Free Domain, Free Webhosting from Microsoft

By Shantanu Goel in Internet , Webhosting on 27 Mar, 2008

Microsoft is doling out a lot of free stuff today. If you have a Live ID, or have the patience of 5 minutes to fill up a small form to create a new one, you can get free domain name as well as free webhosting from then for one complete year. Cool, huh? All you

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Caution: “Network Solutions”, Stay As Far As Possible

By Shantanu Goel in Internet , Webhosting on 15 Mar, 2008

If you had a dream of starting your own website, your online abode, and you wanted to see whether the pretty little name for your dream house is available or not, what do you do? Check its availability on one of the many domain sellers’ sites. And if you picked “Network Solutions” to do the

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TIP: Automating Website Backups – Part III (Cron Made Easy)

By Shantanu Goel in Blogging , Linux , Webhosting on 04 Mar, 2008

The question that we will be answering today is: Q2: Cron? Using tar, making up the script file is enough command line for me. Isn’t there an easy way? Cron is a tool that can schedule any kind of tasks for you, and here we are using it to run our backup script automatically, so

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TIP: Automating Website Backups – Part IIb (Reducing Backup Size Contd.)

By Shantanu Goel in Blogging , Linux , Tips , Webhosting on 28 Feb, 2008

Last time, I had told you about how to reduce the backup size. Well, this is a short note further developing on the approaches discussed there. Basically, telling tar to backup only those files which have changed. For this, Linux has a command “find” which I am very fond of. You can give it a

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TIP: Automating Website Backups – Part II (Reducing Backup Size)

By Shantanu Goel in Blogging , Linux , Tips , Webhosting on 25 Feb, 2008

Last week I had written a short guide on “Automating Website Backups”. I received some good comments/suggestions about it from Jasvinder through e-mail about other aspects that should be addressed. So, thought of doing a few follow ups to that post. This is done in more of a FAQ fashion, so as to answer some

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TIP: Automating Website Backups

By Shantanu Goel in Linux , Tips , Webhosting on 17 Feb, 2008

What can go wrong with your wonderfully running website / blog? Everything..

Your online abode is so difficult to keep secured. It can get hacked, you may install something wrong, a wrong configuration can wreak havoc, the server hard disk might crash, natural calamities, and what not. Your best option to secure yourself against all

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