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The FastCGI and the Furious

Let me start by saying I am not a server management or Apache guru, I’m not. I’ve been working with it on my own servers for about a decade now, but I am not a guru. I’m the guy who wears many hats. The graphic hat, the css hat, the programmer hat, the SEO hat. [...]

Watchout: eWeb Financial, Work from Home Opportunity

Have I become the guardian of Internet get rich quick gimmicks and or misleading business promotion opportunities? Apparently, I guess, since so many of my recent blog posts deal with such. I suppose this has something to do with the recession, people are out of work and other people are looking to prey on those [...]

Steal of a Deal on New vBulletin

Internet Brand’s, vBulletin’s new owners, annoyed some people when they rolled blog & CMS functions into a new vbulletin suite with project tools as well.
Most license owners felt like they were being forced to pay for software that they’ll never need or use (project tools, and maybe CMS), just to continue using their blog software.
It [...]

Things I dislike about Elance

So, I post a project on elance, and I get many responses, and they’re all the exact same.
“We are pleased to introduce ourselves as programmers and coders…”
They’re all the same, they’re all from India, even the ones that say they’re from the US are from India, which annoys me to no end.
I’m not xenophobic, [...]

Aftermath: Results of a Hacker Attack

My literature site was one of the tens of thousands infected by a worm recently. This new type of attack works by not attacking insecurities on your site, initially I was worried it was from a backdoor or other weak script on my server, but rather it attacks webmasters at home by infecting work PCs [...]

Introducing: Two Step External Links, a Nofollow Replacement

Last month Google announced a change as to how they handle the rel=nofollow link attribute.
To simplify, PageRank, or link weight, is passed from one page to another through links. To decide how much each link gets the total weight the page has to offer is divided by the number of links on the page. [...]

Back Up Your Servers!

I’ve talked about this before, but, it would seem a timely reminder is on hand.
Some malicious hacker attacked WebHostingTalk, one of the oldest and most popular webmaster discussion forums. He deleted the offsite backups, the onsite backups, and then deleted the database. The attacked seemed to be purely malicious.
WHT is now having to rely on [...]

Copyright Clearance Center, Not a Scam

When you start officially registering various forms of intellectual property, be they copyrights or trademarks, you’ll get a lot of junk mail. Not unlike the junk mail anyone who registers a domain name gets where some unscrupulous companies try to confuse you into thinking that you owe them money to renew your domain membership, you [...]

Deepen your site for fun and profit

The depth of your site refers to how many clicks it takes to get from your homepage to the furthest reaches of your site. With each click representing, of course, another page, another level of organization, for your site.
I think, with that definition, having a deep site means having a site with many pages. Since [...]

Ode to a Forum

I love forums, they are excellent tools for website publishers with almost no downside and tremendous upside. If you have a site that you think would benefit from a forum, wait not another day, and get it done now.
Why are forums good? Well, there are many reasons, lets start first with how they provide a [...]

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