While designing a web page, the navigation part is vital for your website to take into consideration, it should be effective and work like road map for your visitors. To meet the  expectation of the viewers, best to make it easy to use their way around. Here are few point you should consider while designing your website.

* Make sure the pages should load less than 5 second on a 56K modem and as far as avoid using flash which will delay the time of loading.

* Make your site less fancy, Use universal & widespread name for your menu option like About Us, Home, Contact Us, Products, Site Map and  avoid using trendy words.

* Place your navigation in specific categories, and position simple text navigation at the bottom of long pages and also add link to the depth of information you have in your website.

* Link your logo to your homepage and point a link to your homepage on all internal pages.

* Display a “breadcrumb trail” showing the path from the homepage to the page where you are, especially when you’ve large information database.

* If your site has many pages set your search box at the upper right corner of your home page and avoid placing search button for entire web.

* If your website has flash provide also HTML version for your users.

* Consider to create a custom error page displaying simple site map with the links to the main section of your site. This is the way you can let the visitors reach to right page those who have misspelled your URL.s while typing.

Please feel free to add more point that can make navigation part of a website more effective.

Yahoo! site explorer offers you the ability to find vital information about a website like you get information about the pages indexed, incoming links, and popular pages, just enter the URL of the website in the search box and hit, you will get review back links pointing to specific pages and the most popular pages from any site and find pages that link to specific site or any page.

Also using this tools, you can see where other sites are getting their links from & why they are ranking higher than you. The other feature include authentication via META tags and more detailed authentication errors and it also let you easily remove URLs from Yahoo’s Search index that you wont like to link with. You can also use this tools locally through their API, for more information about this local features check on the site explorer API:

Windows loads a number of programs while it starts automatically, most of the time you won’t need many of them which usually slow down the startup time while loading. However You can control what programs auto-starts in vista through the System Configuration Utility and Windows Defender with few easy step.

Here is the way you can disable auto-start applications with the System Configuration Utility:# Open up msconfig (use the Vista Start Menu’s Instant Search feature and press the Windows key> type ‘System’ and the hit return.

# Select the Startup tab.

# Uncheck any items that you do not want to auto-load and click OK.

To disabling auto-start applications with Windows Defender

* Open Windows Defender

* Click on the Tools in the top menu bar.

* Click on Software Explorer.

* Hit Show for All Users.

* Select an application and then click either Remove or Disable

You’ve done it!

The following tables contain the default sets of keyboard and mouse shortcuts for the major operating system that make working exceptionally easy with FF.

Quake is the first game in the popular Quake series of computer and video games, here is the quake family tree showing the growth phase, I hope the game programmers would love to take a look. Quake and its four sequels, sold over 4millions copies combined together. Image source: wikipedia

The System Integrity Monitor, SIM tools monitor and ensure that the services are running and responding smoothly, it verify that services are online, load averages are in check, and log files are at reasonable sizes.

you can install SIM with easy process as discussed below;

Login to your server via SSH as root.

Type: wget http://www.r-fx.org/downloads/sim-current.tar.gz
This will download the most current version of SIM (System Integrity Monitor)

Type: tar -xzvf sim-current.tar.gz
This will extract the tar.gz file at once.

The last line should look like “sim-2.5-3/CREDITS” everything before the / is the directory where the script was extracted too.
Type: cd sim-2.5-3
where sim-2.5-3 is the directory that SIM was extracted too.

Type: ./setup -i
Then press “Enter”
Then when it says MORE press the “space bar”
Then press “Enter”
Then when it syas MORE press the “space bar”

Now press enter for the auto-configuration script for SIM.

The following config are just for an example what I use, please note, you can change some monitoring services what you are going to choose.

Where is SIM installed ?
[/usr/local/sim]:
Press Enter
Where should the sim.log file be created ?
[/usr/local/sim/sim.log]:
Press Enter
Max size of sim.log before rotated ? (value in KB)
[128]:
Type: 512
Press Enter
The larger the file the more SIM (System Integrity Monitor) logs we can view. This is good for looking back.
Where should alerts be emailed to ? (e.g: root, user@domain)
[root]:
Type: youreamil@yourdaomin (One off server would be more secure.)
Press Enter
Disable alert emails after how many events, to avoid email flood ?
(Note: events stats are cleared daily)
[8]:
Press Enter
The below are configuration options for Service modules:
press return to continue…
Press Enter
Auto-restart services found to be offline ? (true=enable, false=disable)
[true]:
Press Enter
Enforce laxed service checking ? (true=enable, false=disable)
[true]:
Press Enter
Disable auto-restart after how many downed service events ?
(Note: events stats are cleared daily)
[10]:
Press Enter
Enable FTP service monitoring ? (true=enable, false=disable)
[false]:
Press Enter
Enable HTTP service monitoring ? (true=enable, false=disable)
[false]:
Type: true
Press Enter
Enable DNS service monitoring ? (true=enable, false=disable)
[false]:
Type: true (if you are running ensim do not type true just press enter)
Press Enter
Enable SSH service monitoring ? (true=enable, false=disable)
[false]:
Type: true
Press Enter
Enable MYSQL service monitoring ? (true=enable, false=disable)
[false]:
Type: true
Press Enter
Enable SMTP service monitoring ? (true=enable, false=disable)
[false]:
Type: true
Press Enter
TCP/IP port that SMTP operates on ?
[25]:
Press Enter
Enable XINET service monitoring ? (true=enable, false=disable)
[false]:
Type: true
Press Enter
TCP/IP port that any XINET service operates on (e.g: pop3, 110) ?
[110]:
Press Enter
Enable ENSIM service monitoring ? (true=enable, false=disable)
[false]:
Press Enter
Enable PGSQL service monitoring ? (true=enable, false=disable)
[false]:
After an unclean HTTP shutdown, semaphore array’s may remain allocated
and cause the service to fall into a looping restart cycle. Using this
feature clears semaphore arrays on HTTP restart.
Enable semaphore cleanup ?
[false]:
Press Enter
This is extended feature in the http module which determine if/when the apache server locks up or otherwise stops
responding.
Enable URL aware monitoring ?
Type: true
Press Enter
URL path to a local file ? (exclude HTTP://)
Note: This URL should be valid and reside on the local server, otherwise
HTTP will loop restarting
[127.0.0.1/index.html]:
Type: site.com/index.html that resides on your local server
Press Enter
HTTP log files can grow large and cause the service to crash
(segfault), this feature will keep the main HTTP logs incheck.
Enable HTTP log monitor ?
[false]:
Press Enter
MySQL uses a /tmp symlink of its mysql.sock socket file. This
feature verifies that the symlink exists from the main mysql.sock
file, and if not it is recreated.
Enable MySQL Socket correction ?
[false]:
Press Enter
Enable NETWORK monitoring ? (true=enable, false=disable)
[false]:
Type: true
Press Enter
interface to monitor ?
[eth0]:
Press Enter
Enable LOAD monitor ? (true=enable, false=disable)
[false]:
Type: true
Press Enter
Load level before status condition ‘warning’ ?
[25]:
Type: 5
Press Enter
Load level before status condition ‘critical’ ?
[45]:
Type: 10
Press Enter
Enable a global (wall) message at status condition ‘warning’ & ‘critical’ ?
[false]:
Press Enter
Renice services at status condition ‘warning’ or ‘critical’ ?
(3 values - warn, crit, false - false=disabled)
[false]:
Press Enter
Stop nonessential services at status condition ‘warning’ or ‘critical’ ?
(3 values - warn, crit, false - false=disabled)
[false]:
Press Enter
Reboot system on status condition ‘warning’ or ‘critical’ ?
(3 values - warn, crit, false - false=disabled)
[false]:
Now Press Enter

Now the SIM (System Integrity Monitor) has been configured we will add a cron.

Type: ./setup -c
If it says “Removed SIM cronjob.” then type it again.
Type: ./setup -c
It will say “Installed SIM cronjob.
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Installation process finished!

Media streaming grown to be chiefly a powerful vehicle for audio-video broadcasting, teleconferencing, group chat, radio & weather relay station and moreover extended to different level of services. If you’re planning to build  a website for streaming services for broadcasting audio-video media over the internet, you will need a level headed web hosting services who are capable to offer you shoutcast dedicated server and provide you  direct, fast and secure access to your users without any interruption.

If you wish to install shoutcast on linux here is the process to install in easy step;

SHOUTcast consists of a client-server model hence you should not run it as root because it can create security issue, instead you should create a shoutcast user:

Follow these steps;
1.) Login to root through SSH on the server.
2.) adduser shoutcast
3.) passwd shoutcast
Login as the new shoutcast user, or you can su to the user.

su shoutcast

Download shoutcast from nullsoft:
1. http://www.shoutcast.com/downloads/sc1-9-2/shoutcast-1-9-2-linux-glibc6.tar.gz
Lets extract shoutcast:
2. tar -zxvf shoutcast-1-9-2-linux-glibc6.tar.gz
Lets tidy up the directory:
3. rm -rf shoutcast-1-9-2-linux-glibc6.tar.gz
mv shoutcast-1-9-2-linux-glibc6 shoutcast
cd shoutcast
Shoutcast has now been installed!

configure shoutcast on following step;

Now edit the configuration file.
pico sc_serv.conf
or you can use vi which I prefer, a bit more advanced to use.
vi sc_serv.conf
You can set some important configureation options. Change these settings in the file:
MaxUser
Password
PortBase
uncomment AdminPassword and set an admin password.

Now going through the settings, you can change them to what you want or you can save and start shoutcast and it will work now.
to save crtl+x (if using pico) or :wq if using vi
Now you can start shoutcast here;

./sc_serv sc_serv.conf

Dedicated Hosting reduces your need to share hardware or software with other websites on a server. Dedicated hosting is extremely flexible, and often fits the needs of the more sophisticated users for their high traffic websites.

Due to constant growth in the hosting industry and surrounding competitive environment the rates of the servers declining day by day but obviously you’re going to look for the service provider that provide reliable service and 24×7x365 monitoring of the server and network availability. Also there are tremendous growths of online presence of small and mid-sized businesses that are the reason the level of service are in high demand.

Looking through the benefit of dedicated hosting, “Control and Reliability” this two major factor generally attract the online business owners towards dedicated server since the user is able to make changes and updates on software installed on a server because the users get full root access to the web server. In addition the users get the option to install the software and other resources they need for their websites and optimize page loads speed and allocation of resources on server that truly helps to run a server efficiently in its most optimal configuration throughout the secure environment.

Dedicated server increases the website’s overall presence and also it helps you in performance drives customer retention. If you start realizing that your site is growing in success, and you’re getting more and more interaction and traffic, then dedicated servers start to make more and more sense to go with.