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If you’ve read my last posts, you’d already know I ventured into building web proxies last month observing they are quite hot at the moment. Web proxies simply allow cloaked anonymous browsing of almost any site, mainly the ones blocked by content filters or firewalls at ISPs, organizations and workplaces. After a bit of research and reading different webmaster forums for days, I concluded that for a running successful network of web proxies, I’d need a decent dedicated server with ample bandwidth; because proxy sites chew up too much server resources and bandwidth.

I’m a regular at Web Hosting Talk forums (better known as WHT among informed webmasters) and began my search for the …

Probably you’ve heard about web proxies. If you didn’t, then in simple language, web proxies enable bypassing of content filters and firewalls to browse blocked websites through your normal web browser. Why and where are some websites blocked? Perhaps you’ve seen at your school, office or workplace that certain sites have been blocked simply due to their popularity or nature. Common types of sites blocked are social networking, online games, sports, dating and adult.

This is done as so as to ensure that students and employees don’t access such sites and kill time, resulting in less productivity, Internet abuse and access harmful and objectionable sites not suitable to be browsed at public places and …

Hard disks crash often…nothing new and today it was my turn. Backup is what every educated IT professional, business and computer users should make a habit…but what if your backup hard disk crashes? Weird isn’t it? It happened to me and this explains why one should opt for off-site secondary online backup apart from offline or on-site backup. Online backup adds an extra layer of data protection and recovery.

Well, I had a 6 year old Seagate 20GB ATA33 hard drive which was connected as a backup drive. I knew it would fail anytime…but the drive was lying around and I thought why not put it to use? I did so and …

They say “content is king” when it comes to search engine optimization and internet marketing. So what is content? Well, we can say that everything we see on the internet is content, but in this context, we stress on the textual content that we put to use on web pages, sales letters, landing pages, blogs, auto-responder messages, etc. in the realm of online business and internet marketing. Everything we write for the above can be said an article or content in general language.

You may not believe that e-commerce, websites and internet marketing stand on the base of articles and content, but it’s true. It’s the words that makes a product sell well or …

The first release from the new WordPress development branch 2.2 was just released about a month ago and now comes a recommended bugfix release v2.2.1 from the WP stables.

The WP team claims to have improved and fixed some small little bugs since 2.2, resulting in a “finely polished” v2.2.1 released just an hour ago. The Wordpress 2.2.1 version is available for immediate download from WP site.

Quite a few bugs were fixed as listed on this page. The highlights of fixes are the following :

Atom feed validation fixes.
XML-RPC fixes.
Widget backward compatibility fixes.
Widget layout fixes for IE7.
Page and Text Widget improvements.
Some internal admin and default template fixes.

Oh yes, and …