Migrating IMAP mailboxes to a cPanel server
November 7, 2011A customer got in touch with us and explained their situation.
They need to setup their email on the go and configure some forwarders. Their issue was that they were never given access to the control panel by the account holder and have since lost touch.
This unfortunately left them in a situation where they had no control over their hosting, they asked me to help them out.
My task was to migrate their existing IMAP mailboxes to their hosting account on one of our cPanel servers…
Posted in Sysadmin | Tagged centos, cpanel, imap, imapsync, migration | Leave a commentIs Google PageRank dead?
October 6, 2011PageRank is dead, long live PageRank.
As we said recently, there’s been lots of speculation as to whether PageRank is dead or not. It isn’t, just Google are moving the goals a bit. Basically, they don’t want you to focus on PageRank but it’s still massively important to them.
All this talk of dead, reminds me of the Monty Python dead parrot sketch, only in this case, it isn’t dead. An anti-dead-parrot if you will.
So what’s with all the news about PageRank being dead? Google just changed their code, that’s all…
Posted in Development, Internet | Tagged google, pagerank, php | 2 CommentsIntegrate a newsletter into your website
September 7, 2011
Over the years I’ve been asked how to integrate a newsletter into a website quite a few times.
These days I often find myself recommending a third party service such as MailChimp, however I soon discovered that as brilliant as it is, MailChimp its not for everyone.
For example, many of our web hosting clients want to run their own mail campaigns through their own website rather than use a third party service.
Posted in Development | Tagged mailchimp, mailing lists, mailman, newsletter, php | Leave a commentGoogle’s Official Profanity API
August 17, 2011
Recently a list of “bad words” were made available through Google’s new website which asks: “What do you love?” (wdyl.com).
So, perhaps I was a bit hasty writing off WhoisX.
The list of profanities was discovered in the Javascript on the website, however Google reacted quickly and switched this to a URL lookup instead of a Javascript one therefore keeping the list away from prying eyes.
However, what this does mean is now we have an API to play with: Continue reading →
Posted in Development, Internet | Tagged api, bad words, json, php, profanity | 1 CommentThe rise and fall of WhoisX
August 15, 2011
WhoisX is a domain name lookup service, similar to the whois service provided by “domain tools”, but ours was primarily for UK domain names.
It began as a small project to help people check whether a domain was available or not. When a domain was available the visitor was linked to a place they could buy the domain.
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