Differences between Parked Domains and Addon Domains in Web hosting

When you rent a hosting space, you will most probably presented with hosting jargon or terms that you don’t understand. Today we will explore the meaning of “Parked Domains” and “Addon Domains” terms used in shared hosting.

Parked Domain

This is the most popular ‘addon’ feature offered in a web hosting package. Parked Domains means that your website can be accessed by two different domains, but with the same content.
Example :

Let’s say that you have example.com as a domain name. But at the same time you don’t want other people to register example.net as use it for their own websites, confusing your users.

What you can do is, registers example.net, and ‘parked’ it at your webhosting, so that when users surfed to example.net, they will be presented with the same website as example.com.

Summary :

Parked Domains lets you point multiples domain names to the same website.

Addon Domains

Addon domains is another value added features offered by common shared hosting provider. Like Parked Domains, Addon Domain lets you add another domain name to your hosting account.

But unlike Parked Domain, you can use the domain name to host another website.

Example :

You have a domain name called example.com that’s about selling mp3 players and stuff for audiophiles.

You may then decided to have another not-for-profit website that is informational nature, called example.org . All you need to do is ‘add on’ example.org domain to your hosting, and you will have another website

Summary :

Add on Domains lets you host more than one domain name on a hosting account, each can have their own space and website, as if you own multiple hosting account.

So in short, Addon Domain offer is more valueable than Parked domains, since you can have multiple website with multiple domain names with Addon Domains using only one hosting account.

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New style of spam comments using Social bookmarking as bait

I’ve encountered a new breed of spam comments that uses social bookmarking service as bait.

Example of comments :

E-mail : [email protected]
URI : http://www.spurl.net/discover/user/username/
Comment:
Good site I found … Plan on coming back later.

  • ——————————–

The social bookmarking url are pointed to the spammers personal collection of website. It seems that the comment spammers has changed their tactics again, beware.
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Your favorite website unavailable? Try Coral CDN

Sometimes it is annoying to have your favorite is unavailable for various reasons. The most annoying part is, the website is knocked out when you needed it the most.

Fear not! Now you can use Coral CDN (Content Distribution Network) as an emergency mirroring service for your favorite website. It is a p2p content distribution network which store your favorite website on various computers around the world.

To access your favorite website using Coral CDN mirror is easy. All you need to do is append .nyud.net:8080 to the address of your favorite website.

For example :

http://tipvista.com.nyud.net:8080/

You can then surf the website using Coral CDN mirroring service. Now you don’t have to be frustrated any more when your favorite website went offline because of high-traffic or network problems. You can easily use Coral CDN :)

Get updates for website that does not publish RSS feed

I’m frustrated at some websites (particularly news website) that do not publish RSS feed, because this makes my life harder when I have to surf their website almost everyday for latest updates.

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It is a time consuming work, especially when they do not update their website regularly as anticipated, and when they do update, you are usually the last person to know about the updates.

Page2RSS and Feedity might provide the answer for those who shared my feelings about those websites. These service generates RSS feeds for websites that do not publish RSS feeds.

With these service, all you need to do is subscribe the RSS feed provided by both service, and wait for updates. It will make your life easier by performing the checkup on your behalf, and inform you if there’s any updates on your RSS feed.

I’ve tried both services, although by far it is not perfect, It does save my time from having to surf my favorite websites for updates.
[tags] rss, feed, syndication,blogs,scraping,seo[/tags]

How to fix broken pins on IDE hard disk

Ever had a broken pin on IDE hard drive? It’s frustrating when that’s happen, especially when the hard drive holds your valueable stuffs.

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I found a nice website that explains a step-by-step guide to fix your broken IDE pins using ordinary tin foil and a sewing needle.

Visit this website for more information : http://arem.us/stuff/hdd/

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How to Convert Flash Video FLV files to WMV

Hi there,

One of my friend has posted nice well-written tutorial about how to convert Flash Video files (FLV) to Windows Media Video (WMV) using a freely available software from VideoLAN

What is Flash Video files (FLV) ?

Flash Video file is a file format used in various video sharing website such as Youtube and Google Videos. These files are tuned for web sharing and broadcasting applications. You can download these FLV files from Youtube and Google Video by using a free web service VideoDL.org

Although FLV files is light enough, Windows Media Video (WMV) file format are more flexible and are better supported by multimedia applications.

In fact, it is the main (perhaps the only) reason to convert FLV to WMV is because WMV files are widely supported by various multimedia and hardware player.

Please read the how to article at his website : Converting .flv (flash video) To WMV to find out how to perform the conversion.

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Akismet, Spam Karma 2, Captcha, etc which works best for you?

Currently I use Spam Karma 2 from Dr Dave, and it works well for me, but I’m still curious about your experience in using other anti-spam solution for your blog.

For starters, I’ve tried Akismet before, and for some reason it did not work well for me. I dont know why, but I keep getting a lot of comment under my moderation list, and that isn’t practical to me at all, because I’ve to check a lot of comments in the moderation list (up to 1000++ in once case).

I’ve also came across blog which uses Captcha to deter comments spammers or even take drastic measure to their blog comments functionality all together.

Whatever your actions are, I would like to hear it from you about what kind of actions you’ve taken to reduce the annoying comment spams.

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How to make Movie Screenshot from Windows Media Player

Ever wonder how to take screenshots of your favorite movies using Media Player? I bet some of you have tried it and what you got is just a another blue-screen when your pasted it on a graphic editor program.

The trick is to change few settings in your Windows Media Player before you press the Print Screen key. First, you should go to Tools menu, then Options, click on Performance tab, click Advance, uncheck “use Overlays”, then click OK.

Media Player Screenshot howto

You should be able to take screenshot of your favorite movie from media player after that, but don’t forget to check “use Overlays” back after you’ve finish with the screenshot, or your movie might slow to a crawl.

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How to play DOS games with DOSBox in Windows XP


Maybe some of you wonders how to play classic DOS games in Windows XP, since newer operating system can’t play old DOS games anymore.

Now, here’s a howto that teaches you how to play your old DOS games back in your Windows XP machine. This tutorial assume that you have a DOS game ready in hand named M1 Tank Platoon.

Download DOSBox

Download DOSBox from DOSBox website.

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Start DOSBox

Start DOSBox and mount C drive

Install DOSBox

Install DOSBox, of course.

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Prepare your DOS games

Copy your DOS game folder at C: drive for easy access.
find dos games

Start DOSBox

Start DOSBox and mount C drive

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Start the DOS game

Change directory to the DOS game dir.

Execute the DOS game binary
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Congratulations!

And watch the DOS game flies in your computer, you can change it to full screen by pressing ALT+ key.

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