Category: Websites and Hosting

So far I have written about how to “manually” switch hosting providers i.e. how to backup and restore the files. Following is the list of previous posts: Shift website hosting – part 1 (static site) Shift website hosting – part 2 (leftover emails) Shift website hosting – part 3(1) (dynamic sites, CMS) Shift website hosting… Continue reading Shift website hosting – part 4 (cPanel)

This is the 5th post in the series for shifting websites from one server to another. The earlier posts in this series were as follows: Shift website hosting – part 1 (static site) Shift website hosting – part 2 (leftover emails) Shift website hosting – part 3 (1) (dynamic sites, CMS) Shift website hosting –… Continue reading Shift website hosting – part 3(3) (dynamic sites of all types) – least downtime

This is the 4th post in the series for shifting websites from one server to another. The earlier posts in this series were as follows: Shift website hosting – part 1 (static site) Shift website hosting – part 2 (leftover emails) Shift website hosting – part 3 (1) (dynamic sites, CMS) In this part, I… Continue reading Shift website hosting – part 3 (2) (dynamic sites, Forums and Blogs)

In part 1 of this series I narrated how to shift static sites (i.e. sites without a database) to a new server. In part 2, I wrote about how to get left-over emails after the hosting is shifted. This is the 3rd article in the series which is about shifting dynamic sites (with a database)… Continue reading Shift website hosting – part 3(1) (dynamic sites, CMS)

In part 1, I wrote about shifting static sites from one server to another. This is a small addendum to that post and other posts that I will write about shifting sites. This one is about how to retrieve left-over emails. I kept this separately because the same steps apply whether the site is static… Continue reading Shift website hosting – part 2 (leftover emails)

Slowly people are realising the importance of paid hosting or at least professional and quality hosting. In website hosting, there is a golden rule – if something is too good to be true, then probably its not true! Many people use free/cheap hosting services to save money. But soon realise that quality of services (uptime,… Continue reading Shift website hosting – part 1 (static site)

CSS 2.1 Specification, W3C Working Draft was released on 11 April 2006. CSS2 was released on 12th May 1998 and after almost 8 years, browsers (mainly IE) don’t comply with the standards. Even IE7 won’t comply with CSS2. 🙄 Here’s an interesting reading from one blog – The Real Reason Microsoft Won’t Support CSS2 in… Continue reading CSS 2.1 Specifications (Draft) Released

CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets. About a year ago all that I knew was HTML. I knew that something like CSS exists. But never paid much attention to it and never realised how wonderful it is!! There are so many things that can be done with CSS and that too so easily! My initial… Continue reading I love CSS!