Windows hosting is more expensive, less dependable, less well supported, and less capable than Linux. Unless you are running applications (such as ASP or .Net, or use MSSQL) that absolutely require a Windows server and/or database, stick with Linux. Note that some Windows services (e.g., ASP) may be available on a Linux server for extra cost…
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Setting right timezone on your PHP.
How do I offset the Timezone for my location, instead of the server timezone? First of all, setting the timezone at .htaccess level using “SetEnv TZ location” doesn’t work on your php script. If you are using PHP 5.1 and ealier, add this code within your php putenv(‘TZ=Europe/London’); /* change the TZ value accordingly. */…
Apache 2 hosting
Apache 2.x hosting offer many new features compare to Apache 1.3.x, including Unix Threading – On Unix systems with POSIX threads support, Apache can now run in a hybrid multiprocess, multithreaded mode. This improves scalability for many, but not all configurations. Better support for non-Unix platforms – Apache 2.0 is faster and more stable on non-Unix…
BlueHost, Hostmonster software upgraded.
BlueHost and Hostmonster, the best web hosting listed on my site, has upgraded their 750 servers 2 weeks ago. They are forcing all their clients to run Php 5 as default interpreter while keeping Php 4 as an option when Cpanel forcing their user to upgrade to the newer version Apache has been upgraded to…
Much faster PHP with FastCGI.
FastCGI for PHP makes all your PHP applications run through mod_fastcgi instead of mod_phpsusexec. FastCGI applications are fast because they’re persistent. There is no per-request startup and initialization overhead. This makes possible the development of applications which would otherwise be impractical within the CGI paradigm (e.g. a huge PHP script, or an application which requires…
NeoMail vs Horde vs Squirrelmail
NeoMail, Horde and SquirrelMail are 3 commonly free webmail client offer by most hosting company (limited to linux hosts only). NeoMail Neomail has been discontinued due to long-standing security and stability issues, and the fact that the largest control panel vendor, cPanel, has also discontinued support for Neomail Horde I find Horde mail client (Internet Messaging Program or…
Easy install PHP MySQL Perl and Apache
Installing a Php MySQL + Apache development environment was once very frustrating (especially on Windows Vista !) until XAMPP launched. XAMPP is an easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl. XAMPP is really very easy to install and to use – just download, extract and start. The best part is IT IS…
Force your visitors to visit WWW of your website.
Google can sometimes think “www and without www” are 2 duplicate websites and it could harm your seach engine result position (SERP)! It is better to force your visitor (including google bot) to view only 1 version of your website. You can easily redirect all non-www traffic to www version of your domain, along with…