Easy choice
What it takes for a web hosting service to be a good one? First, enough disk space, network bandwidth and other resources to run your WordPress, Joomla or Drupal website.
Then comes a decent customer/technical/billing support to answer your questions. Email and support ticket system are must. Phone and live chat are also commonly provided options.
Both companies provide unlimited disk space and bandwidth, availability to host unlimited amount of websites, domains, sub-domains and databases. Both have control panels with one click installs of common web software – blogs, wikis, photo galleries and forums. So both DreamHost and HostGator are good. The prices are pretty similar also. What makes them visually different is that they use different control panels. HostGator’s clients use industry standard called cPanel, when DreamHost is proud of its own proprietary control panel. At this point, if a good common web hosting for a reasonable price is what the choice is simple – choose what it looks better and enjoy it!
Hostgator – Great common hosting
What it takes for a web hosting to be called a great one? Great reliability and great support stuff. HostGator is widely known as one of the most reliable service among common web hosting services. Users of WebHostingJury, for example, give HostGator 4.98 out of 5.0 points for reliability. DreamHost reached only 3.31 and GoDaddy(another extremely popular hoster) got only 2.77 points for its reliability. When it comes to customer support level, WebHostingJury gives HostGator score of 4.84 and DreamHost receives 3.69 (all numbers as per Feb 2010). Thus, HostGator hands down wins the “Great Hosting” title. So if your require common set of web hosting features combined with excellent support and reliability go HostGator!

DreamHost – Good for nerds
But which features make DreamHost so desirable that it might out-weight the HostGator’s advantages?
Custom Unix users, custom SVN repositories, Jabber protocol, media streaming, more flexible domain, website and directory configuration. There is no such thing as “main domain”!
Access to such tools as crontab(via both web UI and command line), rsync are others very viable option for those users who prefer to have great control over their hosting account.
If most of those terms don’t make sense for you, it is safe to completely ignore this section. On the other hand, for web developers and small teams it might be crucial to be “in control” and don’t not to pay a fortune for that. Just one other example – DreamHost’s “Private Server” unique feature (provided at additional cost), allows to have guaranteed resources, just as in case of VPS server, but without leaving current shared hosting environment.

Both web hosting companies are great. if you do not need more than generic web hosting LAMP stack – Linux, Apache, PHP, MySQL – choose HostGator. But if you want something more, such as define different users or make a source version control repository, don’t want to pay additional fees to have those and ready to ’suffer’ from minor outages, then DreamHost is your ‘natural’ choice.

Hope it helps!

Storing files online is an important part of the ownership and management of a website or general use of the Internet as a whole. There are many places where you can your files based on file type and the length you need the file must be saved. The wide variety of services for online storage of files available online, so that no matter what you need, the service is always available and usually free.  

A form of file storage called You Send It hosted by yousendit.com. You Send It can e-mail with a large attachment, and even send free without registration to all e-mail you want. This is a good way to ensure safe and timely transfer of files. In addition, it sends the file to your web site host for 7 days. This is obviously not a good way to save the files, but only to see it with your move.

There are also many traditional storage systems are available online organized in box.net. Like most standard systems of online storage, box allows users to download multiple files in its database, which can be viewed online and downloaded from anywhere in the world through Internet. You can also configure shared folders to whoever you want, and cooperatively edit documents and photos online. Storage systems as a standardized Box.net are another way to store files securely online.

Another way of storing files refers to the image files using the photo hosting site like Flickr or ImageShack. This type of online file storage, you can upload your images and also to associate in a directory or photo album to organize accessible and affordable to anyone on the Internet.  

A common way to store files online without having to register at each site, simply use the e-mail. Send an e-mail with an attachment; you can submit your inbox remains as long as necessary. However, the limitations of e-mails may need, such as, for example, the maximum size of attachments and the size of the inbox file in their memory. Still it is a convenient, fast and easy to store files securely online. Great example of such service, GMail allows hosting even custom domains.

You simply can host your files on your personal website, if you have one. Often, web hosting packages with an additional web space to be used only to host their files online, without additional costs may occur for everyone. This option is also a simple way, without additional registration is required. Simply don’t forget to store your files in directories which aren’t accessible from Web. In case of Dreamhost.com it is especially convenient, because they allow defining custom Unix users, not just directories.

Following class of options is more suited for technical savvy users, such as web/software developers. It includes but not limited to – source version control (SVC) services; using cloud hosting services, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS); using rsync or similar utilities, which might seem a bit cryptic even for seasoned techies.

Last but not least to be briefly covered here is a host of various online collaboration tools
Collaboration tools/Web Office- A lot of smart people are betting that Web Office is the way we’ll work on the future. Learn more from Google, Adobe, Microsoft, Yahoo and other small but leading players such as Atlassian, 37signals, Zoho and Thinkfree.

There are many ways to decide when to securely store files online. Choosing the right option for hosting specific file you need to do is very important action.

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• First, it must be a tool both capable to edit Word documents and have PDF export function built-in.
• Second, the tool has to be proven and widely used one.
• Third, it should create PDF ‘bookmarks’ e.g. preserve navigational structure of the document.

I got to know only two such tools: MS Word 2007 suite and Open Office’s Writer.

Export a doc file to PDF using Open Office Writer

From ‘File’ menu choose ‘Export as PDF’ item. When in ‘PDF Options’ dialog window, ensure that the ‘Export bookmarks’ option is checked. Press ‘Export’ button. Choose a directory. That’s all .

Save a Word document as Adobe PDF using MS Office 2007 Word

Press ‘orb’ button of the Word. Choose ‘Save as…’à ‘PDF or XPS’. Dialog window should be opened. Before saving by pressing button ‘Publish’ press ‘Options’. Check ‘Create bookmarks using’ checkbox and ‘Headings’ radio button.

In both cases headings present in a document interpreted as (possibly nested) sections, after PDF export displayed as ‘bookmarks’ – table of content shown at left navigational panel of Adobe (or other) PDF reader.

Other ways to do this task

PotPieGirl wrote in her blog about how to create pdf ebooks. Read in comments if you interested to familiar yourself with other tools, tips and tricks about the matter.

PS

Jennifer is the real name of wonderful woman behind PotPieGirl nickname. She applies PDF creating techniques to very specific need – creating ebooks. She is an internet marketer (in THE best meaning of the word) and very passionate about helping others. Read her Six Steps Niche Sites series absolutely for free – not even opt in required.

In this short and inspiring article, ‘nutrision and health expert’, Dr Jonny Bowden suggests to take a day offline. Unplug yourself from all those internet, IM, blackberry wires, feel real life, be restful and energized. There are some quotes from the article:

“…No matter how hard we try we can never catch up…”

“…So here’s a suggestion: Don’t even try to catch up…”

Then when you’ve feeled the taste of freedom, go on and ban one channel at a time on daily basis. What you would expect to happen then? One thing for sure – sky will not fall just because you’ve missed another Engadget post

POST /queues/123/pop –> tx begin –> SELECT –> DELETE –> tx_commit

>sudo aptitude install mysql

Doesn’t work! It says some libraries are missing. And since build-essential I’ve already installed

>sudo aptitude install build-essential

I jumped into Google. I’ve found that some development version of libmysqlclient library is the cure. Both

>sudo aptitude install libmysqlclient5-dev

and

>sudo aptitude install libmysqlclient12-dev

are failed. So, how to find out the actual version number?

> sudo aptitude search mysqlclient | grep dev

It would print out something like this:

v libmysqlclient-dev -
i libmysqlclient15-dev – MySQL database development files

So it turns out that there is a meta-package(libmysqlclient-dev), and performing following command

>sudo aptitude install libmysqldev

would care about right version automatically. Now the time to install mysql gem has came:

>sudo gem install mysql

And finally, if you brave enough, do the last move:

>sudo gem update rails