WP-PostViews, one of the many plugins by the highly talented Lester Chan, is one of my favourite plugins. As the name suggests, it tells you how many times a post has been viewed. You can choose to display that information in the public or you can keep it to yourself. Either way, it is an
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MicroNetVPS Review
MicroNetVPS.com had an attractive offer in WHT in which they promised a 50% recurring discount in 6 locations: UK, US, Russia, Turkey, India and Swiss. I have a penchant for discount offers though MicroNetVPS did not inspire much confidence from the look and feel. Anyway, I signed up for the lowest tier in the India
Complete Guide To Setting Up A VPS With WordPress (Centos) (Without Control Panel)
There are few things more satisfying than starting with an empty VPS and filling it with a fully functional WordPress website in just a few moments. The best thing is that we will not be using any Control Panel. This means that we don’t squander away precious RAM that would otherwise be consumed by the
RamNode 128MB RAM VPS Review
I suddenly developed an urge for a backup VPS where I could store data. I have a number of websites which are scattered across a number of VPSs. I prefer to do a manual backup of the website files and database using the simple technique detailed here. I transfer the backup files to one of
VR.Org (Host Virtual) Chennai Datacenter VPS Review
I was looking for a VPS in India and HostVirtual (VR.org) appeared in the short-list. Host Virtual has a tie-up with Netmagic’s Chennai datacenter and it offers cloud VPS services. The prices are quite reasonable at $20 for a 1GB RAM VPS. Here’s what you get for that: • 1024 MB Ram• 20 GB Raid
Ramnode VPS Review
RamNode is one of the newer budget VPS providers who have stormed the scene by offering quality equipment at rock-bottom prices. They have three locations you can choose from: Netherlands, Seattle and Atlanta. The reason I was interested in RamNode is because they offer pure SSD and SSD cached hard drives which are supposed to
Speed Test (Upload & Download) Of VPS
There are multiple ways to check the upload and download speed tests of a VPS. One way using the python tool is set out here. The other way is given in a LET post. It requires you to run this command: wget dl.getipaddr.net/speedtest.sh 2>/dev/null -O- | bash Here are the results of my RamNode VPS:
SERVER MANIA!: SSD Cached Linux VPS – 4 GB RAM Review
SERVER MANIA!: SSD Cached Linux VPS – 4 GB RAM Server Mania has a very attractive offer in WHT with the following features: • 4 GB RAM, 4 GB vSwap RAM• 4 IP Addresses• 150 GB SSD RAID Storage• 4000 GB Monthly Bandwidth• Customize & Order – $88 USD/year! The price: Only USD 88 for
How To Check Upload & Download Speeds Of VPS
There is a simple speedtest script that will help you check the upload and download speeds of your VPS: Download the speedtest script onto your VPS with the command: wget -O speedtest-cli https://raw.github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli/master/speedtest_cli.py Chmod the script to make it readable chmod +x speedtest-cli Run the script python speedtest-cli Here are some speedtest results of the
VPS In India
If you want a VPS in India, you have a wide choice. Let’s look at the options. VR.org offers VPS at the Netmagic datacenter in Chennai. Let’s look at the performance of the VR.org Chennai VPS CPU model : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 0 @ 2.00GHzNumber of cores : 2CPU frequency : 2000.000 MHzTotal amount