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Virtual Private Server Use for WordPress Blog Performance Optimization
Posted by admin in Guides, Technology on May 11, 2010
Scripts Resource Intensity
Nowadays having a personal website is as common as having a cell phone. Some people use cell phones for just giving and receiving calls and messages and some cannot simply imagine their mobile telephony device without a camera, an MP3-player and so on. It really is likewise about the websites: some website owners use their hosting accounts to bring up pages on the web and use email at their own domain. The others want their websites to be an ultimate public project, which would support many options starting from integration with social networks and ending with, but not limited to provision of downloadable content.
The way the sites are built is a question of demand, of course. But this question raises another one in turn – a question of approach. Many website owners start with shared hosting but then face with the problem of resource overuse, as their projects keep developing. And that’s where the question of approach becomes essential – those who take such issues seriously usually decide to upgrade in order to avoid temporary suspension due to excessive resource usage.
Of course, the website owner may not always realize the influence of his/her particular account on the entire server. On the other hand, server administrators are always glad to assist with the resolution of the problem. Those suspensions are mostly a preventive measure, which doesn’t let the entire server go down. For example, our team is always open for a dialogue and we co-operate with our Customers to find out the way to get the issue resolved. However, if it is definitely not about some particular script or module which is enough to be disabled to let the account keep working on the shared server – an upgrade is the next step.
VPS as a Hosting Ground for Resource Intensive Websites
Several years earlier the word “upgrade” would definitely mean a setup of a dedicated server, which would be tens times more expensive, than a shared hosting plan you used to have. Modern technology, however, has introduced a more liberal solution – Virtual Private Server (VPS). Those virtual servers are containers, created by means of virtualization software on physical servers. Current platforms allow a VPS web hosting user to obtain almost the same level of performance as the server-carrier provides, which means that a user can get a dedicated server, though a virtualized one, for a significantly cheaper price.
Google Analytics step by step basic setup guide
Knowing and understanding the way people find, browse and leave your website is important for marketing purposes. This kind of data is generally called web tracking statistics. In order to obtain this information you will need a website analysis software. Today, numerous products exist for the purpose of tracking web visitors, as well as collecting reports about how they navigate around your web resources. The simplified concept of such programs is to get information about a user visiting a site (e.g. type of browser he is using, operating system, language etc.) from a requests made in a browser, combine it with data about the pages he is visiting at the moment, the source he came from and the page he left the site at, store this info and provide means for its convenient analysis. Understanding website statistics allows performing well-grounded changes to the site, plan and estimate efficiency of marketing campaigns and generally understand the behavior of visitors.
Probably, the best available service for collecting advanced web metrics is Google Analytics. It has a huge list of features and capabilities. The best part about it is that it is totally free to use. Moreover, it is hosted on the Google servers, so it causes no load to your host. Google Analytics setup is relatively simple, which makes it not only the best software with vast capabilities, but also a very popular and widely used one. In this guide you’ll find a step-by-step instruction on how to set it up and start getting quality information about your visitors as soon as possible. Read the rest of this entry »
Bringing Forth Pros and Cons of VPS and Reseller Web Hosting Plans
Posted by Smirnovi4 in Uncategorized on January 8, 2010
Many of web hosting newbies bring up a question about differences between a reseller hosting and a VPS and wondering which one is best for their project needs. Unfortunately, it is not that simple to answer this question. There is a number of touches that require a closer investigation on the subject to give a decent answer. First of all, a lot depends on the initial aim, i.e. whether the account will be used to resell hosting, utilized directly to host own content, used as a test ground for products in development or all at once. Moreover, Skills possessed by an owner of an account matter a lot as well as the price differences. Let’s take a closer look at both hosting types to draw reasonable conclusions… Read the rest of this entry »
SIMPLEST WEBSITE WITH JOOMLA (PART 2)
Welcome back to Sitevalley blog. In the previous post we have covered the basics of creating the content for your site when using ‘Joomla’ as Content Management Systems. Joomla can be easily installed using the ‘Installtron’ in your DirectAdmin control panel. The ‘Joomla’ installation is available on ‘All-inclusive’ Plan.
This is the second part of the tutorial dedicated to the creation of the simplest website. Here we will cover the creation of menus and layout of your website.
So far we’ve been pursuing the following goals:
- Main topic of the site should be information about computers;
- There should be 4 sections dedicated to history of computing, hardware, programming languages and computer networking.
- There should also be a section for the owner of the site that will be dedicated to his personal news and the like.
- The front page should be dedicated to special stuff.
- The sections for links, search page and news feeds dedicated to computers should be included. Also news feed should be available on the front page.
At this point you should have performed all actions described in the first part of the tutorial. Therefore you now have all the content related data in your Joomla.
SIMPLEST WEBSITE WITH JOOMLA (PART 1)
Welcome back to Sitevalley blog. This time we will talk about setting up the simplest possible site using one of the most popular Content Management Systems. The script we are going to use is ‘Joomla’. It can be easily installed using the ‘Installtron’ in your DirectAdmin control panel. The ‘Joomla’ installation is available on ‘All-inclusive’ Plan. All the content data used in this post was taken from Wikipedia.org.
We will pursuit the following goals for the site we will be creating (let’s think of this as of a technical task):
- Main topic of the site is information about computers;
- There should be 4 sections dedicated to history of computing, hardware, programming languages and computer networking.
- There should also be a section for the owner of the site that will be dedicated to his personal news and such.
- The front page will be dedicated for the special stuff.
- Also sections for links, search page and news feeds dedicated to computers will be included. News feed will be also available on the front page.
This tutorial will consist of two posts. The first one (i.e. this one) will show you how to create the content for a site meeting the tasks above very easy and fast. The second post will show how to configure the menus and various modules in order for all of you content to be comfortable accessible from you front page. It will also give description of the basic theme’s layout and several instructions where to place what on your site.
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