Two online services out there are really battling it out for your attention and use.  Disqus Comments and Intense Debate are both top notch commenting systems.  Which one though will really help you make your web site?s comment section look more appealing to new web site visitors?

Disqus Comments

Disqus Comments is the perfect comment solution, if you are looking for an easy way to add more features to your web site?s commenting system or you need an easier way to manage comments for multiple blogs.  Setup is easy, and it is a lot of fun to use. Once it is in place, your users can login to comment on your blog via Disqus, Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo or an OpenID. 

• Learn more about Disqus Comments!

Intense Debate

As another commenting system, Intense Debate also does a great job at giving your web site a better looking comment system.  You get features like comment voting, reputation scores, reply by e-mail and much more.  

• Learn more about Intense Debate!

Which one is right for you?  it is hard to say ? since the two commenting systems are so similar.  I went with Disqus Comments on some of my projects, and have been pretty happy thus far.  not to say I wouldn?t be as equally as happy with Intense Debate, I just haven?t had that much experience with it.

What do you say, which comment system do you like the most?

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Wednesday, August 5, 2009 started out as a normal day at HostGator?s Houston headquarters. around 4:00 PM CT, a major power surge that occurred as the result of a transformer near our office blowing up made the day anything but ordinary.

Lights flickered, battery backups beeped, fire alarms went off, and Internet signals all died down almost immediately. People began to wait for the building?s $200,000 hurricane-ready generator to start up, but it didn?t.

In the mean time, one of the three major ?legs? of power that feeds the building with the power it needs to function was out because of exploded transformer. The building was underpowered and the higher voltage motors and equipment started burning out from the heat and stress of running without the adequate amounts of power. Expensive equipment continued to get damaged.

A compressor on the air conditioning burnt out (cost: $35,000), air handlers got destroyed (cost: $5,000), an elevator motor got fried (cost: $10,000) and lots of other equipment in the building?s mechanical room still isn?t working correctly (cost: unknown). The total cost of the damages is expected to be upwards of $60,000.

As the building?s systems started to go down and the people in charge of HostGator?s office began calling in electricians, power companies, and repairmen, the rest of the management team began going into what we refer to internally as ?hurricane mode.”

• Twitter updates started to go out informing customers of a power problem in the building and possible service delays.
• Employees were rallied and were sent to the other employees? homes.
• Our phone number was redirected (our VOIP system is housed in our office) and the message on our phone system was updated to inform customers of the outage.
• Our support site was updated with an emergency notice.
• A forum post was made with additional details.

As the makeshift offices were being setup in our managers? homes, chats were being taken, servers were being monitored, and updates were being provided. Within an hour of the surge, HostGator?s support operations were almost fully functional, albeit delayed (with the exception of phone support).

Much of this expensive and inconvenient damage would have been prevented had the building?s generator worked as planned. If it did, the building would have only lost power for a minute or so instead of multiple hours. The cause was the generator maintenance done less than a week before (by an outsourced company) was done improperly. The company put the wrong fuel filter on the generator, which caused the generator to immediately fail on start up.

The outage could have obviously been much worse. no customer servers or accounts were affected in any way (we don?t house any customer servers in our office building) and we were able to get back up and running relatively quickly.

Regardless of the relative severity of the event, though, HostGator did learn a lot.

• Most notably, the fact the immediate communication is essential was reaffirmed. We first learned about the importance of immediate communication during a datacenter outage at The Planet. In this situation, a Twitter update went out less than 15 minutes after the power surge occurred. Updates continued to be provided across Twitter, the forums, and our support site until the situation was completely resolved. We were even lucky enough to get comments from customers praising us for our handling of the situation.
• We also learned that it?s critical to have systems tested and maintained by companies we know are getting the job done properly. We are obviously looking into a new generator maintenance company and looking at our other vendors to ensure they?re prepared to deal with issues if they occur.

During the entire occurrence, our customers were patient and understanding and we sincerely appreciate that. Stanley Marcus of Neiman Marcus fame is credited with saying ?The road to success is paved with well handled mistakes? and we couldn?t agree more.

Things happen (the web hosting business and the act of running a business are never dull) and Wednesday?s events were just one of the many examples of things that no one could have ever predicted happening.

Click on the images below to see a larger version with a caption.

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When talking about server management interface, there is no denying that cPanel is currently the leading control panel in the web hosting industry. Many web hosting companies are also offering cPanel hosting as their preferred control panel. If you want to set up a blog, e-commerce websites or any other web sites, there is no software makes it as straightforward as cPanel. cPanel makes it easy for people to manage and create powerful websites. If you are a newbie, you make have no clear idea of the benefits you will gain from this kind of web host. here I would very glad to list the pros and cons of this hosting solution.

HostGator has gone unlimited for Disk Storage and Bandwith with all of their shared plans. they are also offering a free dedicated IP and Private SSL with their business shared plan. Use our coupon code ?HGCOUPONBLOG? and get the first month for 1 cent.

There are few famous web browser available for free, namely internet explorer, firefox, safari, chrome. These are the top web browser that is popular and used by most people. Why should you make a website that is compatible in all web browser? its simply to make sure your website appear nicely in almost any web browser, for sure you don’t want website appear distorted or appear incorrectly right? and its important to ensure a fully functional website and content. give your visitor what you expect them to see.

Another thing to ensure beside design layout is the functionality. if your website is using javascript, double confirm that the page can appear correctly in all web browser, test them before you put it online. its common to have javascript error or even being disabled by certain web browser and mobile devices. hence, try to avoid javascript for your website, we are not recommending it.

To simplify website design and development, you can implement CSS custom style sheet for your font and website design. CSS is where you define the font size, color, etc and you are creating the object class at here before it get implemented in your website during production work. if you are not sure what CSS is, get some homework done, and bring it to your website today.

If you are creating personal website, why not choose cms scripts like joomla and drupal, its too easy to create website using open source scripts. or you can host a blogging site with wordpress. Host your website with hostgator hosting, 20% special discount off right now, view their web hosting spec today to belief.

Joomla is one of the most popular content management systems out there.  being the most popular does have it?s price though, you have to pay more attention to security related issues.  to help you out, I thought I would find then of the most popular security related extensions for the Joomla CMS script.

JoomlaCloner

JoomlaCloner is a backup and restore component designed for Joomla! By it’s name, the purpose is to give users possibility to clone their Joomla installation and move it over the internet on any location!

Security Images

Ever been to a site where you had to register and the registration form required that you type in the same phrase that is found in a hard-to-read image? Joomla! has now this possibility thanks to my component com_securityimages. It will protect you against most spammers attempt… It is providing 5 famillies of highly configurable captchas.

JUGA – Joomla User Group Access

JUGA is Joomla component that allows you to set what is available to which users on both your Front-end AND Administrator Control Panel. with JUGA, you can assign users to multiple groups. In fact, you can create an infinite number of new groups, so you could assign a single user to a unique group, thereby achieving customized individual access rights for each user.

Core Design Login Module

Core Design Login module for Joomla! 1.5 based on Highslide JS. This module displays a Username and Password login form. It also displays a link to retrieve a forgotten password. if user registration is enabled, (refer to the Configuration settings), then another link will be shown to invite users to self-register.

jSecure Authentication

Joomla has one drawback, any web user can easily know the site is created in Joomla! by typing the URL to access the administration area (i.e. site name.com/administration). This makes hackers hack the site easily once they crack id and password for Joomla!. Information: jSecure Authentication module prevents access to administration (back end) login page without appropriate access key.

MetaMod

Control your modules by date, time, recurring time, GeoIP (country of viewer), browser type and language, user name, group, page within other component (e.g. Virtuemart), on-page text, by article keywords, individual article, section/category, etc.

Joomla! Authentication Tools

A variety of useful items (mambots/plugins and components) primarily for LDAP, tested in a Novell eDirectory environment. It contains: LDAP User Synchronization, LDAP User Authentication, LDAP Single Sign On. these tools are available for both Joomla! 1.0 and Joomla! 1.5

noixACL

Try out and compare it with others ACL like Simple ACL, JUGA, JACLPlus! try it and give us your review.  all we want is the best and free ACL for all you to use!

LazyBackup 2

This plugin will save you LOTS of time! It sends a backup every X hours/every X days of your Joomla database in a zip file to one or multiple emails.  The best and easiest automatic backup method for Joomla 1.5! Doesn’t need server tools like cron or scheduled tasks.

SignalLogin

SignalLogin is a Module, that is built to provide a more versatile way to show your Login-Forms. along with various configurable Options, you can fully customize it’s looks and switch between horizontal (i.E. Mini-Login-Bar at the top of your Page) or vertical (i.E. full Module in Sidecolumn).

Lunarpages is your perfect Joomla hosting solution. 

With an easy one-click install on just about every hosting plan we provide, you could not find a better Joomla hosting partner.  For more help and information about Joomla, be sure to check out web hosting wiki.

© Lunarpages Web Hosting – also, don’t forget to follow @lunarpages on Twitter!

Now is the perfect time to start a new online business to supplement your income and HostGator is making it easier than ever. Their ?Baby? web hosting plan is $9.95 per month but with our coupon code ?hgcouponblog? you receive $9.94 off. that makes your first month 1 cent. you can?t get better than that.

Lunarpages affiliate program members get a lot of tools to use, when it comes to marketing.  An affiliate advertising campaign is a great way to track the success of one particular affiliate link, in comparison with another one.  At Lunarpages, you can track your own affiliate tracking campaigns with just a simple quick edit to your Lunarpages affiliate program address.

The first thing you need to, is add this to your address:

&campaign=CampaignName

to the end of your affiliate tracking address. 

So for a campaign tracking a 100×100 banner for the affiliate ID "blog", the campaign URL could look like this:

lunarpages.com/id/blog&campaign=100×100

To see all clicks made from this campaign, login to your affiliate stats, click on the "overview" tab and then the "references" link off to the right. You will see the following:

If you have one banner for Lunarpages and a text ad, you could format our campaign tracking to manage all clicks and sales for each placement and, at the end of the month, take a look to see which performed best. did your audience prefer the text link or the banner?

You can create unlimited campaigns and can track these from multiple websites, as well as view the results by day or month.

Want to get paid $65 for every person you refer to Lunarpages?  Be sure to check out our Lunarpages Affiliate Program. 

© Lunarpages Web Hosting – also, don’t forget to follow @lunarpages on Twitter!

Wednesday, August 5, 2009 started out as a normal day at HostGator?s Houston headquarters. around 4:00 PM CT, a major power surge that occurred as the result of a transformer near our office blowing up made the day anything but ordinary.

Lights flickered, battery backups beeped, fire alarms went off, and Internet signals all died down almost immediately. People began to wait for the building?s $200,000 hurricane-ready generator to start up, but it didn?t.

In the mean time, one of the three major ?legs? of power that feeds the building with the power it needs to function was out because of exploded transformer. the building was underpowered and the higher voltage motors and equipment started burning out from the heat and stress of running without the adequate amounts of power. Expensive equipment continued to get damaged.

A compressor on the air conditioning burnt out (cost: $35,000), air handlers got destroyed (cost: $5,000), an elevator motor got fried (cost: $10,000) and lots of other equipment in the building?s mechanical room still isn?t working correctly (cost: unknown). the total cost of the damages is expected to be upwards of $60,000.

As the building?s systems started to go down and the people in charge of HostGator?s office began calling in electricians, power companies, and repairmen, the rest of the management team began going into what we refer to internally as ?hurricane mode.”

• Twitter updates started to go out informing customers of a power problem in the building and possible service delays.
• Employees were rallied and were sent to the other employees? homes.
• Our phone number was redirected (our VOIP system is housed in our office) and the message on our phone system was updated to inform customers of the outage.
• Our support site was updated with an emergency notice.
• A forum post was made with additional details.

As the makeshift offices were being setup in our managers? homes, chats were being taken, servers were being monitored, and updates were being provided. within an hour of the surge, HostGator?s support operations were almost fully functional, albeit delayed (with the exception of phone support).

Much of this expensive and inconvenient damage would have been prevented had the building?s generator worked as planned. if it did, the building would have only lost power for a minute or so instead of multiple hours. the cause was the generator maintenance done less than a week before (by an outsourced company) was done improperly. the company put the wrong fuel filter on the generator, which caused the generator to immediately fail on start up.

The outage could have obviously been much worse. No customer servers or accounts were affected in any way (we don?t house any customer servers in our office building) and we were able to get back up and running relatively quickly.

Regardless of the relative severity of the event, though, HostGator did learn a lot.

• Most notably, the fact the immediate communication is essential was reaffirmed. We first learned about the importance of immediate communication during a datacenter outage at the Planet. in this situation, a Twitter update went out less than 15 minutes after the power surge occurred. Updates continued to be provided across Twitter, the forums, and our support site until the situation was completely resolved. We were even lucky enough to get comments from customers praising us for our handling of the situation.
• We also learned that it?s critical to have systems tested and maintained by companies we know are getting the job done properly. We are obviously looking into a new generator maintenance company and looking at our other vendors to ensure they?re prepared to deal with issues if they occur.

During the entire occurrence, our customers were patient and understanding and we sincerely appreciate that. Stanley Marcus of Neiman Marcus fame is credited with saying ?the road to success is paved with well handled mistakes? and we couldn?t agree more.

Things happen (the web hosting business and the act of running a business are never dull) and Wednesday?s events were just one of the many examples of things that no one could have ever predicted happening.

Click on the images below to see a larger version with a caption.

At this hostgator review blog, you could find the information about hostgator backup service and also the backup feature provided in cpanel. We run the backup service and tested the feature. However, those are manual backup action that the account holder can carry out at anytime they desire. for more than that, hostgator hosting also include automated data backup service. Hostgator hosting data backup is carried out each week, and its an off-site data backup services. Your web files and data are backup at remote server location, this is to ensure best data security and totally prevent data lost on contingency event.

Hostgator hosting is from $4.95 per month, 20% cheaper when you use our hostgator coupon code, and its come with automatic data backup service.