AccuWebHosting.com Joins Hands With SmarterTools, Inc.

August 21, 2010 · Filed Under Web Hosting · Comment 

AccuWebHosting.com, a leading Windows VPS Hosting provider, is proud to announce its new partnership with software developer SmarterTools Inc.

The partnership will give AccuWebHosting.com’s Windows VPS and dedicated server customers a new and more improved range of services by providing the SmarterBundle at no additional cost.

“This partnership allows our company to offer SmarterTools’ world-class mail server solutions, powerful and feature-rich customer service helpdesk system, and comprehensive web log analytics software at no additional cost to our customers,” said Rahul C. Vaghasia, managing director for AccuWebHosting.com.

The SmarterBundle is valued at $800 and includes:

  • SmarterMail 7.x (250 mailboxes) - SmarterMail 7.x delivers cutting edge features and performance. Along with superior stability, it also has the ability to protect mailboxes from 97% of spam out-of-the-box.
  • SmarterStates 5.x (50 sites) – SmarterStats 5.x is a Web log analytics and SEO software solution that enables users to obtain detailed analysis of web traffic, visitors’ behavior, SEO marketing efforts, etc. This robust analytical tool is both user-friendly and efficient
  • SmarterTrack 5.x (2 agents) – SmarterTrack 5.x is a powerful customer help desk system that is integrated with multiple service solutions in a single application.

“The SmarterTools software bundle not only provides a significant value and resource to our clients, but it also equips them, with what we clearly believe, is the very best technology and services available for this particular need,” Vaghasia added.

About AccuWebHosting.com
AccuWebHosting.com has been providing world class web hosting services to the global community for nearly the past decade. Priding ourselves in providing innovative technology coupled with top notch customer service, this credo has allowed not only us, but our customers to experience success and substantial growth.

About SmarterTools Inc.
Founded in 2003, SmarterTools Inc. is an information technology management software company based in Phoenix, Arizona. SmarterTools develops a Windows mail server, customer service software, and Web log analytics and SEO software that help companies communicate, measure, and support their worldwide business operations. Additional information about SmarterTools Inc. and the SmarterTools product line is available at www.smartertools.com.

Munin MySQL monitoring graph is not updating or blank

August 19, 2010 · Filed Under Web Hosting · Comment 

Munin is a monitoring tool used to monitor the performance of computers/servers, networks, SANs, applications, databases, weather measurements and other parameters. Munin remembers and records information it captured and presents them in graphs through a web interface. On cPanel/WHM server, you can easily install it from plugin section.

After successful installation, Munin will start colleting required data and will show you the graphs, including MySQL nodes such as MySQL throughputs, MySQL queries, MySQL Slow Queries, and MySQL threads. However, if you restart the server, Munin will fail to monitor MySQL nodes and it will stop showing graphs for MySQL.

The error is due to a bug in a Perl library Munin uses which causes $PATH variable to be lost, and then causes the plugin cannot find the mysqladmin program which it needs to retrieve the numbers to populate in the graphs. Uninstall and reinstall Munin Service Monitor may make it works again, however, a more permanent solution is to hardcode the path of the program, which will fix the problem. Following is the guideline to specify the path to mysqladmin to Munin.

Fix for Munin installed by cPanel/WHM

1. Find the path where mysqladmin is installed using one of the following commands:

which mysqladmin
type mysqladmin
locate mysqladmin

The above command will return a path to mysqladmin (i.e. /usr/bin/mysqladmin)

2. Edit Munin configuration file /etc/munin/plugin-conf.d/cpanel.conf and modify the [mysql*] as below:

[mysql*]
user root
group wheel
env.mysqladmin /usr/bin/mysqladmin
env.mysqlopts –defaults-extra-file=/root/.my.cnf

Ensure the env.mysqladmin value is path returned by step 1. Also ensure that /root/.my.cnf contains correct MySQL root password.

3. Restart Munin service:

/etc/init.d/munin-node restart

4. Wait a while for MySQL statistics to be gathered, and check the graphs again.

Fix for the host or server without cPanel Control Panel:

Simply add the “env.mysqladmin /usr/bin/mysqladmin” (ensure that the path is correct according to your system) to the /etc/munin/plugin-conf.d/munin-node file will do the trick.

How to get more Twitter Followers

July 30, 2010 · Filed Under Social Bookmarking · Comment 

1. Follow other people

If you follow 100 twitter users and consider 50% will follow back, you will get 50 twitter followers and if you keep on doing that on a consistent basis you can have thousands of Twitter followers in short period. Please note that you can follow maximum 1000 followers in a day and you can follow maximum 2000 followers. Then after the limit is increased based on the ratio of followers and following. To keep followers and following ratio to 1:1, you will have to un-follow users who are not following you.

2. Get Verified Twitter account

This is the easiest way if you are a celebrity or a well known personality; apply to get verified twitter account.

3. Get listed on Popular Lists

If your twitter account is listed in popular list, you may get thousand of twitter followers on short time. Try to get on the lists and get more followers.

4. Get Suggested on Twitter

Earlier if you can manage to get on the Twitter suggested users list in any way, you would never have to look for twitter followers. You will gain thousands of twitter followers per day. How to get into the Twitter Suggested is a well kept secret.

5. Share Your Exclusive Deals and coupon

This one is useful for companies who want to disclose secret coupon codes, promo codes or exclusive discounts only on Twitter. The targeted people will follow you to get the benefit of your deal.

6. Offer Gifts to your followers

If I say I will give one $100 Google Adword credit to a random new Twitter follower who joins me over the next week, don’t surprise if you get a few thousands followers. Of course you will have to be genuine and give out the credit too.

LovingTech forum for Sale – BIG PROFITS TO BE MADE

July 22, 2010 · Filed Under Business NEWS · Comment 

Ryan (current administrator of LovingTech.net) wishes to step down as admin and therefore sell LovingTech. Forum has around 40000 posts and 5500 threads. There are 2000+ registered members in the forum. You can bid at Flippa:

$1426 REV – 40,000 POSTS! Bespoke Webmaster / Tech Forums BIG PROFITS TO BE MADE

More details about LovingTech:

[1] Google PageRank: 3
[2] Alexa Rank: 170,575
[3] Links in Google: 42
[4] Links in Yahoo: 12,607
[5] Listed in DMOZ directory
[6] Claimed Traffic: Page Views Per Month – 40000, Unique Per Month – 10000

Why this forum is a great opportunity?

- Financially rewarding topic/subject
- Fantastic content, rich niche

How will the site make money?

- Adverts sold on a per-forum basis
- “Sticky thread” advertisements
- Contextual advertising
- Text links

Sticky threads are forum threads that the user has paid a fixed price per month to have their thread sticky.

Imagine a marketplace where everyone will go out of their neck to get best coverage and thus pay extra. Unfortunately LovingTech never looked for advertisers as it was a non-profit site, but they privately asked LovingTech to which it made sense to cover any costs we had. Please refer to the main revenue section.

You can place your bid at Flippa

Unlimited Disk Space and Unlimited Bandwidth hosting – is this scam?

July 9, 2010 · Filed Under Web Hosting · Comment 

Nowadays, many web hosting companies offer unlimited disk space and unlimited bandwidth in their shared hosting plans. Is it really possible to allocate unlimited disk space and bandwidth on a shared server? Absolutely NOT. If it is really possible then why there are no unlimited disk space and bandwidth plans for VPS hosting or Dedicated server?

Most of the web hosting companies put the restrictions in such a way; you can’t use the more disk space and bandwidth.

How to restrict the Disk space usage:
Almost every web hosting companies who are offering unlimited disk space set the restriction on inode usage. An inode is a data structure which contains information about a regular file, folder such as its size and owner. For more details on inode, refer our article “What is an inode?”. Generally, one file uses one inode. For example, if a web hosting company has set 50000 inode limits that mean you can keep maximum 50000 files/folders in your account. If you have many email accounts or images, you can easily exceed this limit. If your account exceeds their inode limit, your account will be suspended or terminated by them without availability of backup. Also, many web hosting companies put restriction on backup as well. If your account exceeds half of the allocated inode limit, it will be removed from their backup system.

How to restrict the Bandwidth usage:
Any web hosting companies can put the restriction on bandwidth usage using the following ways:

[1] Restrict total processes per user
It is quite possible to set this limit and if your account exceeds allowed process limit, the visitors will start receiving errors on your web site which is not at all good for your web site and you may lose the traffic.

[2] Throttle the bandwidth per Virtualhost and set allowed connections per IP address
There are many modules (i.e. mod_cband for Apache etc.) available to throttle the bandwidth usage per Virtualhost. It is also possible to set allowed connection per IP address.

Also, many web hosting companies do not allow large video files as well as flash files.

It is advisable to go through the terms or service before you sign up for such web hosting plans or you can go for limited disk space and bandwidth web hosting plans instead.

How to reset Joomla administrator password

July 4, 2010 · Filed Under Scripts · Comment 

Joomla’s administrator password can be changed with a simple MySQL query. Go to your cPanel and click on phpMyAdmin in the Databases box or access your MySQL database using the interface provided by your web hosting company.

We will consider that you have phpMyAdmin to manage your MySQL databases. In phpMyAdmin, select your Joomla database from the drop-down menu at left. The page will refresh and the database’s tables will be displayed at right side. Open the SQL tab (from the top navigation bar).

In the text field write the following SQL query:

UPDATE `jos_users` SET `password` = MD5( ‘new_password’ ) WHERE `jos_users`.`username` = “administrator” ;

“new_password” – replace this with the password you wish to set.
“administrator” – replace this if your admin username is different.

Once you are ready, click on the “GO” button to submit the query. If everything goes well, you should be able to login to Joomla with the new password.

These instructions are valid both for Joomla 1.0.* and Joomla 1.5.

If you have any questions related to Joomla, just ask your questions in our webmaster forum.

How to reset vBulletin administrator password

July 4, 2010 · Filed Under Scripts · Comment 

The following guideline will help you to reset your vBulletin administrator in an event when “Forgot password” doesn’t work for you:

[1] Browse your forum and log out (if you have logged in using other user) if you aren’t already. Register as a new user and login as this user.

[2] In the vBulletin’s .zip file you can find a directory called ‘do_not_upload/‘. Inside this directory, there is a file called ‘tools.php‘. Upload this file into your forum’s admincp/ directory. Then go to the admincp/tools.php with your browser.

[3] At the bottom of the tools page is an option to ‘Reset Admin Access‘. Run it with the just newly registered username.

[4] You have just made yourself admin and you need this because you should now login to the admincp/ and find the user who’s password you have lost. Search for this user and when found you will see the whole profile including a password field. Set a new password.

[6] Go to the main forum and log out from the new user, and try to login with the old admin account. This should work now.

[7] When it works, go back into the admin control panel and find the newly registered user. The profile page will have a drop down in the top, from there select delete and delete the temporary admin.

[8] Then delete the tools.php file from your web hosting account. It is a potential security risk if you leave it on the web site.

The above steps will help you to reset admin password for vBlletin 3.x version.

If you have any questions related to vBulletin, just ask your questions in our webmaster forum.

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