10 Tips to Keep Email Out of the Spam Folder

1. Be Compliant with the CAN-SPAM Act

If you are sending “any electronic mail message, the primary purpose of which is the commercial advertisement or promotion of a commercial product or service,” then you must comply with the following 7 main requirements (or face penalties up to $16,000) [5]:

1. Don’t use false or misleading header information
2. Don’t use deceptive subject lines
3. Identify the message as an ad
4. Tell recipients where you’re located
5. Tell recipients how to opt-out of receiving future email from you
6. Honor opt-out requests promptly
7. Monitor what others are doing on your behalf

If your email contains only transactional emails or relationship content, then you are exempt from these rules; however, you must still not include false or misleading routing information.
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Changing Web Hosts ? Step-By-Step Guide

Every webmaster cringes at the thought of moving hosts. Like moving your home it can be messy and sometimes problems arise. But if you follow these simple steps, your move will be less painful.

Backup Backup Backup
If you’ve been diligent with your backups, you’ve got a lot of insurance to fall back on yet always make the latest backup. If you haven’t, before you do anything else, do a backup now. Backup anything and everything you can and don’t forget your database if your site relies on it. Save at least 2 copies and store them separately. One for you to work with, and the other as an archive. Do not underestimate how easy it is to copy over these files as you make changes or simply mess it up.

If you’re moving to a host who has as different control panel, make a manual backup by downloading all your files because different control panels may not be able to restore the backups made by your old host. They also have different directory structures so your file trees will be in a mess. If you need to, make a small note file with notepad with memos for you to remember the old server configurations. This will help you as you make changes on your new host server and save the confusion moving back and forth between hosts. Remember to make the correct transfer type (ASCII or Binary) as you download. If your download is not right chances are you’ll have a tough time getting your site to work on the new host server.

If server logs are especially important, remember to backup those too. There is no good way of moving logs yet because different hosts may log statistics differently. So the best thing to do is to download it and use a log analyzer on your computer to make references to later on.
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How to run PHP 4 and 5 on Cpanel

This information is helpful for hosting companies that want to run PHP 4 & 5 on the same cPanel server. After this, Hosting costumers / cPanel users should choose what version of PHP will they use on theirs scripts.

You should consider some implications on your server performance, but webhosts are using because they don’t need two server to run the different PHP versions for different costumers.

How to run PHP 4 and 5 on the same Cpanel server
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How To Install cPanel on a VPS Server

This post is a mini how to, and will help to simply install cPanel on you VPS server. Note that cPanel needs 128 MB to work, but we recommend 256MB.

• Login to your VZMC to get inside your server
• Create a new VPS with the Sample Ve Config call vps.cpanel
• Now you should select the ips you want to use in that VPS and the dns servers.
• Select RedHat Enterprise Template (you dont need to select any addon for cpanel), and select the Space / Memory / CPU

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How to find out what others site are hosted on your shared hosting server

Ever want to know who else is sharing your IP address on the internet ?

Sometimes thousands of sites are utilizing the same IP Address, and if one gets blacklisted it could potentially affect your site.

Although most shared hosting providers do a good job of keeping the bulk of their customers off of black list, you should know who your “IP neighbors” are.
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What are DNS records?

DNS records are useful if you need to point a domain/subdomain to another IP or hostname.

There are several types of DNS records you can create:

‘A’ record:

‘A’ record is used to point domains and subdomains to an IP address. This IP address can be any IP address, not confined to a server IP address. For example, your broadband connection at home is assigned a static IP by your ISP, then you can use A record to point a domain/subdomain to this IP address. After that you can call it by using the hostname, for instance: home.example.com or example.com.
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Choosing A Great Domain Name For Your Blog

When you first start out blogging you probably will start out with a free blog such as blogspot. By doing this you dont have the option to have your own domain name. This however is important if you want to be serious about your blog. If you are serious about blogging you should get your own hosting (as mentioned before in a previous post) and your own domain name.

Once you decide to buy a domain name you need to find one that is not registered yet. This task can be a bit more difficult then you expect because majority of the good domain names are already taken. However there are a few tools you can use to find domain names.
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