So I was looking for some Cloud Storage which can act like a Portable / Fixed hard disk on my laptop and computer which can always be in sync. And I tried many cloud storage services like Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, etc.. for my purpose and nothing solved my requirement. All the cloud services just created a Folder / Shortcut and it was not convenient to me as I wanted to have multiple Drives on my computers by the way I can organize my files easily.

While searching for a solution to solve my requirement, I came to know about this wonderful tool CloudBerry Drive which can mount various cloud storage solutions as Hard Disk Drive on my windows computers and laptops.

The CloudBerry Drive supports all the leading cloud storage solutions like Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, Microsoft Azure, HP Cloud, Rackspace, Openstacka and Softlayer and can mount them as Hard Disk on the Windows Computers.

Why CloudBerry Drive?

Initially I used Google Drive and Dropbox to keep my files synced between my computers, but the real problem is I don’t want those files to sit on my Hard Drive and eat the free space. I need the client files only when I have to do some work on it, so here the Google Drive and Dropbox failed.

I really wanted a tool which can act like a Fixed Hard Disk on my computer and serve me the files only on demand while they were secured on the cloud storage synced across all my devices.

Here the CloudBerry Drive won !

Storage Support

CloudBerry Drive supports all the leading storage services like Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure and more. Further you can mount FTP / sFTP locations too.

While I am already using Amazon S3 for my storage needs, I just created few more Buckets and mounted them as Hard Disks on my Windows Computer using CloudBerry Drive.

Pricing

CloudBerry Drive costs $29.99 for a single license which includes one year free upgrade and support. Apart from the app cost you have to pay the storage cost to the cloud storage provider every month. The price for the storage is very cheaper with almost every provider and it depends upon your monthly usage.

They also offer a 30-Days Unlimited Trail version which lets you to try their application before making the purchase and learn to use it. You can download / buy the CloudBerry Drive at http://www.cloudberrylab.com/amazon-cloud-storage-online-hard-drive.aspx

Installation and Configuration

Installing the CloudBerry Drive is very simple like installing any other windows application. Once installed you have to activate the product and configure your Storage Providers and mount them as Hard Disk drives on your computer.

Before configuring the storage services on the CloudBerry Drive you have to keep the Access Keys of your storage services in hand.

The CloudBerry Lab website have a detailed video guide on How to Configure the CloudBerry Drive with Amazon S3 which is available at http://www.cloudberrylab.com/drive-video.aspx

Security

While all the Cloud Storage services have their own security ways to protect our data the CloudBerry Drive uses high level encryption to securely store our data on the cloud storage. So we don’t have to worry about our data security.

CloudBerry Drive vs Alternatives

While there were few other alternatives for CloudBerry Drive, I prefer to use CloudBerry Drive since the CloudBerry Lab is mainly focused on working with CloudStorage related application development primarily. So I am sure they will always come up with a best in class products focused on cloud storage.

Other CloudBerry Lab Products

Lot of other cloud storage based products were available with CloudBerry Lab to keep our data secured like Image Based Full Desktop backup application, MS SQL Backup Application, Orcale, MS Exchange and Server backup applications too available.

The Complete list of their Products can be found at – http://www.cloudberrylab.com/all-products.aspx

The biggest mistake I made in my life is I believed many persons, believed too much and it almost resulted in loss of their relationship. The second most issue is I was totally cheated by the person whom I believed so much from my childhood. I am inspired by many persons but my first inspiration was he only and he alone made me to get inspired by many others. And finally the time came which made me to hate him totally now.

Even though I was cheated by the person, I should thank him. I do remember the days when he taught me about wiring, machines, etc., etc… And finally he taught me a very good and big lesson about life !

To say, I have paid a lot in the last few years to learn the lesson by him.. Lost many relationships, money, business, good name earned over the years and much more.. But now I understand that everything is for good only. If he haven’t played in my life, I might not have grown this much stronger and learned the things.

The situation he created helped me to get more stronger, helped me to identify the wrong relationships(persons), gave me the strength to face any situation, made me to know the value of money and finally I got few new true and caring relationships I can never loose my life !

I also found who were true friends during this situation only. Many of my friends helped me in many ways, especially financially. I never expected those guys will come up to this level for me. I thank them very much, without their support it might not be possible for me to pass that situation.

And finally after crossing everything, I am coming back very soon.. I will be back very stronger with lot of things, gonna do big very soon in everything with the dreams I had over the last 3 years ! No more delays and no more excuses, everything will be big !

Already started to make a big change in a business to compete with others heavily ! and lot of things gonna keep coming over the next few months.

To the haters and to the well wishers, Keep Watching.. I am Coming Stronger with Speed

I always enjoy using WordPress for my projects at the same time the big head ache i get with WordPress is the Hacking attacks and spams i receive on the WordPress powered sites. Since WordPress is the best performer to rank a site good in search engines many started to use it and also many hackers/spammers too started to attack the WordPress powered site to for many purposes like Getting Backlinks, To Spam and sale products, promote products or affiliate items and the list goes on.Its all easy for the Hackers and Spammers to find the WordPress powered sites just by search few words in the site’s page source like said here. So to avoid this type of attacks WordPress introduced a new feature to move/rename its core folders from its version 2.6.  This tweak can be done easily just by adding few lines of code in the wp-config.php file.

And below i am linking some tutorials where we can get to know how to protect our WordPress site,

• Protecting wp-config.php file – http://www.devlounge.net/code/protect-your-wordpress-wp-config-so-you-dont-get-hacked
• Moving/Renaming the wp-content folder – http://www.johngirvin.com/blog/archives/moving-the-wordpress-wp-content-folder.html
• Protecting wp-admin folder – http://www.michiknows.com/2007/02/12/who-else-wants-to-hide-their-wordpress-admin-folder/
• Protecting wp-include folder too – http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/wp-hackers/2007-April/011715.html

Then, i forget to mention another important thing. A WordPress site can be identified not only by looking for its core folders, it can also be identified by a meta tag in the page source. Ya, it is <meta name=”generator” content=”WordPress x.xx.xx” /> . This meta tag will present in all the WordPress powered sites. Its actually for a statistics purpose used by its programmer to find out the count of WordPress powered sites on internet. So this is also a key for hackers/spammers/attackers to find a WordPress powered site. The extreme part of it is that a WordPress powered site can be attacked easily just by knowing this meta tag.

Lets see how this meta tag is useful for a attacker to hack a site. Just consider that you started a WordPress powered site about a year ago and left it without touching/updated it until now. Then if your site fall in the eyes of a attacker, he will see the meta tag and knows that your site is running with old version of WordPress. The next step he will study the vulnerabilities which are found in the version of Wordpres you used in your site and will attack your site. Note, the WordPress is an Open Source and Community driven platform so its bug list is openly available to those who have signed up for an account with the bug tracker. So its really very easy to attack a WordPress powered site just by reading a single line of Meta tag !

So here is the Plugin which helps you also to remove the Meta Tag too, get it here http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-security-scan/

I hope this post will be very useful for those who were in very deep love with WordPress ! Please let me know your thoughts on this and also if there is any other thing which can be used to keep a WordPress site safe in comments below…

Bonus Tip : Take a look at http://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php and make the wp-config.php highly secure

Before few days i heard that Digg is going to Roll out its new layout to everyone, but unfortunately i never got it for a long time. And today when i tried to visit Digg, to my surprise i gotta see the its new version !

But sadly immediately after i tried to login into my account it went down ! I tried refreshing the site many times continuously and it was still down…. Here i am sharing a screenshot of the page…

Will update the post once i get the Digg back online…

So from now onwards i am going to update my blog surely a day once !

I hope from the new year atleast i will update my blog regularly… And i wish you all my friends a Advance Happy New Year 2010 !