I have created a PHP script that will allow you to download a full backup of your website. The script makes use of the tar command through shell_exec().

One of IXWebHosting’s greatest features is their EasyApps script installer. Within a few clicks, even the most inexperienced user can install tens of popular applications such as WordPress, Joomla, osCommerce and phpBB. For those of you who are used to Fantastico Deluxe, you’ll find EasyApps just as powerful and easy to use.

Even though the blog craze has started a while ago, it is still very trendy for personnal and corporate websites to have their own blog. Some people are blogging just for fun while others are blogging on a professional level. Either way, having a blog is within the reach of everybody and it isn’t that [...]

When it comes to webmail clients, RoundCube has to be one of my favorites. Aside from its neat interface, RoundCube has a lot of useful features such as a find-as-you-type address book, a richtext editor and multiple sender identities among others. If you’re already a cPanel user, you may have already tried RoundCube as it [...]

Managing a corporate website’s content can be a somewhat complicated task, particulary if you’re using static pages. Up to this day, the government branch I work for used Adobe Contribute CS3 to manage a handful of websites. But lately we’ve decided to take a new approach to content management and instead of using a software-based [...]

Soho Launch is a nice website builder that allows anyone to build a website no matter the level of expertise they have. Most of the time you can get it for free with some web hosting companies such as HostPapa. Earlier this week I’ve shown you How To Install Soho Launch Pro Edition On HostPapa [...]

Soho Launch Pro Edition is a software that allow people of all experience levels to create and maintain a professional-looking website. But unlike some website design softwares like Dreamweaver, Soho Launch Pro doesn’t need to be installed on your computer since it uses a web interface. But the best of all is that it’s entirely [...]

Using an ODBC connection to query your MySQL database remotely can be quite useful for using third party database management softwares (like Microsoft Access) or reporting tools (like Crystal Reports). But what exactly is ODBC? ODBC is an abbreviation for Open Database Connectivity. It is an interface used to access databases using SQL queries (Structured [...]

In the first part of this tutorial you’ve seen how to structure your folders and how to define a new site with Dreamweaver CS3. Now that we’ve got this part working, we’re now going to create a web page and upload it to our web server. Before going any further, you must know that default [...]

Usually I try not to get too much into web development through this blog, I rather try to focus on Web Hosting but today we’ll make an exception. By popular demand, I will show you how to get started with Dreamweaver, a popular HTML editor. In fact, Dreamweaver is not just an HTML editor, it’s [...]

SSI stands for Server Side Includes. You might have seen SSI as a web hosting feature on some web hosts. Let’s see what it’s all about and what you can do with it. Server Side Includes (SSI) is a simple scripting language made mostly for the web. As its name implies, it consists of including [...]

Following up on my last post about SSH, I’ve found some Java SSH Clients I’d like to share with you. As opposed to SSH client softwares, a Java SSH Client doesn’t need to be installed on your computer. Instead you just need to access a web page from which the Java SSH client will be [...]

SSH stands for Secure Shell. You may have already seen SSH as a web hosting feature on some web hosts and wondered what it’s for. SSH is a network protocol that allows two computer to communicate together through a secure channel. Data encryption is used to ensure security. SSH uses a public-key to authenticate the [...]

This is finally the last post of this series on How To Install Your Own Web Server. In my last post I’ve shown you how to setup a virtual host and now we’re going to use this to install phpMyAdmin. Of course, the purpose of this tutorial is not really to install phpMyAdmin but it’s [...]

Following up on the two posts I’ve made on how to install OpenX on HostGator and how to install OpenX on GoDaddy, I’m now going to show you how to use OpenX. Before going further, please take note that I’ve already made a tutorial on how to use OpenX in text format so I’ll limit [...]