You’ve decided to automate your web site. Now what? Here are some ideas to help you choose how to automate your site. Read the rest of this entry »

The internet is a really useful tool to find sites that you can do a variety things. These include chat and many sites that have interactive features. Read the rest of this entry »

The Web site hosting business has become more competitive in recent years. If you can find a better hosting deal, you may be able to save money by switching hosting providers. Read the rest of this entry »

You’ve made your decision to move from your website from your current web host to a new web host. The following tips will help you make the transition easier and make you aware of some potential pitfalls to avoid. Read the rest of this entry »

The Web site hosting business has become more competitive in recent years. If you can find a better hosting deal, you may be able to save money by switching hosting providers. But what’s the best way to move your Web site? What if you have a virtual private server (VPS) hosting several domains? What about PHP and your SQL data? The thought of moving may be daunting, but moving servers is not difficult if you plan properly. Here’s how.

A complete migration involves transferring the site data itself, meaning all the HTML and possibly PHP and MySQL files and CGI programs. You also need to modify the Domain Name System (DNS) information for Read the rest of this entry »

If you are like me on a shared hosting server chances are your web hosting account has cPanel or some other administration panel through which you can create/delete MySQL databases (DBs)/DB users. But you will not be able to:

a. Take selective backup. i.e., backup of only some tables in a DB
b. Execute queries. You might have seen that some scripts give you a .sql file that needs to be ‘executed’ in your DB so the tables in it get created/populated. Read the rest of this entry »

PHP web hosting makes use of a PHP based server. PHP is a scripting language like that of Perl that allows you to create dynamic web pages. You can insert PHP language into the HTML code. PHP-enabled web pages are just like standard HTML pages. Creating and editing them are done similar to the regular HTML.

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PHP file may contain text, HTML tags and scripts. PHP files are returned to the browser as plain HTML. PHP files have an extension .php, .php3 or .phtml. PHP is short for Hypertext Preprocessor. PHP is a server-side scripting language like ASP and are executed on the server.

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PHP stands for Hypertext Preprocessor. PHP is a server-side scripting language like ASP and are executed on the server. It can support many databases including but not limited to MySQL, Informix, Oracle, Sybase, Solid, PostgreSQL, Generic ODBC and many others. Read the rest of this entry »