include('include.php');

While this approach doesn’t present obvious breaches, it is slightly inefficient than the following way:

include(dirname(__FILE__).'/include.php');

You will type a little more but the extra code frees PHP from iterating through the include_path in the attempt to locate ‘include.php’ because dirname(__FILE__) has explicitly returned the absolute path to the file. The constant __FILE__ in PHP always returns the absolute path to the script file that’s currently active – the PHP file in which the code line is being run right now. Function dirname() returns the directory part of the given path.

A better approach would be:

include('./include.php');

Which explicitly commands PHP to look for the file ‘include.php’ in the current directory, yet comes without the overhead of the function dirname().

Thanks to Gumbo, alexef and Justin at Stack Overflow.

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The first reasoning for this is that browsers load web assets one by one or sequentially from a single host. They will not start requesting and downloading the next asset until they are finished with the previous one from the same domain. Therefore, doubling the hosts or domains can accelerate the downloading speed by about 100% because browsers can simultaneously download stuff from 2 different domains.

Another reasoning is that if cookie or session is enabled on your website, the browser would send the session cookie every time it makes a request to the domain, which sort of is useless because it’s static content – the server doesn’t need the cookie at all to serve static content such as images. It’s not only a waste of bandwidth but also a waste of communication time. To avoid this, serve all static content from a domain that is not cookie enabled. For instance, if you have set cookie with example.com, you can host all static content at static.example.com, however, if you have enabled cookie by *.example.com instead of just example.com, you will need to register a whole different domain to host the static content to steer clear of the useless overhead.

Not much for a small site, but this would be a major improvement regarding user experience for established, popular websites.

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1. Add these environmental variables for Go in .bash_profile:

   export GOROOT=$HOME/go
   export GOARCH=386  # for 32 bit architectures. Use GOARCH=amd64 for 64 bit architectures
   export GOOS=linux
   export GOBIN=$HOME/bin
   PATH=$PATH:$GOBIN
   

2. Install the Mercurial ‘hg’ command:

   aptitude install mercurial

3. Fetch the sources of Go and put them at $GOROOT:

   hg clone -r release https://go.googlecode.com/hg/ $GOROOT

4. Fetch compilers and related utilities:

   aptitude install bison gcc libc6-dev ed make

5. Create the directory $HOME/bin by:

   mkdir $HOME/bin

   and compile Go:

   cd $GOROOT/src
   make all

Done. You can now go about writing your first hello world program. If you haven’t got a server yet, I recommend Linode VPS and Rackspace Cloud.

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Check them out, they are pretty much the most expensive host you can find on the web. Their most basic server costs over $400 a month with 2TB monthly bandwidth. It’s by all means not a generous offer but it’s probably the most reliable and responsive platform you will ever need to know. They have the best uptime across the entire industry. A profitable online business deserves an uptime of 100%, because every minute of down time costs you money – no matter how solid and perfect your website is, it’s nothing when it’s down.

Rackspace provides the best support to its clients. They are not just a hosting provider, they are the all-around IT company who you can trust your entire IT infrastructure with. They take over everything from creating to optimizing, and monitoring to troubleshooting. When something goes wrong, chances are they have actively found and fixed it even before you know it. Many of the top players use Rackspace for their hosting needs. WHT, the Internet’s No.1 web hosting forum, has been with them for years. In a word, Rackspace is the kind of hosting you need when every second of your business counts.

5% Referral Discount for You

Anyway, as I’m a partner of Rackspace, I can earn or give 5% discount off any of their managed dedicated server packages. Shoot me a message about your intention to host with them, so I can get you the 5% discount and ask them to contact you. I’m currently not relying on this to make a living so, it’s better to pass along the favor than letting my partnership with them sitting in dust.

As per FTC requirement, I’m not making any money off this at all. ;)

Cloud Hosting

If you find their dedicated service a little more privileged than you can afford, their cloud hosting may be a better deal. Use this promo code for Rackspace Cloud to get a discount off their cloud hosting plans.

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To solve this issue and lift the length limit, to perhaps 10 times the original, you have to reset the default value of pcre.backtrack_limit in one of the following ways:

1. If you are using cPanel, create a text file named php.ini and put it in the directory wherein you need to break the limit. Append this line in the file:
   pcre.backtrack_limit = 1000000
2. If you operate your own dedicated / vps server, modify php.ini and put this line at the end of the file:
   pcre.backtrack_limit = 1000000
   Refer to this article to find out where your php.ini is.
3. Use runtime configuration function ini_set() to set it at runtime:
   ini_set('pcre.backtrack_limit', 1000000)

This seems to be only affecting PHP 5.2.

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Front end (HTML)

Simply copy this HTML form and paste it into your web pages where you want it to be, such as on the sidebar so a visitor can send you a contact message on any page.

<form action="/cf.php" method="post">
	<p><label for="input-email">Your Email: </label><br/><input type="text" name="email" id="input-email" size="40"/></p>
	<p><label for="input-message">Your Message: </label><br/><textarea type="text" name="message" id="input-message" rows="10" cols="40"></textarea></p>
	<p><button type="submit" name="submit">Send</button></p>
</form>

You may also want to style this form a little bit to make it look fancier. But make sure you don’t change any of the properties inside the tags such as action=”…” and name=”…”.

Back end (PHP)

Copy and paste these PHP code into a file named cf.php, change youremail@yoursite.com to your own email address that you wish to receive the messages. Put the file at the root directory of your domain so that everyone can access it at http://www.yoursite.com/cf.php.

<?php

if (isset($_GET['success'])) {

	?><p><span style="color:green;">Message successfully sent.</span> Thank you!</p><?php

} else {

	if (!empty($_POST['email']) && !empty($_POST['message'])) {

		$to = 'youremail@yoursite.com'; // your email address, can be @gmail.com, etc.
		$subject = 'Contact from yoursite.com'; // change yoursite.com to your own domain name
		$message = $_POST['message']."\r\n\r\nSender IP: ".$_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"];
		$headers = 'From: '.$_POST['email']."\r\n".
					'Reply-To: '.$_POST['email']."\r\n";
		mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

		header("Location: /cf.php?success"); // redirects the sender to success page so he or she doesn't accidentally send multiple identical messages

	} else {

		?><p><span style="color:red;">Error detected.</span> Please make sure you have filled all fields. Press back button to go back.</p><?php

	}

}

?>

Should be functioning properly. Thus far this contact form script has been successfully tested on Rackspace Cloud, DreamHost and Linode.

There are a lot more that can be done to create a sophisticated contact form. For starters, you can implement a spam catcher and a file upload control that sends the user uploaded file as attachment to your email. You could also have on-page error detection but that’d need a lot more coding.

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You can try their Cloud Sites, the managed cloud hosting package for 30 days on unconditional money back policy in addition to an extra $25 discount off the first month (rebate to your credit card).

What are the Cloud benefits?

1. It handles usage / traffic spikes much better than any other types of hosting can. Because it automatically scales and distribute computing resources on demand on the fly!
2. It provides failover that no single dedicated server can, drastically reducing the chance of down times by instantly switching to a redundant server in the cloud. Well, actually not that much of a redundant server because that server is part of the cloud all the time. Because each of your sites is hosted simultaneously on a couple of distributed servers, if one server fails or falls off the network grid, the service is still online on the other servers.
3. It bills you in the manner of utility, thus no mountainous sunk cost ever for businesses to build up information technology infrastructure of their own. Use as much as you need and pay only for what you use.

What are there?

At Rackspace Cloud, they have created 3 distinct product lines, namely Cloud Sites, Cloud Servers and Cloud Files. Each plan has its own scaling model. Aside from their unique online application to manage your account and websites, you know, creating and editing stuff such as databases, email accounts and down line clients, you will also be allocated certain amount of hosting capacity.

With Cloud Sites at the base price $100 per month, you will have:

1. 50GB disk storage
2. 500GB monthly transfer
3. 10,000 cloud computing cycles (roughly equal to the full capacity of a 2.8 GHz modern processor for a month)
4. 24 x 7 x 365 online live chat and toll free phone support backed by Fanatical Support™
5. Both Linux (for LAMP projects) and Windows (for .NET projects) platforms are available at your convenience
6. Cloud clustering: automatic scaling to the highest capacity available
7. Resource floors: contrary to Amazon EC2 using ceilings to restrict hosting resource usage, Rackspace Cloud guarantees a floor (minimum resource capacity that will always be exclusively available to you) and gives you as much extra resource as possible when you need them most.

Rackspace Cloud promotion code

You can get all these plus $25 discount by using the Rackspace Cloud promo code:

REF-YY

Simply enter the code REF-YY into the Promo or Referral Code box when you are ordering Cloud Sites:

The discount is available to you at the end of the month as a rebate once you pass the 30-day risk free trial threshold – yes, you can cancel any time you want without risking any money at all. Absolutely free trial in the first 30 days.

This referral code also applies for Cloud Servers and gives you $10 discount off the first month.

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Simply copy and paste these into a text editor, then search and replace ‘#’ with the generic keywords you want. Copy and paste the results into the bulk domain search tool to search and register the available ones that look nice and brandable.

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To change your CJ account password,

1. Log into the account area or control panel,
2. Click “Account” of the top menu,
3. In the “User Settings” fieldset at the bottom of the page, you must have a user that’s the Superuser of the current CJ account, edit this user account by clicking “Edit”,
4. A small window should pop up, asking the you for the current password to continue,
5. Enter your current CJ account password and click “OK”,
6. The subsequent screen should look like this,
   
7. Click “Create new” and the password changing fields should appear,
8. Type in a new password and click “Save”.

Kind of elusive, huh?

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Below are a list of very probable locations where Firefox would save your bookmarks by the OS you are using.

1. Windows 95 (without Desktop Update)
   C:/Windows/Mozilla
2. Windows 95 (with Desktop Update)/98/Me
   C:/Windows/Application Data/Mozilla
   C:/Windows/Profiles/<Windows login or user name>/Application Data/Mozilla
3. Windows NT 4.x
   C:/Winnt/Profiles/<Windows login or user name>/Application Data/Mozilla
4. Windows 2000 and XP
   C:/Documents and Settings/<Windows login or user name>/Application Data/Mozilla
5. Windows Vista
   C:/Users/<Windows login or user name>/AppData/Roaming/Mozilla
6. Unix
   ~/.mozilla/
7. Mac OS X
   ~/Library/Mozilla/
   ~/Library/Application Support/

With Windows systems, make sure you have selected to display all hidden files or some of the folders such as “Application Data” may not show themselves by default. Also you should replace the “<Windows login or user name>” part to your own login name, which in most cases would be “Administrator”.

Take Windows XP + Firefox 2.0.0.20 / Firefox 3.5 for example, my Firefox stores the current bookmarks in the file:

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\gsbmusic.default\bookmarks.html

If you have mistakenly deleted a bookmark or all of them, don’t panic. Firefox backs things up pretty well and you can find historical bookmarks backups in this folder:

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\gsbmusic.default\bookmarkbackups

Files in this folder are backups of Firefox bookmarks in the past few days. They are text files in JSON format, hard to read manually but you sure can rescue and recover your lost bookmarks in there, just search “http://” using a text editor.

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We need to revert to Firefox 2 and this is the download link of Firefox 2 setup executable file, the latest version Firefox 2.0.0.20, for Windows.

http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/2.0.0.20/win32/en-US/Firefox%20Setup%202.0.0.20.exe

Otherwise, you can view a list of historical releases of Firefox from the Mozilla team.

Not convinced? Let’s do some googling.

1. intitle:"ie 7 sucks" -  Results 1 – 10 of about 1,190 for intitle:"ie 7 sucks". (0.10 seconds)
2. intitle:"ie 8 sucks" -  Results 1 – 10 of about 152 for intitle:"ie 8 sucks". (0.26 seconds)
3. intitle:"firefox 3 sucks" -  Results 1 – 10 of about 11,300 for intitle:"firefox 3 sucks". (0.35 seconds)

Huh?

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1. Stick to simple white design.
2. Use no more than 4 colors other than grey scale (white, black, grey). Actually 2 would be perfectly enough for text information intensive sites.
3. Design the site as if it’s a chapter in a print book.
4. Plan blank areas.
5. Be goal oriented and GET RID of EVERYTHING that’s not closely contributing to the goal. You achieve perfect by having nothing to peel off instead of the other way around.

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You will own a section of forums dedicated to topics of your choice (must be family-friendly) and be a moderator of the forums and users.

The service is completely free for all, though we reserve the right to suspend any inappropriate forums at our sole discretion. Other than that, forums inactive for more than 3 months may be suspended.

On top of that, enjoy having your discussion board!

Be a moderator and have your own vBulletin forum!

(This free service is only available to members having 100 or more posts.)

Ever want to create and run your own forum boards? Ever want to be a moderator and administer your own forums and users? Let alone on vBulletin™ which is simply the best and most globally recognized forum software out there?

Now anyone can have his or her own section of forums like this! Just follow these 4 steps:

1. Register an account at Jointly Hosted Forum.
2. Post around until you have at least 100 posts.
3. Apply by starting a thread in this board with these information:
   • Your name: full name would be preferrable
   • Username of registration: your account username at JHF that you would like to be the moderator
     
   • Your website URL: preferrably the one associated with your forums, but it’s totally ok if you don’t have any
   • Forum purpose: what you are going to use the forums for
   • Forum section title: such as “Make A Website” for this one
   • Forum boards: a title as well as a short description for each of them, such as these
4. To be notified on the thread after we have created the forums and granted moderation privileges to your account.

Note: Forums inactive for 3 months may be suspended, albeit your user account will always be fine.

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I created a sub-forums section at Jointly Hosted for Kavoir.com, feel free to register an account, it’s here: http://www.jointlyhosted.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=4

For now, almost all the boards are dedicated to technical topics (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, etc.) of web development. If you have any questions regarding developing a website, post them there, interested people and I will try to help you as much as we can. Should these forums become popular, we will add more forums that appeal to webmasters.

To reduce spam, we have disabled signature for all new registrations, you will need 15 posts to be able to use signature which will be automatically enabled for you after your exceeding 15 in the number of posts.

Enjoy! ;)

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To prevent this from happening and encourage users to actively engage in the community, a good approach is to open or enable signature only to those who have had certain amount of posts, say 20; or have passed a certain length of time after registration, say 10 days.

Step 1: Disable signature for “Registered Users”

Go to the AdminCP of your vBulletin, follow the left menu: Usergroups => Usergroup Manager => Edit “Registered Users” by clicking the corresponding “Go” => In the “Signature Permissions” section, select “No” for “Can Use Signatures”. Now all newly registered users will have no signature privileges at all by default.

Step 2: Add a new Usergroup “Acknowledged Users” with signature capabilities

Create a new Usergroup by: Usergroups => Add New Usergroup => Select “Registered Users” for “Create Usergroup Based off of Usergroup” and click “Go” => Name this Usergroup, eg. “Acknowledged Users” => In the “Signature Permissions” section, select “Yes” for “Can Use Signatures”.

Step 3: Set to automatically promote users with over 20 posts from “R” group to “A” group

Now that you have 2 Usergroups with different signature permissions, the last step is to add a promotion strategy that recognizes all users that have 20 posts or more and promotes them from “Registered Users” to “Acknowledged Users”: Usergroups => Promotions => “Add New Promotion” => Select “Registered Users” for “Usergroup”, specify “10” for “Days Registered”, specify “20” for “Posts”, select “Posts” for “Promotion Strategy” and select “Acknowledged Users” for “Move User to Usergroup” => Click “Save”

Done. Now vBulletin will automatically promote users that have greater than or equal to 20 posts to a new Usergroup that has signature enabled. Other than promoting by posts, you can also promoting users to a privileged group by reputation.

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I was bored and then I made this logo. It’d make great profile avatar for forums and other online applications!

Have your say!

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1. We make no profit by selling servers themselves. The server is provided to a number of users at almost the original price (plus 20% for PayPal fees and time spent on monitoring the server for performance and uptime, as well as administrating the user forum community).
2. We never oversell. We try to make the monthly subscription charges of each account within $20, and we slice a common dedicated server among just 10 – 20 users. In contrast, most affordable hosting providers jam hundreds of users into a single dedicated server, severely slowing the service down, thus the performance of your websites.
3. We only buy in fully managed, monitored and secured servers from the most prestigious hosting providers. Such as WiredTree, SoftLayer and RackSpace.

So you resell dedicated servers?

Not really because we are just middle man who consolidates people together to make sharing a dedicated server possible. We also provide a hangout place for you guys to meet and connect.

Support?

To be honestly, we can’t provide as sophisticated support as that of other for-profit hosting businesses. But we have set up a community forum for you to publicly discuss stuff and complain about things. We will respond to any reasonable requests for support such as adding software packages to the server, in the premise that it would not affect other users on the server. We will also relay the message to the server provider.

There will also be a server performance monitor script where all users of the server can check out who is using how much CPU, RAM and bandwidth, etc.

With the absolute underselling policy of Jointly Hosted, the server will be far from reaching its full capacity most of time. Vast majority of the performance problems will not be possible in the first place. Need for support is reduced to the minimum.

How do we profit then?

We will first try to maintain a non-profit state by the current pricing scheme for a while, without creating any negative balance, to see where it would head. When this all takes off and people start feeling it’s worth a few extra bucks to have a shared dedicated hosting account that guarantees cost-effectiveness and reliability, we will take the next step as to profit as a self-sustainable business. Possible venues include:

1. Forum advertising
2. Paid support
3. Accompanied services

Therefore, we and our users stand in the same line instead of against each other. We will NEVER increase the profit margin by crowding the servers which goes against the rights of the users.

Not convinced?

Take a look at our first server, every account comes with a dedicated unique IP!

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How does one do that?

First log into the AdminCP, of course, and then

1. Open the Languages & Phrases submenu and click Search in Phrases.
2. In the “Search for Text” box enter “powered by vbulletin” and click “Find”.
3. In the searching results, you will have a variable named “x_powered_by_vbulletin”.
4. Click “Edit” button of this variable and simply erase the “ – Powered by vBulletin” part, leaving just “{1}”.

You are done! Now there will be no trailing string of “Powered by vBulletin” in the forum title any more.

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I don’t know why it’s so hard, Chrome can make it a breeze, why can’t the people at Mozilla?!

To express my anger toward the Mozilla team, I’m releasing this Dreamhost discount code:

FF3SUCKS

Which gives you 1 unique IP and 3 lifetime free domain registrations when you order yearly hosting plans from them. Their signing up process has gone through some changes in that you now get the chance to try it free for a certain period of time before actually plummeting into paying.

Just enter the discount code FF3SUCKS in the Promo Code box at signup.

Disclosure: I get a $15 one-time compensation from Dreamhost when you use this discount code.

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The giver of endorsements and testimonials for the promotion and marketing of a product or service should make clear of the behind-scene material connections that may have been the incentive of such activity.

Now here’s my perfect chance of confessing to my fellow readers. I’m an independent web developer and internet marketer who occasionally promotes related products and services on this blog, Kavoir.com. Though I try my best to approach only the best of their kinds because I’m personally a user of most of them, I’m compensated by affiliate commissions if I successfully persuaded you to reach for your wallet.

You know all these, of course. ;)

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In case any of you might be interested in opting in the alpha testing of Free HTML Hosting, feel free to comment on this post to get your free account! ;)

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Basically, a free static HTML web hosting space (with potentially unlimited transfer).

Simply download the software and sign up with them, put the HTML file in the “Public” folder of your specified Dropbox directory. After a few seconds’ synchronization when there finally turns up a small green tick at the bottom left corner the file icon (which means the synchronization is successfully completed), right click on the file, point to “Dropbox” for the submenu and select “Copy Public Link”. Now you have the public URL address of the page.

Paste it into the address bar of your favorite browser, bravo! Now you have your own HTML web pages freely hosted on the Web! Check out what I’ve published on Dropbox!

The brilliant part is the ease of the hosting. Just create more web documents such as audio files, images and HTML pages, put them in the “Public” folder and you will have them online in no time because Dropbox automatically synchronizes everything you put in the folder. Want to modify the existing files, fine, just do it, save the changes and Dropbox would also automatically synchronize the update to the remote server.

Dropbox is not just a public host though, it’s easy to use and rocks as a photo gallery, online backup storage, file sharing and synchronizing machine.

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Use this promotional code when you are choosing the hosting plans at Hawkhost by clicking “Update Cart”:

whts50

Which is their official campaign promotion at Web Hosting Talk, and you will get 50% off the first payment you make to them for any of the listed plans. Any. After the first billing cycle, you are bound to renew at the normal pricing, though.

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• Hawkhost initial review

The fact that Hawk host is using Litespeed instead of Apache caused some minor incompatibility issues – at least so it seemed – about which I contacted the support team. They got back to me after approximately an hour, friendly and helpful. The results are positive and problem successfully solved.

Though you will not find parallel documentations with Litespeed against Apache, they are generally interchangeable and Litespeed can handle about double or even triple the traffic of Apache with the same server resources (their official comparison). I think that’s one of the top reasons why Hawk host has been able to offer such a budget hosting without compromising the performance and reliability.

After confirming the domain was resolving to the new IP of Hawkhost, the next thing I did was to examine the loading speed of Kavoir. Results are shown below by Internet Supervision:

The speed test stats were quite impressive, averaging at about 450 Kbps, the highest of all the stats I got from Dreamhost, Linode and Pair.com (though very incomplete to compare and give final judgment of the overall serving speed of these hosting providers).

All the reviews I found about Hawkhost on the web and WHT have been rather positive and purchase-encouraging. Search and read, so you know if you want to try them out with a few of your low traffic websites.

I’ll keep you updated for the months coming.

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It’s revealed by Dropbox that backup shouldn’t have existed in the first place.

They’ve got a very slick clean style, both the application as well as the website are so designed that anybody can figure the whole thing out at a glance of 5 seconds. And that’s it. Everything you need to ever know is merely a folder named “My Dropbox”. Thus it goes incredibly breezy on first time users, doing the job perfectly and silently even when you have forgotten it.

Install and forget.

Working from the desktop of Windows, Linux and Mac, Dropbox is not just an online data storage provider, it’s also at its best as a data backup system, files sharing wizard, automatic synchronizer, way-back time machine and free file host.

1. Offsite remote data storage: this goes without saying. All files and data you put into the “My Dropbox” folder is automatically and quietly transferred to and stored at the their central server securely.
2. Backup system: intuitively, after you have hit the save button, the document has been backed up on Dropbox servers. Otherwise, just drag and drop anything you’d like backed up on the remote server so a local hard drive crash won’t make you go nuts.
3. Files sharing wizard: all the files and media (music, videos, photos etc.) can be instantly accessible and downloaded from the central servers across all the computers and mobile devices such as iphone that have Dropbox software installed.
4. Automatic synchronizer: editing a document, saving it in the “My Dropbox” folder of your office PC and you can continue working on it after opening it from the same folder of your home Mac. The next day, you just open the same file in your office PC and it’s exactly the same file! Basically, any changes you made to those files are instantly synced to the server, thus across all computers of the sync software installed.
5. Way-back time machine: Dropbox keeps historical versions of your files for 30 days by default, so that you can undo any changes or deletions you regret.
6. Free file hosting: simply put any file into the “Public” folder and you will be given a public web address (URL) to hand out to your friends and everyone else so that they can view and download it.

Try them for free for 14 days and be ready to be impressed.

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