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WHS Facebook Fan Page!
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It has been over a year since we launched the Facebook fan page and it has been a real success. At the current date and time, we have over 500 fans and we keep growing every single day. Are you missing out on the fun? All you need to do is head over to our Facebook Fan Page and click on the “Like” button on the top of the website. Then post your Firefox comments, questions or just say hi to some of the other people who are following the Web Hosting Show on Facebook.
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WHS Podcast is Now on a VPS!
Posted by: | CommentsThe Web Hosting Show has just completed its big move to a new Virtual Private Server. Rather than retelling the story in a unique, different and yet still funny way – go check out all the details of the move to the VPS account over at Mitchelaneous.com.
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New Podcasts Coming in May!
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Hello citizens of the web hosting world! I know as of late updates have been few and far between, but I come with good news. Rather than saying there will still be at least another week with no new podcast, I will say new podcasts will go back in production in May (next month, for those of you without a calendar handy).
I have a few personal and career situations to be worked out first, and in the long run this will be good news for one and all, because I am going back to spending more time with all my great, wonderful listeners right here.
So, with that said if you have any podcast suggestions or questions you would like for me to answer on the show, please be sure to use the Submit Your Questions form on WebHostingShow.com and also make sure you are subscribing to the RSS feed so you never miss a week’s episode. It is free to do, easy to do and most of all important to do if you want to get all the great web hosting and web development related tips, tutorials and more that are featured here every day.
Thank you all for your continue support, and you will be hearing more from me (yes, very literal pun) next month.
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Maximize Work Space with More Browsers
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Anybody who has worked in technical support for a web hosting company will tell you that keeping all your tasks and windows organized on a day-to-day work schedule is very hectic and not a lot of fun. You have to keep this window open to check out help desk tickets, you have to look over here for forum replies, you have to go way over there to look at the recent tweets coming in from web hosting customers. It is enough to drive a person insane, unless you follow these simple organizational tips.
Divide Your Tasks, then Conquer Your Tasks
Most people multitask online by opening one Internet browser with multiple tabs. While this comes in handy, your tabs can become overwhelming very quickly. Rather than opening up one Internet browser with multiple tabs, I want you to open multiple browsers, with fewer tabs. Look at your daily responsibilities and divide your running Internet browser windows up by that.
For example, if you are responsible for feedback inside the web hosting company you work for, one Internet browser could be dedicated to that. You would open up the feedback help desk, the forums for the web hosting business you work for, their Twitter account perhaps, and so on and so forth. The next Internet browser window you could dedicate to another responsibility, such as support. Inside there, you could load up the customer records in one tab, the help desk in another tab, and your quick replies in a third tab. As you can see – you start to organize your work differently. You organize it by the jobs you need to do instead of dumping everything into one single Internet browser.
Once you have mastered this web hosting help organizational technique, you will find yourself working faster and jumping between each task you are responsible for even faster than you were before. Your supervisor will thank you, the customers will appreciate you, and all it takes is a little time and organizational skill.
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How Anybody Can Install WordPress
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As you can tell, if you have been to any of my web sites, I really enjoy WordPress a lot as a way to self-publish my content Online. WordPress is often known for it’s simple installation process too.
However, many people might still be confused on how to get started with WordPress, so I thought it would be a good idea to go through the steps with you, to make you feel more at home with the process.
How to Install WordPress on Your Hosting Account
The first step would be to download and unzip the WordPress package to your computer. I often like to put it on my desktop, as I use that as a workspace for all my various projects.
Setup the MySQL Details
Next, you will login to your web hosting control panel and create a MySQL database user, a MySQL database, and then assign that MySQL user to the MySQL database in question. Various web hosts and various control panels will have different ways to get this done. My advice would be to check with your web host, if you are unsure how to do so.
Now, open up that WordPress folder you saved earlier, and rename the file wp-config-sample.php to just wp-config.php. Open the wp-config.php file, and fill in your database details (the database name, user name and the password assigned to the user).
Important: Never use a word processor like Microsoft Word for editing WordPress files! You need to user a simple text editor, such as Notepad.
Upload WordPress to the Hosting Server
After you have saved the wp-config.php file with all the settings it needs to use to connect, it is time to upload the WordPress files to their new home.
- If you want WordPress to show up under your main domain, be sure to upload all of the files into your public_html folder.
- If you want WordPress to show up under a folder (such as /blog/), be sure to upload all the files into a folder located in /public_html/blog/. I’m simply using “blog” as an example. You could name the folder whatever you want to name it.
Last, but not least, run the WordPress install script by going to yourdomain.com/wp-admin/install.php, or if you installed it into it’s own folder, go to yourdomain.com/blog/wp-admin/install.php. Remember that “yourdomain.com” and “blog” are just examples here, be sure to change them to fit your own web site preferences.
Now simply follow the on-screen instructions and you are all set! I hope this tutorial comes in handy the next time you install WordPress on your own web hosting space.
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Web Hosts and the DMCA
Posted by: admin | Comments Comments OffThe DMCA is an abbreviation for the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which was signed into law in 1998. Now the big reason most people do no like this law is because it put in place questionable laws about circumnavigating copyright protection for personal backup use or the overall vagueness of the law in general. However, that really has nothing to do with web hosting – so I will not be discussing this issue today. The issue we will be talking about is the way the law made it easier for copyright holders to get stolen material off a website that doesn’t have the right to distribute it.
Are Web Hosts Protected in DMCA Cases?
What you might not know is that the DMCA has built in protection for web hosts, so they can not be held liable if a client is hosting a website breaking the DMCA. In exchange, the web host has to promptly remove or block access to the content in question.
What Are DMCA Take-down Notices
If you go from web host to web host, you will see the pages detailing how they deal with the DMCA and DMCA take-down notices are very similar. They will often ask for these details:
Most of the time, in small claim situations, that is enough to get the infringed content off the website in question and you can go along your merry way. However, sometimes this will lead into a legal battle between the two parties (especially when the copyright of the material is not clear) but at that point you need to really be talking to a lawyer, and not to me.
I hope that helps to explain what the Digital Millennium Copyright is and how it pertains to web hosting companies.
Want More? – Check out the rest of the DMCA conversation in Podcast 210!
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