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The Da Vinci code

Spoiler alert Yesterday I watched the DaVinci Code. Technically, it would have been today, because the movie started a few minutes before midnight. Therefore, it finished around 3:00am. While booking the tickets, there was a warning sign on the information screen that there is a limited number of tickets available. We were lucky, we came …

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Domains and Webhosting #3

It is quite common to require information about domain names during our work with webhosting and the market of domains. There are specific tools that one can use to find the WHOIS record of a domain name, find who has allocated a specific IP address, ping or traceroute a hostname, view the history of a …

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Domains and Webhosting #2

There are loads of companies that offer webhosting services. We distinguish between dedicated webhosting (you have a server on your own at the datacentre), virtual private server (VPS) (a server is partitioned to virtual private servers through VMWare, Xen or other) and shared webhosting (you share the server, you get your own virtual host in …

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Mydomain sucks!

No, it’s not my domain that sucks, it’s mydomain.com sucks, a web-hosting company. Last June I chose mydomain.com to move my website to, as they had a special offer for a domain transfer and webhosting. Since my needs for my Website were specific, I gladly accepted the offer. Since then, the service was good; I …

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Explorer Destroyer for your WordPress blog (website, actually)

Explorer Destroyer is an interesting addition to your WordPress blog; when an Internet Explorer visitor arrives to your Website and they use Internet Explorer, they are advised to switch to Firefox. It can be easily added to your WordPress blog by following the instructions in the download file. There are three levels of encouragement for …

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.eu domain

Today is a special day for Internet domain specialists. Specifically, the .eu domain is on sale for all citizens and companies of the EU. EURid is the focal point for the whole process. You can find a list of accredited registrars for the .eu domain, the current registration status of .eu domains, a guide on …

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