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Recovering from disk failures

As you might know, disk drives, specially in high usage areas like hosting enviroments, have a tendency of crashing from time to time. Most crashes you will encounter are related to bad blocks on your hard drive which in some cases will stop your operating system from booting, leaving your server at a stop. There are several utilities which can help you detect and fix the bad blocks at a software level, like the FSCK(file system check) available for Linux, or CHKDSK and SCANDISK for Windo...

Down and dirty with SquirrelMail

I have to admit, the gmail and yahoo new email interfaces are great, if you don't mind the advertising, and very easy to use, however i have been using for a long time SquirrelMail to access the email directly on my server! While the interface that comes with the cpanel installation is very basic, there is one thing i would have liked to have, like in Yahoo, when you get an email, the page title automatically changes with the number of unread emails! Now, squirrelmail already have ...

Installing PHP on Windows got easier! finally….!

It seems that, earlier this year, Microsoft released a small application called Web Platform Installer , a utility meant to be dead simple to install a range of web applications and get your website up and going fast on a IIS server. Beside the usual Microsoft web applications support like ASP.NET and SQL SERVER, they also added support for PHP, facilitating this way the installation of a range of web publishing tools like Drupal, Moodle and Wordpress, hope I see some Joomla! there as it'...

Transfering files securely

Are you thinking of transferring some files from your server to another location over an unsecured network? Lets say those files contain some important data(ex. your credit card database data) and you are a little paranoid when thinking about unsecured network connections. In case you are running Linux, you are in luck, the Gnu Privacy Guard (GPG) is an free encryption tool that can encrypt or sign your files/archives with a password or an access key. Basic usage open up a ssh ter...

Choosing a good host for your site!

Choosing a good hosting company for your website/business is essential in your successful presence online. From our experience not all hosting companies provide what they advertise, however you need to think twice when moving your site on their servers. It's like taking your car to the car wash, do you trust them they won't scratch it? What might be good for someone with lets say a simple html website, might not be really that good for you, since you would need more resources when runnin...