Author Archives: James Wade

About James Wade

Systems administrator, web developer and domain guru for Phurix Web Hosting. Avid open source script writer in TCL, PHP, Perl and for shells. ← Older posts

Migrating IMAP mailboxes to a cPanel server

Posted on November 7, 2011 by James Wade

A 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 … Continue reading →

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Is Google PageRank dead?

Posted on October 6, 2011 by James Wade

PageRank 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 … Continue reading →

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Integrate a newsletter into your website

Posted on September 7, 2011 by James Wade

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 … Continue reading →

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Google’s Official Profanity API

Posted on August 17, 2011 by James Wade

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 … Continue reading →

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The rise and fall of WhoisX

Posted on August 15, 2011 by James Wade

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 … Continue reading →

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