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BackupBuddy Review

April 16, 2011

In my last article, I talked about how to change web hosts and the process involved. For simple sites, the process isn’t too hard, but if you are moving a WordPress blogs, the process is a bit more difficult because you have to transfer the database over as well. This can be quite challenging for [...]

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Using The Pingdom Full Page Test Tool

April 6, 2011

Are your web pages loading too slowly? One of the coolest web tools I’ve played with is the Pingdom Full Page Test tool. If you head on over to their webpage, you can input in your url, and the tool will simulate how your page is loaded in a web browswer. It will load all [...]

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How To Setup Private Nameservers

April 6, 2011

When you sign up for any web hosting account, you’ll usually get a set of nameservers to use in your welcome email. Nameservers usually come in the format ns1.hostname.com, ns2.hostname.com. Have you heard about private nameservers though? I actually had not until I signed up for my KnownHost VPS account. So what are they and [...]

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Setting the Correct Timezone For Your Web Host

April 5, 2011

Have you every wondered why the time on your web host didn’t match your local time? It wasn’t something I had thought about much before, until I was running a particular php script on my web host. I was looking at the time it was displaying and I realized to my annoyance, that it wasn’t [...]

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