Website Monitoring Services: Reviews and Facts
There are so many possibilities why a website went off-line, all of them have one in common: Your visitors can’t access your site and maybe they will never come back!
Possible problems why a website might be off-line:
Web server or network is down – A very common problem, there is so much computer technology used…
Some web [...]
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 shared hosting [...]
Sending e-mails via SMTP with PHPmailer and Gmail
Using the SMTP server from Gmail is a good choice for mail application with less than 500 recipients a day. This tutorials shows you how to send mail messages via SMTP using PHPmailer and Gmail.
Create custom backups from your website using cURL
These days I needed a script to backup only a part of a customers website using a CRON. Most of the control panels I know allow only a complete website backup and this is not what I needed. While plaaning the script, I thought about a solution for webmaster without full SSH access to their [...]
How-to setup the DNS and name server for a DirectAdmin web server
You have enough of shared hosting and/or the costs for bandwidth are too high? OK, the next step is your own dedicated server, but with a limited budget it’s hard to find a good and cheap managed server.
For all beginning server administrator is this guide about how-to setup the DNS for a server with a [...]
