Last two weeks I was trying to setup a hosting for a client of mine at GoDaddy. The site was built on ASP .Net and some pages of the site uploads images and files on certain folders. And also the site requires a MS SQL database. The uploading files/images require ASP .NET have a Full Trust.
First the client bought a shared Windows hosting. Then we figure everything works fine except the file and image upload; we are getting permission exception thrown. Apparently it requires full trust permission to be able …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Microsoft is trying get a grasp in search business real hard. Their Live.com search engine is not getting much volume of search so far.
If you been looking at the recent tech news I am sure you have heard of these:

Yahoo rejected the Microsoft buyout offer.
Google rejected the search collaboration with Yahoo in fear of lawsuit.
Yahoo CEO Jerry Wang out.
Yahoo gets new CEO who got really no experience in search business.

Lets take a look at the December 2008 search volume for Google, Yahoo, Live:
Google 5,421,943,000    62.9% of total online searches
Yahoo …

Many of us have unused domains. We buy them, let them sit doing nothing pointing to a default parked page or redirecting to another existing website we have.
Is it the right approach for aging unused domains? Answer is no. So how you properly do that?

Make a simple website. WordPress blog or similar are easy to install. Or you may have a generic template for a website you can use.
Throw in a few pages of unique content.
Get few backlinks. Directory submission and social networking site submission are easiest approaches.

Getting backlinks is …

eBay Sues Alleged ‘Cookie Stuffers’
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) – Three men defrauded eBay in a “cookie stuffing” scheme that made it appear the men’s companies should be paid commissions, eBay claims in Federal Court. It sued Shawn Hogan and Digital Point Solutions, Todd Dunning and Kessler’s Flying Circus, and Brian Dunning and Thunderwood Holdings.
eBay says the men devised software programs that, “unbeknownst to the [computer] user, redirected the user’s computer to the eBay Web site without the user actually clicking on an eBay advertisement link, or even becoming aware that they …

Recently internet world talked about the launch of a new search engine, Cuil. It was launched by an ex-Google employee. It made the news big time, seem to be more then what it deserves. Many other search engines emerged in recent history, but none made that kind of news.
I am not going through the analysis if its any better then the existing search engines; I rather find it fascinating how successful their marketing campaign was. They been very successful making the launch news viral. Many bloggers, forums talked about it; …

Here is a small list of programmers forums; incase you need them.

Google is changing its AdWords display url policy starting in April 2008. With this change your ad’s display URL must match its destination URL (the URL of your landing page).
For example, the following would be acceptable:
* Display URL: www.google.com/adwords
* Destination URL: www.trackingurl.com/google123
* Landing page URL: www.google.com
However, this example would be unacceptable:
* Display URL: www.google.com/adwords
* Destination URL: www.trackingurl.com/google123
* Landing page URL: www.trackingurl.com