My preferred Forum engine is PHPBB3 (and they do have a history of getting hacked previously) but if your forum is on (Simple Machines) SMF read how PHPUGPH’s forum was hacked in here but is now backed online.
Update: SMF has posted a related security bulletin previously. So for Forum admins make sure to watch out for security announcements coming from your chosen apps.
Jonee, Wacky Long Haired Admin
When looking for a web hosting plan- do you really need to look for a plan that would offer you so much disk space?
As a web hosting client before as well, my unsolicited opinion is- please don’t! I have come across companies offering unlimited disk space in their plans but when you read through their terms of service they have explicit limitations stated in there (whether it is a limit of the number of files or inodes or that they would be charging for excess usage of disk space). So technically it is not unlimited at all. I even come across one that offers such but when you look at the cpanel of your hosting plan it is stated there that their machine is just an i686 or P4.
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As a web developer, my usual environment when coding is Firefox in my preferred OS of Ubuntu with a 1024 width resolution. But reading through statistics like this, would let you think that you should be coding for Microsoft Platform of at least IE7- the most popular browser there is based on statistics.
Firefox is slowly catching up and what you basically see on Firefox- Ubuntu is the same in Windows – Firefox. So not much problem there until you view your site in Internet Explorer browser specially in IE6. There are still a lot of people using XP until now with IE6 the default browser that comes with it. So IE6 cannot be bypassed in your tests.
But IE6 is hard to code for. There are png transparency issues and unicode html characters not able to render. Even the peso character sign would just be a square in IE6. So I just use either PHP or a peso image. And darn there would be a lot of layout problems you will encounter. (Thankfully there is Xenocode browser sandbox to be able to test your sites in different browsers without the tedious task of installing each version separately.)
To be able to reach out to as many audience, a web developer or designer should definitely check their sites on most browsers.
Jonee, Wacky Long Haired Admin
I just lost a special dog Sixto (April 2006 – 19 Jun 2009, the dog with six toes at both his back legs, son of Lucy) 
May he live a better life from now on that he is with a better owner. We will miss you so much Sixto.
Here are two of the rest of my pets. Lucy and Negro.
Jonee, Wacky Long Haired Admin
This is a slightly delayed news that greeted me when I logged into the admin section of this blog. Wordpress 2.8 was released on 10 June 2009. As usual, the list of new features is quite impressive.
But as a general rule in upgrading any web application (specially with a database backend)
Good thing is, upgrade of Wordpress is not harder than any software I know in the planet. Just one click then i have a spanking new version of Wordpress!
Jonee, Wacky Long Haired Admin
Thanks to your patience specially to those who emailed us.
GREATWEBHOST.COM.PH is still at least a week away from marketing itself (and at least another two weeks to develop our own in house support tool- eTicket). We still do not have any good picture to show in our front page even.
But we can already start selling and making good on our promises. One of that is to give away BLOG plan to iBlog5 attendees as part of our promotion and sponsorship.
On Monday the first of June, you may start claiming the freebies that we owe you. Please use the same email that you used to register for iBlog5.
So here are the steps to claim the free web hosting for iBlog5 attendees:
There have been quite a few road blocks but GREATWEBHOST.COM.PH opening is at hand.
I am wondering how much appeal we have to people who do not necessarily have the skills of a web programmer. In particular, is our hosting page easy enough for our intended audience? I have made it as non technical as possible but when offering something like web hosting it is not easy to stay “colloquial”. I also wonder what else would “normal” folks look for when buying a web hosting for their blog or for their company web site.
Jonee, Wacky Long Haired Admin
All we got to show is a fancy/cutesy favicon (the one you will see at your browser address bar). But the truth is, our Order Script is just around the corner. A little more testing and GREATWEBHOST.COM.PH would start opening its store. Though there would definitely be continued improvements in our site.
And oh, we have not forgotten about our promise to iBlog5 attendees.
Janice, Honest and Sexy Sales Manager
iBlog5 was definitely a resounding success. The summit was jampacked and there are lots of food for all from the sponsors (not to mention beer in the after party). The lineup of talks were all insightful.
GREATWEBHOST.COM.PH is proud to be the web host sponsor of the iBlog website starting from this iBlog iteration. GREATWEBHOST.COM.PH is looking forward to a long term partnership with iBlog.
As part of our promotion and sponsorship, we will be giving away free one year BLOG plan to attendees of the iBlog5 Summit. Only catch is, we will require that you use our (small) logo in your site. Of course, it does not include domain name and you will have to abide by our site’s terms of service just like other paid hosting. More details would be posted soon.
Jonee, Wacky Long Haired Admin
First off, happy day to all the mothers who brought us all into this world. May all of them enjoy this moment even though this may not compare to all the hardship they had in caring for us since we were small.
GREATWEBHOST.COM.PH is still under heavy construction. But expect us to build our home quite fast. Expect your admin to work as soon as this blog post is finished. (Or maybe after another post…)
Jonee, Wacky Long Haired Admin
