Well it is a start, and I’ve been using some of those sites and techniques for many years now – earning some small cash along the way. You can earn some for yourself, so take a look and perhaps join in today! There’s nothing to lose but a couple of minutes and it could be the start of something big – way down the line.

Why not?

Okay, that’s not the best of answers. The whole Fantastic web site has been online for a very long time now, and in the early days the design was based around a little orange background graphic. For some reason I’m still feeling fond of the old colour, so in keeping with that (not so carefully chosen) theme I’m sticking with orange. For now, at least.

Enjoy!

Control panel will be stopped for 2 hours or less during the process. Web services can see a downtime of 5 minutes/per server and mail-services can see a downtime of upto 10 mins/per server.

While being mostly a set of security and bug fixes, it also upgrades PHP to 4.4.6 and Postgresql to 7.4.16. We couldn’t give a 24 hour notice this time as there is a major security issue that needs to be immediately patched.

Great to see them on top of things and it got me motivated to install a plugin to check the version of WordPress … I’ll also sign up for the upgrade mailing list

Perhaps when there are stats to see I will show some of them off. That’s right, not only do you get stats on your Dashboard, you can place them on your blog.

Fine, I’ll try to drop todays visits in here :

[nope, not working ... I'll have to dig a little first]

Also managed to edit my .htaccess file – which seemed quite hard at first!

Here in H-Sphere land we don’t allow direct shell access to accounts, which on the whole saves a great deal of grief. Occasionally we need to think outside the WebShell box, however

WebShell allows you to do all the normal tasks you might want a shell for, but in a controlled web based interface. Now, the standard way of creating a .htaccess file (and the normal reason) is to use the ‘edit .htaccess’ button (or create button) which allows you to create a list of usernames and passwords that will be allowed access to the folder in question.

However there’s no way to manually add other lines in there, like to add ‘mod_rewrite’ rules for WordPress to make nice permalinks with. So – in Settings allow all files to be seen, then use the File command to create a new .htaccess file and paste in the mod_rewrite rules that WordPress has kindly suggested. Done.