webcosmo.com has grown a lot over the last two years. With the increased number of users there were more load on ther server and database. We had to find a solution that would solve the hosting problem.
After doing lot of research, I settled for hostGator “basic windows dedicated hosting”. It seemed to be the best package considering the price and server specs.  This is the sequence of events that happened during my HostGator dedicated hosting time:

They took about 2 days to build the server. Thats pretty standard. Although I have …

Lets say you found a magic keyword and you built a site. Now you may not have time or talent to produce articles that really mean something to others. In that case, PLR articles may become your friend.
PLR meand Private Label Rights. There are PLR article packs for sale that allow you use the articles without violating the copyright.
Problem is many sellers steal articles from others to make a PLR pack. So its kind of good idea buying them from sellers that are reputed.

Lot of people use the under construction pages while they are working on developing their sites. I think its kind of lame showing an Under Construction page.
As per SEO, this could pose some problem as the site is launched. Search engines crawl sites with less content and less visitors with greater intervals. And that means people may see the under construction message for a while even after you launch your site.
A good practice probably would be using a robots.txt page telling search engines not to index that page.

If you happen to have domain names at oneandone.com and having a hosting from a company that provides private name server only, you would go through some pains setting the DNS for the domain.
What is private DNS?
Lets say your domain name is yourdomain.com. If you have name servers like ns1.yourdomain.com, ns2.yourdomain.com etc then they are private name servers; they are very specific to your domain name.
Most hosting company I have worked with gives a generic name server. For example peer1 gives ns1.peer1.net etc. HostGator and some other companies give private …

Nobody likes to fail. Bottomline is everybody wanna win. God created Human being that way. Problem is some people wanna win doing very little and some will do all-out effort to win.
Lets say you started a website with high hopes and also you have spent good deal of money on it. How you gonna react if it fails?
Thinking of how does people react when they fail on something it could be one of many:

Really angry, wanna kill the person if any caused it.
I don’t care attitude.
I am sad but I …

I created a masterpage that uses another masterpage. I copied the first line that defines the code files, master page used etc. Then I got into this error on compilation:
does not contain a definition for context error
Also the page using the masterpage was throwing error.
I never seen an error like this before. After digging online and looking at the code realized I didn’t do something right.
<%@ Master Language=”C#” AutoEventWireup=”true” MasterPageFile=”~/MasterPageGeneric.master” CodeFile=”MasterPageManager.master.cs” Inherits=”MasterPageManager” %>
Since the new master page was inside a folder, and the parent masterpage was in root level, copying …

Wordpress bloggers are blessed with lot of useful plugins. Blogspot bloggers are not that lucky yet.
If you need to convert your Wordpress blog to Blogger, BlogSpot blog, you can do that in these simple ways.
For Small Blogs
Wordpress2Blogger web service provides a simple way for this conversion. To get started, login into your Wordpress blog then goto ‘Manage’ or ‘Tools’ tab and look for export option. Using this option download Wordpress WXR export file.
Now upload this file to Wordpress2Blogger online service to make it Blogger compatible. Download the resultant file and …

I got the 1099 Tax paper from Google few days ago, for 2008 earnings from Google AdSense. I made $3224.17 in year 2008 from Google AdSense. I must say I never was serious about earning money from my sites for first year or so. I even didn’t know if they gonna make me any money at all.
Sites that got me the money:

webcosmo.com
webcosmoforums.com
cosmocentral.com
dailyglobal.com

I could easily make the earnings almost double using affiliates. But I am holding the plan for now for business reasons.