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I’m struggling for a topic today, and a bit tapped out mentally from writing a lot of content this week. I thought I’d share one of my favorite sites a.muglets.com. This is a hilarious site that let’s you quickly Photoshop a friend’s face onto a number of side-splitting animations. Give the site a try and send your animation along to your friends. It is bound to get some laughs. Or you can enjoy the already created Muglets of an Obama Easter Bunny or McCain leprechaun.

In conjunction with the objective of A2 Hosting to offer the latest in developer friendly Linux hosting, we have upgraded to PHP 5.2.6. This is the latest version of PHP. According to PHP.Net, the updates including in this release are:

• Fixed possible stack buffer overflow in the FastCGI SAPI identified by Andrei Nigmatulin.
• Fixed integer overflow in printf() identified by Maksymilian Aciemowicz.
• Fixed security issue detailed in CVE-2008-0599 identified by Ryan Permeh.
• Fixed a safe_mode bypass in cURL identified by Maksymilian Arciemowicz.
• Properly address incomplete multibyte chars inside escapeshellcmd() identified by Stefan Esser.
• Upgraded bundled PCRE to version 7.6

I wanted to expound on previous AdWord broad, phrase and exact matching type explanations using the keyword Best Host Web.

Broad Match – Option to show ads when a web user searches for words containing Best, Host and Web in any order, can contain other terms, with synonyms, singular or plural forms of the word and/or contain other relevant terms. An example search query that would trigger an ad with broad match would be Best Linux Web Hosting.

Phrase Match – Option to show ads when a web user searches the exact keyword, but may have words before or after the exact keyword. An example search query that would trigger an add would be Best Host Web Site Hosting.

Exact Match – Option to show ads when a web user searches for the precise keyword. The only keyword that would trigger an ad would be Best Host Web.

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I was struggling a bit with my blog topic today. I logged into WordPress today and was going to manufacture some content, but I received a very nice, helpful comment from http://qrystal.name/. I read through the blog after receiving this comment and it has lots of great internet tools, a little about the author and offers tons of cool blogging suggestions.

If you tuned into yesterday’s post about the process I went through for placing a new logo on this blog. Saying that I am an image editing amateur is giving myself too much credit, so it was a bit of a pain creating the logo. I had voiced a concern about losing SEO because I had replaced the original title, which was text, with an image header. The friendly advice I received from Qrystal was:

However, you should’ve been able to keep the SEO of the text header by simply using your gorgeous image as just a background to the text, instead of incorporating the text into the image itself. Yes, you’d have less control over the font that way, but you’d also ensure that people with images turned off (yes, those people still exist!) can still see the title of the blog.

I hadn’t even thought of that. I’m going to keep my current header for a little while just because I am a bit busy at the moment and am not sure if I have the patience at the moment to get back into image editing. But I am definitely going to give this useful tidbit a shot when I have some free time to improve the header.

So what do you think about the new Adventures In Hosting logo? I am by no means an image editing expert, but I have to say that I am pretty darn happy with it. It was a pain and a half to create though because I don’t have any photo editing skills, so sadly I created the image in Microsoft Word and a program I was recently introduced to named GIMP.

If you had seen what Adventures In Hosting previously looked like, the header was BORING! It was only the text of “Adventures In Hosting”. Since I lost the SEO from the text header, I finally managed to put title tags in the header. This is quite easy with cPanel Hosting since you don’t have to mess with FTP programs and can edit the header right in cPanel.

I incorrectly kept trying to figure out a way to upload the image into WordPress. It wasn’t quite that easy. I had to:

1.) Right click where the title of the blog was and selected “View Background Image”. The image location for this blog is “http://adventuresinhosting.com/wp-content/themes/rounded/images/head.jpg”. This was the image I actually had to edit. The name of the image is head.jpg. I saved this image to my desktop.

2.) I used GIMP to place the logo I had previously created over the image saved from step 1. I saved the image as head.jpg in a different folder on my computer, keeping the original head.jpg as a backup in case I screwed up.

3.) I logged into my cPanel account and found the “images” directory based on where the current header was located. I uploaded the new head.jpg logo there.

4.) I went to Adventures In Hosting and refreshed the page. My beautiful new logo was there, but it was conflicting with the text title that was there.

5.) The final step was logging into WordPress, selecting “Options” and deleting the original text title of the blog.

I came across a discussion board on Flickr today with the topic surrounding a gentleman looking to begin a real estate photo business. He was looking for recommendations regarding a web host. The entire discussion can be found here. A2 Hosting received a nice recommendation on this discussion. Below is an excerpt from the recommendation.

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The good news is that you can actually purchase the package referenced above for $6.95/month.

I had a great conversation yesterday to clear up my confusion regarding CPU processing, hard disk space and memory. I guess I am not the only one that is confused regarding the difference in these terms. I had mixed up each term for one another at some time or another and also thought that a few were synonymous with the same things. I came up with an analogy to better understand each of these processes.

Think of an office with 3 things. These things are workers, one desk and a file cabinet.

1.) Hard disk space would be equivalent to the filing cabinet. A bigger filing cabinet, the more “stuff” you can store. The ame thing can be said with a web hosting account. The more hard disk space you have, the more stuff you can store.

2.) Memory is equivalent to the desk. The larger the desk you have, the more stuff you can work on at a time. Everything that is done with the projects on the desk is temporary, unless saved into the filing cabinet. Same can be said about memory. You can work on projects that are currently in memory, but they are not permanent unless they are saved and moved into the hard disk space.

3.) Processing speed is how many employees are working on the project. The more people you have, the better, in this scenario. Employees help you to store the projects on the desk (memory) into the filing cabinet (hard disk), pull files from the filing cabinet to the desk and helps you be more efficient when working on the projects currently on the desk.

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