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How to Build Your Own YouTube

Found a blog entry that discuss on how to create a youtube clone with Amazon EC2 and S3 services. Amazon S3 service allow you to store your files and EC2 provides computational power required for converting user uploaded video to


Open DNS servers

When check domain at dnsreport, it show warning ERROR: One or more of your nameservers reports that it is an open DNS server. This can be fixed by editing /etc/named.conf The default “options” will be options { directory “/var/named”; dump-file


YouTube Clone Installation

After Google brought YouTube for $1.65 Billion, many webmasters start making clone of popular youtube.com There are many PHP, MySQL based scripts for running your own youtube clone site like http://www.buyscripts.in/youtube_clone.html YouTube clone script will not run on normal web


New Linux PC

I used to run test linux server in VMWare. Few days back, i brought a new PC and installed CentOS 4.4 on it. Now all PC’s running Windows 2003, i want to use Linux on Desktop, but doing that, i


lame server resolving

On Cpanel server, found following error on /var/log/messages Jan 29 15:15:50 server36 named[17870]: lame server resolving ‘bizhat.com’ (in ‘bizhat.com’?): 216.32.86.26#53 The problem is caused by some one pointing the domain to the server, but the account is not present in


Changing default language

Today i worked on a Fedora C4 server, the langiage is set to German. This is the second time i am working on german server, first one was suse linux. With the help of a german friend, i change the


User Resource limits on Cpanel Server

Today i tried to run java on a dedicated server as normal user. This is required as part of sidekick installation. But i got following error Error occurred during initialization of VM Could not reserve enough space for object heap


Fantastico installation error

On cpanel server, on installing software with fantastico, i get error like Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘;’ in /tmp/cpanel_phpengine.1167655653.13924924.23731208877 on line 102 The problem is caused by wrong permission for tar. Fixed by chmod 755 /bin/tar


RAR files on Linux

By default Linux support .tar, .tar.gz, .bz2 and .zip compressed files. On FreeBSD unzip command is not available, you can install from ports. RAR files can be uncompressed with command unrar. On linux you can install it with On FreeBSD,


Password length in Linux

I used to run local test web server with FreeBSD, which allow you to set password like “123”. I like using simple password as its local test server and i don’t want to type big and complicated passwords. Recently i