Updated on: 11 Nov 2023

A brief primer on domain registration services and tips to ensure that you have complete control of your online web assets. Firstly, the techie stuff :). The main purpose of a domain name is to provide symbolic representations, i.e., recognizable names, to mostly numerically addressed Internet resources. This allows any resource (e.g., website) to be […]

Updated on: 13 Nov 2023

In this post we will discuss how to create view to display the listing  for the content types in drupal sites. In Drupal, you can create  dynamic pages from administrative menu > content management > content > Add Option. So, if you are creating some dynamic content E.g. pages where you should like to list […]

Updated on: 25 Oct 2023

The task of adding Joomla users, login/logout, activating/deactivating of users and password reset tasks etc are handled by the component com_users. In this post I will show how to add a joomla user from an external page. Adding users externally can be done in two ways: 1. Create an html form with correct fields and […]

Updated on: 22 Aug 2023

It can be somewhat of a nightmare when you have to migrate from one web hosting provider to another if you are getting more features and services which are not available with your present web host. But before you take the leap of shifting your website, following is an important set of TODOs which can […]

Updated on: 25 Oct 2023

Greylisting is a new weapon to use against spam. With this new shielding method, by which you may block out huge amounts of spam, you are sure to please your email users! In name, as well as operation, greylisting is related to whitelisting and blacklisting. What happens is that each time a given mailbox receives […]

Updated on: 25 Oct 2023

If you are an entrepreneur (doesn’t matter whether you are a 1 person entity or a 1000 person enterprise), chances are you might be feeling the heat of the downturn, unless you are selling a service which we cannot do without and there is no competition (e.g. the electric utility, your mobile service provider or […]

Updated on: 25 Oct 2023

In Drupal, the User is a core module of the CMS and is responsible for the user management section of Drupal websites. In this module a global variable is defined which returns the user Id (i.e, uid) of the currently logged user. All the users are stored in users table in the database and once […]

Updated on: 25 Oct 2023

Load balancing is a technique to spread work between two or more computers, network links, CPUs, hard drives, or other resources, in order to get optimal resource utilization, maximize throughput, and minimize response time. Using multiple components with load balancing, instead of a single component, may increase reliability through redundancy. The balancing service is usually […]

Updated on: 25 Oct 2023

The default lock time is 30 minutes. Do not attempt to log in until next 30 minutes and it will get unlocked itself. If you make 3 additonal failed attempts to login, this will lock out the users for an additional 30 minutes. You can manually remove the lock from psa database. Do the following […]

Updated on: 25 Oct 2023

Round robin DNS is a technique in which load balancing is performed by a DNS server instead of a strictly dedicated machine. A DNS record has more than one value IP address. When a request is made to the DNS server which serves this record, the answer it gives alternates for each request. For instance, […]