Recent content by Mr Magoo

My main site is a legit dating site that is not hosting any Adsense ads or any paid memberships at the moment since I'm focusing on building my userbase. My goal, 100% is get to users to sign up and actually use the site, so huge amounts of random traffic isnt going to help me much. What...

Basic Server Settings You need to setup basic server settings so that visitors have a decent experience. You need to create custom 404, 403, and 500 error pages so your visitors don't get dumped on a blank page with some foreign text. Make your error pages with the same template as the rest...

Server protection Regardless of your server type, you need to make sure you have WebMin and iptables installed in order to properly and easily administrate your server. Think of WebMin as a free Cpanel. You can access automated tasks, firewall, users, filesystem etc. Pretty much every aspect...

Setting Up Your Server Most, if not all, VPS hosts will install your Operating System for you and show you how to access it via commandline. You should be provided with a ROOT password which is what you will use to initially access the server. If you used a version of TurnKey Linux make sure...

Choosing a Linux Distro Now that you have your host picked out, it's time to install your Linux distro of choice. Personally I use Ubuntu 10.04 since there is a ton of information and free help as well as upgrades for the system. Also, the server edition doesn't have a graphic interface so it...

I make no claims and offer no warranty. This is just a basic guide to help with the setup of a new VPS using Linux. So! I browse often and see lots of questions concerning VPSs and what they are/how to set one up, so I did a quick and dirty guide based on my experience. I've set up about 15...

Dantob, just add your domain again but do it without the "www" part of the address and make the preferred name for both your domains the one with the "www" prefix.

Check out vps*.*net; they let you either pay monthly or do daily blasts if you only plan on using it once in a while. A dedicated, 1.8GHz, 1GB Ram is $3 a day if you only need dailies. Monthly can get expensive, however....

I had a similar problem with my site and just used a 301 permanent redirect in my .htaccess file just as you have mentioned. It took a few days but Google eventually caught on and now only has my site with the "www" prefix. Theres different ways to add it to your root .htaccess file but a...

Mika It really depends on if its auto-approved or manual. If manual you have to wait for the moderator to approve before you see it. I usually wait a few days and then recheck the sites i posted to. For the good PR sites, i manually leave comments related to the article instead of using...

Thanks for the help. I decided to go with a 2-node VPS. I think it will be better in the long run since it will be easier to upgrade (just add another node, easy as that). It costs more but the host I decided to go with appears to be top notch in the VPS market.

I am moving my site from Blogger to a new host so that I can use Wordpress. I know that shared hosting is generally frowned upon, but since the site has only been live for 30 days, I don't anticipate decent traffic for at least a few more months (slowly building backlinks, 3-5 blog posts per...

When pinging websites with random delay turned on, is there a way to force Scrapebox to skip to the next website when the current site 404s, instead of waiting for the delay? Is the delay necessary when I get a 404 on the previous ping?

Just purchased and activated my copy :biggthump Took literally like 5 minutes to get the activation. Many thanks

I didn't realize they had updated the search until I clicked around for a while. I kept wondering why my search results were showing when I hadn't even hit Enter yet (I look at the keyboard when I type, yeah i know......) Disabled it immediately