Archive for March, 2010

HostGator Dedicated IP address

March 29th, 2010 by admin

Dedicated IP address

There are many reasons why yous should buy dedicated IP address. Some say that is good for Search Engine rankings (you rank higher than other sites), though this is not proven. Other use could be if you want to install SSL certificate for your website.  SSL allows secure transfer between the server (where your web site is ) and the host (the user that access the websites). Installing SSL will allow https version of your site. HTTPS stands for HyperText Transfer Protorocol Secure. Ecommerce websites should have secure access to their websites because the customer when purchases some items it sends sensitive data like credit card, social security number and other.

HostGator Dedicated IP address

On Host Gator you can have dedicated IP address for $2/monthly. ($24 a year) shared and reseller hosting, $1 for VPS . On shared hosting you can have only one dedicated IP. The IP addresss will be assigned to the entire cPanel account (only your websites will shared that IP). Hostgator purchase IP form can be found at https://secure.hostgator.com/ip.php .

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HostGator Ruby On Rails Review

March 20th, 2010 by admin

Ruby on Rails (ROR) is Ruby programming language web framework for developing online applications for the world wide web (the Internet). It follows the MVC (Model View Controller pattern) for development of web applications. It is not popular as other programming languages but there are good number of developers who develop apps. Popular websites use Rails including: twitter.com (microblogging service), scribd.com (document-sharing website), github and many others.

Hostgator Ruby on Rails

Hostgator supports ROR on all its shared and reseller servers. The latest version (currently installed) is:
Ruby Version : ruby 1.8.6 (2008-03-03 patchlevel 114) [i686-linux]
Gem Version : 1.0.1
Rails Version : Rails 2.0.2

Ruby on Gator it comes with the following gems preinstalled: actionmailer, actionpack, actionwebservice, activerecord, activesupport, bluecloth, builder, daemons, feedtools, gemplugin, gnuplot, htmltools, mongrel, mysql, payment, rake, sources, tidy, uuidtools, xml-simple and others. Refer to this forum post for more: http://forums.hostgator.com/ruby-rails-support-t13038.html

You will need SSH access to develop Ruby applications. Visit
https://secure.hostgator.com/sshrequest.php for more info on enabling SSH access on your account. You may also want to enable SVN (Subversion), you submitting a ticket.

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HostGator 1 cent coupon

March 10th, 2010 by admin

If you to test hostgator then the one cent hostgator coupon is for you. This coupon “freemonth” actually takes $9.94 off of any hosting plan. The monthly price for the baby plan is $9.95 monthly ($7.95/monthly if you pay 3 years annually).If you use it for the baby hosting plan you  can get the first month for a penny $0.01. You still get 45 days money back guarantee on the penny and everything else that goes with a hostgator account! So with this coupon you can try host gator risk free. You may cancel at anytime if you wish, but I don’t think you will because Hostgator offers excellent services, top support, uptime, features. All hostgator coupon codes have the same discount, except the “SPRING” which is 20% off. If you know any other coupons please comment on this post. It have been almost two years with Hostgator and I am very happy with them, everything is great, websites load fast uptime is great (100% for January, February and March 2010, check this monitoring report if you don’t believe me).

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HostGator Fantastico One-click installer

March 2nd, 2010 by admin

Fantastico de Luxe is commercial cPanel addon that HostGator offers for fast one-click installation of popular web applications. Included are: WordPress (blog software), Drupal – Content Management script (CMS), Joomla – CMS, shoppin carts – zencart, oscommerce, forums – phpbb, mybb, galleries, polls and other cool scripts. What Fantastico does is setup/create databases and users, create tables and setup initial settings and permissions for the selected software. Though Fantastico is popular one-click setup tool it is not recommended by most developers of the popular scripts mentioned. This is because the latest version of the software is not available always (or at least not immediately) after it is published. So you may end up installing old version with security holes and bugs. So the better way is to manually install the software. I use fantastico only when I am installing wordpress, and update it right after login with wordpress automatic update tool. Here is a screenshot of Fantastico:

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