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How to unzip multiple archives quickly?

October 15th

If you have a lots of zips in your directory, you may be tired of unzipping them one by one. You should not do it manually. You can do it by a single command:
First time I have tried using:
unzip *.zip
However, it did not work. It gifted me error.
You can do it by any of the [...]

Flash Media Server (FMS) and libasneu.so.1 issue

September 2nd

Today I was working with Flash Media Server (FMS). Everything went accordingly except libasneu.so.1. This file is needed for FMS which is included with FMS archive. We just need to link it correctly.You may check the shared library dependencies by the following command:
# ldd fmscore
In my case, everything was found except libasneu.so.1. It was showing [...]

cPanel: Enable/disable specific webmail application per user

July 15th

Today, I faced a situation where I need to show single webmail application to cPanel control panel user. Usually there are three (3) webmail clients. These are horde, squirrel mail, roundcube. However, I was advised to make sure that a specific customer does not see more than one specified. I suggested, ‘Enable Autoload’ feature which [...]

Best contacts importing script written in PHP

January 1st

All you know letting visitors/users invite their contacts is one of the cheapest but proven way of marketing. We can get it by placing a contact importer script in our site and requesting users to invite his/her friends by providing email address and password. The script will then contact the server and download contacts from [...]

Putting site temporarily down and redirecting users to a maintenance page.

December 31st

Today I needed this trick. I was having some problem with one of my sites. I want to turn the site down while I am fixing it. But as the site is made with scatter html, php pages, it is not easy to centrally control maintenance mode. But I believed, this is possible by .htaccess [...]

cPanel 11.24 VPS Optimized(?)

December 18th

Yesterday I have got the mail from cPanel about some changes in cPanel. Though the changes were applied in CURRENT & EDGE tree, yesterday they entered into RELEASE tree. As I use RELEASE tree I have immediately updated the cPanel’s version. I have monitored the server almost whole day.
They claimed they have released the [...]

How to submit a form using PHP (cURL, fsockopen)

December 11th

There are situations when you want to send data using POST to a URL, either local or remote. Why would you want to do this? Probably you want to submit data to an optin form, but without taking a valuable visitor away from your site. Or maybe you want to send data to several applications for various purposes, which would be impossible to do in the usual manner. So how can we deal with this problem?

Installation and configuration of SHOUTcast is fun!

December 5th

Today one of my online junior friend requested me to install and configure SHOUTcast for him. Though I had no previous experience on it, I became interested to take the challenge. Before starting, I dug internet a bit and found a helpful tutorial. I started the work and found it is very easy. It took [...]

Red5 installation never been easiest!

December 2nd

Several times I have tried to install Red5 Streaming server in my linux box and I successfully failed during every try.
Today from morning I again started to try as success was my sheer determination. I planed I would surely find out a positive result. But no hope. I again failed to install it.
Later, while searching [...]

How to flush DNS cache in Linux / Windows / Mac

November 25th

Flush dns to get a new name resolution. Also flush dns cache when you can’t access a newly registered domain name. You can simply flush your dns cache anytime to get new entry. So, Flush your dns cache now.
To flush DNS cache in Microsoft Windows (Win XP, Win ME, Win 2000):-
- Start -> Run -> [...]

Creative VPS :: Creative(!) Business Idea

November 16th

During the first week of november, visiting WHT I have seen that Creative VPS has an incredible VPS deal (Halloween promotion)! That is really an attractive offer. I instantly signed up with them on Nov 5. I got the account details on Nov 8 :-O. Even I just received webmin access (i requested its installation [...]

Thumb up zipservers

November 6th

My last VPS review was almost negative which was about Wowvps. No worry! Now some smile! Its not a negative review. But I should have given this review first as I tested zipservers.com before buying from wowvps (second time).
I had a promo of zipservers for first month. So it was a great opportunity to test [...]

WowVPS :: Just Weird

November 5th

So I had two experience with wowvps.com. After the both experience my single word decision is “just ignore them”.
First experience was a few months ago. I have purchased a VPS for one of my senior friends to learn WHM. They claimed that cPanel runs well on their all VPS. So after activation, getting this confirmation, [...]

Webhostinggeeks review…

October 22nd

In an earlier post I have told that choosing a right host is getting complex day by day as there are enormous numbers of hosting companies worldwide. So, it is going to be harder day by day to choose a right host of expected quality at right budget. That’s why before purchasing any vps and [...]

Mail with attachment from Shell

October 19th

Today, for a specific need, I had to work with logwatch. After setting up logwatch, I needed to check the logwatch reports. But I can’t wait for it to mail me at next mailing time. But I can generate the report to see on screen by
logwatch –print
But it was too big! So, I redirected the [...]

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