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If you upgrade from MySQL 5.0 to MySQL 5.5 through WHM / cPanel, you may find that MySQL doesn’t start afterwards. It’ll dump out a message like: ERROR! MySQL server PID file could not be found!

If you’ve been delving into the process of converting any of your pages or sites into HTML5, you’ve probably run into a few… headaches along the way. If you’ve been using shadowbox and trying to validate through the w3c’s validator, one of these headaches might look like this:

I’ve had this happen a number of times… wrong password gets entered a few times, and BAM – locked out of WHM and unable to connect. Whether I goofed manually entering a password too many times, or my FTP client had the wrong password and tried to connect through SSH a pile of times, inevitably [...]

Dec 11 2010 update: They’ve posted further updates to their the SimpleCDN site, as well as the SimpleCDN twitter feed. From what I gather it looks like they’re doing what they can to help customers transition to other companies. On twitter they seem to be suggesting MaxCDN (using coupon code “simplecdn”) and/or Cloudfront as potential options. MaxCDN’s [...]

A couple CPM advertisers I’ve run on the Warcraft-Maps site were Burst and ValueClick. I ran a few others as well although they were lesser-known names and I dropped them because not only did they not pay well, but they ran some questionable ads. Last year I had a little surprise in that Warcraft-Maps.com was [...]

Recently, I switched most of my sites to another server. After about a week of not receiving any messages through the contact form on one of them, I suddenly realized… “ya know… it’s been a while”. I tried sending myself a test message through the contact form, and never received it. Sending from another email [...]

If you’ve tried to clean up your Joomla template, something may have perplexed you at one point or another. There’s no mention of mootools or caption.js in the template file, yet these 2 things end up in the HEAD section of all your pages anyway. If your site is pretty basic, you probably don’t need [...]

While reading through WHT, I came across a neat little tidbit. It’s a bit of PHP code that can be used to get an idea as to how fast the processor is on the machine your websites are hosted on – or at least the speed you have available to you. A thanks to “webpan” [...]

UPDATE 2 (Dec 11 2010): SimpleCDN is currently DOWN! Posted at mattgadient.com/2010/12/10/simplecdn-down-for-good? Update: SimpleCDN has changed somewhat in their offerings (there seems to be a move away from the “small customer” base), and thus, much of the following is outdated. I recently started up an account at SimpleCDN to help offload a webserver a little [...]

Background: I used to use non-SEF url’s on a Joomla site, and recently turned on Joomla’s built-in SEF. Problem is that the old URL’s still “work”. Of course, this is great for people who visit – not so great when GoogleBot comes along. GoogleBot comes happily along and for any given article sees the original [...]