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Google Hosting for Free in California

California get your business online

Recently, Google has introduced a new marketing technique and payback announcement.  Google is now offering free web hosting for business located in California

Drupal 8 is just around the corner

With drupal 7 still in full swing, and many sites still holding on to their fivorite modules from dupal 6 that haven't yet ported to drupal 7, drupal 8 is now getting ever closer to being launched.  As I type, users are fully testing the drupal 8 core system and working on some of the main modules to begin with. 

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Drupal 7 SEO: What makes this system so powerful?

Drupal lego men for SEO

When the question is about search engine optimization (SEO), Drupal is always awesome. It is said that no other system of content management is SEO friendly as Drupal. It has brought several versions in front of us among which Drupal 7 is the latest one. It has path like core modules as well as excellent themes having SER markups. In any Drupal website you can use CSS aggregation as well as javascript to improve SEO. But in Drupal 7 you are going to find some unique modules which are effective in improving SEO far better than ever.

What does it mean to host my website?

Inmotionhosting has shared a great video introducing you to the 3 main ways you can pay for hosting.  

They equate the 3 levels of hosting to:

Matt Heaton steps down at BlueHost

Matt Heaton BlueHost CEO

Matt Heaton was the founder and CEO of Bluehost, hostmonster, and a few other web hosting start-up companies.  His goal has been to raise the bar for providing low cost hosting with premium speeds, and quality support.  Now that Matt is stepping down as CEO, the question arises as to what is in store for Blue Host and the other hosting companies.  The future does depend on what the new CEO's direction will be.  If profit is the ultimate goal, there could be a suffering in quality of service.  We hope that quality of service is the number one go

ANHosting: Error The website encountered an unexpected error. Please try again later.

Error for AN Hosting our Drupal 7 Website

The first time we have seen this type of error is now starting to occur from AN Hosting:

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The website encountered an unexpected error. Please try again later.

How to transfer a domain from 1and1 hosting

  • Login to http://admin.1and1.com/ and unlock domain(s) to transfer
  • Use the "Info" selection to acquire the Auth Code for each domain to be transferred -- these are needed for confirmations during the remaining process
  • Adjust DNS as desired if needed - some say setting the DNS to the 1&1 defaults speeds things up. However it may be 6 or 1/2 dozen as DNS changes at 1&1 are pretty slow to happen.
  • Turn off Private WHOIS if enabled (wait for it to propagate)

A2Hosting plans on discounts for cyber monday

Cyber Monday Hosting Sale with A2Hosting

Last year, Cyber Monday was one of A2Hosting's most successful days ever. This year they are offering some advanced notice on what's in store for this year's massive savings day:

Last year we ran a 50% discount. This year we'll do 1 better. Well, 1% better. We're running a 51% discount off all hosting packages with the coupon "51FTW". We're not just running a 51% Cyber Monday discount though. The discount will run from November 24rd (Thanksgiving) until the end of November 28th (Cyber Monday). That means we're also including Black Friday in this year's discount.

Drupal 7 Not running on GoDaddy Shared Hosting

Godaddy does not support drupal 7 hosting

As of now, goDaddy's hosting does not officially serve drupal 7 requirements.  If you are looking for cheap hosting with a shared server, godaddy is not a recommended solution for you.

You should look at one of the top drupal 7 hosts instead.

Drupal 7 will only support MySQL 5.0.15 or higher, and requires the PDO database extension for PHP.

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Drupal 7.9 Core Update Released

For those of you in control of your core drupal updates, drupal 7 has release another update to the core system.  Drupal 7.9 is now released.  Please make sure to back-up your installation and then do your update.

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