Posts in 'Internet Life'
Web hosting: Website hosted on Hostmonster is slow? It’s because CPU is being throttled
Posted on 07. Sep, 2009 by Dragos.
Hosting problems with Hostmonster? Website inaccessible? Hostmonster has got powerful servers, but in order to avoid overloading and hardware failures, they have recently implemented a new way of dealing with high traffic websites hosted with them. They won’t suspend such websites, but instead will throttle the CPU for these accounts, so the website looks like [...]
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Define notions: What is CPU Throttling/Processor Throttling?
Posted on 05. Sep, 2009 by Dragos.
CPU throttling/processor throttling is the process when the CPU tries to avoid overheating and getting damaged. So if the temperature of the CPU exceeds some specified limits, the system will throttle down the CPU, allowing it to cool down and avoid damage. This process may also take place when the computer is idle or no [...]
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Web news: Social website toolbars that help your visitors better interact with your online product
Posted on 05. Sep, 2009 by Dragos.
I’ve noticed many website owners have started implementing bottom toolbars on their pages. Even though I don’t really like how they look, they seem to offer some good features for visitors. The installation of such toolbar is pretty quick and simple and it shouldn’t take more that 5 minutes. Here are some benefits you’ll get [...]
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New social network: Trustler.com , network based on trust and respect
Posted on 30. Aug, 2009 by Dragos.
Trustler is a new social network which aims to promote the spirit of socializing in a new, revolutionary way. People can easily interact one with each other easily, through a slick, intuitive user interface. Trustler.com
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Digg: new marketing technique. Selling ad space among other stories and promoting sponsored stories
Posted on 19. Aug, 2009 by Dragos.
Digg has recently came up with an interesting marketing technique: selling ad space among other displayed stories. There’s nothing special with with the sponsored story, except that it is emphasized from the other stories with top & bottom borders and an above text stating which company sponsored the story. The sponsored story, usually appears as [...]
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Hostmonster:New feature added CPU Throttling analysis page
Posted on 18. Aug, 2009 by Dragos.
I luv this host, every time I log in there’s a new useful feature added. This time, Hostmonster added a very useful (IMO) analysis feature: CPU throttling. This will show when your website(s) has/have been loaded the most. This information is useful to those who want to optimize their websites per specific hours, in order [...]
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PHP: Script to extract one’s contacts from email (Gmail, Yahoo,Hotmail,AOL…) and send invites – OpenInviter to go!
Posted on 18. Aug, 2009 by Dragos.
You’ll find many scripts to extract email contacts, but many of these are either commercial or just given as apis. For the last case, it’s good to extract contacts from an email using an external server, because that’ll help reduce the server load, but what if the website providing that service goes down? Not good. [...]
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Firefox 3.5: The web is not ready!
Posted on 18. Aug, 2009 by Dragos.
I’ve noticed that some websites still don’t show up correctly in the new Firefox 3.5 (3.5.2-3.5.3). I was looking for some photos on Deviantart, but I couldn’t scroll the page to see all results. On twitter, some buttons don’t work.. sometimes. Google Adwords complains that the new version of the browser is not fully supported. [...]
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WikiPedia: New beta look. I don’t like the new website template
Posted on 17. Aug, 2009 by Dragos.
..because it’s non-professional. The current layout looks more solid, more professional and more like an Internet encyclopedia. Why don’t they hire a professional web designer to make them a perfect website template, or better ask the people what they want new to be added. Though, I don’t think any changes should be made to the [...]
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Twitter news: The updating, deleting of statuses, direct message (…) issues are now solved for Firefox 3.5
Posted on 09. Aug, 2009 by Dragos.
Yay! Twitter is usable again for me, after two days of no possibility to update/delete statuses, send direct messages and so on. Hopefully this won’t happen again