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Softlayer started content delivery network

Dedicated server provider Softlayer started its own content delivery network. This will allow large web site to serve static files like images, pdf and other media files faster. Many large sites like youtube, yahoo use CDN network to serve content


Make money sleeping

Have you ever seen advertisement saying “make money sleeping” ? Today i see an advertisement on a site saying Make Money Sleeping. There are many ways of making money on internet. But no one pay you for just sleeping. The


New server from Caro.net

Yesterday i order a new server from www.Caro.net I used to take servers from softlayer and is happy with them. But just want to see how good caro is, also they have some special offers, you get $30 less than


Hadoop Distributed File System

Hadoop is like MogileFS, is a Open Source distributed file system. http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/ Hadoop is a framework for running applications on large clusters built of commodity hardware. The Hadoop framework transparently provides applications both reliability and data motion. Hadoop implements a


Adverting Servers

If you have big web site and want to serve lot of advertisements, you need to have an advertising server. There are free open source advertising server like openx, which is PHP, MySQL script, that can be used to run


inverter vs ups

UPS and Inverter work same way. But inverter is build to provide backup electricity for TV, FAN, Fridge, Light etc… UPS is for computers. UPS produces exact sine wave via microprocessors, but inverter produces what is called a Square Wave


URGENT: vShare 2.6 security patch – group_posts.php

Hello, There is a security vulnerability identified in vShare 2.6 and older versions. All are requested to download security patch from http://www.buyscripts.in/vshare/2.6_group_posts_security_fix.zip Unzip and upload to vShare install folder in BINARY mode overwriting existing group_posts.php If you are using older


KeePass Password Safe

KeePass is a program that can help you to protect your passwords. Today i installed this program, no install is needed also it can run from USB drives. Recently one of the USB drive with server passwords stopped working during


MySQL take too much time to start

On one of the Free phpBB hosting server, MySQL take about 18 minutes to start. That is if i restart MySQL for any reason (including server reboot), it take too much time to just start the MySQL server. The server


Changing MySQL data folder

Today a client wanted to move his MySQL database to second hard disk. Moving MySQL database to its own hard disk improve IO performance as the hard disk only need to serve MySQL data, nothing OS related. This was a