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Hotel Reservation Request Booking Paypal PHP

I'm making a website for a small hotel in php. The hotel owners want a reservation system that uses paypal. They want people to see a calendar and choose a date to make a reservation. If the day has vacancy, they want the user to request booking a room. This would then require the hotel owner to accept the purchase. I have not worked on a project that has this "request to purchase" method of buying with paypal. Is this possible? Does anyone know of an open php system that handles this?

35540

How to backup a dev & QA folder website structure?

A site I just became in charge of uses a really simple two folder structure to host the dev site and the QA site. The sites are hosted on the company servers so I just have the sites' folders mapped on my desktop. I would like to run some kind of backup scheme, but I am finding it hard to think of a way to do this effectively. The problem is that we aren't using any revision control software, and since the servers aren't controlled by me, I don't think I will be able to implement anything like that. Or could I? The entire site is static too, so no DB's or anything besides html, images, PDFs, etc.

35230

As an affiliate, how do you know if a sale is made?

I want to start doing affiliate marketing on a blog. Now I have someone who wants to advertise who has contacted me. How do I know if he has made a sale to a user who came through my website? Is this only possible to track using a third party in order to know he isn't lying? If so, what platforms are available for this kind of "indpendent" affiliate marketing? i.e I don't need the matchmaking service, just the tracking service. the blog is Wordpress if it matters

35548

Remove URL from "Fetch as Google" - in Google Webmaster Tools

I need to remove a URL from _Health -> Fetch as Google_ in Google Webmaster Tools. Is it possible?

35238

How can I redirect all files in a directory that doesn't conform to a certain filename structure?

I have a website where a previous developer had updated several webpages. The issue is that the developer had made each new webpage with new filenames, and deleted the old filenames. I've worked with .htaccess redirects for a few months now, and have some understanding of the usage, however, I am stumped with this task. The old pages were named like so: www.domain.tld/subdir/file.html The new pages are named: www.domain.tld/subdir/file-new-name.html The first word of all new files is the exact name of the old file, and all new files have the same last 2 words. www.domain.tld/subdir/file1-new-name.html www.domain.tld/subdir/file2-new-name.html www.domain.tld/subdir/file3-new-name.html ect. We also need to be able to access the url: www.domain.tld/subdir/ The new files have been indexed by google (the old urls cause 404s, and need redirected to the new so that google will be friendly), and the client wants to keep the new filenames as they are more descriptive. I've attempted to redirect it in many different ways without success, but I'll show the one that stumps me the most RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} !^subdir/.*\-new\-name\.html RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} !^subdir/$ RewriteRule ^subdir/(.*)\.html$ http://www.domain.tld/subdir/$1\-new\-name\.html [R=301,NC] When visiting `www.domain.tld/subdir/file1.html` in the browser, this causes a **403 Forbidden error** with a url like so: www.domain.tld/subdir/file1-new-name-new-name-new-name-new-name-new-name-new-name-new-name-new-name-new-name-new-name-new-name-new-name-new-name.html _I'm certain it's probably something simple that I'm overlooking, can someone please help me get a proper redirect? **Thanks so much in advance!_** _**EDIT_** I've also got all the old filenames saved on a separate document in case I need them set up like the following example: (file(1|2|3|4|5)|page(1|2|3|4|5)|a(l(l|lowed|ter)|ccept)

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How to handle clients who want to add duplicate content to their sites

I have some clients who are requesting that I put pages on their websites that amount to duplicate content. One wants the exact same page on two of their websites. Another wants to put content from a brochure they have some right to reprint or distribute on their website. But the same brochure content is already online at the original author's website. I explain to my clients the possible consequences of publishing duplicate content to the web, such as the page will not be indexed by search engines or their web site may be penalized. But I really want to offer them alternative solutions. The obvious one is to link to the content on the original author's website if that is possible. Does anyone have any other strategies for dealing with client requests to put duplicate content on their websites?

53865

3rd party site using our Google Analytic tracking code, show can we block it?

A 3rd party has stolen our site and is running it for there own purposes, they have also not bothered to change the Google Analytics tracking code, so there site is now skewing our data, is there a way we can block / disassociate their site from impacting on our Google Analytics data ?

11540

Text files vs. text in database

I'm designing a new site, deciding whether to keep the bulk of the content for each page in a text file, with just the file name in a database record for that page, or to keep the entire text in the database record as a string. The text is typically a few hundred to a few thousand words, with embedded markup to include photos or whatever, to be processed in PHP before being sent out as html. I don't find enough enlightening discussion of this design choice online. What are the pros and cons of each way? The advantage of text files, I imagine, is easy access to the file by ftp or other means, making fixing typos or editing the material easy w/o having to fuss with the database at all. OTOH, keeping it directly in the db means I won't have to bother learning how to read text files in PHP 8P Seriously, what implications are there for maintaining the site, security, efficiency, and aspects I'm not thinking of?

11541

Why is "mac" disallowed in microsoft.com/robots.txt?

At http://www.microsoft.com/robots.txt, why are there entries like: Disallow: /*/mac/help.mspx Disallow: /*/mac/help.mspx? Disallow: /*/mactopia/help.mspx? .... Could there be a real reason to not allow spiders to index those pages or is it something nefarious?

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What are the most important things I need to do to encourage Google Sitelinks?

My website used to have sitelinks and now it doesn't. It's very possible that it's due to changing the website to a sidebar design instead of having an "interstitial" type landing page which limited the number of choices, but I'm not sure. Here is how sitelinks might look for a site:  What are some things that I can do to improve my chances of getting sitelinks?

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How to best format your HTML to help Google display your websites navigation with the search result for your site in Google Search?

> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the most important things I need to do to encourage Google > Sitelinks? Look at the first result for "smashing magazine" in the image below. See how Google grabbed SM's site navigation and displayed it below their search result? Are there any techniques that would help Google display the navigation like this? Are there any suggestions as to how to structure your HTML to help Google create this for your website's search result? Or in general, the best way to structure? Tricks of the trade? etc.? 

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How to get grid view presence in google search of my website as shown in google search for “twitter”?

> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the most important things I need to do to encourage Google > Sitelinks? I have my website live and it is visible in google search but I want it to be displayed in a grid view as shown in google search of key word for example "twitter". Can someone guide me how to make this happen?

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Google sitelinks

How can I get Google to display sitelinks under search results when my website shows up? When my website shows up in position 1 which it does for a couple of keywords it displays sitelinks, but whenever we show up in any other position than the first one, we don't have any sitelinks displayed at all. I know it's not a matter of just being in the top position or not because I see sites all the time that are in any number of position in the search results and occasionally I'll see a site that has sitelinks even though they're like half way down page 3 or something.. 

68588

How to show differnt page in same serp result

 How to Show Different Page heading On Same result page form one website i have seen so mant result like this like in a picture #any tutorial or resources

44308

SEO - be first and Get my own company section in google for my company name

I want my company name to be first in Google when I search for it, since it is a unique name. I also want it to have its own "section" with sub-links of the "about page" "product page" "contact us" page like any other big companies have. For example, if I type any other big company, I get their website on the top row, but it also has sub-links of the "contact us" , "about us" and more...  When I search my company name in Google, I get two full search pages with my company name but all of them are from other sites that took my details from somewhere. **None of these links are my site pages!** I already read articles about "keyword significance" and "crawl errors" and most of the webmaster tools, but did I miss something else? How do I gather my site pages under my site link in Google? Is there a configuration for that?

49966

How to customize website for Google first search Result?

I don't know what is terminology used for following examples. I want to customize my website so when user search it on internet and it will return result look like following example for first search result.  * * * 

60680

Google Search Results: sub-page description

I have a Wordpress site that successfully has 6 sub-pages listed below the main result in Google. However a page content snippet is showing up or each instead of the sub-page meta descriptions. I have verified in the page source that the meta descriptions are being successfully inserted by my SEO plugin. How can I define the sub-page descriptions?

52031

How to Make google Show My website pages in the way I want

Let us take an exapmle of ebay.  As you can see in image when I search for ebay it also shows subpages like Deals,GlobalEasybay and etc..For my site also this happens but the problem is that I don't have any control over it.It displays random sub-pages.My First question How I can control this. Second You can see on the right column of my screenshot ,there is a nice presentation on ebay with a picture and rescent posts...How I can make something like this on my website?

55814

How can my site show up on Google with last post date and secondary links?

How does one build a site to show up like this in the Google search results? 

57308

SEO for Google: navigation, company info, video

I often stumble upon search results in Google that get a special treatment, like: * having the site navigation (and more) being displayed on the search results page  * having a company's location, contact information, Google reviews and e.g. opening hours being displayed aside the search results  * having a video thumbnail being displayed with the search result and the navigation structure being displayed instead of the blank URL (`giga.de` > Deals)  I'm building a website for my (nationally pretty well known) choir but have not been into search engine optimization, yet. There's many blogs and documents on that topic. But what I want is that special behavior described above. Can you tell me how I can reach that? Or are there any documents that deal with these (and more?) special Google features?

60875

How to show my links in structured way like Amazon do

Can you please tell me how links like `Books` `EC2` appear in search results associated with Amazon.com? How can I do similar with my site's main section? 

22430

How to hide pages from Google crawler?

> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the most important things I need to do to encourage Google > Sitelinks? I'm currently working on a website and need to keep certain pages hidden from Google crawler. How to make it so that search engines see only what I want them to see in a directory? Also, you know how Google results also give you shortcut links, Like 'Login', 'About' etc... how to put these links to search result?

61682

Google places links and info with my search results

I had set up a google+ page a while ago and also crated a places page. I'm wondering how I can integrate this into my search results (An example shown in the attached screenshot). I'd like the additional pages, google+ links and map showing up on the side. I cannot for the life of me find how I would go about this. I assumed it was automatic, but after some time I have come to the conclusion that it must require some additional input from my end. Many thanks 

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How to get Google to display navigation?

> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the most important things I need to do to encourage Google > Sitelinks? How do I get Google to display the navigation for my site like it does for others? For example, take the search results for **'Microsoft'** :  How do I get my site to display navigation like that? It's already the first entry for certain keywords.

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Can I control the Google sitelinks for my website?

> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the most important things I need to do to encourage Google > Sitelinks? Working on SEO for a website, and i'm wondering if there's a way to have some say in which sub-links appear under the first entry when you google the website's name. (i.e. when you google "amazon" there are 6 sub-links including "books", "music", "your account", etc. under the entry). Currently if I google my site those 6 links include a couple of random pages as well as the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service which are only linked to in the footer, but several of the main sections of the site that are linked to in the top menu are left out. (I say the pages it chooses are "random" because they don't correspond to the most-viewed based on google analytics, and I don't think special SEO-wise to make them stand out) Is there a way to choose or at least influence what these sub-links will be? Edit - What I call sub-links above are known as sitelinks (and are well documented in Google's Webmaster Tools, as Michael pointed out).

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Unique search engine results

> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the most important things I need to do to encourage Google > Sitelinks?  How do i get those kind of result? With Categories below the main result. What is it called. i want to do as the picture. thanks in advance!

47982

Display major links in Google

I am wondering how some websites get their sublinks too displayed on Google. For example when I enter "accenture" on Google apart from the main link (which is common) look at the links "Graduate Careers at accenture", "Accenture careers" etc. How can I display my other pages too on Google just like this way. Also when somebody enters my business name how can I display my map on Google just like the below screenshot. Check the screenshot here. Sorry I don't have reputation 10 to post image. :( http://i.stack.imgur.com/fZFkv.png

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How to add menu on google search result?

> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the most important things I need to do to encourage Google > Sitelinks? I want to ask how to make menu on google search result.E.g : when you search on google with keyword : Google community and found www.stackoverflow.com, there are list of link below,those are Forums,Register Now,Members List,etc. How to make this menu in my website. For example: 

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How do we get our sites' sections displayed under the description in a Google search?

> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the most important things I need to do to encourage Google > Sitelinks? For Example, if I Google "Stack Overflow" the site comes up but also links to the main sections of the site right beneath it (Login, Questions, Careers...)  How can I achieve this with my own site? Thanks!

35738

Google Site Links

How can I get google sitelinks?

50877

How does Google determine important links on a website to display in search results?

Sometimes when I search for something on Google it shows some results (website links), but it also shows some important links on that website. Is it a feature of the website or does Google use something to find those main links of the website? Is it related to search engine optimization?

58164

Multiple Pages in Google Results

I've got what I would have thought would be a pretty widely discussed problem but I cant seem to find an answer anywhere. This is more of a SEO question, but also relates to general HTML structure. I'm trying to get all of the pages in a site to to appear under one result in Google (preferably displaying the sub-pages underneath). I realise I can use robots.txt to block the index from viewing the other pages, but am I right in thinking the keywords in those pages will no longer contribute search ranking? Edit: I should add that at the minute each page shows as a different result, which is annoying as the home page isn't first! I have in the head section of every page (minus the JS and extra style sheets): <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <head> <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7"> <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8"> <title>XXXXX</title> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon"> <meta name="description" content="XXXXX"> <meta name="keywords" content="XXXXX"> <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" media="all" href="style.css"> </head> Perhaps I'm wrong in thinking I should have this on every page? If anyone could shed some light on this I'd really appreciate it!

45424

Regarding sitelinks in google search

I would like my site to display additional site links when preforming a Google Search.. How can this be achieved?

56395

From where does Google gets these links

I'm just about to optimize a website. Now I would like to know from where Google obtains these links:  Why? I also want some links to appear on the search-result for my homepage

61555

Why do some websites have extended search results in google?

Like this site:  What does the site do to look like that?

67795

How to make a certain page of a website rank before others on the same website?

If I search for "cnn news" on Google, it appears as in the attached. 1) If I wanted the search term "cnn news" to make the CNN Student News appear first, would my best bet be to get anchor link text in a backlink such as `<a href="http://www.cnn.com/studentnews/">CNN News</a>` ? 2) I'm unclear as to how Google decides which page to use as the main link and then display all the sub-links under it (as in the attached pic). I hypothesized that it's the anchor link text in backlinks that makes the most difference but I'm not sure. Any tips would be appreciated.

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how to display menu of site in google results

> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the most important things I need to do to encourage Google > Sitelinks? my site is first in google if you type ' _עו"ד מימון כהן_ ' or ' _maimon cohen lawyer_ '. I want to display menu index of the site in google, like this :  how to do it ?

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how do we organize our site's (navigation) pages in Google search?

**Is there a HTML technique for organizing my site's main pages in Google (navigation)? Or is it made by a Google's specific tool for creating a result layout like in this picture?**  **Look at the difference of the results for my site:** 

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How to organize your site on google like amazon?

> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the most important things I need to do to encourage Google > Sitelinks? I don't know the name of this feature neither how to search it on google. But I would like my website to be shown like this: http://jode.com.br/Joe/amazonongoogle.png I have full access to the site and the tools of google to this site. thanks

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Formatting Google Search Result

> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the most important things I need to do to encourage Google > Sitelinks? Hello, I am new to search engine optimization. I am working on customizing how my results appear in Google as best as possible. I have learned about the meta tags to customize the text summary. However, I have some hierarchical parts to my website. When a result appears related to the "tip-of-the-iceberg", I would like to show links related to the "child" pages. For instance, if you Google "Walmart" you will see the following links listed with the result: * Electronics * TV & Video * Departments * Furniture * Toys * Girls * Living Room * Computers Is there any way that I can help Google determine which links to show and the text to display for these child links on my site? Or is this something that Google automatically generates? thanks!

55873

Having Google structure my search result

My question is fairly simple: How do I customize my Google Search result so when it comes up in Google, it gets this kind of fancy result that lets an user navigate my website directly from the results? This is what I'm talking about:  How do I make Google make my result like that?

18443

How are Google Site links generated in search results?

> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the most important things I need to do to encourage Google > Sitelinks? I just met a fellow designer who runs a website with the same pagerank as mine. When googling both our names, search results will show Site links below his website, but not mine. Do you know which attributes are handled by Google to define when and how these links are shown in search results?

67965

Choose which pages appear in Google search results snippet?

I was wondering sometimes, the first result in Google's results has a list of pages (in the website) below the title of the search result. Is this something I can force Google to do, with some sort of HTML tags? Or does Google just do it automatically, when it feels like it?

27490

How to make Google show my site in search result like the following image?

> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the most important things I need to do to encourage Google > Sitelinks? Currently Google is displaying my site (http://layzend.info) like this in search result, only the link and meta description without any internal page links -  But I want to be the search result like the following where the internal links are also displayed -  How is it possible? Please help me to make my site more SEO friendly.

54942

Will using page headings (h1, h2, h3 etc) as internal links encourage Google sitelinks?

I am trying to change my site's page headings to better emphasize the structure of the page's content hierarchy. I am hoping this will encourage Google Sitelinks and list snippets. Current headings are not optimized: I would like to use the `<h2>` heading as an internal link. Will this encourage Google sitelinks and better content indexing? <h2><a href="Example.com">text</a></h2>

67816

how to show my site Homepage with page link

How to show my site like below in Google search result. please help me. even my Site Homepage is not showing properly in Google search result. **1st Pic:** I want to show my site in Google like this. **2nd Pic:** Currently My site showing like this way. **Pic 1:**   **Pic 2:**

11545

Video for an ad-driven website

I have a website, which i will fill with a bunch of useful videos. I've implemented an ads rotation engine for articles and will do so for videos. The next milestone is to decide how video will be integrated. They are two ways: 1. To host videos myself. Pros: complete freedom. Cons: need tens of gigabytes of storage; support for multiple formats to be cross-browser and cross-device. 2. Use YouTube. Pros: Very simple to use; nothing to do. What are pros and cons for each way? Some questions for YouTube: 1. Will I be able to control playback of YouTube-embedded video to make post-rolls ? 2. What is ranking impact on my web-site, when most of pages will refer to YouTube ? 3. Will, say, iPad play video, embedded via YouTube's iFrame ? 4. Does relying entirely on YouTube have a long-term perspective for a web-site, that should bring money ?

11548

issue with wordpress theme background on widescreen computers

I am using the theme "irresistible" and I wanted to a add a picture of the person for whom I am building the site. Normally the background CSS uses repeat, but I don't want their picture to repeat i just want it all the way on the left side body.woothemes { background: #18191b url(images/bg.jpg); background-repeat:no-repeat; background-position:left top; color: #e9e9e9; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; } http://romesmooth1.jerseygetonline.com/ It doesn't repeat in Internet Explorer, but repeats in Firefox. In both it looks fine in a normal on a 17in LCD but not on a wide screen.

28998

SEO best practices for sites with few pages but lots of lookup information?

I have a site that allows people to look up words that "Start with" or "End with" a certain set of characters. I am trying to figure out how to get off on the right foot with search engines and I was wondering: Is it better to have URLs that appear to be unique pages? For example: mySite.com/StartsWith/pred instead of mySite.com/Words.aspx?StartsWith=pred Both of these would return the same data, but I am wondering if the first is better because it appears to be a unique page to a crawler? At the end of the day the source code will only contain about 6 pages in it, but with all of the StartsWith/EndsWith letter sets, there are probably millions of possible combinations that people could get to. How would I (and should I) create a site map for pages that do not physically exist, but have unique URLs with unique content? Are there any other steps I should take to make sure that crawlers can find all of these different combinations? **Update** There will be no duplicate content on the site

55293

SEOquake is not recogonizng microformats

I generated Rich snippets (for organization) microcode for one of my websites, using instructions like https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/146897?hl=en http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microformat Problem I have is that Microformat is not recognized by tools like SEOquake. Can you help me how to generate microdata in proper format?

5988

How to serve custom ads for clients on my site?

Are there any ad serving systems, that allow webmasters to serve ads from their clients on their sites? The client provides an image/text and a link and the website displays the ad in designated spaces. The website would display only ads from their own customers (nothing from a public ad network like adsense). Can you please provide examples of such ad serving solutions? Preferrably free/opensource.

5989

Plugin to back up a Wordpress (version 2.2.1) site?

Which Wordpress plugin would you recommend to someone with only basic PHP and MySQL skills to back up a quite large WP (engine version 2.2.1) site as safely as possible? The backup should allow redeploying the site with/to an updated, clean install of the WP engine.

5982

Wordpress vs Clean html/css

When it comes to designing/coding presentational websites, with static content and few pages.. let's say, between 5 and 20. Would you go with wp, design a custom theme and update with content, or would you code from scratch a clean html/css eventually + some js ? For now, since I'm just stepping into web development, I see wordpress as a complex cms that loads slow in my browser.. **EDIT:** I suppose a page generated with wordpress would load slower than a page that looks the same coded from scratch. Please help me find the pros/cons of both. How about seo/indexing? Is it worth learning wp for designing presentational websites ? P.S. I'm asking this because a lot of my friends, who are a bit more experienced than me, tend to recommend using wp because clients like it and it's easy, but I'm not sure yet. When It comes to you, what would you prefer and why ?

51266

How to monitor traffic on a single page that I control when I don't control the domain?

I have a webpage like www.site.com/myaccount/foo/index.htm I have complete control over the HTML on this page (e.g., I can insert a script). However, I have no control over the rest of the site. **update:** Note that I only want to have information on traffic to the page under my control. I have no interest in the traffic for the rest of the site. I'd particularly like to get an idea of referring URLs to the page under my control. * **Will Google Analytics work on a single page under my control?** * **If not, are there other tools suited to monitoring traffic to a single page?** Note I saw this question but it did not seem to answer my question. Also, I'm not tied to using Google Analytics if another online system would work. Specifically, I have added the google analytics tracking code to the page, but am still getting the error > Status: Tracking Not Installed The Google Analytics tracking code has not > been detected on your website's home page. For Analytics to function, you or > your web administrator must add the code to each page of your website. This made me think that I might need to have access to `www.site.com/index.htm` **Update:** After waiting another day, Google Analytics appears to have registered the tracking code. I presumably just had to wait a little longer.

5980

SEO HTML for plain html css website

This isn't really a programming question, but I couldn't think of a place where people can better answer my question then here. I allways had a joomla website, for me it's good, but it's not very flexible. My question is: In joomla you have some great SEO tools, like labeling or tagging your articles. I'm planning to make my own css/html based website without a cms behind it. Does anyone knows a labeling/tagging script whichcan be used for "normal" html/css based websites without for example joomla?

19394

New visits count disparity on a month old site in Google Analytics

I launched a new website less than a month ago but the stats on "new visits" doesn't appear to match with "absolute unique visitors". If I look at the dashboard, it shows 2040 visits, 956 unique visitors and 33.68% new visits. A "new visit" is someone who's never been to the site before. So in this case, shouldn't the "new visits" match the "absolute unique visitors"? 

5986

Thoughts on this approach for a news post caching system?

I'm working on a website which uses /news/title-of-news-article--111.html (111 = unique ID of the news article). I was thinking it might be a good idea to have some form of a caching system for the news articles. Essentially, my idea would be to have a .html version of the news article (i.e. just the news part that's dynamically generated) be created when it was marked live (making it so visitors and search engines can see it). The .php script that displays the content would check to see if a .html file with the news id exists, and would use that instead of querying the database. Of course, if the .html file didn't exists for some reason, it would fall back to querying the database like the site currently does now. Any issues you guys see with that approach? This is meant more for when a ton of visitors view a news article, since ideally I'd assume grabbing a "static" .html file is better on the server and the database than querying.

30925

Google Webmaster Tools proportional to Google exams?

I've taken no Google exams, I'm curious about apps becoming available in your Google webmasters tools and google apps the more exams you pass. Someone I know told me that the more exams you pass, the more tools become available to you but I cannot find any information about it anywhere online. Is this some sort of secret or am I just misinformed?

5984

How important is the logo for a freelancer?

How important is a logo for a freelancer ? If I'm going to design a small static website to represent myself with 'about', 'skills', 'portfolio' ... etc. pages and I want to keep the design as simple as I can... Is it crucial to take lots of time and try to design an abstract logo that would represent me as a freelancer, or what I do ? Work I do: web design and development, custom solutions.. etc. Target audience: small business owners, and potential recruiters ?

22261

How can I exclude content in my notifications bar from being indexed?

Of course I want my content to be indexed pretty fast by search engines, however not my notifications bar. My notifications bar contains the last 30 changes to content on the site, and I don't want this to show in my SEO meta. As all the notifications are generic, it often doesn't provide any relevant information. As I said the notifications are generic. If an article named "123" was created, it would create a notification that says "Article "123" was created by xxx at 12:00AM". I'm now wondering if this is a content design problem. As only 1/3 of this information is actually relevant to users (the title, what happened). By SEO meta, and irrelevant notification data being shown, I mean this -  Basically what I was wondering, is how I could optimise this, so search engines wouldn't show this generic nonsense.

61179

Google Anlytics - User Type Tracking

just a question about a custom dashboard in GA. I'd like to to monitor only help/faq pages in my site. I've created a dashboard that filter only the pages I need vs Unique Page views, but I want a deeper analysis. For example, does it makes sense to track User Type (new/returning visitors), to know if the user that is viewing my help pages is someone who visit often these pages (like a reference resource to check everytime you need) or if they are mainly new visitors. In this case, it's better to track Sessions vs User type OR Unique Page Views vs User Type? Inside an help section, can we talk of sessions? Or session is something wider, meaningful only in the whole site perspective?

22268

When redirecting from http to https in a shop site, which status code should I use?

On a shop website, when "Pay now" is clicked we perform a header redirection to the same URL, just an SSL secured https version. In such a common scenario, should we use a permanent (301), a temporary (302) or any other status code? Somehow, neither permanent nor temporary feels right (though I guess the latter will be more appropriate).

48890

Extensive GET /wpad.dat HTTP/1.1 requests

We are having extensive (thousands per minute) `GET /wpad.dat HTTP/1.1` requests at our Linux server, causing traffic problems and slowing down access to the websites we host. What does it stand for and how to prevent it?

39327

Apache Virtual Host does not work

I've problems setting up a virtual host on windows7, so that I can develop multiple pages on my localhost. To set up the virtual Host, I've edited 3 Files: * **httpd-vhosts.conf** in apache\conf\extra * **httpd.conf** in apache\conf * **hosts** in system32\drivers\etc This is what I've done in order to make the page run on Port 81: added this block in **httpd-vhosts.conf** NameVirtualHost *:81 <VirtualHost *:81> DocumentRoot C:\xampp\htdocs\mypage ServerName mypage DirectoryIndex index.html index.php <Directory "C:\xampp\htdocs\mypage"> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI Order allow,deny Allow from all AllowOverride All </Directory> </VirtualHost> made apache Listen on Port 81 in **httpd.conf** Listen 80 Listen 81 added this line in **hosts** 127.0.0.1 mypage But as soon as I try to access mypage via localhost:81, I get redirected to localhost/xampp.

19

Is there a better analytics package than Google Analytics?

I've used Google Analytics for a while now, and it's pretty good for a high level view. But when I want to dig into the numbers a bit more, everything gets kind of vague. I also don't like that it takes so long to update. Are there any better options?

45570

Solution for tracking lead generations and share data with partners

I need to implement a lead generation feature on a website. Technically I understand how it works (e.g. `Javascript` script associated with the `onlick` event of a button which sends data about the user to a tracking system before triggering the action, such as redirecting user to another website, revealing an email address or phone number...) however what I need is a tracking system which my partners will trust and with which I can share the collected data. I know one can use `Google Analytics` to track actions (such as lead generation) but the problem is that the data sharing features of `GA` are too limited: I can only decide which profiles (i.e. websites) a user can see, but not what for that profile (so it's all or nothing). **Does anybody know about a web analytics solution which match the following criteria?** -allows tracking click events (similar way as `GA`) -enables me to share analytics about 1 particular tracking code only with another user -is free (ideally) -is used by a few big names so that my partners will trust it (ideally)

25063

Any solutions for transferring media between Mobile Clients

Please bear with me as I am a complete beginner at this but looking to learn. I am looking for a service or any advice in a solution to transfer media from Mobile to Mobile. Say I want to send a picture from my cell phone to yours through a server, when that picture is received the data does not persist on the server. Is there any server that accomplishes this or are is there a server setup/configuration that exists to do this? Thank you so much and my apologies if this is the wrong place to post this. Between Stack Overflow, Serverfault and this site. I had no idea which one was the proper place for such a generic question.

55347

URL rewrite from www.domain.com/sudirectory to http://domain.com/subdirectory

I need a solution for the following problem: I use a CMS and want the backend only be available at `http://domain.com/backend` and not at `http://www.domain.com/backend`. How do I have to change my _.htaccess_ file to achieve this? I already have a rewrite rule from HTTP (non-www) to www. Here's what I currently have in my _.htaccess_ file: ## # Uncomment the following lines to add "www." to the domain: # RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^shaba-baden\.ch$ [NC] RewriteRule (.*) http://www.shaba-baden.ch/$1 [R=301,L] # # Uncomment the following lines to remove "www." from the domain: # # RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.example\.com$ [NC] # RewriteRule (.*) http://example.com/$1 [R=301,L] # # Make sure to replace "example.com" with your domain name. ## So, the first bit is the redirect from HTTP to www. It works on the domain part of the URL. As explained, I need a rewrite rule from the backend login at `http://www.shaba-baden.ch/contao` to `http://shaba-baden.ch/contao`

43879

How to solve 503 issue

I'm participating in a web project. It's a Joomla web page and it's gained a lot of visitors in the past months. Actually we are receiving donations each year to pay site's hosting and domain. The concurrence now is extremely high and we don't really want to use advertisement as business model 'cause a philosophy matter. We can not afford a dedicated server 'cause we are a non- profit community. So my question is: Is there any way to solve 503 issue because of the high concurrence without migrating to a more expensive hosting plan ? Can I place the site in different hosts or something cheaper ? Thank you very much.

43878

Do long geographic lists "we cover these towns" work or are they penalised by Google?

Some small business type websites list their geographic areas covered, often crudely listing 30 or 40 towns, and then a big list of postcode areas. Here's an example for skip hire: http://nottinghamskip.com/skips-delivered-nottingham-mansfield  Obviously you want to match for people searching: > "skip hire Swadlincote" Probably this practice did once work. Does it still, or does it get penalised?

25065

Migrating Google Accounts into Google Apps

My company wants to migrate all email and cloud work to Google Apps for Business. We currently have a Google account, however, with our domain appended to the user name. It's my understanding that Google no longer allows setting up accounts like this, and forces a `*@gmail.com` address. So, in this case, we already use `[email protected]`. In a previous case where I have migrated to Google Apps in the past, if you set up your account with domain `example.com`, any existing Google accounts with that domain are either smitten or forced to choose new user names. We would like to continue to use `[email protected]`, but it's not as simple as exporting email, calendar, and docs, as we also have our AdWords, Analytics, and AdSense accounts tied to this username. So ultimately the question is if anyone knows how to migrate this one account straight into the Google Apps for Business domain either before or once it's set up?

43874

How often does GWT check dynamic sitemaps?

I'm working on a fairly large site, that generates a dynamic sitemap hourly. Now in Google Webmaster Tools the sitemap isn't submitted yet and I'm shying away because I'm afraid that the new content (which appears in the dynamic sitemap) won't get crawled as quickly. So my question is: How often do the GWT check the sitemap once submitted? Any other thing I should be aware of when working with GWT and dynamic pages? P.S. I checked this thread How often are sitemap.xml checked for updates by crawlers? and from what I understand Google crawls more often when the site gets updated regularly - but does the same apply for the GWT?

43873

Are there any SEO benefits by using Google Tag Manager?

Google introduced Google Tag Manager. When following the 4 steps to create it, the keyword and website URL are optional. I created a container without keyword and URL, but it gave me the following script code and said to paste it to all the website pages. What is the benefit for me? <!-- Google Tag Manager --> <noscript> <iframe src="//www.googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-6Q96" height="0" width="0" style="display:none;visibility:hidden"></iframe> </noscript> <script> (function(w,d,s,l,i){w[l]=w[l]||[];w[l].push({'gtm.start': new Date().getTime(),event:'gtm.js'});var f=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0], j=d.createElement(s),dl=l!='dataLayer'?'&l='+l:'';j.async=true;j.src= '//www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id='+i+dl;f.parentNode.insertBefore(j,f); })(window,document,'script','dataLayer','GTM-6Q96'); </script> <!-- End Google Tag Manager -->" This code is not related to my domain and keyword.

58735

How to map requests to an external directory

I have a directory/application that is located outside of the web root directory of my site. Say the site is here: /var/www/site/htdocs/ And the external app is located here: /var/www/apps/coolapp/ My question is how can I configure nginx to map/route all requests that are like `www.mysite.com/coolapp/*` (asterisk being wildcard) to the external location `/var/www/apps/coolapp/`? For example, www.mysite.com/coolapp/test.php should server `/var/www/apps/coolapp/test.php`. Per @krokola's answer, I tried adding the `alias` directive in the `production.conf` file that the main `nginx.conf` file includes. Here is what `production.conf` currently looks like server { listen 80; listen 443 ssl; ssl_certificate /blah/blah/blah; ssl_certificate_key /blah/blah/blah; ssl_protocols blah blah blah; ssl_ciphers blahblahblah; ssl_prefer_server_ciphers blahblah; access_log /var/log/nginx/www.mysite.com-access.log; error_log /var/log/nginx/www.mysite.com-error.log error; server_name mysite.com www.mysite.com; root /var/www/site/htdocs; include conf/magento_rewrites.conf; include conf/magento_security.conf; include /var/www/site/nginx/*.conf; #-------CODE IN QUESTION------- location /coolapp/ { alias /var/www/apps/coolapp/; location ~ \.php { # Copied from "# PHP Handler" below fastcgi_param MAGE_RUN_CODE default; fastcgi_param MAGE_RUN_TYPE store; fastcgi_param HTTPS $fastcgi_https; rewrite_log on; # By default, only handle fcgi without caching include conf/magento_fcgi.conf; } } # PHP handler location ~ \.php { ## Catch 404s that try_files miss if (!-e $request_filename) { rewrite / /index.php last; } ## Store code is defined in administration > Configuration > Manage Stores fastcgi_param MAGE_RUN_CODE default; fastcgi_param MAGE_RUN_TYPE store; fastcgi_param HTTPS $fastcgi_https; rewrite_log on; # By default, only handle fcgi without caching include conf/magento_fcgi.conf; } # 404s are handled by front controller location @magefc { rewrite ^(.*) /index.php?$query_string last; } # Last path match hands to magento or sets global cache-control location / { ## Maintenance page overrides front controller index index.html index.php; try_files $uri $uri/ @magefc; expires 24h; } } conf/magento_fcgi.conf looks like this: fastcgi_pass phpfpm; ## Tell the upstream who is making the request proxy_set_header Host $host; proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; proxy_redirect off; # Ensure the admin panels have enough time to complete large requests ie: report generation, product import/export proxy_read_timeout 1600s; # Ensure PHP knows when we use HTTPS fastcgi_param HTTPS $fastcgi_https; ## Fcgi Settings include fastcgi_params; fastcgi_connect_timeout 120; fastcgi_send_timeout 320s; fastcgi_read_timeout 1600s; fastcgi_buffer_size 128k; fastcgi_buffers 512 64k; fastcgi_busy_buffers_size 128k; fastcgi_temp_file_write_size 256k; fastcgi_intercept_errors off; fastcgi_index index.php; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME $fastcgi_script_name; # nginx will buffer objects to disk that are too large for the buffers above fastcgi_temp_path /tmpfs/nginx/tmp 1 2; #fastcgi_keep_conn on; # NGINX 1.1.14 expires off; ## Do not cache dynamic content

19715

How to develop a good web design in web site

I have a web development site, but I do better and better design in my site, because I develop a good web site design so please reply me if you know of other ideas. My website is located at http://www.esparkinfo.com/

20838

How to find web hosting that meets my requirements?

_This is a "catch-all" question designed to serve as an answer for all questions about choosing web hosting. Pro Webmasters no longer accepts new questions about how to choose hosting. All future questions pertaining to finding web hosting should be closed as a duplicate of this question. For more information about this policy please seethis meta question._ * * * **How to find web hosting that meets my requirements?** What we're looking for in answers to this question are the basics about web hosting: * What is web hosting? * What is the difference between shared, VPS, and dedicated hosting? * How does a content delivery network relate to web hosting? * Anything else you feel is helpful in finding a web host. What we do not want is: * Endorsements or recommendations for specific web hosts * We do not want your experience or other subjective information (just the facts please)

56206

VPS and hosting

NO this is no duplicate of the above. My question is very specific to VPS and is not solely related to hosting but also to virtual desktop and such. The above barely writes 2 lines about VPS and never speak of virtual desktop needs. **CASE:** I'm going to upload a (small) symfony2 website soon. I plan to create another one after and maybe a little wt app ( which forces me to have a vps ). I also would like to have a 100% uptime virtual desktop + storage available from anywhere. for symfony2, I need to be able to manage apc pecl cache extension at the very least. For wt I need root access to compile and run c/c++ code and play with apache. **Questions:** * When it comes to VPS, price differences are huge for similar "front" characteristics. Why ? * Given my needs ( website traffic should never exceed 100 dudes daily ). What should I look for ? ( CPU, RAM[guaranteed?], Bandwidth ) Basically I'm looking for one or two guys that have experienced professionally a few VPS and PHP-hosting solutions, and be advised about everything I ask... and did not ask !

65568

What dedicated server is for $8 each month?

What dedicated server is for $8 or less each month and has at least 512MB ram?

47162

What are my options for a hosted vps service with shell access?

Disclaimer (some folks marked this question as a duplicate): I DO NOT want suggestions for things like a hosted wordpress providers, nor am I asking what web hosting is. This question is not a duplicate of: How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? -- I just want suggestions from other technologists about viable alternatives. I've heard about linode which sounds promising. I'd like recommendations for specific web hosts that provide VPS hosting providing a lot of control over the machine (like linode). I want to install packages such as: tmux, python 2.7, a java runtime, node.js runtime, mysql, memcached, in-memory queuing libraries, etc. In short, I want an "always on" machine for doing personal development projects, which may lead to commercial purposes in the future. Some specifics and tools I'm looking for are: * cheap! (personal use for now $0 - $30/mo) * shell access (sudo access for package management on my own host VMs) * control over dns * ability to alter cpu/memory/disk resources as needed (depends on the project) * Centos 6.x (or other linux OS that plays nice with AWS) Some web searching led me down a rabbit hole (and annoying sales/marketing pitch). A small list of hosting providers meeting the above criteria and some comparison of them from technologists would clarify the info I need to make an informed decision.

15501

Need a host which supports OSQA

> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? Hi i'm looking to install OSQA and see how it goes I have a great niche which I think may work real well, but till I get a large enough audience I'd like to use shared hosting then move up to a dedicated or vps hosting... Almost all hosts i've looked at don't support something OSQA needs I need relatively cheap shared hosting with cpanel. Any recommendations? It needs to support: * Django * Python markdown * html5lib * Python OpenId * South

61384

Any suggestions on free web hosting service with your registered domain name

I have registered a domain. I am looking for a free web-hosting service where I can attach this domain name to site hosted on that service. Weebly at one point used to provide this service for free but not anymore. You can still host a site for free on weebly but if you want to use domain name then that's not possible for free ( at least to my knowledge). Can any one point me to any such free service?

51878

Free Basic Hosting w SSL Certificate

I'm looking for a free hosting provider which provides an SSL Certificate at no additional charge. Does anyone know of a hosting provider which can provide such a service? Thanks in advance, Amani Swann

11815

Best provider for webinar hosting

> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? We are looking at running some webinars soon, and I was wondering if you folks had any experience with a service you have been happy with. We are currently looking at using one of the following (but are always up to suggestions): http://www.megameeting.com/overview.html https://www.videoseminarlive.com/index.aspx http://www.webex.com/ We also looked at: http://www.gotomeeting.com But they seem to not support video at this time. Specifically, we need to be able to provide a live video feed from an instructor (as well as display slides), and accept questions/discussions from the audience via audio or chat. Of course, it is always good to have a clean interface, and if the system works without installing any software, that is a plus as well. Any thoughts?? --Edited to provide details for system requirements.

34227

Free online PHP hosting

> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I have a PHP script that can take $_GET parameters from a URL (i.e. http://www.example.com/test.php?name=george). I'd like to be able to host this script online so that others can pass parameters to it to obtain the returned data. Anyone know of a free PHP hosting site that would allow for his functionality? (PS: I can't host it myself) Thanks!

154

Shared vs. Dedicated Hosting

> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? What is the difference between shared hosting and dedicated hosting for my website?

31739

Scalable web-hosting for a youtube-like service (no, not porn)

> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? My business partner and I are looking for a European web-hosting service (we are situated in Europe). That service needs to be, needs to have: * international servers, a server for each continent at the very least. * a high amount of bandwidth. * highly scalable, since we are expecting to start off small, but as our user base grows so will everything else (again, no porn or phallic jokes) need to do. * a moderate to supreme customer service. * of course a small downtime per annum. * affordable at first, fair as we grow. I think that is all. Any input is greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.

39898

Which Web Hosting service should choose?

> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I was using a web hosting service (no need to mention its name) that causes me a lot of trouble with my code, especially with loading videos, sounds... etc (you can follow one of my issues caused by the FTP server Here), so I decided to change the web hosting. * So depending on what I know; what's the best? * What would you suggest for me? * What do you think about these: hostgator.com, godaddy.com, ipage.com? * Is the location (Place) involved? (I am working on a website for a Middle East company)

3505

Fast, Cheap, Dedicated Hosting

> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I'm looking for dedicated hosting with at least 1GB of RAM that doesn't hurt the wallet too much. Specifically it should have goods speed around the world as well. Suggestions?

45214

Mac Mini Colocation Usage Case

I'm looking at purchasing colocation services for a Mac Mini with A specialist colocation company - but as of yet I have no experience with OSX Server for hosting websites. I'm looking for a less involved way of hosting up to 80 small (1-20 page, <1000 daily hits) WordPress websites for my clients. All of the websites use caching aggressively. Does anyone have any experience using OSX Server for WP hosting / any ideas as to how many sites it can comfortably (ie minimal loss of speed) handle? My intention is to purchase one with an i5 processor and 16GB of RAM.

54034

Hosting of static content without server, only through CDN

My content is fully static, using only HTML, CSS, JS. It's only one page, which needs to load really fast from any country, and should be online for only 3 months. I already have the domain name. I just need a CDN where I would keep my HTML, CSS, JS and image files, to be served really fast in Japan, China or USA. Do I still need to have a web server? Do CDN provider also offers simple hosting?

30180

What now... Godaddy host not support charting in asp.net

> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I was going to use the asp.net charting with Visual Studios 2008 but GoDaddy hosting does not support the charting cause they won't install the component. So what are my options for charting/graphs for data? Looking for free if possible. Is Telerix the best?

11248

What are the options for hosting a small Plone site?

> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I’ve developed a portfolio website for myself using Plone 4, and I’m looking for someplace to host it. Most Plone hosting services seem to focus on large, corporate deployments, but I need something that I can afford on a very limited budget and fits a small, single-admin website. My understanding is that my basic options are thus: 1. I can go with a hosting service that specifically provides Plone. I know of WebFaction, but what others exist? Also, I’d have two stipulations for a Plone hosting service: (a) It needs to use Plone 4, for which I’ve developed my site, and (b) it needs to allow me SSH access to a home directory (including the Plone configuration), so that I may use my custom development eggs and such. 2. I could use a VPS hosting service. What are my options here? Again, I need something cheap and scaled to my level. 3. I could use Amazon EC2 or a similar service (please tell me of any) and pay by the tiniest unit of data. I’m a little scared of this because I have no idea how to do a cost-benefit analysis between this and a regular VPS host. The advantage of this approach would be that I only pay for what I use, making it very scalable, but I don’t know how the overall cost would compare to any VPS host under similar circumstances. What factors enter into the cost of Amazon EC2? What can I expect to pay under either option for regular traffic for a new website? Which one is more desirable for when a rush of visitors drive up my bandwidth bill? One last note: I know Plone isn’t common for websites for individuals, but please don’t try to talk me out of it here; that’s a completely different subject. For now, assume I’m sticking with Plone for good. Also, I have seen the Plone hosting services list on Plone.org—it’s twenty pages long, and the first page was nothing but professional Plone consulting services that sometimes offer hosting for business clients. So, that wasn’t much help. Thank you!

10951

Is there a free Django hosting service out there?

> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I would like to put my Django web-site online. Is it possible to do so for free?

36180

Recommanded cloud/cdn for my website?

> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? Currently we are using Cloudflare (Business) and it's great, except that our website is crushing for around 1 minute every 2 hours on average, and it seems they don't like to give us support. So, we are looking for alternative. I thought about Incapsula. Currently we have around 1mil pageviews daily. Can you guys please recommand for us what to use/do? Thanks!

14982

MySQL server with website hosting with managed hosting

> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I work for a small business, and I _am_ the "IT Department". I also happen to be a summer intern, so after I leave the number of IT staff will be 0 for an indefinite period of time. I need a place where I can reliably put up the company's website as well as the mySQL+PHP backend. Good redundancy is a plus, as well as easy administration for my IT-challenged colleagues. Managed hosting would be good, so the PHP versions can update without my company having to hire an admin. **EDIT** : The company already has a mySQL+PHP server running locally which hosts the existing website. My assignment is to find a remote server where the latest versions of mySQL+PHP will be maintained and where there is a very small chance of unintended downtime. Can you recommend anything?

25362

I have a linux image how can I find somebody that will host it?

> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? The image has a site running on php 4 using some archaic CMS + some version of My Sql + etc. I need to find a host, but I am not sure if the hosting providers will host an old image I don't know who the previous host was, just being handed the image by the previous developer. PS : If there is an obvious solution that I am missing ( pardon my ignorance, I have not done this before, I am just a windows developer ).

20856

Which Hosting Plan Should I use for this Web Application

> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I am developing a Web Application [PHP & MySQL] which is basically a rating website ( a social bookmarking site ). There are many tables in the Database like: Users, Notifications, Posts, Following and more. Which Hosting Plan should I use to host it : Shared or VPS. And yes, I don't think it needs a dedicated web server. If traffic grows, I will upgrade the plan to dedicated. One more thing: I am not using any CMS or Framework. I am writing the code myself and I will also try to make the website faster ( and lighter on the server ) by hosting CSS and JS files in DropBox. I will buy the hosting plan from Hostgator (India) : is it good or should I go with another company?

16050

Is there any recommended windows web hosting?

> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? My plan is to deploy a web site based on Asp.net + MS SQL server. I am not familiar with the windows web hosting market. Can anyone provide some suggestion? Thanks a lot.

33087

Where can I host my app?

> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I'm creating an web app which is PHP based. Some more info about app: * Image processing (not heavy processing - GD extension requried / maybe ImageMagick later) * It'll mainly display images * MongoDB is required since app is built on top of it * Expected tons of people after few days after launch - easy scaling * PHP 5.3+ is required * European hosting is PLUS I want high quality service and uptime as high as possible, but since I'm 17 yo, I cannot pay too much. I also don't want shared hosting. I've checked phpfog.com / appfog.com and It seems good but it's a bit too expensive (~29$/month app fog, later probably 79$/month and then there is mongo hosting which is 15$/month and later probably 49$+). I've heard for other hosting providers such as Linode, Amazon web services... But I don't really know which one to pick + what I'll have to know to set everything up. What are my other options? I've never had VPS (I have my own server home and all testing is done at home), and I probably wont know how to set everything up (postfix, failovers...). What can you suggest?

33887

Difference between shared hosting and PAAS?

> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? They seem very similar. Are there important differences I should be aware of?