Virtual Dedicated Linux SSH
To really get the most out of you VDL server you are going to want to "get hacker". Download a copy of a program called PuTTY - this is your secure telnet program. Once you have this baby going fire her up and type in your server's domain name. You should get a black window that looks much like a DOS window. Do not try to use DOS commands as this is something totally different. It is a shell script driven interface. Don't worry if you don't understand what that is. It is enough to know that you have left GUI (Graphical User Interface) for CLI (command Line Interface) where you type your commands directly. You should now be connected to the server and talking to it directly. It will ask for your username so type it in and press return (sometimes called enter). Now it will ask for your password. You will see nothing appear as you type. Press enter/return when you are done. All things being equal you should now be logged in as a user and probably with the shell called bash or a near relative. There is a more powerful account called root. Root has authority to do whatever it wants. With out server your root password should, by default, be the same as the one you logged in with. So for goodness sake keep it secret and change it from time to time. Now if you want to look around type "ls" (no quotes) and you will see a list of files and directories in the working directory (where you are now). To change directory (folder to those too used to windows) type "cd" (no quotes) followed by a space and then a command such as ".." (two dots no quotes) to go up one level ("cd .." remember the space) or the name of a folder ("cd thisfolder"). You can switch directly to your web-space by typing something like "cd /home/USERNAME/". Now if the server is messing about on you you might want to restart it type: "su -" and (unless you used "su root") type your root password (should be the same one you logged in with) and then type "reboot". You should get a system message saying the server is going down. This can take a few moments so dive off and grab a fresh coffee. When you get back you can kid yourself that you have made it to some geekish higher level. 
Help Correction
There is an error in the documentation for rebooting a Virtual Dedicated Linux server the help text says this:
This will just get bash to give you a rude message. Instead do this:
We are currently working to get corrections made.
php Based Anti Virus and Other Goodies
This short announcment is to let you know that Globally Local will shortly be bringing you a new product that is 100% free. The project is still undergoing some basic testing and refinement but when compleate will have an antivirus scanner for your website. Why would you want one of those? If you have used shared hosting for any length of time you will discover that soner or later some evil minded virus pusher manages to find a script on a server that is only 99% secure and breaks in using the exploit to add code to every user on the server. This code is usually to force downloads of viruses. Most of the time the ISP is swift and the nasty little criminal is soon stopped. But in that time did he elave anything onyour space? The antivirus is the answer to that question. It will be ready soon. Subscribe to our feed to keep pace of the goings on.
How not to SEO
Just recently it has been big news that selfproclaimed SEO geek John Chow has vanished from the Google search results. Lord Matt carries the story in full but the short version is that John was trying to manipulate the system and the system did not like it. While SEO has it's place it is nowhere near as important as content. When you forget this you forget why you are running a site. A site is for people and not for robots.
Get Cash From Domain Names
For some reason that escapes me people are willing to pay money to have other people put adverts on their domain names. Others are a little wiser and allow others to do it but foolishly allow them a huge cut of the cash. The answer is simple - do it yourself. After all you get great freedom and flexibility when the only person you answer to is yourself. This article looks at the how and why of doing it yourself. If you want a decent income from your domains you are going to want more than one or two. Your best bet is to bulk buy (or transfer) to a good host (like us, for example...) and set yourself up a simple hosting plan like our Dulux Linux plan which has unlimited domains, alias domains and sub-domains from $6.99 a month. Look for an offering (like ours) that offers free auto install of leading CMS and other content creation scripts. These will give you any number of ways to combine a little quality (subject specific) content and whatever adverts you wish to monetise with. Best of all the money that you earn is all for you. Furthermore if one domain proves to be popular you can carry on adding quality content to it, earn more and keep it. Where else can you get that? Added to this benefit is that when your SEO efforts pay off they are not leaking away to other peoples domains and other people's pockets. If words like SEO and CMS are all Greek to you then fear not. At Globally Local we feel it is logical to help our customers get set up. That's why we make sure our experience is at you disposal. But before you get to that stage you need to make a plan to obtain you domain even if it is to sell on again (we have services to help with that too). What are you waiting for?
Websites are for content
A website is primarily for readable content. This is content but a site that is a single flash interactive movie is not. The movie itself is content but the web site contains one element and that is all. That element when read by a blind user or a search engine is a very tiny amount of text. Hardly worth bothering about. Once you understand this concept the answer to the question "what is a website" becomes much simpler to grasp. But don't take my word for it.
New Hosting and Domain Glossary
As we ever seek to make the user expirence the best that it can be for everyone at globallylocal it became obviouse that we might not have all been singing from the same song book. So we drafted a Hosting and Domain Glossary so that when you encounter words on this site that you might not know the exact meaning of you can look them up. Feel free to let us know if we have missed anything.
Free ebook for every reader
I am rather pleased with this new ebook because it is something we have worked hard on and now it is ready to show it to the world "The Insider's Guide to Affiliate Marketing - How to do it right first time". It is a short PDF which provides a simple and basic introduction to the world of affiliate marketing. We've added a link so that you can check to see if an update to the book has been released. Now how many books let you upgrade to the latest edition for free? In the book we are giving away some of the secrets to long term success with making money as an affiliate. The secrets that mean that each success comes easier than the one before. The Insider's Guide to Affiliate Marketing - How to do it right first time
12+ Domain Suggestions for Social MediaOnce more it is time for some good quality domain name suggestions. These suggested names are for social media and networking websites. Anything with a strong Web 2.0 (Web Two Point Oh) edge to it and some social or networking element might find these domain name suggestions quite handy. At the time of publication these suggested dot com domain names were all free as were the "dot net" and "dot org" versions. In fact as far as I know no variation of these addresses have been registered. I used CultOfThe.Com as ever to generate a long list of potential domain names and then culled it down to just those that were available. Then because the list was quite long and had some truly strange suggestions I reduced it to just twelve good strong social media and networking domain name suggestions.
However I could not just let the longer list go and so if you click the read more you will see the full list original list in all it's quirkiness. This is the list of potential domain names for social and web 2.0 style domains before I removed the silly ones. This list of domain name suggestions would be great for not only another social networking site but more likely for a blog or portal of networking sites... now that is an idea.
ASP.NET AJAX
There is no doubt that AJAX is a big deal. You can easily create richer, more interactive Web sites with ASP.NET AJAX when you choose us for your hosting needs. AJAX-based functionality for your Web sites (with ASP.NET AJAX from Microsoft®), is available FREE to all globallylocal.com hosting customers. Are we good to you or what? Now your visitors' Web experience can not only be richer and more satisfying but more "web 2.0" too. The built in partial page update feature makes it possible for individual pages to refresh more quickly. ASP.NET AJAX also makes it easy to create the much famed web 2.0 "mash-up" applications, seamlessly merging information from multiple locations into a smooth user friendly site. It works with Visual Studio 2005 freeing you to take your ASP.Net 2.0 sites to "the next level". As you would expect it is a cross-browser, cross-platform Javascript library that makes the whole thing tick on the front end. It represents a new packaging of many of the technologies you already know and love, such as JavaScript, cascading style sheets (CSS), DHTM, and XMLHttpRequest. As you would expect it supports all modern browsers because all modern browsers support these technologies. See all our hosting plans
Blog writing from a base essay
Writing a blog is not always an easy task. Sure it s easy when you start but before long all the best idea are spent and you feel you are writing the same tired old stuff over and over. This article is your guide to overcoming that problem by dint of a simple organisational trick that should have the creative juices flowing for a good long time yet. The best posts come from what you care about. But no mater how much you love a topic there is only so much you can say about it in one post. What if, though, I could show you a way to say everything you know about the topic in such a way that you learn more about it while doing so. Would that be worth something to you? I am going to share this secret for free. Early on in your blogging cycle you will have written you most dynamic and inspired posts. Real land mark stuff. If you are wise you will have linked to this flagship posts extensively and they act as a powerful drawing magnet. Then you went on to talk about other stuff because that subject had "been done". Not so. Let us take as an example Lord Matt - he has written three posts entitled "what is a website" and from the tone of the third he has more to come. I also happen to know that he is writing a book and to help it along has a small ebook in progress on the subject. How did this blogger find so much to say in answer to a simple question? He had a base essay. The essay does not even have to exist but the question is "flowed from" should. This basic answer is the foundation of the posts yet to come and like a fractal diagram you can zoom in forever. The base essay was an overview it laid out what a website was, was not and how it came to be. This gave rise to more questions: what is HTML? How does it work? What is CSS? What is a domain? How do I choose a web developer? ...and so on. Now each of those topics is a post in itself. But some of them leave things unsaid. For example "when is it good to use CSS?", "what HTML editor should I use?" and "where can I learn to use it?" These are again posts that answer the seemingly simple question of "what is a website?" I have no doubt that Matt had to do research from time to time and so learned more about this topic. The advantage of research is that it gives you a good stock of great and topical quotes and links to provide your readers. It will make you the expert in the niche. Let us take the topic of Money. As niches go this one is fairly over done. What is there to say about making money other than sticking out your affiliate program links and chatting about what you will do with a million dollars? Lots. Let us start with the base essay on "Making Money" "Is it possible to make money on the internet and how do I do it?" or maybe "What is the most efficient way to be my own boss and can the internet help me?" The way you phrase the question shapes the niche you write for. Now that essay needs to be answered in 500 words or less. To do that you will not even touch the sides. All you will be able to do is introduce the topic. If you are really interested and passionate about your topic and if you have some knowledge (from research or experience) 500 words will be a hard limit to stay under. That does not mater too much. Just try to keep it to a length that people will still read. So you have your base essay. If it has any structure at all you would be able to find that most paragraphs could have their own title. These are the titles of additional posts. Furthermore you will have used jargon, long words, technical names and general terminology. Good topics for short and long posts are the simple definition of these words. Say for example you wrote about using a website you might like to ask "What is a website?"... Hang on just one moment I think we opened that question up already. Endless depth exists on every topic the only real problem is knowing when you have departed from your topic niche. One last point and this one is as much SEO as good writer standards. Link to the posts you are expanding the topic of. "Last month I mentioned XYZ now I am going to explain what XYZ is". Also - at the end of the post you will find it increasingly easy to identify other posts with close matching topics. Link to those as further reading. This will give you readers easy access to more of your good knowledge. You may want to use trackback to ping yourself and get a forward link to posts that link to older posts. Perhaps you might prefer to edit the post and add the links or use a plug-in to generate them for you. Whatever you do - make sure you link like with like. So what are you waiting for dig up your greatest blogging hits and expand on those topics. Trust me you'll love it.
Track statistics for multiple Web sites from a single interface
Traffic Facts - your all in one statistical and information control centre. Once you get beyond two or three domains checking the stats for them all becomes a right pain. We have solved that problem by letting you view all the crucial data in one place. It cuts the time you spend reviewing statistics for multiple Web sites in the most simple and obvious of ways. By enabling you to access the data for all your sites in one place! Not every visit to your site results in a positive action or sale. However, that does not mean you cannot profit anyway. By learning about your visitors, what they liked what they clicked and where they came from you can build a picture of what gets the interest of your visitors and use that knowledge to tweak your site to perfection. This is why globallylocal.com provides Web site statistics absolutely FREE with every single Hosting account - including WebSite Tonight® . With Traffic Facts' new Multiple Account Management feature, you can review all the vital traffic and visitor information from your different Web sites through a single interface – no more logging in and out of separate accounts to get the data you need. Try Traffic Facts today and discover a faster, easier, more convenient way to see how your Web sites are performing!
Advice on making money
Once your business is up and running you are going to want to make money. Once your site is up and running you are going to want to earn money from that. There are a good number of ways to go about doing this. This is a short list of useful links that you might like to take advantage of. more turf on ebooks - a good intro in how to use ebooks. There are programs that can help Affiliate programs Little Known Ways to Monetise Your Blog Disclaimer: we have some vested interest in some of these links
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