The Advantages of Multiple Domains
Besides web hosting, and your website, domain names are very crucial pieces of your online identity as well. Ddomain names are also considered by most people to be the brand’s name, hence there is a need for promotion and protection of the domain name itself. The primary domain name is located between the first two [...]
How To Solve The Trailing Slash Issue In Htaccess
A particular site had VBulletin installed within a sub-folder (/forums/) and it had a problem with parsing URLs. The following chunk of code was the contents of the .htaccess file. What it did was to redirect all non-www URLs to their respective URLs with www. appended to the front of the URL.
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
# This [...]
Dedicated Server vs. VPS Hosting: Which is Better?
VPS, or virtual private servers, refers to virtual machines which function like dedicated servers. Here, clients can control different functions of the machine that they cannot in the normal shared hosting environment. (VPS hosting is considered shared hosting, albeit a modified version.) A VPS can be used exclusively by an individual customer who subscribes to [...]
Why You Should Think of Incorporating SEO Techniques into Your Website
Contrary to popular belief, creating an SEO plan after developing a website is not a good idea. SEO tactics should be planned before creating your website because by basing your website’s features on your plan, it becomes integrated as a whole and not just an afterthought. However, there are many webmasters who only start [...]
Reasons to Change Your Web Hosting Provider Immediately
With the numerous web hosting service providers available on the Internet, you may have a hard time choosing just one. Web hosts are critical in running a website, and of course, you only want the best for your website. However, it is necessary to do some research on these web hosting companies before engaging them. [...]
How To Choose A Good Multiple Domain Hosting Provider
In today’s competitive online market, more businesses are looking to create websites to reach a wider audience. But sometimes, having one website is not enough. If you plan on expanding your business and reaching more potential customers faster, you may need to maintain several websites at once. In this case, finding a good hosting [...]
How To Solve Permissions Issues With LOAD DATA
With MySQL, loading a file is much more efficient than performing a long list of insert statements. If you’re on a CPanel account, however, you may notice that you get error messages similar to the following when you try to load a file into MySQL.
ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user ‘username’@’%’ (using password: YES)
Most [...]
How To Use .htaccess To Set Server Environment Timezone For PHP Files
All servers have an inbuilt timezone, and this may have to be changed, especially if you’re running a locale-specific or timezone-specific application. One way you could change your settings is to configure each PHP file to use a certain timezone, but if you’re sure you want all PHP files in your server to use [...]
How To Configure AWStats And Prevent The AWStats Conf File From Being Overwritten
AWStats is the de facto standard in web traffic statistics software. It’ll rip through your raw log files and compile all the information, presenting them in pretty tables and charts. I use AWStats a lot, but it was only recently that I found out that AWStats actually skips certain kinds of data by default.
Specifically, these [...]





