Jammed: Full into Capacity

Here is a list of plugins that have caused that server overload or resource abuse yesterday

1. Views Counter. This plugin helps you to easily track how many times your post page was viewed and by what quantity of visitors. I installed this plugin because it served as a “mini-stat counter” for my posts. It also served as a potential gauge for future related posts.

2. No Old Spam Links. This plugin add “nofollow” to all links on any domain on a blacklist, applied in posts and comments. I installed this plugin in thinking that it will help me regain my page rank. My alternative to it is add the “rel=nofollow” attribute to the paid links, manually. Also, I uninstalled the TLA plugin.

3. MaxBlogPress Stripe Ad. It’s a non-obtrusive way of displaying a single line of advertising message, a special note or other information right at the top of your blog. I used it to promote my contest.

Uninstalling these plugins also helped in minimizing server load:

1. Quoter. This plugin lets you quote a particular comment or portion of the blog. Uninstalling it minimized the load of most-commented posts in this blog. This is recommended only to high-trafficked sites receiving a good number of visitor comments.

2. Commentluv. This plugin shows a link to the last post from the commenter’s blog in their comment. It’s one way of attracting comments. It reduced significant number of queries.

3. Dagon Design Sitemap Generator. This plugin generates a fully customizable sitemap. When this was installed, my post archives performs 75 queries, when uninstalled, it reduced significantly by 60%.

This post does not mean to discourage you from installing these plugins, instead it serves as a warning to avoid site suspension from your host, especially if you are using a shared hosting.

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When I was just starting to blog, I feared of two things: not being able to generate blog traffic and site suspension. I had managed to work on the first one since I am now getting a satisfying number of page views per day. The latter was my worry before I switched to paid hosting from WebHostingBuzz.com. I’ve had several site suspension before, and termination at some point when I was still hosted by free hosts. I’ve had several site migration. Somehow, I blame this mishaps why my main blog (jammedph.com) is not visible now in search engine rankings and Google bot stopped crawling it.

But when I switched to paid host, I thought site suspension will no longer be a problem. But imagine to my disappointment and nightmare when I saw my site last night with a suspension notice. According to the technical staff, some scripts I am running in my website was responsible for a resource abuse. Unexpectedly, the plugins installed in this blog caused all the problem. Problems like this is common in shared hosting where you share IP address with other hosted members.

I immediately contacted the billing department and I was grateful because of their prompt reply and unsuspended my account.

What did I learn from this incident?

1. Always do a blog backup. It was only these days that I always forget to backup my account. I was relying to much on my webhost to do all the backups for me which should not have been the case.
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Domain name registration these days costs an average of $9.00/year. It already sounds much for me. So I looked for ways that will give me cheaper domain registration. My first option was to search the web for cheap domain names. My second option is to use a coupon code to avail discount. But where do I get one?

Luckily, I found a great site which provides coupon promotional codes including those for domain names and hosting. Retail Me Not is an easy way to find online coupon codes.

Using the FEBLUV code (NameCheap’s coupon code for February) I got the domain name for only $8.41 from its original price of $9.96!

Promotional coupon codes for domain registration and hosting.

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Many bloggers are sharing their online revenues and I think it’s about time I post one, too. I’ve been online for over 4 years and thanks to the money making opportunities online, I am earning for my own now.

I’ve joined several money making opportunities, but only a few are giving me earnings.

Google Adsense. Earnings from Google Adsense comprises the large percentage of my online revenues. I am earning an average of $7 USD per day better than what I used to with an average of $3 per day. My $202 earnings for the month of January was the highest so far. It’s not big compared to other bloggers, but it’s helping me a lot.

Project Wonderful. I would like to thank all my ad box bidders. It’s great to see that my funds are increasing as well as the bids on your ad boxes. I think the placement for my PW ads makes it attractive to bidder. Currently, I am earning $0.75/day (but it fluctuates depending on the bids). I run several ad boxes to this blog to generate more income.
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When I was just starting to learn how to make money online, I tried joining autosurf (paid-to-surf), paid to click, and several paid-to programs, as I’ve told in my previous post. Most of the sites I joined to were already listed in scam sites, and I was a victim also. Although, I have not invested money to upgrade my membership or purchase referrals for more earnings, I spent my time uselessly to these programs. Imagine clicking 20 ads and you get only $0.02/day? But GPT then provided “easy” money.

Ever since I found blogging as potential source of online income, I stopped clicking ads and just concentrated on posting entries. However, recently, I found a good site that can provide easy money. This website is called Bux.to.

I purchased 35 referrals, and currently has earned $23.00 after 5 days. Not bad. I am planning to increase this earning by upgrading my membership to premium and purchasing more referrals.

Is Bux.to legitimate?
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Yesterday, I was asked by a visitor at Student E-Resources on how to put a contact form in the new Blogger after she saw my contact form embedded in one of the pages.

For this particular one, I am using Wufoo HTML forms. The advantage of Wufoo is you can create any kinds of online forms like mailing list and subscriptions, job applications, etc.

However, with Wufoo, you have to login to your admin dashboard to read the messages generated from your contact form. I have a particular dilemma on this. I usually forget to check my dashboard so I sometimes reply late to my visitors messages.
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