http://imountain.com/blog Webhosting News, Tips and Tricks Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:04:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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/ A long time client of ours, ArenaJunkies.com, has just been picked up by the Curse Network. Curse.com runs a prestigious gaming network primarily targeted at online gaming such as World of Warcraft, Warhammer, Conan, etc. Congratulations to the fine gentlemen who we've gotten to know at Arena Junkies, here's their ... http://imountain.com/blog/2008/06/18/arena-junkies-joins-the-curse-network/ One of our very own clients runs a popular domaining blog at www.dnxpert.com. They recently launched a contest with $9,000 in free prizes. And yes, included among them is an iMountain hosting package that is applicable to our current clients...if you win of course. Here's a link to the ... http://imountain.com/blog/2008/06/03/dnxpertcom-greatest-domaining-blogging-contest-ever/ In the past we've blogged about our Solar Install and today we'd like to do a quick update on the our solar panels. As most of our clients know, our sister company ValueSolar.com provides excellent quality Mitsubishi panels at a reasonable price. They do nationwide installations and no job is too ... http://imountain.com/blog/2008/02/01/the-green-movement/ One of the greatest things about hosting websites is that you get to feel like you're part of a global production line of literacy. There are so many websites out there, some good some bad and just some that are "wierd". It's just fun being a part ... http://imountain.com/blog/2008/01/18/website-review-idolbloglivecom/