Cyber Coral Network posted a good advice for webmasters who wanted to buy web hosting services. It has explanations of why you should NOT choose a hosting provider that include unlimited space or unlimited bandwidth in their hosting package as such things don’t even exist.

Sad but true … I’m sure many many webmasters / customers have been trapped with such offers because people really want unlimited in almost everything in their hosting package as cheap as possible …

Sometime you have to see from the hosting provider’s point of view … The cost to maintain the server, internet connection, etc … It’s not cheap … really …

Read: The Fact Behind Unlimited Space & Unlimited Bandwidth

Who doesn’t know Friendster? Everyone knows Friendster and some people even got addicted with it. Friendster is a good media for social networking. It helps us stay connected with friends, families or even celebrity fans club.

That’s not just it. Friendster also has other features such as picture gallery, private message, bulletin board, your friends’ birthday reminder and even blog for your personal website or online diary.

And sometime, people often use Friendster’s private message facility to send message to friends instead of sending the message directly via email.

Let’s get to the point then. Why you should NOT depend on Friendster too much.

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I installed the full package of Gallery2 last monday and got all the modules activated. I found out that my gallery was very very very slow

Today, I have disabled and deleted some unnecessary modules out of my gallery and it loads a lot faster than before. If you downloaded the full package, you don’t need all the modules in there. Make sure you only upload the necessary modules.

For me, I only use the following modules which I think necessary for my gallery:

• Captcha - can help to prevent spam comments by bots.
• URL Rewrite - usefull for friendly url for search engine, but only works with Apache.
• Gd graphic toolkit - on the fly photo manipulation
• Image Block - to show random, most viewed, or most recent photo outside your gallery.
• Sitemap - can help to create sitemap for Google crawlers.
• Comments - to give visitors the ability to post comments on albums or photos.

You can also enable some additional modules like ImageFrame, Slideshow & Watermark to add more feature into your gallery.

For the last three days, I’ve been playing around with My Gallery Tweak here and there, uploaded some photos, playing around with SEO for my photos, etc … etc …

My first consideration was to create an account on flickr and host my photos there. After I created my account, I saw a link about limitation for free accounts on flickr. I quickly changed my mind as I don’t want such limitation as that can bring trouble in the future if I got many photos.

After that I stumbledupon picasaweb which offer 250MB free photo hosting. But then again I was dissapointed because users need to have google account in order to give comments on my photos.

Why did I not use my hosting to host my photos? Simply because I could not find a good php script for gallery to manage all my photos. But I was wrong. I found a nice php script for my photo gallery - Gallery2. I am now happy with the script and finally host my photos on my own domain & hosting provider

Click here to see my gallery

I started my own custom made website since the last 2 or 3 years. Spent my time in building a website for my own that can suit the need of my cyber island

I started my website with just simple HTML and moving towards with Server Side Scripting using ASP.NET with VB.NET. To be honest, I was a complete newbie in web programming stuff. I did some programming when I was in college, but not web application.

I learnt enough, but not much , about dot Net, database for web application, cookies, web security and many more. I really enjoyed making my website because programming logic is one of good excercises for our brain.

I remember, there was a time when someone from local IT services and training institution saw my website which was made using ASP.NET contacted me for an interview. He offered me a chance as a dot Net instructor in one of their training class.

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