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If you prefer installing and updating your CentOS 4 applications with pre-compiled packages using Yum (and you should!), you probably already know that you’re stuck with older versions of PHP, MySQL and Apache. In fact, according to the CentOS 4 package repository, here are the latest available versions of these components:

For those of you who are using cPanel, you might find it annoying to log into cPanel to access your website’s statistics. Sometimes this can also be impossible if you’re behind a firewall or using a proxy that doesn’t allow connections to cPanel’s ports. There are also times when you might want to give access […]

SPF is a guide to mail servers - placed in your domain’s zone file - that indicates who is allowed to send mail from that domain. For example, only the hosthow.com mail server is allowed to send mail for hosthow.com. Using this, mail servers are able to check whether or not incoming mail is being […]

sIFR is a great way to make your font headings and short paragraphs look neat and anti-aliased, avoiding those jagged edges when fonts get too big on a web page. Using Flash technology, sIFR also allows you to use a custom font or one that may not normally be present on the user’s system.

Pixelpost is an open-source photo blogging system that is extremely simple to use, leaving your photos to do the talking on your website.

FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol, the standard way to upload files to and download files from your web server, on the back end. FXP (File Exchange Protocol) is FTP’s cooler cousin, allowing you to move files from one web server to another directly without having to download the files from one server and upload […]

MySQL is one of the most powerful and versatile open-source database systems available, and often goes hand in hand with PHP. Understanding how to get a database set up and running however, can be slightly confusing for first-timers.

Stop spam. Read books. Sounds like a good concept?

If you don’t have a CMS (Content Management System) on your website that controls access to parts of your site, the quickest and easiest way to keep an area of your site away from prying eyes is to use .htaccess

Broadband speeds are going through the roof, but sometimes web developers forget those with slower connections!