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A couple of my sites provide a lot of files for download. On my old webhost (asmallorange – a great shared host by the way), I originally started with a few small websites using their “Tiny” plan – a $25/year (just over $2/month!) plan that provided 75mb of space and 3GB of bandwidth per month. [...]

Just about everyone’s seen this issue at some point or another. It’s a pain when it happens on your own site though. You click a link, expecting a download to start, and low and behold you simply get a new webpages with a pile of garbled text. Reason: For whatever reason, the MIME type of [...]

Joomla has a pile of extensions that can be used to insert ads into Joomla content. I tried about 10, and they all had a lot of limiting things about them… Often support only 1 type/style of ad Many have “broken” things about them (won’t display colors properly etc) In the case of adsense, many [...]

Something little I wanted to do – I moved from a shared host to a VPS. Rather than doing the typical account backup, I had transferred the files and databases individually. The logs were easy enough to find in the original backup – they were in: /home/ACCOUNT/tmp/awstats The files are named something similar to awstats012007.somename.com.txt or [...]

I recently pulled my sites off of a shared host and onto a VPS.  If you’re like me and the extent of your linux knowledge is “I know how to set up an .htaccess file”, then you just might be in for a few days of banging your head against the wall.  I know I [...]

Took a bit of searching (seemed to have to find the right key-words), but I’ve got a site where I’ve utilized the submenu’s quite heavily. However, since there’s not a lot of information in each menu page itself, it looked… well sparse. Getting down 3 levels also meant that people had to click over, and [...]

Just a tiny annoyance… I didn’t like “board index” showing as the root all the time and simply wanted to change it to say the site forum. If you’ve googled for anything related to “board index” though, you’ve probably been bombarded with a bagillion unhelpful hits, since… well by default those words show up on [...]

Working on a couple Joomla! sites, I was looking to enable some form of caching, since the content on those sites don’t actually change that often, and not only would it help to reduce the server load from database accesses, but should also help the pages to pop up quicker. There are apparantly a few [...]

As much as I despise pop-unders, they look better and better as you realize that you’re paying more and more for bandwidth. Here I’m talking about my Warcraft-Maps.com website which pulls in almost nothing and yet is the most costly to run. I hate popups/popunders/layers/etc as much as the next guy, and from the start [...]

Well the results (short-term anyway) are in. From what I can tell, Bursts ads are performing similarly to the poorly-paying Adsense ads on the site listed in Part I and Part II. In fact, they’ve been exceeding the performance of the old Adsense ads by about 10-20%, although since it’s only been 6 days since [...]