Within a few days, the site should be on the new server, hopefully it should all go smoothly.
If you see this, then we’ve landed! (new server).
My new provider gives me more disk space, more bandwidth, but a few less features. Hopefully it will still be as fast as the previous host, but since the new host was actually cheaper I wouldn’t bank on it (you wouldn’t believe how cheap it was [99p/1-year])
Please let me know if you experience any problems, slow speeds, or downtime.
Most people probably know of FileZilla, one of the better free FTP clients. If like myself, you like to multitask and keep lots of windows in your taskbar, sometimes you just don’t want to add a new window (more clutter).
FireFTP logo
FireFTP is a Firefox addon that does pretty much everything you want but just opens as a new tab inside firefox, you can add it as a bookmark and open with one click, or even add to speedial.
It’s very fast opening (assuming you already have Firefox open) and the GUI is similar to almost every other FTP client with your local directories on the left and remote directories on the right hand side.
Since I started using Entrecard just over a week ago, I’ve seen my daily unique visitors double to just over 100. Great? Well, not really.
Only 50 people have clicked one of my 25 1-day adverts; on average 2 clicks per advert.
Techizr Entrecard logo
Lots land, drop, then leave. Quite a few have commented, but how many have converted to regular readers, I don’t know.
As far as I can tell, it’s great for generating (somewhat artificial) traffic, and is great to find other similar blogs that are worth reading. I’ve stumbled across a couple that I now read and would probably never found without Entrecard.
I am saving up to try my advert on some of the more expensive blogs, but with EC, more expensive does not mean the blog is more popular or has more visitors. There is defiantly room for improvement in the EC popularity calculation and whole system overall.
Don’t be supprised if the Entrecard widget disappears by the end of the month!
Is EC worth using?
Do you get many clicks from adverts?
It looks like the guys at EA are shifting more Beta keys, but instead of their blog getting slashdotted they seem to have allocated keys to fan sites which are all holding their own form of contest to win a key.
Battlefield Heroes
Take a look at the list of fan sites and try your luck.
Google are currently updating the public Page Rank of websites, as usual some may go up and some down. Luckily the only way for Techizr.com to go was up, and it did; to PR 3.
Check the rank of your own domains at prchecker.info
If you want to know how many other websites are hosted on your shared webhosting server, head over to myipneighbors.com and enter your domain name.
It tells you which other domains resolve to the same IP address, so you can get an idea of how big the company is and a vague idea if they are cramming too many websites onto one server.
Its best use is just to satisfy your curiosity!
There’s 439 on the same server as Techizr.com, 88 on the same server as google.com including go.ogle.org.
How many are you sharing with?
One thing I love about the google chrome browser is the start page (displays most visited URLs), It would be great if firefox could do the same, right?
Well it can! (almost)
Firefox Addon - Speed dial
Go grab the Speed Dial add-on and you’ll be able to add thumbnails & links to your favorite websites; the only real difference is that you need to manually add entries but this means it’s also much more flexible.