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Choosing a VPS Web Hosting Provider

You would think that many of your worries are reduced when you move from shared web hosting to a virtual private server (VPS) but as my experiences testify, there is are some pretty frightening stories out there. I have dealt

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Using Apache mod_rewrite to redirect old URLs

There are lots of examples and tutorials covering Apache and mod_rewrite, but generally they address the problem where you want to map a ‘nice’ url to your script. For example: http://example.com/products/kitchen/cutlery to http://example.com/products.php?category=kitchen&sub-category=cutlery is easily achieved with the following .htaccess

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Migrating IMAP Email The Easy Way

Moving email servers has always been a royal pain for me. I’ve tried many of them over the years, and migrated from nearly as many of them. However the last couple of times I put myself through the pain I

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Posted in Command Line Tricks, Tech Blog