If you are looking for some quality budget Web Hosting, look no further than HostGator this Black Fiday.  These special offers are only available on the day so don't miss out.

HostGator Black Friday 2010 Special Offer:

• 50% OFF EVERYTHING From 12:00AM CST to 5AM CST

• 80% OFF EVERYTHING From 5AM to 9AM CST WHILE SUPPLIES LAST (first come, first receive; so definitely don't miss out!)

• From 9AM to 11:59PM CST OR after 80% OFF accounts have sold out, HostGator will continue to offer 50% OFF EVERYTHING

This applies to ALL Accounts and ALL Term Lengths. So you're visitors and friends will have the opportunity to receive up to 80% off of up to 3 years worth of Hosting! That would come out to $35.64 for 3 FULL YEARS!

That includes Shared Hosting, Reseller Hosting, VPS Hosting AND even Dedicated Servers.

These offers will apply to the client's first invoice (first term length they sign up for whether that be 1 month or for 3 years).

This promotion gives HostGator customers award winning hosting for as little as:

• Shared Hosting: $4.95/month AS LOW AS $0.99/month
• Reseller Hosting: $24.95/month AS LOW AS $4.99/month
• VPS Hosting: $19.95/month AS LOW AS $3.99 First Month
• Dedicated Servers: $174/month AS LOW AS $34.80 First Month

Forget P2P and unleash the power of Usenet with this current Astraweb promotion which works out to be only $8 a month for unlimited downloads with no speed cap:

Unlimited DSL - US$ 96 every year

Works out to be $8/month

No Speed Limits

20 Connections

Exactly the same as Unlimited DSL Plan

You will pay $96 every year as long as your subscription remains active. We will not raise the price.

Astraweb coupon

If you have ever visited the Coupon site RetailMeNot on any occasion, you would be aware of the potential earning capacity such a site like this can achieve.  A script like that can cost you thousands of dollars of development and time but thankfully not any more.  I recently scoured the net in search of something that would offer a webmaster the ability to create a Coupon site just like the big players and finally I have found the perfect coupon script.

Introducing BACS, the Coupon Script.

Checkout a Demo of the script in action on my dev site: www.ozsource.net

OzSource Coupon and Promo Site

The beauty of this script is that it allows you to setup not just an affiliate network, but also a coupon solution for you very own online shop, Coupons have always been big business and offering your customers discount coupons of any kind will drive sales and help with the all important Word of mouth.

If RetailMeNot can earn  in upwards of 10 million dollars a month why Can't you Earn just $10,000? Especially when you can have the same tools at your disposal?

A member of BACS Coupon Script recently stated that his earnings were $200 per day right after 20 days of the purchase of this coupon script.  SEO (search engine Optimisation) features predominately and this script is as google friendly as WordPress is, Search Engines love it.

Build A Coupon Site features:

• Build your List
• Help others to save money and you earn commission
• Help companies to Market Their Products
• Boost Your Adsense Income too
• Search Engine Friendly Coupon website
• Multiple Web2.0 Designs.
• Repeat Traffic. People come again and again to get more coupon codes and you will get commission each time they purchase.
• Create Unlimited Coupons
• Let People Vote and Comment on every coupon.
• More features coming soon.

Click Here! For more information on How to build a coupon site with just $100.

A lot of the time when searching for a host you'll most likely come across a "Top hosting provider" site like our very own HostSocial, which basically provides a full list of hosting providers within certain countries or regions. The site usually has a few features so you can filter what you'd like to choose from a hosting provider, such as "US providers" or "UK providers" - you can also specify the amount of space/month transfer and how much you'd like to pay for a hosting package.

The best thing you can do when visiting such sites is to take a look at their user ratings and customer feedback.  Their ratings will be displayed next to the hosting provider in a list with ratings from 1 star to 10 stars (10 stars being the best rating possible and 1 being the worst) which users and customers have "rated" that specific company.

If you are a customer of that specific hosting company you can register on the top hosting providers website and leave feedback next to that hosting companies name - the much more and better feedback a company gets obviously means that the hosting provider offers a decent service and is most likely worth a try.

You may find that some of the best and most popular hosting providers are usually on the first page of search engines as they have spent a lot of money on advertising and promoting their website and business thus most likely a professional business that is committed to the industry.

There are still tonnes of web hosting companies out there that have not yet been discovered completely by the public so it's always worth searching forums and search engines for less popular but reliable hosting providers so you get better speeds at brilliant prices.

5 Top US based Web Hosts.

Another WordPress upgrade issue.  This time the exact error message is as follows:

Downloading update from http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.8.3.zip.

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 2357261 bytes) in /home/xxx/public_html/wp-includes/http.php on line 1324

There are a couple ways to fix this issue, with the easiest is to edit wp-settings.php at line 13 and increase the value from 32M to 64M:

define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '64M');

As per this WordPress support topic you can also increase your host php limit which will help fix the issue in the future.

Most web hosting companies are good in all flavours of the web industry but just like any other industry you get the clowns that are here to seek out some quick dough but are then quick enough to get out the industry when they realise they're making no quick money offering web hosting services.  These are usually 14-16 year old kids who've managed to get in mommy and daddy's good books so they can use their paypal account - or if lucky enough their own paypal account.  While you do get these 14-16 year old kids that are just here to spoil the party you really do get some young teens that really do love the business with a passion and have a decent business online already making some serious money - which is hard to believe I know.

You will often find a lot of these kiddie hosts when visiting web development and hosting forums creating threads with all their server specs and services with a VERY cheap pricing structure. I'm not trying to knock all teens as some of them are very reliable - but I’d suggest keeping away from the ones that can hardly spell or their website design looks like it's been made by their little brothers and sisters, don't get yourself in that hole it's really not worth the hassle so avoid all.

This is when the good use of our popular hosting service "Reseller Account" or "Master Reseller Account" comes into play. Fortunately enough for these young teens they can have a paper round and still be able to pay for their monthly reseller costs thanks to the cheap prices - which isn't good news for you webmasters and developers out there. These kiddie hosts will quite literally get into your pockets and not even give you the service they promise in return because if they are unlucky not to have a paper round they'll not be able to afford these monthly reseller costs thus having to shut up shop and that will be the last you hear from them.

For more Hosting news and reviews try a Hosting review site like HostSocial.

The Hypernia and iinet partnership is fantastic for Aussie gamers who have been accustomed to substandard service in our country when it comes to simple gaming services:

July 8, 2009---Miami, FL--- Hypernia Hosting Corp®, the global leader in online game hosting, announced today its partnership with iiNet, Australia’s third largest ISP, providing Australian gamers with local access to some of the world’s top online games.

This exclusive Australian partnership brings with it major titles including the free-to-play Quake Live (a new browser-based First Person Shooter game from id Software), as well as titles from LucasArts including the popular PSP game Star Wars Battlefront: Renegade Squadron and Novalogic’s Delta Force: Xtreme 2, with the promise of more to come.

James Vallord-Costa, Hypernia’s CEO states, “Hypernia is the global market leader in the game hosting arena and together, with iiNet’s impressive network technology and local resources, we are extending our reach into Australia’s previously untapped market by bringing affordable hosting solutions to the game publishers around the world who are interested in the Australian market. By partnering, we’ve been able to significantly lower the cost of bandwidth and managed services down to a level that supports the gaming usage model, on par with our prices offered in North America and Europe.”

By providing brand new gaming networks in both Perth and Sydney, with access to over 70 of the world’s top online games, Hypernia and iiNet are able to give Australian gamers the choice of hosting location, ensuring a higher quality service with improved latency and game-play.
Also, as a bonus, all iiNet subscribers will receive complete unmetered service to all games hosted by Hypernia as well as improvements in latency, lowering ping times from 140-200 ms down to 20 ms which is near LAN quality.

“Our gaming network with Hypernia is growing exponentially in size and popularity as it provides gamers with unmetered fast access to top gaming content in Australia from top publishers like EA and Activision,” says Greg Bader, iiNet’s Chief Technology Officer.

“Hypernia’s existing relationships with major game publishers and developers bring with them future opportunities for big MMO (Massively Multiplayer Online) games via our networks. Until Hypernia and iiNet partnered, the closest game companies could host to Australia was in Singapore due to high costs. With localized content, it is now as affordable as it is in North America, opening the door to more games and better online experiences for Australians.” says Mr. Bader.

SQLDumpSplitter is a fantastic time saver - especially if you have shared hosting that imposes upload file size limits.

SQLDumpSplitter will allow you to automatically split your sql database at any size you choose that can then be imported with a tool like phpMyAdmin.  If your database was too big to import into phpmyadmin, it won't be anymore.

You can also choose to skip Comment-Lines if required.

Grab the tool here.

Example after a SQL split:

These files are created with SQLDumpSplitter 2.
If you want to restore the dump, you have to execute the file xxxx_DataStructure.sql first because it contains the structure like Tables.
After that, you can execute the other .sql-files as they contain the data of the now existing tables.
SQLDumpSplitter 2 by Philip Lehmann-Böhm
Homepage: http://www.PhilipLB.de

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