podcast about web hosts and web hosting topics
As you can tell, if you have been to any of my web sites, I really enjoy WordPress a lot as a way to self-publish my content Online. WordPress is often known for it’s simple installation process too.
However, many people might still be confused on how to get started with WordPress, so I thought it would be a good idea to go through the steps with you, to make you feel more at home with the process.
Since I now have 200 podcasts under my belt, and with a new year coming up quick, I thought now would be the perfect time to introduce to you my new project. I want to help you with marketing.
How would you like to drive down town and pick up a web hosting account?
The web host Slamdot hopes you’d very much like the idea of doing that. They announced they will begin selling professionally designed web site packages very soon through a retail store. The first store will be open in Knoxville, Tennesee offering web site design packages, support, and in-store training.
Large corporate enterprises are not the only ones that need to be careful about security and having the tools in place to recover from a web hosting disaster.
My good buddy Barry, from Layered Tech posed an interesting quandary to me the other day.
As someone who works for a major player in hosting, one of the biggest problems I see on a daily basis is people having their server hacked and used for some nefarious purposes such as spam, DOS attacks, and more. There are many ways to combat this costly threat, what is the most cost-effective way for the small to medium-sized business?
It is important for everybody to have a good offense and a good defense when it comes to all the proverbial “natural disasters” that can happen in the web hosting world. My best advice would be to have a good strategy in place first, so you can prevent the problems from happening in the first place. You have to be proactive, and not reactive.
This bookmarklet is perfect for anybody who spends any time working on web site layouts. XRAY is used to see the box model for any element on a web page. It will dim the area not selected, and give you statistics such as the CSS id or class assigned to it, the interface hierarchy, and the CSS code assigned to that section.
Is there a way to have decent statistics for how many times a podcast has been downloaded? That is the question the guys at Watir Podcast had for me. Since I to do a podcast for the masses, this is an issue that has bugged me for some time too.
The problem isn’t with having a script, plugin or service count the downloads because everything tries to do that. The problem is that nothing counts all the downloads. For example, if you push your podcast through FeedBurner, it will tell you how many people downloaded a podcast from the RSS feed, but no where else. Same could be said for some podcasting plugins out there for WordPress and other publishing platforms, but in reverse. They tell you how many people downloaded the podcast from the web site, but not those who got it by other means.
Yes, it is really that simple! Here is what I want you to do right now.
That is it. Simple right? Oh, it gets even better!
When somebody embeds an nasty iframe, uploads a virus or compromises your web site’s security in any other form or fashion, they do not want to be caught. So like the classic detective, you have to get out your magnifying glass and get ready to hunt for code, files and folders that do not belong on your web hosting account.
Find Files and Folders that Do Not Belong
Remember that old childhood game of figuring out, which one of these does not belong with the others?
Search through your web site files and folders to make sure that you don’t have anything that is strange or alien in there. Look for files that are not apart of scripts you have installed, or that may have odd names. Your web host will be able to tell you what files are safe to delete and which files are an important part of your web hosting account.
These days, many people install many different scripts and services on their web hosting account.
Here is what I want you to do. Make a list of scripts you have installed, and put them in two categories – the ones that you use on your web site and those you just installed to see what they look like. You should remove any scripts that are not fundamental to your web site’s operation.
Choose, Update or Delete? - Keeping out of date scripts that you do not use on your web site is probably the number one way people can gain access to your hosting account. Once you are sure the script you don’t use are gone, then you need to make sure you are using the latest version of and scripts you do use and that are a part of your web site. Go to that script’s official web site to make sure you are running the latest version of the script.
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Mitch Keeler is nothing more than your average Joe trying to leave his mark on the world though both his professional work and his online projects, articles, podcasts and more.
How to Turn a Complaint into a Feature
You do not have to drastically change the way you do business though. If you are successful in one area of business, do not toss it aside to do something else that is more popular. I got a question submitted to me the other day from Matt, which touches on this very topic.
Here is what Matt had to say:
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