Livewatch is the server monitoring service that I’m using to monitor my dedicated servers 24/7 to make sure that they are running. The main advantage of Livewatch over similar services is that you can check every element of the server and not only the http connection. It is for example possible to check the http [...]

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If you are administrating your own dedicated server you should monitor it 24/7 to make sure that it is running smoothly and be able to react immediately when something unforeseen happens. The motherboard of one of my rootservers died just a few days ago and several of my websites where not accessible for a few [...]

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Blogtastique is a new service by Daniel, one of the resident writers here at Ghacks, which can probably be best described as a service to help beginning and advanced bloggers. The basic concept of Blogtastique is to manage different aspects of being a blog owner for the user. The interesting part is that one of [...]

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I usually start my day by opening Thunderbird to check my emails and my website to check the comments that are awaiting moderation. I have installed some rank checkers in the Firefox status bar that display the Pagerank, Alexa rank and Compete rank of the active website and I realized that the Alexa rank for [...]

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Get a Freelancer is a website that brings together webmasters and freelancers. I have been using the service twice in the last two months and liked it that much that I thought a review would be nice to spread the word. Webmasters can post -mostly – IT related projects on Get a Freelancer and freelancers [...]

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Search Engine Optimization is important, probably the most important aspect to make your blog grow beyond it’s initial reach. The reason is pretty simply. If you rank high for certain popular keywords in search engines you will receive visitors, the higher you rank the more visitors you get.

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I’m looking for advertisers to place their banners on Ghacks and would like to give everyone the opportunity to earn some money when they refer advertisers to my website that book advertisement. The payout will be half the money for the first month which means it is a minimum amount of $150 and a maximum of $2500 depending on the ad spot sold.

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I’d like to point out three websites offering varied stuff to the professional as well as amateur web-designer and summarize their purpose and properties.

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I would like to write about a subject that I have been investigating lately. I’m talking about links in general and how they should look like and how they should not look like. This is solely from a webmasters point of view so forgive me that I’m not taking the users into account here. Links play a important role in search engine rankings, they are probably the most deciding factor when it comes to search engine rankings.

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