by selecting

Themes >> x Skin Migration Wizard.

From here you can change all users and packages to x3.

Please contact support if you require any assistance.

Back Links and SEO

Matthew — Sun, 06 May 2007 14:19:28 +0000

This article enlists ways to increase your PageRank and help your SEO. It informs what back links are and the methods used on how to get back links to your website.

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Wordpress - Blogging

Matthew — Thu, 03 May 2007 21:02:57 +0000

Wordpress is one of the most popular blogging applications on the web. It is easy to use with a large variety of features which do not baffle novice or advanced users.

Wordpress can host your blog for free or you can download the files at no cost and host a blog yourself. There is a wide range of templates available for wordpress giving you the opertunity to make your blog unique. Most template makers have easy to understand code that is well commented for you to make modifications that you may require.

More information can be found at: www.wordpress.org

phpBB - Community Forum

Matthew — Thu, 03 May 2007 20:56:30 +0000

Since its creation in 2000, phpBB has become the most widely used Open Source forum solution. Like its predecessors, phpBB 3.0 has an easy to use administration panel and a user friendly installation process, which allows you to have a forum set up in minutes.

With a large and highly customisable set of key features coupled with a standards compliant interface, phpBB will grow with, and compliment your website. With millions of installations worldwide, it is no wonder phpBB is one of the most popular ways to create and support a community.

phpBB 3 is currently in Beta with the stable release phpBB 2.

You can download this application at: http://www.phpbb.com/

Ruby on Rails

Matthew — Thu, 03 May 2007 20:09:03 +0000

Ruby on Rails is an open source web framework that is optimized for programmer happiness and sustainable productivity.

Rails works with a wealth of web servers and databases. For web server, we recommend Apache or lighttpd, running either FastCGI or SCGI, or Mongrel. For database, you can use MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, or Firebird. Just about any operating system will do, but we recommend a ‘nix-based one for deployment.

Site: http://www.rubyonrails.org/

cPanel and Fantastico

Matthew — Thu, 03 May 2007 20:01:52 +0000

Fantastico is an application that is available with some hosting accounts. It enables users to install online scripts and applications within a few clicks. This allowing less abled uses to install applications that require MySQL and setting file permissions along with other features that are required while installing.

Here are some of the available applications on Fantastico:

Blogs:
b2evolution (0.9.2)
Nucleus (3.23)
pMachine Free (2.3)
WordPress (2.0.4)

Portals/CMS:
Drupal (4.7.4)
Geeklog (1.4.0sr5-1)
Joomla! (1.0.11)
Mambo Open Source (4.6.1)
PHP-Nuke (7.8)
phpWCMS (1.1-RC4 Rev. A)
phpWebSite (0.10.2)
Post-Nuke (0.762) (visit site)
Siteframe (3.2.2)
Typo3 (4.0.2)
Xoops (2.0.15)

Customer Support:
Crafty Syntax Live Help (2.12.9)
Help Center Live (2.1.2)
osTicket (1.3.1)
PHP Support Tickets (1.9)
Support Logic Helpdesk (1.2)
Support Services Manager (1.0b)

Discussion Boards:
phpBB2 (2.0.21)
SMF (1.0.8)

E-Commerce:
CubeCart (3.0.13)
OS Commerce (2.2 MS2 (051113))
Zen Cart (1.3.5)

FAQ:
FAQMasterFlex (1.1)

Guestbooks:
ViPER Guestbook (X1.1)

Hosting Billing:
AccountLab Plus (2.7 r4) (Commercial, needs license)
phpCOIN (1.2.4)

Image Galleries:
4images Gallery (1.7.3)
Coppermine Photo Gallery (1.4.9)
Gallery (2.1.2)

Mailing List:
PHPlist (2.10.2)

Polls and Surveys:
Advanced Poll (2.03)
phpESP (1.7.5)
PHPSurveyor (1.0)

Project Management:
PHProjekt (5.1)
dotProject (2.0.4)

Site Builders:
Soholaunch Pro Edition (4.9 r14) (Commercial, needs license)
Templates Express

Wiki:
PhpWiki (1.2.10)
TikiWiki (1.9.4)

Other Scripts:
Dew-NewPHPLinks (2.0.1.0b SEF w/Thumbshots)
Moodle (1.6.3)
Noah’s Classifieds (1.3)
Open-Realty (2.3.4)
phpAdsNew (2.0.8)
PHPauction (2.1)
phpFormGenerator (2.09c)
WebCalendar (1.0.4)

For more detailed descriptions of the above applications see here:
http://www.wantingawebsite.com/hosting/fantastico.php

Back Links

Matthew — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 18:47:41 +0000

If you want to improve your websites ranking on search engines, and who doesn’t, then you can do this by increasing the number of backlinks to your website. Search engines list sites by the number and quality of other websites link to the site being ranked. By increasing the amount of links to your website over time you will see an increase in rank.

Here are a few ways that you can aquire back links:

1. If you are on forums, in your signature add a link to your website.
2. Submit your website to as many website directories as you can, these can be free or paid. A paid link directory may allow you to deep link.

Deep Linking

Deep linking is submitting a link that will navigate to a page of your website. For example this could be www.wantingawebsite.com/hosting/dedicated.php. Free directories may not allow deep linking however submitting these where you can will help your pagerank.

3. If you have friends with websites, then ask them to link to yours. If you wish you can link to them in return
4. With a rapid amount of people now starting blogs try and get your link listed on one.
5. Getting your link on a site with related content will help.
6. Ensure that your website has good and interesting content. This will encourage others to link to your website.
7. If you know how, create an interesting feature such as a script for other users to add to their sites.
8. Leave the URL of your website on guestbooks.
9. Submit articles that contain your link.

If you follow the advice above, over time you should see an increase in your sites pagerank. Good Luck

UK Windows VPS

Matthew — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 21:19:11 +0000

Greetings!

At some point in April we hope to announce our new Windows VPS hosting to add to our portfolio of linux VPS. We hope that Windows VPS sales will be as sucessful as the Linux.

A date has not yet been confirmed nor any specifications set. These will become available nearer the time.

Pricing is also unknown.