Posts Tagged With: webhosts
· April 4, 2008 at 5:49 am · Web Development, Web Hosting
Tags: contest, design, hosting, Lunarpages, themes, webhosts, WordPress
Lunarpages is putting on another WordPress theme design contest! The last one was fun as an innocent bystander because I got to see tons of unique and awesome designs day by day. Here are the details for this time around.
The rules have changed a bit to include mention of the exact schedule for voting and submissions (also noted below) as well as voting by Lunarpages Staff, ensuring all votes are tracked and accounted for.
The prizes, however, are just as juicy:
- First Prize is $1,000 cash and 5 years free hosting on our Basic Plan
- Second Prize is 3 years free hosting + $300 cash
- Third Prize is 1 year free hosting + $100 cash
Entering is just as simple as before – just Submit Your Theme and you’re in. We’ll post the top 5 Best WordPress Themes each week starting April 21 right here on the Blog for our community to vote on.
Go submit your own WordPress themes!
· February 15, 2008 at 6:47 am · Free Hosting
Tags: deals, documents, files, free, hosting, Web Hosting, webhosts
I am always in search of new and different free hosting setups from all around the Web. One of the most recent to catch my eye has been Filego.net. The maximum file size you can upload is 50 MB - and I couldn’t really find much as far as bandwidth limits go. With time limits your file will stay hosted as long as somebody downloads it at least once every 30 days.
Here are some of the benifits they mention on their web site:
- Absolutely free.
- No special software or equipment needed.
- We won’t lose the file and it isn’t going anywhere.
- Allows download of the file at your convenience.
- You can download the file again if you lost it or accidentally deleted it.
- The file can’t be removed or deleted by anyone but filego.net.com or yourself.
With content limitations, looks like they really don’t have any. You could upload anything as long as it isn’t copyrighted material. Well worth a first or second look if your looking for a free file host and you can find them at Filego.net.
· December 19, 2004 at 7:52 pm · Web Hosting
Tags: basics, help, tips, Web Hosting, webhosts
Well, chapter two has been done for a while now. I just haven’t had the time to update my progress in a while. I just finished the rough draft of chapter three as well a few short minutes ago. So far things are going great. The only problem I have run into is that my first two chapters are a little longer than my third.
A few more important things are covered though, so hopefully it will not be too much of a problem in the long run. Keeping up with how much I have been writing, I could end up with around fifty pages when it is all said and done. Some might get cut out when editing comes around though. I’ll tackle that problem when I get to it though.
· December 17, 2004 at 3:11 pm · Web Hosting
Tags: basics, help, tips, Web Hosting, webhosts
When I first signed up at the Web Hosting Toy Drive, they had barely raised over $200. I thought it was a good cause, so I contributed my sum to the pot. Now congratulations are in order to all those who made the first Web Hosting Toy Drive a success. $8,056.96 was raised by the time all was said and done, and I couldn’t be happier.
I plan on being a part of it next year as well. This just goes to show you that the world of Web hosting is not as cut throat as many may think that it is. When there is a good cause, it is nice to see that so many people can come together to help. This is the true meaning of the holiday season for sure.
· December 16, 2004 at 5:57 pm · Web Hosting
Tags: basics, help, tips, Web Hosting, webhosts
Sorry I wasn’t around much yesterday. Since Tuesday I’ve been battling a cold that I caught from my sister’s kids. On the bright side of things though I do have some news about the Web hosting book I’ve been working on. Yesterday I finished a rough draft of the first chapter. Things are coming together nicely so far.
I’ve set a target date, for the end of January, for me to reach a finished “rough draft” of the book. Then I’ll probably go through and make some modifications, then let a few other folks play editor for me, then I might be ready for a public release.
· December 13, 2004 at 1:09 pm · Web Hosting
Tags: basics, help, tips, Web Hosting, webhosts
Ever been confused on the ways DNS works? Do you know what DNS is? Don’t be ashamed if you don’t because you are one of many not know all the facts behind it. Our good friend Google tells us DNS is, “(Domain Name Server) – Used to map names to IP addresses and vice versa. Domain Name Servers maintain central lists of domain name/IP addresses and map the domain names in your Internet requests to other servers on the Internet until the specified web site is found.”
What does that mean? It is pretty bad when you need a definition of the definition. The friendly folks over at Splodgy Web Design have put together one heck of a tutorial on this very subject.
DNS stands for Domain Name System. It is the process that connects the domain name you typed into your browser, to the server that serves or hosts the information for that domain.
People often get very confused when it comes to understanding DNS and nameservers. They get all mixed up with domain names, web servers, resolvers and IP addresses. Even people who are very computer literate can get in a complete fuddle over DNS. But it’s not really that difficult really. It’s just that whenever someone starts to explain it to you, they end up using all manor of buzz words. Things like bind and resolver. In some ways, DNS is like the offside rule in football (soccer). Everyone can play the game but just try an get them to explain the offside rule and things get very complicated. This tutorial is intended to help you understand how DNS works.
If that didn’t get your questions answered then try looking over at Webopedia:
(1) Short for Domain Name System (or Service or Server), an Internet service that translates domain names into IP addresses. Because domain names are alphabetic, they’re easier to remember. The Internet however, is really based on IP addresses. Every time you use a domain name, therefore, a DNS service must translate the name into the corresponding IP address. For example, the domain name www.example.com might translate to 198.105.232.4.
The DNS system is, in fact, its own network. If one DNS server doesn’t know how to translate a particular domain name, it asks another one, and so on, until the correct IP address is returned.
No mater which source you turn to, they are both well written, full of information, and right. There is no such thing as a stupid question, and with the Internet at your fingertips you have a plethora of answers to choose from!
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