Posted by NovaAngel at December 26th, 2006
Well, there you have it! We have gone through the entire process of setting up a web server. Remember the problems we set out to solve?
1. Web Space
Now that your home PC is a server, you have all the space in the world!
2. Free Domain Names
Thanks to No-IP, you didn’t pay a cent to get your name on the net
3. Web Hosting Basics
If you keep playing around with the settings on Abyss, you will know it inside and out in a matter of minutes.
Posted by NovaAngel at December 26th, 2006
Audience
This article has been written for:
• Amateur web developers
• People who want to learn about web hosting
Problems We Are Solving
Have you ever encountered a need for more web space to find that a measly 100MBs will cost you hundreds of dollars?
This article will help you save your money by not having to buy web space. You will have whatever your hard disk size is for space. In other words, your web space allowance is virtually unlimited.
How do I get a free domain name?
You will be shown a hidden gem on the Internet. You will set up your own unique domain name, where from there, you can start serving your customers.
Where do you start if you want to learn the basics of web hosting?
Right here! This article will allow you to set up your own web server with step- by-step instructions. These instructions have been tested on MY PARENTS. Trust me, if they can do it, so can you!
Authoring Your Own Information Product
Writing an article is amazingly fun. Just telling all your friends and family that your writing an article will amaze them at how brilliant you are.
If you don’t feel like writing an article at this time, you can always purchase one that has full resale rights. You can find them anywhere on eBay. Search for “article resale.” You will find lots of opportunity there.
Below are a few resources you can use to help you with your article writing and search process:
“How To Create Your Own Info Product”
www.articleautomate.com/createinfo
“Make Money Giving Away Free articles”
www.articleautomate.com/bizzydays
“Ultimate Auction articles For eBay Success”
www.articleautomate.com/vnotions
“Mini article Secrets”
www.articleautomate.com/chiaewen
“What’s the Best Product to Sell Online?”
www.articleautomate.com/whattosell
Our Case Study
Let’s set up a scenario. Say you have an article you want to sell on how to make a widget. You are going to need to find a way to market and deliver your product to your customer, give them a spot to download it from, and host the web pages associated with selling your product. Typically, this would mean that you would have to go out and purchase a domain name, buy some server space to host your pages from, and then purchase an auto-responder program that will deliver your product to your customer. As you can see, this can seem quite overwhelming. Where do you start? How much will it cost? Well, the good news is that there is no cost associated with any of this.
Posted by NovaAngel at November 29th, 2006
I have found some Free web hostin’ on de net. Here is a list that you might find useful:
USA, En’lish
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USA, En’lish
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beigetower.org
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www.cometstream.net
USA, En’lish
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www.1asphost.com
USA, En’lish
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www.alexusmedia.com
USA, En’lish
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www.angeltowns.com
USA, En’lish
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www.brinkster.com
USA, En’lish
Hostin’ category: REG,BUSINESS
members.freewebz.com
USA, En’lish
Hostin’ category: REG,OTHER
www.illusionfxnet.com
USA, En’lish
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www.internations.net
USA, En’lish
Hostin’ category: REG
snake-inc.com
USA, En’lish
Hostin’ category: REG
www.sphostin\’.com/
USA, En’lish
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www.totalfreehost.com
USA, En’lish
Hostin’ category: REG,BUSINESS,GAME
www.webhostin\’.usallportal.com/free_webhostin\’.htm
USA, En’lish
Hostin’ category: REG
www.web1000.com
50 MB webspace
NO Filesize limit
NO monthly transfer limit
PHP4.1 / MySQL (phpmyadmin) / counter / guesbook / personalised cgi feedback froms / customisable 404 error pages / FTP access
Service: 50 MB Webspace
URL:
Max file size: 400KB (I agree this sucks)
Comments: The followin’ thin’s are supported, FTP, MySQL, PHP, Perl, SSI, WAP. Plus pre-made portal and forum are available free.
Service: 100 Megs of webspace
URL:
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Unlimited Bandwidth,Free Guestbook, Fast and Reliable Servers,and Front Page Extensions.
Service: 100 Megs of space
URL:
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Site stats, Chatrooms,Guestbook, Counters, Site promotion, Form builder/Mailer, Photoalbums and more.
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Free hostin’ of your domain.
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URL:
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Unlimited Disk Space, 100mbps Network Connection, 99.9% Uptime, Free Sub Directory,
Free Domain Hostin’, Custom Domain DNS Control, Browser and FTP Uploadin’,PHP,
Hostin’ for Unlimited Domains w/ Unlimited Subdomains, Free Search En’ine Submission,
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URL:
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Service: 50 Mb space
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Summary: 50 MB Web Space,
Excellent Support, and more.
Service: 50 Mb space
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Site Admin Control Panel
Service: 100 Mb space
URL:http://www.internations.net/
Summary: 100 Mb space, 1 GB bandwith, Web Message board, Guestbook,
FormMail script and more.
Service: 800 Mb space
URL:http://www.i12.com/
Summary: 800 Mb space, unlimited POP3 and alias email addresses,
definetly a site to check out!
Service: 100 Mb space
URL:
Summary:100 Megabytes Web Space, GuestBook+Counters, Full Technical Support,
Unlimited File Size Web Control Panel, No Bandwidth Limits And more!
Worldzone Free - 50mb space, allowed file types (au, mid, midi, wav, gif, ico, jpg, jpeg, pn’, htm, html, shtml, wml, xml, css, class, jar, java, dat, txt, tmpl, htaccess, htpasswd, js, map, swf, ttf). Sorry but no cgi, ftp, MySQL on our Free accounts. 1 468Ã�60 banner will be located on de bottom of your page but can be removed in our $12 yearly Plus Package.
50 mb space
20 MB of disk space � Have room for your image files, MP3s, video clips.
1 GB of Monthly Bandwidth � More people can visit your site more often
now it�s freecoolpages.com
10MB OF DISK SPACE
UNLIMITED BANDWIDTH
FTP ACCESS FOR UPLOADING
FREE EMAIL
60 mb of space!
Your website may not contain or refer to sites with de followin’ content: Porn, warez, hack or anythin’ encouragin’ any kind of illegal activities or racism.
25 megs of webspace
Easy homepage creator
Unlimited bandwidth
Your own messageboard
Templates
Free Guestbook
Advanced editor
No fees - 100% FREE!
Fast servers
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URL:
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Domain name hostin’ TGP Compliant, and more.
Service: Unlimited Space
URL:http://www.zoomfast.com/
Summary: Unlimited space,Unlimited bandwith, High speed servers and more
Service: 100 MB Webspace
URL:
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Service: 25 MB Webspace
URL:
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Service: 25 MB Webspace
URL:
Service: 50 MB Webspace
URL:
Summary: N/A
Service: Unlimited Webspace
URL:
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Service: 30 MB Webspace
URL:
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Provider: Server2000.at
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URL:
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Service: 100 MB Webspace
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Service: 60 MB Webspace, Online Editor, Counter, Form Mail, Guestbook
URL:
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Service: 40 MB Webspace
URL:
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Service: 50 MB Webspace
URL:
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Service: 50 MB Webspace
URL:
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Service: 25 MB Webspace [ 100 MB After Approval ]
URL:
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Service: 50 MB Webspace
URL:
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Service: 25 MB Webspace
URL:
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Service: Webspace [Unlimited?] & 5 MB Email
URL:
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URL:
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Service: 25 MB Webspace [Possible 60 MB of space]
URL:
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Service: 50 MB Webspace
URL:
Summary: 50megs.com is only one of a few providers offerin’ such huge amounts of webspace for free. It comes with oder services like Web Polls, counters and much more.
Service: 20 MB Webspace [Short URL Provided]
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Service: 500 MB web space
5,000 MB/month traffic ($.99 per GB for additional traffic)
site statistics, log files, ready-to-run CGI-library, own CGI programmin’ (Perl, Python), FrontPage 2002 extensions
Advanced Password Protection
5 FTP accounts
PHP3 & PHP4 MySQL
Proxy SSL Secure Server
Cron Jobs
SSH Secure Shell Access
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Posted by NovaAngel at October 7th, 2006
Since defraggin’ de disk won’t do much to improve Windows XP performance, here are 23 suggestions that will. Each can enhance de performance and reliability of your customers’ PCs. Best of all, most of them will cost you nothin’.
1.) To decrease a system’s boot time and increase system performance, use de money you save by not buyin’ defragmentation software — de built-in Windows defragmenter works just fine — and instead equip de computer with an Ultra-133 or Serial ATA hard drive with 8-MB cache buffer.
2.) If a PC has less than 512 MB of RAM, add more memory. This is a relatively inexpensive and easy upgrade that can dramatically improve system performance.
3.) Ensure that Windows XP is utilizin’ de NTFS file system. If you’re not sure, here’s how to check: First, double-click de My Computer icon, right-click on de C: Drive, den select Properties. Next, examine de File System type; if it says FAT32, den back-up any important data. Next, click Start, click Run, type CMD, and den click OK. At de prompt, type CONVERT C: /FS:NTFS and press de Enter key. This process may take a while; it’s important that de computer be uninterrupted and virus-free. The file system used by de bootable drive will be eider FAT32 or NTFS. I highly recommend NTFS for its superior security, reliability, and efficiency with larger disk drives.
4.) Disable file indexin’. The indexin’ service extracts information from documents and oder files on de hard drive and creates a “searchable keyword index.” As you can imagine, this process can be quite taxin’ on any system.
The idea is that de user can search for a word, phrase, or property inside a document, should dey have hundreds or thousands of documents and not know de file name of de document dey want. Windows XP’s built-in search functionality can still perform dese kinds of searches without de Indexin’ service. It just takes longer. The OS has to open each file at de time of de request to help find what de user is lookin’ for.
Most people never need this feature of search. Those who do are typically in a large corporate environment where thousands of documents are located on at least one server. But if you’re a typical system builder, most of your clients are small and medium businesses. And if your clients have no need for this search feature, I recommend disablin’ it.
Here’s how: First, double-click de My Computer icon. Next, right-click on de C: Drive, den select Properties. Uncheck “Allow Indexin’ Service to index this disk for fast file searchin’.” Next, apply changes to “C: subfolders and files,” and click OK. If a warnin’ or error message appears (such as “Access is denied”), click de Ignore All button.
5.) Update de PC’s video and moderboard chipset drivers. Also, update and configure de BIOS. For more information on how to configure your BIOS properly, see this article on how to configure your BIOS
6.) Empty de Windows Prefetch folder every three months or so. Windows XP can “prefetch” portions of data and applications that are used frequently. This makes processes appear to load faster when called upon by de user. That’s fine. But over time, de prefetch folder may become overloaded with references to files and applications no longer in use. When that happens, Windows XP is wastin’ time, and slowin’ system performance, by pre-loadin’ them. Nothin’ critical is in this folder, and de entire contents are safe to delete.
7.) Once a month, run a disk cleanup. Here’s how: Double-click de My Computer icon. Then right-click on de C: drive and select Properties. Click de Disk Cleanup button — it’s just to de right of de Capacity pie graph — and delete all temporary files.
8.) In your Device Manager, double-click on de IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers device, and ensure that DMA is enabled for each drive you have connected to de Primary and Secondary controller. Do this by double-clickin’ on Primary IDE Channel. Then click de Advanced Settin’s tab. Ensure de Transfer Mode is set to “DMA if available” for both Device 0 and Device 1. Then repeat this process with de Secondary IDE Channel.
9.) Upgrade de cablin’. As hard-drive technology improves, de cablin’ requirements to achieve dese performance boosts have become more stringent. Be sure to use 80-wire Ultra-133 cables on all of your IDE devices with de connectors properly assigned to de matchin’ Master/Slave/Moderboard sockets. A sin’le device must be at de end of de cable; connectin’ a sin’le drive to de middle connector on a ribbon cable will cause signalin’ problems. With Ultra DMA hard drives, dese signalin’ problems will prevent de drive from performin’ at its maximum potential. Also, because dese cables inherently support “cable select,” de location of each drive on de cable is important. For dese reasons, de cable is designed so drive positionin’ is explicitly clear.
10.) Remove all spyware from de computer. Use free programs such as AdAware by Lavasoft or SpyBot Search & Destroy. Once dese programs are installed, be sure to check for and download any updates before startin’ your search. Anythin’ eider program finds can be safely removed. Any free software that requires spyware to run will no longer function once de spyware portion has been removed; if your customer really wants de program even though it contains spyware, simply reinstall it. For more information on removin’ Spyware visit this Web Pro News page.
11.) Remove any unnecessary programs and/or items from Windows Startup routine usin’ de MSCONFIG utility. Here’s how: First, click Start, click Run, type MSCONFIG, and click OK. Click de StartUp tab, den uncheck any items you don’t want to start when Windows starts. Unsure what some items are? Visit de WinTasks Process Library. It contains known system processes, applications, as well as spyware references and explanations. Or quickly identify them by searchin’ for de filenames usin’ Google or anoder Web search en’ine.
12.) Remove any unnecessary or unused programs from de Add/Remove Programs section of de Control Panel.
13.) Turn off any and all unnecessary animations, and disable active desktop. In fact, for optimal performance, turn off all animations. Windows XP offers many different settin’s in this area. Here’s how to do it: First click on de System icon in de Control Panel. Next, click on de Advanced tab. Select de Settin’s button located under Performance. Feel free to play around with de options offered here, as nothin’ you can change will alter de reliability of de computer — only its responsiveness.
14.) If your customer is an advanced user who is comfortable editin’ deir registry, try some of de performance registry tweaks offered at Tweak XP.
15.) Visit Microsoft’s Windows update site regularly, and download all updates labeled Critical. Download any optional updates at your discretion.
16.) Update de customer’s anti-virus software on a weekly, even daily, basis. Make sure dey have only one anti-virus software package installed. Mixin’ anti-virus software is a sure way to spell disaster for performance and reliability.
17.) Make sure de customer has fewer than 500 type fonts installed on deir computer. The more fonts dey have, de slower de system will become. While Windows XP handles fonts much more efficiently than did de previous versions of Windows, too many fonts — that is, anythin’ over 500 — will noticeably tax de system.
18.) Do not partition de hard drive. Windows XP’s NTFS file system runs more efficiently on one large partition. The data is no safer on a separate partition, and a reformat is never necessary to reinstall an operatin’ system. The same excuses people offer for usin’ partitions apply to usin’ a folder instead. For example, instead of puttin’ all your data on de D: drive, put it in a folder called “D drive.” You’ll achieve de same organizational benefits that a separate partition offers, but without de degradation in system performance. Also, your free space won’t be limited by de size of de partition; instead, it will be limited by de size of de entire hard drive. This means you won’t need to resize any partitions, ever. That task can be time-consumin’ and also can result in lost data.
19.) Check de system’s RAM to ensure it is operatin’ properly. I recommend usin’ a free program called MemTest86. The download will make a bootable CD or diskette (your choice), which will run 10 extensive tests on de PC’s memory automatically after you boot to de disk you created. Allow all tests to run until at least three passes of de 10 tests are completed. If de program encounters any errors, turn off and unplug de computer, remove a stick of memory (assumin’ you have more than one), and run de test again. Remember, bad memory cannot be repaired, but only replaced.
20.) If de PC has a CD or DVD recorder, check de drive manufacturer’s Web site for updated firmware. In some cases you’ll be able to upgrade de recorder to a faster speed. Best of all, it’s free.
21.) Disable unnecessary services. Windows XP loads a lot of services that your customer most likely does not need. To determine which services you can disable for your client, visit de Black Viper site for Windows XP configurations.
22.) If you’re sick of a sin’le Windows Explorer window crashin’ and den takin’ de rest of your OS down with it, den follow this tip: open My Computer, click on Tools, den Folder Options. Now click on de View tab. Scroll down to “Launch folder windows in a separate process,” and enable this option. You’ll have to reboot your machine for this option to take effect.
23.) At least once a year, open de computer’s cases and blow out all de dust and debris. While you’re in dere, check that all de fans are turnin’ properly. Also inspect de moderboard capacitors for bulgin’ or leaks. For more information on this leakin’-capacitor phenomena, you can read numerous articles on my site.
Followin’ any of dese suggestions should result in noticeable improvements to de performance and reliability of your customers’ computers. If you still want to defrag a disk, remember that de main benefit will be to make your data more retrievable in de event of a crashed drive.
