Yahoo SEA

Yahoo! has recently introduced Sponsored Search to Southeast Asia. Sponsored Search delivers highly targeted customer leads to large and small businesses by showing their ads within paid search results across Yahoo! and the Web. The new search advertising product allows businesses to target their search ads to the entire Southeast Asia market (which includes Singapore, Malaysia, Philipinnes, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam) or narrow their audience to specific countries. In addition, advertisers can take advantage of new features such as ad testing, campaign optimization and advanced forecasting tools.

Make your site known !!!

Do you have a blog or a website. But then nobody knows about it.
You have something important to tell the world. Make them listen
Okay! That was a bit dramatic but how would people know about your site among the billions of pages in the internet. You will need to advertise. Okay, you will need to pay a minimal amount but think about it. What if you have the next hit song, a new physics theory, a cure for cancer, a new way to generate money, people need to know.  Don’t the benefits outweigh the small of dollars you spend? All you need to do is to click here and see if this meet your needs. Thanks for your attention.

Good support, for peace of mind

The mark of a good hosting server is that they will support you in your time of need. I have had a bad experience with my previous hosting server where it said it had a mysql database ready for my account and when I wanted to configure, I could not connect to the darn thing. When I emailed them for support, guess what … no reply. After seeing out my contract, I changed ISPs and the difference is like night and day. All you need to do is go to the www.hostgator.com main page and click on the support button on top.

A new window below will pop up and they’ll ask for your account information. Once it is ok, you can just continue asking the questions and you should get good answers. Till next time, cya

 

Don’t forget to backup

Ever thought it wouldn’t happen to you? The ISP web server suddenly crashes and your data disappeared to the black hole of fried disk drives. The first rule of system administrators is backup, backup, backup. With hostgator, you just need to double click here.

and choose what data you want to backup.

You can check it out here.

Server status

Another tip, If you need to know if your server is ok, you just need to click on the server status. below.

With this, you can see the status of the daemons. If the lights are green then they are ok. Any other colors, then its time to call for support. You can check it out here.

Subdomain statistics

Another cool management tool in the hostgator.com web hosting service is the subdomain stats. You just need to  login to the control panel, click on the subdomain stats icon and you’ll get a new screen below.

Go to the Awstats and click on your subdomained and prepared to be awed by all the nice graphs and pictures of your subdomain’s performance.

Cya

Subdomaining on hostgator

On lower quality hosting sites, your pages will be in separate html formats, example http://www.test.com/a.html, http://www.test.com/b.html ). But let’s say that a.html is about food and b.html is about music, you would want it to have a different domain name, eg, food.com or music.com. This would be next to impossible cos most probably would have bought it and it will take a fortune to buy the domain. A better and free way of going around this is to subdomain so you will have a URL like, food.test.com and music.test.com. Then, you can have all your html and images files in different directories which makes housekeeping so much easier.

With hostgator.com, all you need to do is to login to the control panel, and click on the subdomain icon,    , add the subdomain which will append to your domain name and setup your redirection, this will point to the webpage or folder that will be your homepage for this subdomain and your good to go. A working example is http://hostgator.shazli.com.  Till next time, cya.

 

Hostgator 20% off Spring Coupon

You have to act quick to get this crazy saving of 20% off from hostgator.com . Just enter SPRING in while ordering. Only valid till June 1st. Go for it !

Hostgator - first impressions.

As mentioned earlier, I’ve just moved hosting server to hostgator.com and it opened my eyes on what a hosting service should be. The main thing that impressed me was Fantastico. Once you click the smiley  face Fantastico De Luxe. It tells you what programs are available to install like below.

Once you click on the program you want, the right side of the screen will ask you to fill in the blanks and its installed. In the screen shot below, it also tells you that a newer version is available and you can upgrade it if you need to. So go ahead and try the hostgator web hosting.