http://imountain.com/blog Webhosting News, Tips and Tricks Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:29:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In Wordpress version 2.7 and 2.8, you've probably noticed a new feature built into Wordpress...FTP updates of plugins.   It's a great new feature and does add a layer of security to the whole process.  In the past, you would have to chmod your directories to 777 for this to happen.Now ...http://imountain.com/blog/2009/07/13/annoyed-by-wordpress-asking-for-ftp-usernamepassword/ As most of you all know, iMountain.com mostly utilizes Opteron processors for their energy efficiency and high performance.Well we're psyched up for AMD's newest offering of 6 core processors code-named "Istanbul".  Based on their latest 45 nanometer design, these processors promise to be fast and most importantly, energy-efficient.   These new ...http://imountain.com/blog/2009/06/23/amd-ships-6-core-istanbul-processors/ We've been buying the Opteron Quad Core Barcelona 8350's for quite some time now...they are the foundation for our 32 CPU Core Servers.  These are the AMD 2nd Generation Opteron chips and are based on Socket F (aka Socket 1207).  We recently got in a bunch of Opteron 8350's in an ...http://imountain.com/blog/2009/06/22/socket-f-heatsink-and-fan-same-as-socket-940/ We're rolling out a whole new line of dedicated servers to fit the economy.   Super reliable, deployed within 24 hours and powerful enough to serve the most demanding web pages.  Dual Core and Quad Core servers are available, just choose the one that's right for you.Email sales .@.iMountain.com for ...http://imountain.com/blog/2009/05/16/new-dedicated-server-specials/ If you have a VPS or Linux server running Apache the goold old fashioned way without fancy control panels, you'll quickly have to learn some Apache tweaks.One of the main issues we commonly run into is a non-working .htaccess file.  Apache doesn't come with .htaccess support automatically turned on.  You'll ...http://imountain.com/blog/2008/10/21/why-is-my-htaccess-not-working/ Invariably, you may find yourself with a missing YUM install or a corrupted installation and need to re-install yum to fix this problem.Yum of course is used to easily install RPM packages like PHP or Apache or pretty much anything.  It's equivalent would be "apt-get" on Debian based Linux systems.So ...http://imountain.com/blog/2008/09/13/how-to-install-yum-manually-on-redhatrhel-4x-or-centos-4x/ So most of us here are Joomla fans while some are Drupal fans.  It's a matter of choice really, they're both quite good as far as CMS' go.But that's not why I'm writing today.One of the things that annoys me the most is Joomla's quick timeout when you're logged into ...http://imountain.com/blog/2008/09/11/how-to-change-joomla-15-admin-timeout/ Dear WebHosting Clients NOTE: This does not affect Dedicated Server clients. We will be moving to a major upgrade of our HSphere system this weekend. Our planned maintenance window will be 10PM-4AM Pacific/California Time. If everything works well, you probably won't notice more than 30 minutes of down-time but we have a ...http://imountain.com/blog/2008/07/01/major-upgrade-hsphere-clusters-july-4th-weekend/ We recently helped a client install PDFLite on their server and it was a little more quirky than usual so we thought we'd share the installation process.First of all, PDF Lite is the stripped down but free version of PDFLib. This library allows you to generate PDF files and ...http://imountain.com/blog/2008/06/20/howto-install-pdflitepdflib-on-a-centosrhel-server/ We'll do a complete tutorial in this blog series. Hopefully we can get this done in 3 main blog posts and then an accompanying post with some information about using Memcache in other common PHP scripts such as vBulletin, IPBoard, Joomla, etc.Part 1 - Install Memcache Part 2 - Install ...http://imountain.com/blog/2008/06/18/how-to-optimize-wordpress-memcache-and-eaccelerator/