Well, I completed all the work on the first project I was doing for Martin – the one where I developed a web interface to generate text messages with a given font, color, size etc. on the fly. It took about a week of tweaking to get it to the exact stage where it was useable and Martin seems to have liked my work and I am gratified by that 🙂 He even asked me to do another project for me – which is actually an extension of the first one since he wanted the additional feature of being able to place an image (resized if necessary) on the generated image with the text message and to be able to specify the position of the new image. I have been working on that particular project over the weekend and have a working demo. So the work goes on.
In the meantime, I’ve also been dabbling with a lot of stuff on the domain itself. I had been told that my host supported add-on domains and that it was possible to purchase an extra package which would let you have 50 add-on domains and 50 parked domains along with my current domain. So I got that package since I wanted to add a few additional domains on and have so far been having nothing but problems with the adding new domains. It seems as if I chose the wrong time for it because the host server had just gone through some problems and it wouldn’t initially create the DNS entries correctly for any new add-on domains. One good thing though is that tech support for my hosting company seems to be very responsive (except of course on weekends :p) and they fixed that problem as soon as I let them know about it.
I then discovered that FrontPage Extensions were supported by my host but not on add-on domains :p In trying to find out where the problem lay, I messed up one add-on domain completely and so had to try and recreate it and guess what? The server control panel will not allow me to do that since there is a DNS entry for that domain already on my host’s server and of course, I have no way to modify the DNS entry! So I’ve had to submit another helpdesk ticket and it being the weekend, of course nobody has responded yet. Ah well, the joys of being a geek :p
Time to change hosting company. 😛
I found a really great host – all accounts are reseller accounts – so you get WHM & Cpanel. Cheap too. With 24/7 support by ticket. They respond within minutes not hours or days. DATHORN http://www.dathorn.com
Try using http://ipowerweb.com
I had a problem where I screwed up my phpbb board, trying to mess with coding when I don’t really know how, I got a response and had it fixed real quick. This was sunday night. Never had a problem there.
hey Fahim! did you know that Google/Blogspot is looking to hire folks with technical and blog knowledge?
http://www.google.com/jobs/sales.html#new_pgms_blog
I am real pleased with my blog site. I know just enough html to be dangerous!
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/AVanIngen/Blog.htm
I don’t have money to pay you for the program, but I can write a glowing report of Blog, if you like.
fahim knows where to get reliable hosting..dont ya sir?.. 😛
I helped a friend setup his site with a company which I can VERY highly recommend. http://www.aussiehosts.com.au
Gary runs a forum for any Q’s you might have about hosting. He has some really good deals that would suit you I reckon. $10 deal for one. You get your own control panel & can setup sub domains etc. (as many as you like)
Forum is here http://www.aussieforum.com
Brumer……
Actually if you go here you get the Hosting that is on USA or Canadian servers (fast)at a cheaper price that the other which is on Aust servers.
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brumer
http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/07/11/27OPconnection_1.html?platforms
Has Fahim fallen prey to an extended bought of time draining real life events?