Archive for the ‘Tutorials’ Category

Steps to Move Your Web Site from one Server to Another

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008 |

During the lifetime of a website moments come when need arises to move the site from one domain name to other. This migration process is painful for bigger and more active websites. If control panel on both servers are same then migration becomes easier. However, sometimes you need to migrate your site to a server having different control panel. In this scenario, to ensure smooth migration of an active web site from one server to another follow the steps given in this tutorial:

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Best Way to Protect a Domain Name from getting Stolen

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007 |

Lately, number of domain name thefts taking place in online world is increasing. There are several reasons as how you can loose your domain name and not able to prove that you were the real owner of the domain name in question. Instantly a question pops up as what is the best way to protect a domain name from being stolen.

First and foremost thing to do is to make sure that you really own your domain name. What a silly advice…you might say. No, it’s not if you know what we are talking about. Go through this article and you will instantly want to check of your domain name.

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Target uid/gid Mismatch with Directory or Program

Monday, December 10th, 2007 |

This Sunday at 2 AM, I got a call from one client, who complained that  on his website stopped working all of a sudden. This being peak season for his business, he was a worried lot and wanted me to give it an immediate attention. I rushed to my workstation. Client was on phone telling me the urls and script names which stopped working. I saw it was throwing “500 ”. My first question to client was if he has made any changes to the scripts or re-uploaded or changed the permissions on the files.

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G(oogle) Talk now Features Group (Conference) Chat

Friday, November 30th, 2007 |

announced a new feature for its’ G(oogle) Talk users i.e. Group Chat or as popularly known Conference Chat. The group chat feature lets user chat with many friends at once. There is no limit to the number of people who can be invited to join the chat and any participant can invite others to join.

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Paypal Offers Fund Withdrawl to Indian Bank account feature

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007 |

Paypal, most widely used credit card method over the net, on 1st November 2007, announced a new fund withdrawal feature for it’s users from India. Indian Users of Paypal can withdraw funds directly to their Indian Bank Accounts. Users having account with State Bank of India, Bank of India, Canara Bank, Union Bank of India, HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank, ING VYSYA Bank, UTI Bank, Standard Chartered Bank, HSBC, and Citibank can avail this benefit.

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How to Minimize Incoming Spam Mails

Friday, August 17th, 2007 |

In today’s wired life everyone has an email id. And every one having an email id is prone to SPAM emails. Sometimes its frustrating to search one genuine email out of hundreds . Though each and every service provider, be it or Yahoo! or or your ISP or your , tries to keep spam level to minimum by using various tools. But, this is a cat and rat game between spammers and . Most of the times all anti fail to detect and filter all .

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Web designers, Clients and their Domain Names

Monday, July 9th, 2007 |

What the Problem is?

Mostly in India and moreover all over the world, it’s a rampant practice followed by so called web designers to register their client’s with their own (web designers and not clients’) details. This is a complete lose-lose situation for clients. So called web designers’ first motive is to ensure that they take control of their clients’  so that the client has no choice but to stay with the same designer, or lose his domain name in the process.

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Changes in Domain Transfer Process (.COM / .NET)

Saturday, October 28th, 2006 |

In last few years companies have seen customers taking away their .COM / .NET domains freely to other registrar. In the process some frauds also happened. To put a full stop to all this has made it mandatory for all domain transfers to be supported by a mandatory AUTH-INFO Code (or Transfer Authorization Secret).

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Renewal Rules for .UK Domain Names

Thursday, October 19th, 2006 |

While most of the domain TLDs (like .com / .net / .in) expires as per its registration date, rules are different in case of .UK . The .UK domains expiring on any day of a given month should be renewed or deleted before the 25th of the same month.

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