Posted: December 15, 2010 at 5:35 pm |
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Our newest partner to be introduced to our cPanel control panel, Attracta, has been fully deployed to all of our shared and semi-dedicated web hosting servers. Attracta is a powerful solution engineered to help you increase the ranking of your website and get more of your pages indexed on search engines such as Google.
We are proud to announce that their offerings are now accessible directly from your cPanel control panel. You will see a new set of buttons in your control panel under the name “Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Tools” — Also, our partnership allows us to provide our clients with the basic paid version of Attracta tools at no cost (value of $4.95 per month).
On another note, we’d like to wish everyone Happy Holidays from part of the entire VEXXHOST staff. Be on the look out for more value features in your web hosting account soon. 
Posted: December 13, 2010 at 7:35 am |
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It’s finally here. We have been working on this feature with CloudFlare directly for the past couple of days. CloudFlare helps you make your site much faster and increases the security of your website, for free.
The service is implemented directly within our web hosting platform. With other providers, you have to go through the fuss of changing name servers and other troubles, where as with VEXXHOST, everything is instantly done for you, without changing nameservers.
Read the press release and login to your control panel today and select “CloudFlare” from your control panel.
Posted: December 11, 2010 at 10:42 am |
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Last night, we deployed an awesome new feature for all of our web hosting clients. We’re not going to say a whole lot about it but if you’re intrigued, you should probably login and take a look for a new button in our control panel.
The new feature speeds up your site by bringing expensive CDN technologies and high security features to your website with a couple of clicks. All for free, all directly from your control panel. If you need any assistance with it, feel free to let us know
The official announcement will follow on Monday.
Posted: November 27, 2010 at 6:04 pm |
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At the moment, PHP is undoubtedly the leading development language of online applications. It’s simplistic syntax and the prevalent amount of tutorials for it makes it a perfect starter language for online developers. The ability to include miniature chunks of code on any ordinary HTML web page makes getting started with PHP exceptionally easy.
However, there’s a new player on the block, Rails. With the recent release of Rails 3, building the next new killer application seems much easier and faster to accomplish. Rails 3 facilitates the development of online applications by providing developers with a powerful, scalable & expandable framework. Rails 3 has arguably introduced web developers with one of the finest object oriented programming languages.
There are a fair amount of powerful PHP frameworks that can be named. However, they all lack the powerful OOP features that Rails 3 provides. Models can be created as objects, then can be modified/saved into a database and destroyed at anytime. The powerful framework handles sessions, security, XSS, SQL injections and secures everything. However, the best part of this is the ActiveRecord ability to make optimized SQL queries without spending up all your time.
The workflow of creating a blog would be the following:
- Create a new Rails 3 application
- Create a post model (using a built-in simplistic scaffold application) with the following values
- Create a comment model (same scaffold application) with the following values:
- ID
- Content ID
- Related Post ID
- Use the automatically generated Post controller and write the following in it:
- Use the automatically generated Comment controller and write the following:
There is much more to it, however, everything just makes sense. I strongly suggest taking a look at Rails for Zombies which is a simple introduction to Rails. Also, watching the Rails 3 screencasts won’t take more than a couple of minutes of your time but you will undoubtedly be interested.
Frankly, here’s a small comparison of a little query that gets the 5 latest comments for a blog, both in PHP and Rails. You be the judge.
PHP:
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| mysql_query(“SELECT * FROM comments WHERE id=1 LIMIT 5”); |
Ruby:
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| comments = Comment.where(:id => 1).limit(5) |
Also, if you have nested objects, you can obviously do the following with Ruby:
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| hard_drive = Client.where(:id => 50).computer.hard_drive |
I don’t even want to start thinking of how complex and time consuming writing a query for the above code, where it’s all done and completed within minutes. I personally think that any advanced (or beginner) programmers should give it a shot. Nothing but advantages so far here, I’ve yet to run into a Rails issue. I’d love to hear others constructive output regarding this, I know I might sound a bit biased however I have been very impressed by Rails.
-DS
Posted: November 6, 2010 at 10:56 am |
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After a great deal of rigorous testing in our server development labs with countless hardware and software combinations, we are proud to finally bring a new solid cutting-edge technology for our clients, Ksplice.
Ksplice is one of the latest innovations in server technologies. It allows us to update and patch important security updates on our servers without rebooting the server, therefore, no downtime at all.
Ksplice uses some magic to update the kernel while it’s running by making modifications to parts of it that require updating and dynamically reloading them.
We hope that you see the service improvement and we look forward to introducing new features on our web hosting service. Also, be on the lookout, Rails 3 developers, we have some cool upcoming features.
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