This month we have teamed up with WebHostingBuzz to offer you an unmissable giveaway. Two lucky winners will win 2 Years free web hosting, with 750GB Disk Space, 10,000GB bandwidth, free migration/transfer, a free domain name and much more.

About WebHostingBuzz

WebHostingBuzz constantly strive to provide the highest quality of hosting services across the world, combining cutting edge technology with award winning customer service. Offering fast and reliable web hosting, UK reseller hosting, VPS hosting and dedicated servers, WebHostingBuzz has a packages catered to everyone’s needs and budgets.

How To Win?

As a kailoon.com reader you can enter to win one of 2 two-year free subscriptions to WebhostingBuzz’s “Hosting Standard” package, which comes with a free domain name. Just follow the easy steps below:

• Step 1: Follow us on Twitter.
• Step 2: Leave a comment below ( make sure you are using your valid email address).
• Optional step 3: Tweet about this giveaway. Include your Twitter username if you decided to go that route.
• Contest end on 24th May 2012.

That’s it! Easy right? Get to it so you can win that subscription. We’ll choose the winners at random 2 weeks from today and let you know.

The prizes will be issued in the form of voucher codes.

Congrats to all the winners.

• Silviu Stefu - http://www.pixelglow.ro/
• Takenoshin - http://takenoshin.co.cc/
• Dlysen - http://dlysen.com/
• Pablo Lara H - http://pablolarah.cl/
• Menj - http://kreativeko.com/

Congrats to all the winners and we will have another contests coming soon! Stay tune!

Hacker Monthly is an awesome publication for designers, programmers and startup founders and we’ve snagged five one-year digital subscriptions to give away!

Hacker Monthly is the print magazine version of Hacker News — a social news website wildly popular among programmers and startup founders. The submission guidelines state that content can be “anything that gratifies one’s intellectual curiosity.” Every month, we select from the top voted articles on Hacker News and print them in magazine format.

Testimonials

How To Win?

As a kailoon.com reader you can enter to win one of five one-year subscriptions! Just follow the easy steps below.

• Step 1: Follow us on Twitter.
• Step 2: Leave a comment below. Include your Twitter username if you decided to go that route.
• Contest end on 27th March 2012.

That’s it! Easy right? Get to it so you can win that subscription. We’ll choose the winners at random 2 weeks from today and let you know.

Congrats to all the winners of our latest giveaway!

Winners

• Seh Hui - http://felixleong.com/
• Amy - pikaland.com
• Lance

Congrats to all the winners and we will have another contests coming soon! Stay tune!

MOO is kind enough to sponsor this giveaway on kailoon.com. MOO is giving away 3 set of 100 business cards to 3 lucky winners.

Who is MOO?

If you’ve not come across MOO before, they love to print – whether it’s unique business cards, creative MiniCards, Postcards, Greeting cards, StickerBooks and more.

MOO was born from a love of beautiful, high-quality print and design. MOO makes designing and printing beautiful and unique business cards, greeting cards and MiniCards so easy! You can either upload your own images or artwork to create truly unique cards, or choose from a range of designer templates and personalize them with your own details.

What You Can Win?

3 Different Winners will receive a set of 100 business cards printed & shipped for free from MOO.

How to Win?

You can win the prize by completing any one of the options below, each option will earn you an entry to the contest

• Leave a comment at the bottom of this blog post. (1 entry)
• Add @Overheardatmoo and @kailoon on Twitter and tweet about the contest. (1 entry)
• We receive entry submitted before 14 December 2011.

I’d joined Dribbble since June, 2010 and I really learn a lot from the community. The dribbblers there are helpful, resourceful and most importantly, they are all very passionate about design – every pixel counted!

What Is Dribbble?

Dribbble is show and tell for creatives. Designers, developers and other creatives shareshots — small screenshots of the designs and applications they are working on.

How?

I have 1 Dribbble invitation. If you are a passionate graphics/web/UI/UX designer, you can earn this invitation by submitting your best shot ( 400px X 300px ) to me and I will post it on Dribbble to get some feedbacks from the pro(s). The community will decide whether you deserve a place on dribbble.

Ya, it sounds crazy to get through all this madness just to get an invitation. But the thing is, we respect what we do as a designer and we hope that dribbble only for people who have the same passion.

If you know a great designer friend, kindly let him/her know or RT about this and we really love to see some great talents to join this community.

Update:

You can comment in this post but simply link your shot here will not make you enter the ‘contest’ automatically. Please contact me via the contact form. if you don’t know how to use the contact form, I can’t help much …

This will be open until this Friday – 15 July 2011.

PS: The poll is live, please comment or like the shot so we can keep it more visible on Dribbble. Your help will make it a better result and help us to launch another invite in the near future - http://dribbble.com/shots/214158-Dribbble-Invite-Poll

Winner:

Rames - http://dribbble.com/ramesstudios
Runner up, drafted by Matt Johnson, Jayhan - http://dribbble.com/jayhan

Hi fellow readers, thanks for the supports from you guys all the while. I know there is not much updates from me on kailoon.com. I can’t promise to update more frequently but I can tell there will be slightly more updates in the future. I am a little busy with some freelance projects and I am looking for a new home for my family, recently.

Company Setup & Hiring

If you follow me on Twitter, you may noticed that I already setup my own design company – LoonDesign Studio back in 31st March 2010. I haven’t setup the company website yet, still thinking about the branding and the direction. But I will turn kailoon.com into my personal blog and blog about what I am doing, share my learnings via tutorials and recommend any great sites / services I’d used.

It is tired to look for programmer every time I get a new project. So far, I am working with Arzumy & Kamal who is expert in Ruby On Rails. But they are too busy with other projects as well. So, I am looking for a programmer who specialize in php or Ruby ( RoR), you can either partner with me or work for me as an employee. If you are interested, send me an email.

New Hobby

Oh ya, I just get myself a new DSLR camera. This is the first ever digital camera I ever bought in my life. Its a Nikon D5000. I am totally new in photography, so if you’re also a newbie or you love photographing. Join me on flickr. Some photos I took during a wedding ceremony.

That’s all for today.

Congrats to all the winners of our latest giveaway!

Winners

• Andre
• iris sousa

Congrats to all the winners and we will have another contests coming soon! Stay tune!

Hi fellow freelancers, designers and developers. We are going to have a business card giveaway this week. This contest is sponsored by SonicPrint. So, who is SonicPrint?

About The Sponsor

SonicPrint is an online print company that specializes in Full Color Business Cards, Brochure Printing, and Postcard Printing. They have served businesses and designers nationwide for over 10 years with risk free printing and no cost proofing before going to press.

What You Can Win?

2 Different Winners will receive 500 Premium Full Color Business Cards Printed & Shipped For Free!

• 2 x 3.5 – premium gloss cardstock
• Full Color Both Sides
• Free Shipping Included

Terms:

• Eligibility: US Residents ONLY or if out of U.S. shipping not included.
• Must be 18 or older to enter!

How To Win?

You can win the prize by completing any one of the options below, each option will earn you an entry to the contest:

• Leave a comment at the bottom of this blog post. (1 entry)
• Add @SonicPrint and @kailoon on Twitter and tweet about the contest. (1 entry)
• We receive entry submitted before 7 September 2010.

Winners will be selected randomly using Random.org. You can enter once with each of the 4 ways for a total of 4 entries. Have fun!

Update: This bundle offer is end.

Envato is celebrating their 4th anniversary with an amazing birthday bundle! You can get over $400 worth of Envato files for just $20! After the successful birthday bundle last year, Envato did it again this year and aiming to break the record. There is already 4139 purchases within 1 day! Awesome! If you are a freelancer, web developer, web designer or you are doing flash, audio and graphic, you will definitely love this bundle.

In addition to the massive bundle of files, you’ll also get $50 of hosting credits for killer web host MediaTemple and $10 off any RockablePress ebook! Buy the Bundle Now!

• Web Design
• Illustrator
• Photoshop

The majority of websites on the Internet utilize the open source Apache web server and PHP for back-end scripting on either a Windows hosting or Linux hosting service. It’s a robust and versatile website hosting solution, regardless of the operating system used. However, there are some differences between the two when it comes to installing, administering and operating websites and web-based applications. While the Apache, PHP and optional MySQL combination provides a fairly smooth experience whether the host operating system is Windows or Linux, the installation process differs somewhat between them in terms of user friendliness.

image source: Xocoo’s Weblog

To begin with, installing PHP and Apache isn’t really that complicated on either platform. At least, you certainly don’t need a computer science degree to pull it off. About five minutes worth of time Googling the subject will tell you all you need to know. Apache and PHP on Windows is fairly straightforward for most users, being installable and configurable via the GUI, although the Linux version is as well. You should be able to setup a web server in under ten minutes on both. Unless you’re hosting site from your own home server, most web hosts that you choose will give you the choice of either and you won’t have to actually install anything yourself.

If you are installing Apache and PHP by yourself, there are two main methods of accomplishing this. One can either install each separately, or use an automated script or installation program. Both are acceptable ways of installing the Apache HTTP server and PHP. In terms of security, it’s actually better to install PHP and Apache separately, but as long as you keep permissions set properly a program installation manager like XAMPP is perfectly safe. XAMPP is fairly common, and handles the installation of Apache, PHP and the MySQL database on a variety of operating systems.

The XAMPP package works equally well for both Windows and Linux. On Windows, it’s a simple matter of downloading the program, executing it, and choosing passwords during the install. However, there are a few additional steps that need to be taken with Windows 7 and Vista, such as switching the default IIS server of Microsoft’s system off of port 80 so that Apache can use that port. On the other hand, Linux installation is a bit simpler. You really just have to download the compressed XAMPP software package, extract it to the /opt directory, and that’s it. To start the server on a Debian server, you’d run “sudo /opt/lampp/lampp start”, and it fires up all components.

One advantage of a LAMP stack is that many Linux distributions can install PHP5, Apache2, MySQL as well as phpMyAdmin all with one single command from their software repositories. For instance, Ubuntu installs the whole shebang with the command “sudo apt-get install lamp-server^” from the command-line. All you have to do is choose a few passwords during the setup process. You can also install PHP and Apache separately through terminal commands and it takes about the same amount of time to get going. While it’s somewhat a matter of personal preference and the environment you’re used to, the Linux filesystem is easy to get a hang of.

There are a few metrics by which the relative merits of Windows versus Linux hosting can be judged. Speed, reliability, security and time spent configuring and administering the system are the main areas we want to consider. Windows has an edge in terms of usability on the desktop, but that doesn’t really extend to the server realm for most users as both Linux and Windows hosting solutions will offer graphical user interfaces. Linux is also faster and suffers fewer bugs and crashes.

Linux has a well deserved reputation for superior security, and in many cases it’s not necessary to install anti-virus software at the server level. Thanks to the locked down, modular nature of Unix-based systems, it’s difficult for a virus to infiltrate the system without the express permission of the administrator. In terms of ease of use, Linux isn’t as hard to pick up as it seems. Despite the reputation as an operating system for “nerds”, it’s quite well laid out and logical. There are fewer layers of abstraction which cuts down on code bloat, and the open source nature of Linux means vulnerabilities are spotted and corrected more quickly.

At the end of the day, running Apache and PHP on a Linux platform involves less hassle and cost, and is more reliable than on Windows. It also comes out on top in terms of security and safety, and costs less as it is free. As far as level of difficulty when it comes to installation, Linux has the edge. They’re both fairly easy overall, however. The real question is which operating system is the best choice for the long haul and will perform well under stress and be more impervious to malicious attacks. In that case, the best hosting environment for an Apache server with PHP is Linux.

This article has been penned down by Joanna and Steven who are part of webhostingsearch.com from over 2 years and been in the web industry from quite some time now.

• Web Design
• CSS / XHTML
• WordPress

Congrats to all the winners of our latest giveaway!

Winners for Flash Moto CMS

• sriganesh – http://twitter.com/animhut
• jasonwalz – http://twitter.com/jasonwalz

Winners for Premium Concepts

• Adam Goldschmidt
• Steve Robillard – http://twitter.com/srpsco
• Nick Plekhanov – http://twitter.com/nickplekhanov

Congrats to all the winners and we will have another contests coming soon! Stay tune!

Good news for freelancers and flash lovers! This time, we are going to giveaway 2 licenses of Flash Moto CMS and 3 Premium Concepts!

Flash Moto CMS

Flash Moto CMS is a revolutionary Flash content management system aimed at Flash developers and designed to simplify the publication of Web content to Flash websites.

Features

• Flash Moto CMS is the first content management system based on ActionScript 3 and realized as RIA on Flex.
• The final product of Flash CMS use is a complete user and SEO friendly Flash website with a convenient control panel.
• The website is controlled just like a standard CMS but with the extras that Flash offers.
• FlashMoto also offers a collection of Flash CMS templates that correspond to the main FlashMoto requirements.

ConceptFeedback

If you have follow LoonDesign updates, you may notice we reviewed ConceptFeedback awhile back. A few weeks ago they started offering a Premium Concept feature for users who want to get maximum exposure for their concept. Once a premium concept is live, it is featured on the homepage for 1 week, giving users maximum traffic and reviews. They also personally invite our top members (highest reputation scores) to review the concept, ensuring top quality feedback.

Tweet To Win

Tweet one of these 2:

• Tweet this to win a premium concept worth $ 9.99 USD.
• Tweet this to win a license of Flash Moto CMS worth $199USD.

Then, include your tweet in your comment in this post before 16th March 2010. We will select winners randomly. That’s it! I hope you enjoy this giveaway and don’t forget to follow us on twitter or subscribe to our RSS to get the latest updates from us!

• Web Design
• CSS / XHTML
• WordPress