ThinkOvi! – Website transfer and Server migration services

Migrating your IMAP mail? Here’s how!

For those of you who are changing their IMAP email account to a different server, there is a very nice utility called imapsync. The utility is actually written in PERL so it can run on any number of hosts that support PERL scripting, and while it has many config options, here is the actual command we used to transfer an email account from our server to Google Apps Mail account(GMail is the same) from a Linux box: The command imapsync \ --host1 thinkovi.com --user1 email@thinkovi.com --pa...

Redirecting url with a rewrite rule

Lets suppose you have made some changes to your website and you want to redirect some pages to their new url format, this .htaccess rewrite rule might come in handy: RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.*)subpage1/subpage2/mypage.html$ RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} Itemid=91&page=mypage$ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://mynewurl.com/index.php?mypage=new What the above condition does is redirect /subpage1/subpage2/mypage.html?Itemid=91&page=mypage url to http://mynewurl.com/index.ph...

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 ...

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...