Wired Tree Hosting Review

By on May 18, 2011 in hosting

In the past few years we have tried many hosting companies with a mixture of results. Unfortunately poor quality of hosting / support forced us to keep moving. Finding Wired Tree was a real boon as it helped stabilise our hosting environment and we are very happy to recommend their services.

Features of Wired Tree.

  • Technical Support is really first class. It is fast, responsive and has helped solve many problems.
  • The support staff are knowledgeable and polite. It really is great to have such a good quality backup. You also have a greater feeling of confidence.
  • Wired tree are also happy to go the extra mile and help in instances where other hosting companies may shrug their shoulders.
  • After using several hosting companies, Wired Tree is best by quite a long way.
  • Up time is excellent. There have  been a few small scheduled downtime, but these were given prior warnings. Overall, it is so much better than previous experiences.

We have two  managed hybrid servers, which has substantial available memory, and disc space for many drupal / static and wordpress sites.

(This is not a sponsored post and is without affiliate links.)

We hope they continue to grow and at the same time maintain that considerate personal touch you sometimes feel big companies lack.

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Changing Stored Passwords on Firefox (Mac) and Windows

By on March 21, 2011 in help

Changing stored passwords using Firefox browser is fairly simple.

Click on Firefox  (top left) – then click on Preferences.

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Click on the ‘Security’ tab and click on the ‘saved passwords’ button on the bottom right. A new window will pop up (see below) – to see passwords, press the ‘Show passwords’ button on the bottom right.


Note: if you have a lot of passwordsstored on your site, you can find the password for your site just by typing the url of the site in the ‘Search’ field at the top.

Stored Passwords on Windows

1. Go to – Tools – Options

 

2. In security choose – Saved Passwords and then view passwords

 

 

 

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Blog Comment Spam

By on February 8, 2011 in blogging

Blogs are seeing increasing numbers of blog comment spam. This shouldn’t be encouraged.

Signs of blog comment spam:

  • Name is not a real name, but a commercial product -
  • The URL link is to a commercial site.
  • The comment is vague and could apply to any posting on the internet. “Hey nice blog, very informative, thanks for info!”

These kinds of blog comments are not entered by humans but sent programmatically.

Some bots are clever and first comment has no link, but when first comment is approved, secondary comments are just to get links to their site. Spam comments can be marked as spam.

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Backing Up WordPress

By on February 8, 2011 in blogging

With wordpress it is always advisable to backup your database, and not just rely on your hosting company to have a backup.

However, I have had experience where for some reason uploading database doesn’t work quite as it should.

As a triple back up, you can export your blog as an XML file. This offers a second way to back up all your posts, categories, tags and images. Also, with an XML file, you can easily import to another blogging platform. Whearas with just a database, you’re stuck with wordpress.

It is very easy to get an XML file,  just go to tools and export.

Vasudeva Server has various backup policies. But, there is no harm in getting your own XML backup.

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Sri Chinmoy Library Editing

By on July 27, 2010 in srichinmoylibrary.com

If you have a typographical correction for the Sri Chinmoy Library, you can create an issue report here.

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New Drupal modules by Vasudeva Server

By on June 2, 2010 in Vasudeva Server

We are pleased to announce some new Drupal modules we have developed

  • Rearrange Child Pages – allows you to change the order and titles of the child pages of the node you are currently on. This is very useful if you are using Drupal’s book funtionality on a very large site and the books contain very many nodes. View project page…
  • Domain Migrate – Allows users to migrate content on existing Drupal sites to their own domains. View project page…

In addition, we have merged our Domain Administration Helper module into the Domain Admin module, and are now co-maintainers of that module

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Domain Administration Helper module released on drupal.org

By on March 12, 2010 in Uncategorized

Vasudeva Server are pleased to announce the first of what we hope to be many contributions to the Drupal community – the Domain Administration Helper module. You can visit its page on drupal.org here…

Basically, the module allows administrators of subdomains to do admin tasks without requiring sitewide permissions. We developed it for our websites srichinmoyraces.org and srichinmoycentre.org. These sites have subdomains for each country (50 for Sri Chinmoy Centre, 40 for Sri Chinmoy Races) and we wanted to give the website editors in each country as much flexibility over their own sites as possible, whilst still keeping each site as a harmonious whole.

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Three minutes every hour

By on March 8, 2010 in Uncategorized

Sri Chinmoy, the inspiration behind Vasudeva Server, suggested once that having a small meditation every hour on the hour for three minutes could help you stay in an inspired frame of mind throughout the day. It is something I actually did many years ago when I was researching my PhD, when nobody really cared too much what you did with your time, but as the years progressed I somehow lost the habit. However working with computers means that sometimes you definitely need all the tools at your disposal in order to stay in an inspiring frame of mind :)

I thought about it again recently, and started searching around for some application for my Mac that would toll the hour, so I could break of from what I was doing and meditate. It didn’t take me long to find Cuckoo – it basically installs itself in your System Preference pane. For an extra $6 you can get all kinds of extra bells and whistles, but the free version has what I need, a ding dong sound to mark the hour. (Note: the ‘Campanile’ tone seems custom-made for hourly meditation. Maybe in some future version they’ll even put in some Tibetan bells or an Aum chant to further make my day. )

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Don’t Make Me Think

By on February 21, 2010 in Useful stuff

"Don’t Make Me Think" is a book about designing websites by Steve Krug.

I only read it very briefly but liked the essence of his book.

Inspired by this book and other sources here are a few ideas for designing sites.

1. First Impressions Count: 

People’s attention span is very short, especially on the internet.
If something is too complicated or not interesting, they can easily click and leave.

2. Make it Obvious 

People don’t surf the net to work things out and calculate, people generally take the path of least resistance.

You may spend hours designing and working on a site, but 80% of your visitors will spend less than 30 seconds.

3. Simplicity

Don’t overcomplicate pages. But, make it very clear what it is about.

4. Send Visitors Where You Want Them To Go

Web visitors do not spend time trying to think where they want to go. They will click on the most obvious links. Therefore, make sure, you point visitors exactly where you want them to go.

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New GitHub repository

By on February 11, 2010 in Uncategorized

We now have a GitHub repository for releasing Drupal modules (and other code, if needs be) to the general public. We have placed a couple of our smaller modules there for now, with more to follow. See our new repo here…

Eventually, many of these modules will find their way onto drupal.org, but here’s a good place to put them until that happens :)

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