Archive for the ‘Miscellaneous’ Category
Wednesday, January 18th, 2012
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Today the English version of Wikipedia is down (Wednesday 18th January), for the first time ever, in protest at the SOPA/PIPA bills.
Visitors to http://en.wikipedia.org today will see a message explaining the reasons behind the blackout, which ...
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Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012
Rupert Murdoch the outspoken and controversial octogenarian Media Mogul and owner of the late News of the World has entered the world of Twitter.
In just over two days he has revamped his image, sent out over 24 - some politically unfriendly -- Tweets ranging from criticisms of the British ...
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Saturday, January 29th, 2011
Plesk Power Pack
Plesk's power pack is a set of high quality easy to install addons for the Plesk Control Panel. They are a collection of popular applications that utilise the Plesk application vault to easily instal and setup the applications. It comes with an easy to use interface to manage ...
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Monday, October 25th, 2010
A frequent question that we get at bytehouse is; "How do I rank up with Google?"
There are two easy steps that are often overlooked;
Tell Google about it: Add URL page
Get other websites that have relevant topics to link to yours - the greater the relevance to your site, the higher ...
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Friday, June 25th, 2010
When to use SFTP versus FTP
So, when to use FTP versus a secure FTP; we start with the basics by giving you an understanding of File Transfer Protocol, FTP, and the different File Transfer options available to you with ByteHouse's hosting packages.
FTP - File Transfer Protocol
Ye old faithful, this is ...
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Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
Posted by Ramsey Dehani
There has been a lot of talk around the rising sophistication of malware writers and hackers recently, with companies like McAfee releasing statistics (http://newsroom.mcafee.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=3607) and even Google getting attacked.
In addition to this, countries such as China and Brazil have been accused of allowing the web-hosting of ...
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Friday, May 15th, 2009
Quite often a website should serve multiple names but should rewrite (or display in the location bar) only one of them. This situation arose at Bytehouse the other day where we had multiple domain names pointing to our webserver but we wanted all of them to display www.bytehouse.co.uk regardless of ...
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Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
Introduction
Yesterday a problem arose where a Qmail machine had a queue full of undeliverable emails that we wanted to delete.
Luckily, like most things with sys admin, it's easy-when-you-know-how and this problem was no exception.
Installation and Configuration
qmhandle is just a perl script and requires a little configuration. It can be downloaded ...
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Friday, February 27th, 2009
What is FTP?
FTP which stands for File Transfer Protocol and is most commonly a method of transferring files over the internet. Believe it or not you're most likely using FTP without realising it.
FTP is most commonly used to download files from the internet, and is the back bone of music ...
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Thursday, January 1st, 2009
It is January 1st 2009 and you finally wish to take the plunge online. You're thoughts are since we're in the middle of the worst credit crunch since the great depression that the best way to do this is to start your own e-commerce business as you've read or heard ...
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