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The server makes no difference in this case unless your last host had connectivity problems keeping people away. Alexa just knows they are going to www.****** and doesn't even know where that is... as I understand it. It would make no sense for them to track IP addresses for sites. Posting here with links we can follow does tend to do interesting things to one's traffic though.

Lost another one to the "View New Posts" crack. Sorry I didn't reply sooner. The Search Engines (SE) have no problem with subdomains. The SEs look at pages instead of entire sites so they don't care if it seems the sub-page should be under the main or not... it's just another page that stands or falls on its own merit. If you have two domain names pointing at the same page the SEs may see it as spam, or at least duplicated pages, and may do anything from nothing to banning both. Most likely they will just ignore one and it will always be the one you really want them to list. Another advantage of subdomains is that the stats are tracked separately. I have a charter fishing boat client that wanted to put up his 1969 GTO page for everyone to see. That was fine but it made it tough to see who came looking for fishing so I created the gto.**** site. Now I get each set of statistics on who visits separately.

As Rob said, it is tough to find a better deal than here. Your new site could be set up for $4.00 per month or less if you pay for the whole year at once. I can't even run my computer at home for $4.00 in electricity and the service from TCH is great so if you can find a cheaper site and are willing to deal with the hassles of multiple hosts and flakey support then you'll have to go with them, but I'd much rather pay the $4.00 and have the great service I have come to know from TCH. To paraphrase a "feed the kids" commercial "For just the cost of a cup of coffee you can have a whole month of quality hosting for your hungry webs." Starbucks coffee for $4.00 - could be if you get fancy. Soda - $0.75 per can - less than a 6-pack. Gasoline? enough to start your car one time with today's prices! If you get a couple more sites you can enjoy even bigger savings by going to a reseller account too... but that's down the road.

Thanks for the input from everyone on this. I hate to commit to a program without asking, especially one as potentially disruptive as email. You guys are the best! :heart

Smart girl - a graphic for the address. Can't very well reap that with a spambot! My main problem is that one of my clients is a fishing charter boat captain and when I get him listed on "Cool places to fish" type directories they almost always post his address in plain text or as a mailto: so I have to rely on the filters for him. On my sites where I can control it I always use a javascript snippet that resolves the address on the user's computer instead of at the server. Most spambots aren't sophisticated enough to be able to read that yet.

It asks about a restore point when I install it but does one automatically every time I check for nasty programs. The kolla site is being flooded with both legitimate traffic and occasionally a DDOS attack so keep at it. I have usually hit refresh and it would work the second time.

So you take a photo and then email your computer to have it put it on the screen. Scary! I read an article saying how we aren't that far from Star Trek and one point was that our flip-phones are a lot like their communicators. Not even Gene Roddenberry saw the camera-phone coming! Makes me wonder how much is practical and how much is just "cool-effect". One thing I read was that folks today are catching more criminals because the phones are always on and they just snap a shot of a crime/criminal and then give it to the cops instead of cameras that have to be turned on and by then it's too late. What a world we live in! Thumbs Up :heart

Cherish it, boss... being able to be with your son is a blessing I wish I had with mine. Have a great time and I hope your team wins... at least for the first game he goes to!

If something goes wrong you will want a restore point. In that case then you're no worse off than when you started and maybe you can fix the problem and run it again. I think it's a pretty good idea unless they clutter your restore point list so that the one you saved on purpose 2 days ago can still be found and used.

I know it can be done. If Don's links don't have what you need then hang tight - we have some pretty doggone good PHP pros here that might be able to help.

Hey everyone! I just ran across The Bat! email program from RITLabs and it is very interesting in that it has facilities to set up templates for default, specific folders, individual users, etc. It also has a lot of features that seem to be pretty useful as far as filtering, antivirus scanning, etc. I'm a computer geek in the truest sense of the word so I love all the customizable dooglemaflitchers and advanced whozit settings. I have also seen articles that the makers rip off people by making a bug-fix and calling it a new version that they have to pay for an upgrade to get. I am using Thunderbird and love it but since I am also running a business, posing as 3 of my clients in things web related, receiving emails for over 5 entities and getting the infernal spam from every angle I thought this would be worth checking into. So, if anyone has any pleasant experiences or horror stories about this program I'd like to hear them.

For those of you who use Spybot Seach & Destroy, and I know there are quite a few, they have a new version now that has over 1000 more nasty-little-programs that it immunizes against plus some new features. If you use it, or if you are looking for a good program to kill all the spyware on your computer, check them out. security.kolla.de

You don't have to create those files. The favicon is the little icon in the address bar of your browser when you go to certain sites and the 404.shtml is what visitors see when they look for a page that's not there. I would recommend a 404 page just to look professional if they follow a bad link or type something wrong. Anytime someone goes to your sites the favicon is looked for so the browser can display it if found, and I think the 404 is too but I'm not sure about that one. It does not mean necessarily that folks are looking for those particular pages.

Doggone it Gabe! Robin Williams' books are the ones I like to tell folks about! I thought I was the only one that had ever heard of them but they are excellent from my point of view anyway.

Oh, I am quite serious. From a MS website: I did not say it should be trusted, just that it was... by 12M users each month. This does, in fact, show why I was saying it is so scary. A few of us know it's evils but the "unwashed mases" think it's safe and that makes it a problem. Which is more dangerous to have, a loaded gun or a bad bolt in your car? We know the gun's dangerous and treat it with respect, but the can is a hidden danger that we aren't prepared for and when it hits it is more deadly.

True it won't do flash and friends "out of the box" but you see a note that says "click here to install flash", click it, and poof, you got it. It's not hard at all and it is certainly worth not having all the Microsoft exploits available to unfriendly websites.

Saw this and thought it would be interesting for some of you... especially Ty! www.tcpalm.com/tcp/local_news/article/0,1651,TCP_16736_2881548,00.html

The types of temperature changes we experience will not cause that kind of problem unless it was a comedy of errors. For instance, maybe the increase in ambient temperatures drove a flaky air conditioner over the edge at a network hub so it failed and the hub went out. The equipment is usually air conditioned and the wires don't care about heat. Otherwise there'd be no networks in Vegas and Robert would be a ghost here.

That's scary Rob. To think that a massively global and mostly trusted service has that kind of problem is not a very comfortable thought.

This is the key, Joly! A pencil is not much use to someone who needs to drive a nail into the wall! Your web development software is a tool. I can tell you which is best for me but unless I know you very well I can't say which is best for you! I will, however, try to tell you which I think is the best for a particular kind of development if you ask. There should be no shame in using any and all of the above... just do y'all's best to pick the best one for you and don't get stubborn if something better comes along. Happy FP'ing Joly!

Nope. Sorry. I've never used any of those but I do want to encourage you to post any experiences you have with them here for us to see how it works.

Is it possible the names are not exactly the same? For instance tch_bill versus tchbill versus tch-bill versus tch_bill[some non-printing character]? In "the old days" a trick we used was to type a space after the name to make ourselves look like someone else. They don't allow that stuff nowdays but there may be others.

Winrar works with tars and gz files and is IMO an excellent program. I've never tried a file that big but they have a trial period so it's worth a look. Just google "winrar" - I think it's rarlabs.com

It works fine for me (brrr it's cold there:)) in Outlook 6, Opera 7 and Firefox 0.8. Does Jessica have any ad-blockers on her machine?

They rig your site to do a popunder to another site. If someone goes to one of their "affiliates" sites then they may get a popunder to yours. It's an automatic visit to your site even if they close it without looking at it.