Gaurav Mishra Insights

Most of my readers know that i started my career as a web hosting guy, Selling hosting and domain names. Hosting and domain flipping still remains my favorite past time, And i research a lot, Lately i was not able to answer all my friend queries for hosting queries so trying to sum up , What i think is best and have used personally or used for some of clients some or other time.

Small usage :-

Usually we don`t get good enough hosting companies when we need small hosting space and quick support.

This is the space that i started to fill once i started my career as a hosting provider, We all don`t need 100 or 1000 GB space, Most of the time we need few 100 mb space.

For this my all time recommendation is www.hostcurry.com , For some obvious reasons.

1. I owned the servers , so you can bug me anytime on any problem.

2. We are not oversized as we are very limited to people whom we give hosting.

Medium usage:-

This usage comes under once you need few Gb`s and a shared hosting plan , i.e your usage doesn`t cross 50 thousand users per day. Go for hostgator

Large Usage:-

Contact me

Tags: hostcurry, hosting

Usually we all get very greedy while making our url structure using .htaccess

For example, This will not work as you think

RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ category/categories.php?cat=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)/$ category/categories.php?cat=$1&name=$2 [L,QSA]

This will not work as after first rewrite will write , the current url structure will change to www.mydomain.com/<something>, Which will result to the last rewrite rule to be implemented after current url structure , i.e www.mydomain.com/<something>/ , Which is different from origianl structure www.mydomain.com. This can also result in loss of images as they are on relative path

RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/$ category/categories.php?region=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/$ category/categories.php?cat=$1&name=$2 [L,QSA]

My two cents

Tags: apache, php

Alone in the dark, A boy was standing

looking at the world, Trying to understand.

What they mean, Why i am like this. But…

No replies, No hands, No faces.

Tags: life

Sometimes you wake up.
Sometimes the fall kills you.
And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.

I’ll take my chances.

From Ideasmithy Blog

Tags: motivation, quotes

This weekend me with my roomies spend a nice night discussing about truth of ramayana , Mahabharata and several other hindu mythologies and astonishingly some nice facts came out all from knowledge of mine and my roomies and from “God Google”.

The most interesting part was finding of rama setu which looks like only solid fact of originality of Ramayana,

Here is the satellite image of Rama setu on National Gegraphic website.

For complete information on Rama setu have a look at Wikipedia entry of Rama setu (incorrectly written as adam`s bridge).

Tags: history, ramayana

Finally Firefox 3 Download day was completed, At the start of the launch spreadfirefox.com was barely even accessible, But in few hours site was back and throwing download at avery good speed. Here are the final stats

Total Downloads

14,431,224

Downloads in 24 hours on download day

8,000,000 +

Downloads in India

180,893

I also downloaded FF3 on the same date, And was not late to admit that FF3 is amazingly fast and light.

Fi

World record Download Page

Tags: firefox, world record

One thing india can sure boast of is manpower and with a lots and lots of netjunkie engineer thrown in social networking sites see india as a gold mine. Anytime look at orkut stats and you will get a feel why INDIA is so important to any big social networking venture.

LiveJournal is a community centric blogging platform which goes back in 1999 , Stats at Livejournal says

Tags: livejournal, social networking

I have been following cakephp framework for any new development that i do, But since now and then you come along some fixing work for old scripts.

I hate really fiddling with javascript for cross-browser issues everytime i use them, After starting through frameworks finally i got common sense of not re-inventing wheel again and again and again

Firstmost thing that is needed anytime is a form validation tool which is usually a no-brainer for any javscript guy. But using a built framework won`t hurt.

Here comes Yav , A form validation tool . Quick and very effective . Most impressive was it`s inline error messages it`s a piece of cake , look more here http://yav.sourceforge.net/en/gettingstarted.html

Let me know if there are more like this out there.

Tags: framework, javascript, programming

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.
Albert Einstein

Tags: einstein, quotes

Just needed to install and make ready smarty for a small project, Was thiking of again going to official howto when i stumbled to a very nice “For dummies” article for putting smarty out of box http://tinyurl.com/5py5o8

Nice work dude.

Tags: php, smarty