Today is my installment for Virtual Private Server Hosting. I have been hosting with VPS machines now for approximately 2 years and overall, I am very satisfied with my service overall. Hopefully this will give you an idea about what to look for in hosts.I am going to review: amerihosting, vpsempire, cheapvps, vpslink, vpsville, vpsrepublic since I have had all of these at one point or another. I am also going to explain xen vs openvz vs virtuozzo vps platforms and ...
My final part of my hosting blog is going to talk a bit about irc hosting providers. I have had a few shell hosts and thought I'd share my opinions about them.I will be talking about serverorigin, shellfx, outlandz, and sh3lls. First, the worst shell company that I can talk about is serverorigin. (serverorigin.com) A friend of mine had them before I did and warned me not to sign up because their support quit answering questions and he kept getting billed for his shell ...
Today I suppose its time to give a thorough analysis of my experience with different hosts. I have had several hosting providers in my 5 years in dealing with hosting and isps. This is part 1 of my hosting service series!Back in 2004 when I was first looking at hosts, there weren't many hosts around, so I had 4 choices that I found, all of which I have used. They included Yahoo, IPowerWeb, 3ix, and Bluehost. Later on, I have also tried or seen host gator, ...
I ran across a note while reading that suddenly explained a TON about wxWidgets. It's development began in 1992. One of the quirks about wxWidgets is that it uses macros heavily, a practice that Bjarne Stroustrup strongly discourages. Looking at the timing of wxWidgets' development explains this "bad practice", however. It was written before large chunks of the STL were written, and also before templates were included in the language.wxWidgets uses macros (heavily) ...
Passwords are our digital fingerprints. Shouldn't they be as secure as we want them? Apparently some websites don't think so.How are our passwords stored?Most websites store users passwords as an md5 (message digest 5) hash. Essentially, your plain text password is passed through a function that hashes your password. That hash is stored in the websites database. Since md5 is a one way hashing algorithm (there is no way to convert the md5 hash in the database back to your plain text ...
A few weeks ago Jordan blogged about the heredoc syntax. The point I want to raise in this blog, is the heredoc syntax parses PHP code, similar to double quotes around a string. For example[code=php]$name = "John"; $john = <<<EOD Hello World!<br /> EOD; $world = <<<EOD Hi $name!<br /><br > EOD;[/code] Would output Hello World!Hi John! Notice $name was parsed as a variable not as a literal. Until PHP 5.3 the only option ...
Setting up Windows Server 2003 as a Domain Controller, dhcp server, dns server, wins server, and share an internet connection through a wireless router.Since I am a system admin, every so often, I am required to perform a new server installation that won't screw up my existing network. Since I thought others might benefit from knowing how to do this, I might as well blog about it. I am going to also make this able to share a local connection to the internet via a usb verizon ...
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