If you are BlueHost’s customer, by now you may have received an email informing you that a new way of installing variety of web applications is now available for you- Simple Scripts:
What is Simple Scripts? Think of Fantastico Installer, which allowed you to install scripts that ended up powering your websites in just few clicks and under five minutes. Simple Scripts, a brain child of BlueHost, allows you to do the same. The difference is that Simple Scripts has the most up to date installations for WordPress, Joomla and many other similar applications. Keeping up to date some of these scripts on your website is crucial. Take for example Technorati’s recent raid against spam. For users who are not accustomed to upload the updates via FTP, generally meant waiting several weeks for the new version to be reflected in Fantastico. By that time a newer version of the script was already released. Now clients of BlueHost, Hostmonster and FastDomain web hosting providers can have the latest updates within hours instead of weeks.
Matt Heaton announcing the Simple Scripts several days ago, had mentioned that although application is originally launched on Blulehost it is a self hosted application and that any web hosting provider can license it and use it for the benefits of their users.
I have tried to install WordPres using Simple Scripts, and it worked faster and more efficient than Fantastico scripts. However, Simple Scripts doesn’t seem to recognize the (previous) installations made with Fantastico. I did not attempt any upgrades of such installation for the fear of deleted or damaging existing databases. It would be wise if creators of Simple Scripts would write a guide of how to make this transition for Fantastico to Simple Scripts.
The new solution looks very attractive and it will not be a big surprise if other web hosting providers do not jump at opportunity to provide their clients with the latest possible applications and scripts.
For quiet some time I have promoted on this two online communities BumpZee and BlogCatalog. Today the widget showing the latest visitors were removed. This was done simply because I am not active on this blog and write here very sporadically. It is very unlikely that I will ever build a substantial community around this blog. I do think that many of the information found here is useful and therefore this blogs will continue it life for another year.
In the past to encourage commenting on this blog, a dofollow plugin was installed. The drawback of it was that this blog ended on every possible spam list imaginable. The “comment monkeys” (aka spammers) had really taken advantage of clean SEO friendly links from this blog when leaving comments, while some who truly contributed to this blog with their well thought reviews did not even bother to leave a link to their website. While I always been strong supporter in favor of removing “nofollow” from the comments on blogs, it should only be done on blogs diligently monitored. Otherwise a blog may become spammers paradise. To prevent that, the “nofollow” attributes yet again are implemented on this blog.
Lunarpages have recently upgraded their web hosting plan. Now web using this provider, customers are offered 1,500 GB disk storage, 15,000 GB of monthly bandwidth an can host unlimited domains in one account. During last year we have 4 visitors left their reviews while 16 votes were cast- 8 people considered Lunarpages to be an excellent web hosting provider while only 2 were dissatisfied with the services they have received.
If you are looking for a web host that would allow you to host multiple websites in your account Lunarpages may just be the right web hosting provider for you. If you have used Lunarpages in the past or are using them currently please leave your review with us. Your experience may help others to make an educated choice before committing to a particular web hosting provider.
Apparently Yahoo! Small Business hosting is trying to catch up with the rest of the web hosting industry. Today, email was send out with the list of exiting features:
Unlimited disk space, so you can forget about running out of room for your web site.
Unlimited bandwidth (data transfer) to support even the most complex multimedia site.
Unlimited email storage, so you never have to worry about deleting messages to free up room for more.
Free Yahoo! Site Solution design tool, which helps you create great web sites quickly and painlessly — even if it’s your first time.
The Site builder is one of the most noticeable improvement, besides increase in hosting space and bandwidth. However if you are and advanced webmaster and would like to have a little more control over your website, Yahoo! Small Business Hosting still can do a little more:
.htaccess (Hypertext Access)
The name .htaccess refers to the main configuration file for Apache, a popular open-source HTTP server. The .htaccess file can be used to create custom error pages and web page redirects, set up password protection, enable SSI, and more. Yahoo! does not currently allow you to upload .htaccess files to your account. For other customization options, we recommend the Custom Error Pages and password-protection features available in your Web Hosting Control Panel. - Yahoo! Small Business Help
Still the unlimited hosting space and bandwidth are huge improvements. If you have used or are currently using Yahoo! Small Business Hosting feel free to share with the rest of us what is your impression of this provider.
Mark from 45n5 shares with his readers why it is important to manage your own DNS. This of course is not a solution for every webmaster. If one website is all you have, there is no other way but trust your web hosting provider to manage DNS for your domain name. However if you are launching a major product that stability of other websites may depend on, you should definitely look into managing DNS by yourself. Here is Mark’s entertaining yet extremely educational video:
Is 3 hours downtime and a sleepless night acceptable when you pay $200 for a dedicated web hosting? I do not think so. Especially if the trust of the people who might use your service is on the line. I sure hope LiquidWeb gives Mark a good explanation. I will be following the story and will post soon if I hear anything new. For now enjoy the video below and think twice if you should trust LiquidWeb:
April 13, 2008
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