tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-236609122008-06-24T12:02:29.007-04:00Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07962925329226963770noreply@blogger.comBlogger91125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23660912.post-2708493633160163152007-12-19T15:27:00.000-05:002007-12-19T15:30:22.254-05:00

Think again. Here are the top ten reasons why you shouldn't.

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I am combining my Hosting and Consulting blogs into one blog.  You can find the new blog at http://blog.dmbcllc.com del.icio.us Tags: moving Technorati Tags: moving

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We plan to upgrade our servers to HSphere 3.0 Patch 7 starting Thursday, October 25, 2007 at 3:30 AM EDT. There are several critical security fixes that needs to be immediately applied. Our apologies for the short notice. Control panel that will be stopped for 30 minutes for the upgrade to complete. Other services may be affected for 5 minutes or less. Technorati Tags: hsphere ,

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It happens all the time.  And evidently, it just happened again.  The scenario goes something like this.  You want a web site and don't have any clue about the Internet and how it works.  But, you see this really great deal on the Web, "Host with us and get your domain free."  Or, you hire a developer to create your web site for you and he purchases the domain under his own name. In both cases,

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Well, that's how everyone feels when the big G decides they've violated the terms of service and take their site out of the index.  But, what most people fail to realize, especially when it happens to them, is that Google doesn't owe the site owner anything.  Google is a business, just like any other business.  Hopefully, they do what is good for the site owner.  That would mean if they think a

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There are three things I wish I'd learned sooner in my career.  XML, Regular Expressions and Style Sheets.  CSS Basics is a way to learn one of the three.  Broken into 18 chapters, and available as a PDF, the site introduces you to the syntax, classes, rules, positioning, pseudo elements and more. CSS Basics - Making Cascading Style Sheets Easy to Understand del.icio.us Tags: css ,

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The upgrade to HSphere 3.0 gives us the ability now to enable: Web Directories Web Applications Sub Accounts Sub FTP Accounts Web Directories allow you to create web directories with two authentication levels and different sets of permission right from the control panel. Web Applications allow you to assign web applications to web directories. Sub Accounts and Sub FTP Accounts

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Put this code in Global.asax as part of Application_Request Response.Cookies["ASP.NET_SessionId"].Value = Session.SessionID; Response.Cookies["ASP.NET_SessionId"].Domain = ".mydomain.com"; This will rewrite the session cookie so that it can be retrieved accross sub domains.  This is particularly useful when you are switching from www.domain.com to domain.com (same site, different urls) where

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With all of the browser that are in existence this days, how's a web developer suppose to verify that his site renders correctly in all of them? Enter Browsershots, a web site that will let you put in a web page and it will go to the page and create an image of what it will look like in each of the browsers you selected. Now, if someone would just give me a way to test Web 2.0 / Javascript

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Tonight I found another interesting tool.  If you feel the need to create a site map in XML (Google) Text (Yahoo) or ROR (independent XML) format, XML-Sitemaps.com is the place to get that done. Personally, I still believe in the old fashion sitemap that my human visitors can see as well because I don't want to endorse any particular standard and make any one search engine any more dominant than

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The upgrade this weekend went a lot smoother than anyone here expected.  Of course there are always a few bumps in the road when you do a major upgrade like this.  But, about the only bump we really got hit with is that the connection between HSphere and our merchant account went haywire.  We're working on that. Now that it's up, you can change your own file access permissions, and switch

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Just a quick reminder to everyone that this weekend is the big upgrade to 3.0 over on MyWinHosting.com Keep in mind that there WILL be down time. Control panel will be unavailable until Monday and servers will be down as we apply upgrades.

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I've known about dynamic drive for quite a while. And anyone who has ever needed javascript for their web site probably already does too. But, just in case you've never heard of this site, here it is: Dynamic Drive DHTML(dynamic html) & JavaScript code library Don't waste your time trying to invent javascript for your web site. Chances are, someone else has already written exactly what you're

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Sources for Royalty Free Images, Web Design, FireFox Plugins, Ruby, Ajax, PHP, Traffic, Flash, ASP.NET, Hosting, Fonts, XHTML, CSS, Color matching, Image editing, SQL, ColdFushion, Java, and CMS system.

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Tons of information for web designers. Hey, even a programmer might be able to pass as a designer by using some of these resources. Looking for fonts? Icons? Web 2.0 material? It's all here.

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Here's a cool resource for everyone using CSS to control the presentation layer. That ought to be everyone. If you're not using CSS, start learning it NOW! Anyhow, for the rest of us. We've had HTML/Javascript compressing apps for years. Now, introducing CSS clean. This will take your CSS and compress it so that all your duplicate entries have been merged together and otherwise optimizing

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Yep Google fans. Google as yet another, "We're gonna take over the world." application. Call up and find out where stuff is. Watch the video at the site http://www.google.com/goog411/ Pretty cool.

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Now here's a great site that really has nothing to do with web site development, but it such a great site, I just have to share it with you. Don't want to register to get into a site? You don't have to anymore. Here's a site that will allow you to share login information so that everyone can use the same login. They also have a link to RetailMeNot, which provides coupon codes.

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If you're new to HTML and web design, you might enjoy visiting this site where they have all kinds of resources for web development including your basic HTML/CSS stuff as well as scripting in Perl, PHP, ASP, Javascript. There's even a section on Search Engine Optimization

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I wrote this article for other purposes, but there seems to be quite a bit of interest in it. So, here it is. If you've been wonder, "How do I setup the SQL Session state server if I don't have the ability to create a SQL job?" Here's the answer.

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We're going to begin upgrading PHP on all our Unix servers at DMBHosting.com to version 5.2.1. We will also be upgrading FreeBSD to version 6.1, and there will be other minor software updates. Each server will need to be rebooted during the upgrade. Unix27 will be the first server upgraded on April 30th at 4 PM EDT. After everything goes smoothly with that server, we will post a schedule for the

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An associate of mine sent an email asserting that Microsoft is on it's way to hijacking HTML. His reasoning went like this: 1) XML is now being used for forms development in .NET 3.0 2) Web parts, in ASP.NET came from Sharepoint. 3) Sharepoint is now using XML via CAML. 4) Therefore, it is likely that Microsoft will use XML of some sort in ASP.NET. Is it true that this is the path that Microsoft

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This is going to be a rather long post compared to others. But, hopefully it will benefit someone out there. The following is my support conversion with Comodo regarding the purchase of an SSL certificate that I never got. The fact that I never got it is not near as troubling as the fact that I never received a resonable response from Comodo regarding why I had not received it yet. Note: this

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As I'm sure you can appreciate, the amount of SPAM we receive daily on the support@dmbhosting.com email address has become intolerable. We have left the mail unfiltered up until now so that we would recieve all support request. But, now the risk of accidentally delete an email is higher than not getting a legitimate support email due to it being filtered. So, we turned SpamAssassin on for the

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The title says it all. Just as soon as I get the SSL certificate, My Win Hosting will be open for Window Only Hosting.

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