I am about to let you in on a little secret. Now see, you might look at your average web hosting guru and say, “Wow, he knows a lot about web hosting – I want to grow up and be like him some day”. What they don’t tell you is that all the best workers in the web hosting industry cheat.
Ok, maybe they don’t cheat in the literal sense but they do use cheat sheets. These are documents or images that have a lot of information packed into them so that when the question comes up all they have to do is pull up the right cheat sheet and they are good to go. The best place to get a lot of these digital life savers is ILoveJackDaniels.com.
Just point your browser in that direction and click on the “Cheat Sheets” link at the top. Here are a few of my absolute favorites that I use day to day doing tech support for others:
- HTML Cheat Sheet
- ASP / VBScript Cheat Sheet
- HTML Character Entities Cheat Sheet
- MySQL Cheat Sheet
- CSS Cheat Sheet
The one I get the most use out of might be the Mod_Rewrite Cheat Sheet. All are available as PDFs or PNG files to download. For any web hosting worker tuning in I would suggest you make a cheat sheet folder on your PC and save at least the ones I have mentioned here. There are many others too you might get some use out of.
Who says cheaters never win?
