Snapnames vs NameJet vs Pool vs Godaddy
My friend and I decided to start RIFoto.com, a website where we sell the photos we take around Rhode Island. Sounded great, until we realized that nobody was remembering it was Photo with an F. You see RIPhoto.com was currently being used.
So I did what any smart person who wants another domain would do. I [...]
45 Cache Hits Per Second
We all know that accessing the database can be resource intensive. But did you realize accessing the hard drive is intensive too? Every time you include a file in a script or write to a file, that is using the hard drive. Hard drives are fast, but when you multiply the number of includes, writes, [...]
Preventing XSS Exploits
If you don’t know what XSS is, and you are a web developer. Well, it’s time to wake up. XSS or Cross Site Scripting is basically injecting code onto someone else’s website. By doing it, you can do all sorts of nasty stuff.
The good thing is, it’s pretty simple to prevent this in PHP:
$string = [...]
Test, Test, Test!
I decided the other day my goal would be 100 new members every day! I started tracking. Friday I had 54. Saturday 21. And Sunday 17. Yikes! I had been averaging 50 for about a month! So much for that goal.
Today I check my email, and much to my surprise the new member emails were [...]
Connection: closed & PHP fsockopen
Wow. It’s incredible the difference two words will make: “Connection: closed” with a PHP command fsockopen changed the website scanner’s speed dramatically. I won’t go into the details, I found them here. But the key thing is for me to post about it so later when I forget about it I can find it again [...]
There’s just something I love about DreamHost
Ok, so you all know I have my own dedicated server. Right? If not, it’s a Dual Core Dual Processor (2.0Ghz X 4) with 2GB ram and 500GB space. So why in the world would I be paying a shared host money?
Well for one, I happened to find out about them on 07/07/07, where they [...]
