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This isn’t new news necessarily but GoDaddy now has Grid/Cloud Hosting packages that are essentially the same as shared hosting packages (in terms of price and features) but with one distinct advantage: your site’s content resides on multiple servers and the grid hosting technology “pools” the resources of all the servers. I have survived the [...]

Google FeedBurner has a feature they call My Brand. Here’s how they describe what it is… “MyBrand lets you use your own domain name to host your feed. It puts you in even greater control of your content and its identity.” Follow the steps below to map your feed from FeedBurner to your own domain [...]

I just setup WordPress MU with sub domains in my shared hosting account on GoDaddy and it wasn’t as straight forward as I would’ve hoped… so now that I got it down to a science I figured I’d write out a quick tutorial in case someone else is attempting to do the same thing. OK, [...]

EDIT: (November 9, 2010) These steps may not be necessary any longer. It seems that with new hosting purchases there is no longer a requirement to change the references of “DOCUMENT_ROOT” in the install files to “SUBDOMAIN_DOCUMENT_ROOT”. If you’re getting the error: “Warning: require_once(/202-config/functions.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in…” [...]

php5 may be required to run certain scripts on your server. For example, my WordPress Geo Targeting Script requires php5. The steps below are only necessary if you are hosted with GoDaddy AND you don’t already have php5 running. (It may work with other hosts but I can’t say for sure.) To test your version [...]

You may recall, I won a copy of the phpOStock plugin a few days back. Well, I had the chance to use it today. I have to say, it is refreshingly simple to implement and use. It’s even simpler than my favourite pro plugin phpBay. Simple Templates It seems they took their cues from phpBay [...]

To answer the question… “Should a new affiliate get dedicated hosting out of the gate?” No way! Shared hosting is good enough, believe me. You may not grow out of it for years, if ever. I took a look around at the current prices to see what’s available. I laid out what I found in [...]