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Due to advancement in internet technology webmaster are trying to make their webpages more attractive and more informative using various forms on media on their websites. Webmasters have started using video for explaining their products and services. Thus having video on your website will attract more visitors to your site. Video works better then text as you know and it can be consider as best resource to attract more visitors for your site. You can put all information about your product and service in more professional way and in more understanding form.
Webmaster trying to explain certain technical procedure can opt for having a video presentation for that procedure which will surely help all website visitors for getting product/service details.
You can use video presentation for any website but its better if you want to explain certain procedure in more details and in more accurate way. This will attract more visitors for your site and thus you will have excellent traffic which you must be looking for. If you are planning to sell certain machine which need to be installed before it can work efficiently then you can shoot video informing installation procedure and can present it on your website which can be used by your website visitors.

If you want to show features of your product which can be hard to explain in textual form then you can just create a video demo for it and can embed it into your website. This will make your job easy for providing video demonstration for your product and will save lot of time.
If you are using video on your site then you should try to search a host who support video on their servers. Most website hosting service provider offers you special hosting plans for hosting video websites. As video hosting requires lot of server resources which may create load on hosting server. Thus if you are planning to use high quality video on your site and you are expecting huge traffic for your site then you should go with higher hosting plan.

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Rootkits, are malicious programs which can create problems for your VPS or dedicated servers if they got the way to get themselves into your server. Usually rootkits are more prone to linux OS but can also affect Windows based dedicated servers. As a webmaster you should try to implement latest security patches for your server and should update server security as frequently as possible so that you can keep your server away from such rootkits application which may create huge problems for your server and may affect it performance.  Usually all rootkits applications enters your machine/server through any security hole which is present in your website, your database or any other third party applications installed on your server which cannot be detected by any type of anti-virus softwares, applications.

Such rootkit applications are not detected by most of the security applications as they have their place in kernel of affected linux server, thus they remain undetected as they are run as ‘root’ or as administrator and remains undetected. If you want to keep such malicious programs away from your server you need to concentrate more on your server security and should have latest anti-virus application and rootkit hunting software running smoothly on your server. Hackers usually use rootkits to install certain malicious programs using which they can run their own program/ malicious programs using your dedicated/VPS servers resources which may create problems for you and will end up your server security issues.

Rootkits can be very dangerous and if your server has been infected  by rootkit then you cannot remove it as they embedded within your kernel or root of your operating system of your dedicated server. Only solution for your rootkit infected server is reinstalling the operating system of your VPS or dedicated server.

Thus here comes the phrase “ Prevention is better then cure “

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If you are using linux server then most of the time you would be using command line interface for interacting with your server or installing, updating your server applications.
As a linux server admin you should know following commands :

cd -  : Go to previous directory

cd    :   Go to $HOME

pushd . Put current dir on stack so you can popd back to it

which  : Show full path name of command

time :  See how long a command takes

time cat : Start stopwatch. Ctrl-d to stop.

ls -lrt :   List files by date.

find -type f -print0 | xargs -r0 grep -F ‘test’  :  Will search all regular files for ‘test’in this dir and below

find -maxdepth 1 -type f | xargs grep -F ‘test’ : Search all regular files for ‘test’ in this dir.

find -type d ! -perm -111 : You will get output as dirs which are not accessible by all

gpg -c : Use to Encrypt a file

gpg file.gpg : Use to Decrypt a file

tar -c dir/ | bzip2 > dir.tar.bz2 : Using this command you can compress archive of dir/

wget -r -nd -np -l1 -A ‘*.jpg’ http://wwwDOTexampleDOTcom/dir/ :  Using this command you can download a set of files at current directory.

echo ‘wget url’ | at 01:00 : If you need to download certain file from a url say at 1AM to your current dir then you can use this command.

wget -nv –spider –force-html -i bookmarks.html :  Check links in a file ethtool eth0 : Show status of ethernet interface eth0

ip link set dev eth0 up : You can bring interface eth0 up (or down)

ip route show : this command will list routing table

ip route add default via 1.2.3.254 : If you need to set default gateway for 1.2.3.254 then use this command with preferred gateway number.

hostname -i  : Lookup local ip address

netstat -tup : this command will list all active connections to/from your system.

sed ’s/string1/string2/g’ : If you need to replace string1 with string2 then use this command.

sed -n ‘1000p;1000q‘ : this command will print 1000th line.

history | wc -l : command will count lines

cal 9 1752 : if you need to read calendar for a particular date use this command it will display a calendar for a particular month year.

gzip < /dev/cdrom > cdrom.iso.gz : if you need to save copy of data from cdrom then use this command.

cdrecord -v dev=/dev/cdrom -audio *.wav : if you want to make a audio CD from all wave in current dir

ls -lSr : Show files by size, you will get file with smallest file size at the top.

uname -a : it will display kernel version and system architecture

grep “model name” /proc/cpuinfo : this command will display information of your CPU.

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Good news for webmaster who are using Flash content for their site, Google has announced that a new algorithm will  index all of the text within a Flash Web page, therefore making search engine results even more accurate. now Google have updated its algorithm and have started indexing textual content flash files, it can now read Flash menus, buttons text and text on banners. They have improved their indexing technology and have integrated their algorithm with “ Adobe’s Flash Player technology. “

You may be having few questions regarding this new indexing strategy. Following are most best question which you may be thing of.

Ques : Which Flash files are indexed in better way by Google ?
Ans : Google can index textual content in SWF field of all kinds such as textual content on buttons or menus created using flesh, self contained textual Flash website.

Ques : What content can be index from Flash files.
Ans : Textual content in your flash file can be indexed easily by Google now. All textual content which is seen by your visitor can be crawl by Google bot now. Thus now you can have animated banners, buttons and menus with your targeted keywords in them without sacrificing any SEO stuffs, all flash content are now ready to get index.
Other then indexing just text content within your flash file, Google will be indexing all URL appearing within your Flash files. For example, if you have any link for a webpage inside your flash file then such link can be crawled now by Google and thus your website would be easily crawl and all pages can be get indexed.

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You are planning to have your own blog but cant decide whether to host your blog on  blogspot[ free blogs ] or under your paid hosting account.
You will get mixed reviews in this regards but as far as SEO is concerned. Hosting blogs on free bloggers site such as blogspot or blogger or thoughts etc… are more attracted by search engines as compare to blog hosted on paid hosting account. I am not sure if its totally true but many webmaster have this believe. There are many pro’s and con’s  for hosting your blog on free blog hosting service provider.
If you have blog hosted on paid hosting account then you have more freedom ( more flexibility, more control, can install other technical stuffs etc…) as compare to blog hosted on free bloging sites. Search engine optimizing on free blogging sites if painful as you do not have FTP access, but there are great chances that Google bots will visit your blog more frequently as they constantly crawl such blogging sites. They crawl
Thus having a paid hosting account and hosting your blog over it would be of great help to get your blog better ranking and you have more freedom for your blog.

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If you want to have spellchecker enable for your Horde webmail then you need to install ASPELL component for your account. You need to login to your linux server via SSH as root.  Now you need to install aspell using following command.

# yum -y install aspell aspell-en-gb

After successful installation Horde would detect ASPELL and spellchecker is activated for your Horde webmail.

About ASPELL : It’s a open source spell checker utility, you can use it as an independent spell checker or as a library. It would suggest you most appropriate replacement for misspell word for the English language.You can also verify documents in UTF-8 format without having to use any special directory.

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