If you have one of these old Dell CS24’s, you’ll know they pack alot of processing power into a small frame.  They take only 1 unit and have dual quad core processors and a good amount of ram.  Right now on Ebay, you can pick one of these up with nice hardware for under 200 bucks.  A great deal in my opinion if you have something that needs alot of processing, but you don’t want to fill your rack up.  I’ve found...

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While creating your own website may seem easy, the reality of the situation is that it takes more than a good idea to create something awesome on the web. There are many different layers of web development that need to be put into motion before people can start using your website, and there are a few things that your site must have for it to be successful. Let’s take a look at five of the must have aspects of a website that could turn into...

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So I had an old script that created the .htaccess file for a folder that I wanted to force all files to download instead of rendering, or processing however they normally would. The script for that file can be done in any language, but the .htaccess contents are as follows ForceType application/octet-stream Header set Content-Disposition attachment It’s pretty self explanatory. Notice the Files *.* part. That means any file. You can...

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The great thing about SEO is that it’s all tied to your domain name and not an IP address of the server where your files are being stored. However, being tied to a domain name hurts you in some situations as well. Consider if someone started a website on a free site, like WordPress.com and built up a fairly large following and some good SEO power. Now their domain is something like myblog.wordpress.com. This isn’t great from a...

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A Fav Icon is that little icon that appears on the tab of your internet browser next to the name of the site, or the title of the page you’re on. It’s a 16×16 image, usually fairly simple, and it’s a special format (ICO). There aren’t many image editing programs that will save into that format, so I usually use an online tool found at: http://favicon-generator.org/ It’s a free service and you can download your...

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Search engine optimization, or SEO, is the process of making a website or web page more visible, popular, or rank higher in a search engine’s search results. Generally speaking, the earlier, higher, and more frequently that a web page shows up in high in a search results list translates into higher traffic for that site, and more visitors to the site from a variety of sources. SEO targets various searches, from images and local searches,...

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