AwStats is my favorite web statistics tool. For cPanel users, there’s no installation needed, AwStats is already installed. But there are times when you want some people to access their website’s statistics but you don’t necessarily want to give them access to cPanel.
This tutorial will show you how you can make AwStats accessible outside cPanel.

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It’s been a while since I’ve posted the first part of this tutorial on How To Use OpenX! Well better late than never, in the second part of this tutorial I will show you how to manage your publisher inventory and add a banner to your website.
The publisher inventory is quite simple to understand. It [...]

cPanel has always been my web control panel of choice, whether it is to perform administration tasks (using WHM) or simply to manage your website. It has to be one of the most mature control panel out there along with Plesk and DirectAdmin.
When I shop for a web host, I always make sure they offer [...]

I figured that since I’m doing a web hosting comparison which includes DreamHost, HostPapa, HostGator, GoDaddy and 1and1, I might as well take some time to show how to do a few things with your hosting account.
A lot of people are buying web hosting so they can have their own blog. Since DreamHost’s One-Click-Installs now [...]

To change your server’s hostname manually on CentOS / RHEL is quite easy. Simply edit the file /etc/sysconfig/network with your favorite text editor and change the value of the HOSTNAME parameter to the new hostname. Your configuration file should look something like this:
/etc/sysconfig/network
NETWORKING=yes
HOSTNAME=”newhostname.domainname.com”
GATEWAY=”192.168.0.1″GATEWAYDEV=”eth0″
FORWARD_IPV4=”yes”
You’ll also need to replace all occurencies of your old hostname in /etc/hosts. [...]

There are times when you might need to automate the execution of some particular tasks on your web server. Some of these tasks could be maintenance tasks, backups, monitoring, etc. Just as with Microsoft Windows, Linux / Unix workstations and servers have the possibility to run shell commands periodically on a given schedule.
The service in [...]

OpenX is my weapon of choice when it comes to serving ads. Although it is by far the best free application in its genre, it can be quite confusing to get around at first.
But before we go any further, let me explain a few basic concepts about ad serving.
As for any ad serving technology, there are [...]

Lately I’ve made a post on how to install MySQL on Windows 2008. I’ve decided to turn it into a video so it would be easier to see how it’s done.
Installing MySQL on Windows 2008 is pretty much the same as with any other versions of Windows so you can apply this to Windows 2003, [...]

It seems some people were a bit confused when it came to installing PHP5 on Windows Server 2008 using FastCGI. So to make things clearer, I’ve made a little video to show you how I’ve done it.
Take note that this WILL NOT WORK on other versions of Windows than this one.

I hope this will help [...]

While the basics of web hosting are not that complex, it’s important to know what you’re doing in order to keep your web server efficient and secure.
As many web servers out there are running on Linux while most workstations are running on Windows, mastering Linux administration concepts can be confusing at first. Today we’re going to [...]

Unlike MS Windows’ file system (NTFS), hidding a file on Linux is not done by setting it’s hidden attribute: it’s done by setting its name. That’s right. File names that start by a “.” are automatically hidden. Here are a few examples of common hidden files on Linux systems:

.htaccess
.profile
.bash_history

To list all files including hidden ones [...]

Sometimes it’s useful to be able to find out how much disk space a directory is taking. While there are some web interfaces or desktop applications that allows you to do that, it’s always useful to know how it can be done through a command shell.
The DU Command
To find out how much space is being [...]