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How to minimize website downtime while domain is being transferred
First off, most of us hate downtime, especially on our own websites (duh!). From time to time we might need to transfer the domain names from one registrar to another, however, we might experience some difficulties to keep the website online. The tricky part is that most domain registrar will either keep your original nameserver [...]
Register .HU domain name on EuroDNS
Sometimes if you want to show some more personal characteristics, you might want to do something more special, something ordinaries don’t usually do. Getting a domain name with a not-so-commonly-used domain name extension might be one of them. Rockia just register a .HU domain name for personal use and I really love this domain. However, [...]
Have you got your .co domain yet?
On July 20th, .CO domain was officially launched and Google also approves it as an international domain name. “We will rank .co domains appropriately if the content is globally targeted. Webmasters will soon have the functionality to be able to specify this by using the geotargeting options in Google Webmaster Tools,” said a Google spokesperson, [...]
Is Domain Extension .CO Bad for SEO?
The date for general registration open to public, July 20th 2010, is approaching closer and closer. Even though lots and lots of the .CO domains have already been pre-registered through domain registrars like GoDaddy, there are still tons of gems out there that are available for us to pick up. At this moment, I start [...]
How to Set Up LNMP on Debian, Ubuntu or CentOS
As I announced that Rockia.com has been moved to Linode VPS, I received numerous emails asking how they can do that. My answer is that if you are professional in Linux, you can just follow the tutorials in Linode Library; I strongly believe that there are more tutorials than you actually need to set up [...]
How-to: Set Up Parked Domain on Netfirms for Google Adsense
A friend of mine asked me if he could use Google Adsense without purchasing a hosting plan; the answer was obviously “yes” because Google has prepared Adsense for parked domains. In this post, general domain registration with Netfirms and Google Adsense are not taking into consideration; I am writing because Netfirms is not one of [...]
Microsoft Hotmail Forwarding Fails
I have been with Microsoft Hotmail for more than 10 years; according to Wikipedia, Hotmail was initially released in July, 1996, and my account was created in Sep, 1999. It was the best free public email you could have at that age. It was all good to me at the beginning until its competitors rise [...]