2009 January

WordPress Manual Installation (video tutorial)

SimpleScript and Fantastico install WordPress automatically but in case you wish to go with the Macgyver style, here’s the video tutorial. How to install WordPress manually on your web host? In case this is your first time, I suggest you try at least once at your local PC with...

What’s about cPanel’s Service Status?

Most hosting control panel allows users to view hosting server status directly from the control panel interface. cPanel for example reveals the server status (server load, memory usage, etc.) via a link named ‘Service Status’. Besides tracking on website’s uptime,...

Hosting Company Location Revealed

In this post, I’m going to show you the physical location of several hosting companies. 10 addresses with Google Map screen caps are revealed. Why pay attention to hosting company physical addresses? This article serves several purposes. A silly reason of checking these hosting...

Dedicated Hosting Reviews

Dedicated hosting might not be popular among mom-n-pop’s website but it’s an inevitable process for a well developed website. For those who’re interested to learn more about dedicated hosting, and as a follow up on my previous articles on dedicated hosting, (Dedicated...

Hostgator Upgraded Business Hosting Plan!

Hostgator is setting new industry standard yet again with the latest business hosting plan upgrades. Now when you subscribe to Hostgator’s Business Hosting Plan, you’ll get a toll free number with up to 100 hours (worth $4.90/mo) of free talk time monthly. This special...

Lunarpages New Website

Lunarpages has a new website designs in year 2009. There were plenty of comments left here on the new designs. Many (mostly Lunarpages fans) leave positive feedbacks and think that the new design is more professional and easier to be used. What I dislike about the new design Personally,...

How much hosting bandwidth do you need?

After reading my previous post about bandwidth, one might ask “how much bandwidth do I need?” Indeed, Bandwidth is often the major concern for most web owners when it comes to web hosting shopping. With that being said, it explains why web hosting companies are racing...

How to convert Fantastico WordPress to SimpleScripts

For certain unknown reasons, web applications and scripts are more updated in ‘SimpleScripts‘ than in Fantastico for some hosting companies. Hostmonster and Bluehost for examples, serve WordPress 2.7 in SimpleScripts but WordPress 2.6.5 in Fantastico at the time of writing....

Updates on W.H.S.R. (Jan 2009)

First off, Happy New Year! Wish year 2009 will be a fruitful year for every one of us here. I’m sorry that my new year wishes didn’t come earlier – I was pretty loaded up with all the parties and (surprise surprise) updating works at W.H.S.R. So here you go, some...