Optimize your DirectAdmin backups with rSync

DirectAdmin offers some great backup which makes it possible to create a backup file for each user or hosting account. The control panel has backup functions for the different access levels: Admin level: Create system or whole server backups Admin level: Create backups for all users and resellers Reseller level: Create backups for all users [...]

Create custom website backups using CRON

Several weeks ago I was looking for some alternative hosting for Media Temple and found WebFaction. While searching the net I found a few reviews and all of them are very good. Because their shared hosting package look different from others, I took an account. Why Webfaction? Webfaction is a 100% web hosting provider offering [...]

Count clicks the right way!

If you own a link list or directory where the listings are ranked (on some page) on the number of outgoing hits, you’re possible victim of click fraud. There are not only people clicking their own listings many times, there are also click bots (remote scripts) which drive the click count “into the sky” in [...]

Database Management with phpMyAdmin

This is part one of the quick review of the book “Mastering phpMyAdmin for Effective MySQL Management” and the phpMyAdmin software. This article/review is not just another review about phpMyAdmin, but more some information about features I haven’t used during the last years of PHP/MySQL web development. About phpMyAdmin PMA is a full featured tool [...]