I haven’t watched the Chuck Season 1 and Chuck Season 2. Lots are asking for the Chuck Season 3 but they’re not sure if there’s really the season 3 of the Chuck.
So, to the fans of the Chuck, let’s just keep waiting for the season 3 of the Chuck. I read a blogpost talking about it telling us that NBC officially announced that there will be Chuck Season 3. However, I am quite not sure if that blogpost is for real or is just written by the blogger just to make us wait for it.
My previous article talks about the steps in transferring or moving your blog from one server to another. On this article, we’ll still be talking about moving a blog from one server to another but this time we’ll be avoiding the blog’s downtime.
I guess, you already knew that blog downtimes will lead to the loss of traffic and loss of your blog’s income as well. That’s the reason why we need to avoid blog’s downtime when moving your blog from one server to another.
This post is actually inspired by the question asked by Ark which goes:
While I’m in the process, my site will be down for that period right?
If so, how can I put a message like, “This Site is Undergoing Maintenance†or a similar one?
So, instead of putting a page that says “This site is undergoing maintenance” especially when you’re in the process of moving your blog to the new server, why not find ways of avoiding downtimes?
Okay, here’s the steps:
1) Open a hosting account from the new webhost.
I understand that you’re planning to move your blog from your current webhost because you’re not contented with the service offered to you by your webhost. Maybe your blog frequently experience downtimes, just like what this blog of mine had experience before.
In other words, you will be moving your blog to a webhost which for you is better than your current webhost.
Consider first reading my previous articles listed below.
Now, once you already found the right webhost which you think could cater your blog’s needs, then sign up an account from them.
Before doing the next steps, make sure that your webhosting account and the servers for your account are fully set up already.
But you should take note of the following:
2) Upgrade your current WordPress engine.
It is better if you upgrade first the WordPress engine of your blog. We are assuming here that the WordPress software that will be installed into the server of your new webhost is the latest version of it. Upgrading your WordPress to the latest version will lead you to upgrade your database too, making your blog’s database compatible to the WordPress that will be used in your new server.
3) Download your blog’s files.
Check all the files of your blog and download them from your server to your computer.
Usually, the important files of your blog are found in the folders:
It would also be better if you’ll just include the following files which are all found in the root directory or sometimes in the WordPress directory.
And there might be other files other than these. You know better your own files, so just check your files in the server.
You need to use an FTP client in doing these processes.
4) Download your blog’s database.
Before downloading your blog’s database, optimize it first. How? Here’s the steps:
Then access your database using “MyPHPAdmin” script. Almost all webhost have this script.
Next, check the database tables that exist in your blog’s database. Usually, your WordPress blog’s database has these tables:
If you found tables other than that, those tables are most likely created by the WordPress plugins your blog is using. It’s your discretion whether to drop them or not. But those tables will only make your database large.
If you are using the plugin that send emails to the commenters or commentators, I think, it would be better if you will just delete all the data in the wp_users and wp_usermeta except the data of your own admin user.
5) Install WordPress into your new server
You might be wondering if you can really access your new server without changing first the DNS of your domain. That might be true that you can’t access your account if you are going to access the CPanel of your new webhosting account using the domain of your blog which is currently using the DNS of your current webhost.
But there’s another way of accessing your CPanel of your new webhost without using the domain of your blog. This time, we will be using the other domain that is hosted already by the same server of your new webhosting account.
So, you need to know first what domains are hosted by that server. You can ask your webhost about it. I’m sure they’ll give you one.
However, if your new server is a VPS or Dedicated Server, then you need to use another domain of your own, and add this domain into your webhosting account as your additional hosted domain. After that, change the DNS of that domain into the DNS of that server.
Once the DNS changes have been totally resolved, access the CPanel using that domain that is using the DNS of your new server. Usually, in accessing the CPanel, you just point your browser to “domain-in-your-new-server.com/cpanel” or “domain-in-your-new-server.com:2082” without the quotation marks.
However, if your new webhost is DreamHost or other webhosts that have similar system used by DreamHost, then here’s what you need to do:
6) Upload your files to your new server
Just like what we did on the previous step,we will use other domain hosted by your new server as your access key to access your account.
Use FTP client here. In the FTP URL, enter the domain you know that is hosted by that server. But the username and password should be the username and password for your webhosting account. Then upload all the files to the right or proper folder.
After uploading all the files, CHMOD the “.htaccess”, “sitemap.xml” and “sitemap.xml.gz” files to writeable using your FTP Client. If you don’t know how to do it, read my article, “How to CHMOD files using FTP client software?”
However, if your new server is a server from DreamHost or other webhost with similar system, upload the files using the temporary FTP URL that the webhost has given you.
7) Import your blog’s database
Access your CPanel just like what we did on the step 5. Then click the MySQL icon at the CPanel. In the MySQL page, open the “PHPMyAdmin”. Usually the link to “PHPMyAdmin” is found at the bottom of the page.
While you are at the “PHPMyAdmin”, empty or drop all the database tables found in the WordPress database. Then import your blog’s database or the database dump that you downloaded in step 4. If your database is large enough to be uploaded using the “PHPMyAdmin” script, do the steps in importing large database that I wrote before or if not, you can just divide the database dump into several files and import them one by one.
If your server is one of the servers of DreamHost and similar webhost, access your database using the URL “mysql.your-unused-domain.com” that I mentioned in step 5. The username and password are those I told you to take note in step 5. Then import the Database. However, you should know that DreamHost and similar webhosts are more strict in the file’s size and memory limit. So you need to divide the database dump or the database that you downloaded earliear into several files. If you don’t know how to do this, I think I need to write a separate article about that.
8) Change the DNS of your domain
So, it’s now time to change the DNS of your domain. But make sure that your account from the old webhost is still live so that your visitors can still access your blog even if the DNS changes is not yet totally resolved.
With that steps, your blog’s visitors will never found problems in accessing your blog. They won’t even notice any changes in your blog.
If you don’t understand something from what I’ve written, kindly drop your comment at our comment section or just reply the email you received if you’re a subscriber of our blog’s feed.
Just a little update regarding the Adsense Policies.
It was posted at the Official Adsense blog that the Adsense Policies have been updated. The update are related to:
For more info, visit the Adsense Program Policy page and the Adsense blog.
Rodolfo “Jun” Lozada, the star witness on the ZTE-NBN scandal, is arrested by the policemen from the Manila Police District, this afternoon April 29, 2009. The warrant of arrest was issued by the the Metropolitan Trial Court (MTC) of Manila Branch 26 for the Perjury case filed by Mike Defensor which is earlier dismissed by the MTC, but the judgment was reversed by the Manila Regional Trial Court Branch 11.
Smart Bro prepaid is the internet product offered by the Smart Philippines which uses USB modem. I already talked about it at my post, “Smart Bro, The Wireless Internet“.
So the question is: How can you speed up the Smart Bro Prepaid?
Here’s my answer:
You will enjoy the fastest internet speed of Smart Bro which is up to 2MBPS if you’re in the area where 3G or HSDPA is available. It’s just unfortunate that not all areas where you could find Smart cellsite have 3G or HSDPA. In other words, in areas where 3G or HSDPA is not available, you’ll just be using the GPRS connection which too slow and sometimes slower than the dial-up connection.
So, if you want to speed up your Smart Bro prepaid, then you need to go to the place where 3G or HSDPA connection is available. There’s no other way to speed it up.
Judy Ann Santos and Ryan Agoncillo finally settled in San Juan, Batangas, yesterday April 28, 2009.
Media and those who are not invited were forbidden in the wedding ceremony. Members of the wedding entourage include close relatives from the family of both sides, Megastar Sharon Cuneta and Senator Kiko Pangilinan, Regine Velasquez, Ogie Alcasid, Susy and Paolo Abrera.
Transferring your blog from your old webhost to your new webhost is actually easy if you know what to do. But of course you need to spend sometimes in front of your computer working for the steps.
I wrote this article for those bloggers or webmasters who accidentally visited this blog when searching for the tips on moving a blog from one server to another. I already wrote an article before related to this, but that was actually about moving a blog from the old domain to the new domain.
So, in this article, you’ll find the steps in moving a wordpress blog from a server of your old webhost to the server of your new webhost without changing your domain.
The process of moving your blog from one server to another follows the following steps:
- Step 1: Things to do at your old webhosting account:
- Step 2: Things to do at your Domain Registrar:
- Step 3: Things to do at your new webhosting account:
If you think you don’t understand what I am writing here, please feel free to drop your comment at the blog’s comment section. Or just reply the email you received if you’ve subscribed the feed of my blog.
If you think you need some technical assistance, you can ask the technical support of your webhost. I can offer you my help but I think, I can only do it one of you at a time.
But if you have knowledge about it and you think that I forgot something to mention here on this article, please share that to us at the comment section.
I already wrote articles before about webhosts. Few of those articles are:
But I think those articles are already obsolete. I wanted to edit them but I think, it would be better if I will write a new one.
And few days ago, I also published an article related to webhost or webhosting. The article has a title, “Avoiding Blog Downtimes“.
On that article, I mentioned that “a shared server is not the best server for a blog that caters thousands of visitors a day“.
Why shared server is not best for your busy blog?
The shared server is a server that hosts hundreds or thousands of webhosting accounts in which the total server’s resources are being shared by websites of every account hosted by that server.
The number 1 disadvantage of a shared server is that when a website caused trouble to the server by simply eating up the resources, all websites hosted by that server will be affected.
That’s what this blog (SELaplana) had actually experienced since its early existing up to the time when I decided to transfer it to a VPS server.
Before, you’d always noticed that when accessing this blog, your browser would tell you an error had been encountered by this blog. Most of the time, this blog had the error in connecting to the database. But there were also times that the server of this blog was simply inaccessible due to its firewall problem or was simply dead.
So, what kind of webhost’s server that is best for a busy blog?
You have actually two options to choose:
Virtual Private Server or sometimes called as Virtual Dedicated Server acts like a dedicated server even if it is part a server shared by other webhosting accounts. It can be best compared to an apartment building which is divided into the apartment units and each apartment unit has its own and independent power and water supply.
In other words, a VPS is a server divided into partitions of servers of which each partition acts like a dedicated server. Each of the partitions has its own operating system, disk space, memory allocation and can be rebooted without affecting other partitions.
VPS is more expensive that a shared server but is cheaper than the real or physical dedicated server.
Here’s few of the VPS offered by popular webhosting companies. It includes info about them. Some bloggers that I knew got hosting solution from them.
A dedicated server is a single unit of server which is offered to a single client. In other words, if you’ll get a dedicated server, there’s no other client who can share that server from you. Except of course if you’ll share it with your friends.
So, a dedicated server is more expensive than the VPS, considering that the whole server is being rented by you.
Few of my friends recommended to me the Host Gator‘s Dedicated server. The price of the Linux server at the HostGator ranges from $174/mo to $374/mo depending on the processor used by the server.
I know that some of you got your own VPS or Dedicated Server for your websites of blogs. Please share something to us about your servers, for to learn something that would help us decide what webhost is best for us.
This article is not about Pinay and Pinoy Sex Scandal. It’s not about Technology and Making Money Online. It’s simply my answer to Bendzg’s blogpost, “Ted Failon Scandal and Coverup”.
Bendzg is my Kababayan here in Maasin City. I wrote this article not to hurt him but just to share my thoughts on what he said at his blog.
Bendzg believed that Ted Failon is guilty of killing his wife Trina Etong and is also guilty of obstruction of justice. And not only that, he even accused the media in protecting the broadcaster, Ted Failon.
Covering up murder may be a daunting task but not when you have the media behind your back. Media has the ability to control people’s mind. They can just put a spin on things knowing that they already captured the people’s trust. They can turn stories around just by highlighting some parts of the story and making the culprit—Ted Failon himself, look like a victim of the government’s vendetta against a long-time critic.
It might be true that the “media has the ability to control people’s mind” through their presentation of the news. But I don’t think that the media will stand on the side of the criminal and protect him from the law. If we noticed that the media seems biased to the side of Ted, then that only means that they believed that Ted did not kill Trina.
The formula is really simple: repeat the lie over and over again and it will eventually sound more sensible than the truth itself. Roundup the friends who would testify that Ted Failon’s wife is suicidal; show a picture of a grieving family who mourns for their sibling’s “suicide attemptâ€;
I once heard a saying that “a lie told a thousand times became the truth“. I think, it’s the German’s Hitler who said this.
That saying might be true. But I don’t think that presenting the testimony of Trina’s friends and siblings to back up Ted’s claim that what happened to Trina was suicidal is just a way twisting the lie to make it the truth.
Let’s not forget that they are friends (not just friends but best friends) of Trina, and that Pamela is the younger sister of her. If Trina was killed by Ted, I wonder why the siblings and friends of Trina, including the daughter of Trina and Ted defended Ted?
highlight the police arrests and deem it inhuman then roundup the highly idealistic people manning the Commission on Human Rights; show the gullible daughter crying in front of national TV asking for prayers for a mother attempting suicide; and, lastly use the political angle making the present administration itself the mastermind of Failon’s supposed harassment to make him an unpalatable candidate for senator on next year’s election. And, to top it off, bring in the text polls and call-in opinions of the masses.
I understand that the QCPD were just doing their job in giving justice to the death of Trina Etong. But they also made mistakes.
First, they speculated that the killing of Trina was done in the bedroom. Then Ted and the cohorts transferred the dying Trina into the bathroom. Secondly, they said that the body of Ted was full of scratches due to the fighting between Trina and him.
But these speculations of the QCPD remains speculations and was actually proven wrong.
And another thing is: They showed the media how they used force in arresting Ted’s household and Trina’s siblings.
So, if these things were highlighted by the media, then we couldn’t blame the media if they’re doing this. Actually, it’s the officers of the QCPD whose to blame on this. The chief of the QCPD was even caught by the camera how he mishandled the evidence on this case and he was even caught by the camera lying during the Press-Con in relation to the arresting of the younger sister of Trina, Pamela.
It’s funny how lots and lots of people on TV believes in Ted Failon’s bullshit. Do they miss the fact that no gunfire was heard, that the bathroom was cleaned as well as the gun and even the insides of the car which is believed to be the crime scene is squeaky clean.
Well, at first I really thought that Ted killed Trina. But what made my mind changed was the story of Pamela and the friends of Trina.
What about Ted’s Bullshit? I think, Ted has learned how to dispose properly his shit (tae). But I also wonder if Ted has a bull that scattered its shits at the street.
What about the gunfire? If there was no gunfire heard, does it mean that Trina was killed outside their house? Who knows? But I think, Pamela knows about it.
What about the crime scenes that were cleaned up by the maids and by the driver? For me, that’s the mistake made by the household of Ted. But if it was Ted who commanded them to clean those places to hide something from the authorities, then why did he bring Trina to the nearest hospital?
Forget the suicide note which looks likes the 12-year old daughter’s handwriting containing “po†which is an uncommon term of endearment. Come on, will you use “po†or “opo†in addressing a spouse? I can’t image how they sound in bed in that case. “Bilisan mo pa, po.†(Hmmm. I change my mind. I think it sound kinky.) What’s funnier is having a witness for one’s suicide note.
What’s wrong with the “po” and “opo” between spouse? My wife and I use “po” and “opo” when we send text messages to each other, when we write letters and notes, and when we’re using Tagalog language when talking. I am a Kamayo speaking one and my wife is a leyteña, but we’re using “po” and “opo”.
I don’t care whether Ted Failon be imprisoned or not—I already know he won’t cause of all the bigwig friends.
Well, I do believe that Ted will not be imprisoned for the parricide or murder because of the fact that the evidences the authorities got supported Ted’s claim that Trina committed suicide. But I guess, the Failon’s household will be found guilty of “obstruction of justice”. But who knows (in da aparador ), it’s just my thought.
All I care about is the type of media we have in this country. If we have a media institution who would be willing to cover the truth up just because Ted Failon is a part of their own, and even willing to make government institutions casualties to their worthless crusades, how could you expect society to make the wise decisions?
I know that it’s not good for a media to be biased. But it’s far worst for a writer, a blogger or a media to judge Ted guilty just because the crime scenes were cleaned up.
If there are victims in this Ted Failon scandal, it’s not Ted Failon himself, it’s not his children or his family, it’s the Quezon City Police Department, the government institutions and the people Ted Failon and his company, ABS-CBN betrayed.
For me the real victims here are all of us. The QCPD officers are victim of their own abuse of authority or maybe it is right to call it “excessive use of force“. Ted, his household and his in-laws are victim of their ignorance of the law. The government and the people of the Philippines are victims of their own corruption.
Who really betrayed anybody? Is it Hugo De Medina? Is it Arcides? Are the characters of the “La Traicion”? I think the traitors are we… all of us. We betrayed Philippines in our own way of betrayal.
Question: How to make Smart Bro wireless download faster?
Answer:
I already talked about Smart Bro in my article “Smart Bro, Wireless Internet“. And based on its characteristic, the only way to make downloading faster using the Smart Bro is by following the steps below:
For Canopy Wireless Smart Bro:
For USB Smart Bro: