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Top 10 Reasons To Choose A2 Hosting

Our customers have gotten used to getting “something more”. Something more as in Linux hosting features like our server backup technologyServer Rewind. Something more as in hosting services like Guru Crew Hosting Support. That something more like confidence your site will be available because of A2 Hosting’s 99.9% Uptime guarantee. The A2 Hosting Difference – that something more that you will find here.

We had a difficult time narrowing down the list, but here are the top 10 reasons to choose A2 Hosting for your web hosting needs.

24/7 Guru Crew Support

A2 Hosting’s very own team of knowledgeable, friendly and patient support technicians. Whether you’re new to web hosting and need basic help or are an expert requiring advanced assistance, rest assured that the Guru Crew is here to lend you a helping hand.

99.9% Uptime Guarantee

A2 Hosting customers are successful because they can rely on their sites and servers being available. There is no other way to express it; A2 Hosting’s 99.9% Uptime Guarantee is a necessity.

Developer Friendly Hosting

Web developers feel like kids in a candy store as they inspect A2 Hosting’s list of popular developer friendly features. But instead of becoming giddy over lollipops, chocolate bars and gummi worms, they’ll indulge in items like support for Linux scripting languages, databases and cron jobs.

5 Star – 3rd Party Testimonials

The best way to truly learn about a company is to read what current customers have written about them. We have partnered with 3rd party testimonials company RatePoint to allow current customers to post reliable reviews for future customers to read.

We truly listen to and use our customer feedback to improve our service. And it shows! According to recent customer survey, 97% of our customers would recommend A2 Hosting to family and friends who are looking for a web host.

Award Winning Hosting

A2 Hosting’s goal isn’t to win awards. We’re here to offer developer friendly Linux Hosting with top-notch Guru Crew support. But we certainly don’t complain when we add an award to our ever expanding gallery.

Socially Responsible Hosting

A2 Hosting is not only happy to lend a helping hand to social causes, but we also have a number of everyday Green friendly practices to contribute to a healthy environment.

30 Day Money Back Guarantee

You’ve read this list of some of our impressive features. Come host your site with us risk free. We wouldn’t offer this guarantee if we weren’t convinced that you will be impressed with our service.

Host-Guard Server Monitor

Host-Guard is A2 Hosting’s very own server monitoring system that patrols for server, software and network problems allowing for swift issue resolution. Not only does every A2 Hosting server contain Host-Guard, but it is hands-free monitoring managed entirely by the Guru Crew.

Perpetual Security

A2 Hosting security takes a proactive stance against security threats. Perpetual Security takes great strides to lock down our servers through a number of resources including Server Hardening and Brute Force Defense.

Server Rewind

You are going to love A2 Hosting’s very own backup hosting technology. Server Rewind automatically creates data backups of your server and site every few hours. This ensures that individual files, databases, websites and even full servers can be easily recovered from the most recent snapshot backup in just a matter of minutes.

People do not know that they are usually responsive for the spam they get in the email. Even if you don’t have a spam filter, you can block junk email by avoiding to give your email address lightly. When you give your details on a web site that requires registration, you create the premises for spam. Consider just the following instances when you gave your address easily: for page registration, for subscribing to white or yellow pages, to friends, for software downloads, in online forums and chat rooms, and the list may go on.

Other than prevention, the most basic way to block junk email is to install spam filters or spam blockers to eliminate the unwanted messages from the start. These programs can function on the server or on the personal computer, scanning incoming mails, filtering, quarantining or removing completely the messages that resemble spam. The efficiency with which such tools block junk email depends on design and features. At the moment, there is no 100% anti-spam efficiency, and the maximum you can get is 99%.

You can block junk email or at least limit it by creating a temporary email also known as fake address account. The purpose here is to use such a temporary email only once when you need to access some information that is not otherwise possible. When you avoid disclosing your real email address, the possibility of being targeted by spammers is lower. This is however not a reason to discard the use of an email filter, as anything can happen on the Internet in terms of email access. Thanks to a blocking tool that acts between the email program and the email server, any potential spamming message can be detected.

Paid and free solutions are both available for download. Before shopping for commercial products, look for the softwares that come for free and have an over 90% efficiency rate. Make sure to test any spam email filter that you buy; consider another tool is trial versions are not available. At present the market has been flooded by hundreds of commercial softwares designed to block junk email, and it should not be that hard to find an item that matches your PC specifics.

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Ultra smooth floors (glass-smooth) are often a “required” look for showing off quality operations and merchandise. As is frequently the case in obtaining a high-end result, glass-smooth floors are achievable but at a cost in materials and effort. Of course, it helps to start with a smooth floor but even highly damaged floors can be brought back to glass-smooth with some hard work andâ?¦epoxy.

If you are going to invest in achieving a showroom quality smooth floor, you want to first make sure that your efforts are not spoiled by lifting or pealing. This means care must be taken to do a good prep job that will assure maximum adhesion to the concrete base. One good way to obtain a professional preparation is to use one of Durall Industrial Flooring’s kits of materials that are customized to owner specification and delivered directly to the job site. These kits include full directions and 24/7 help lines staffed by seasoned flooring experts, so professionals and amateurs alike can successfully install a quality floor. See www.concrete-floor-coatings.com for details.

After the preparation work is done, all of the low spots in your floor should be filled. Joints and concrete cracks from sagging can be filled with the grout provided in the Durall kit. Mixing the grout to a peanut butter consistency and working it into the cracks with a gloved hand or putty knife is the first step. Try not to smear too much on the surface and strike the cracks flush before they harden.

Next come those dreaded holes from tack strips or walls that were removed, or stones showing through from water erosion. These all need to be filled with 100% epoxy for maximum adhesion. Make sure all of the holes are dry and dirt had been sucked out of them during the preparation process. Mix up the epoxy and pour a small amount in each crater and hole. Note that the surface tension of the epoxy will create a little edge to each pour, like honey poured on a counter top. Once the epoxy has set up (12-15 hours) use a grinder with a masonry wheel to bring the edges flush to the surrounding concrete. Then use a vacuum to remove all the ground off powder and loose grout that may be on the floor.

Next comes your 100% solid Dura Poxy coating. To achieve a glass-smooth finish you will need to plan on three coats. The first coat is rolled and brushed on at about 125 to 150 sq. ft. per gallon. When mixing, be sure to do at least 200 strokes or 2 minutes with a drill mixer. Then transfer from the mixing container to another container before application to assure that no material remains unmixed. Use a 9-in. 3/8″ nap roller and a 4-in. china bristle brush on broomstick handles to apply. Mix the epoxy as you go to assure that it remains as liquid and fluid as possible. Mixing and applying the epoxy within 30 minutes will help it flow well. After 15 hours, you screen the entire floor with a 60-grit screen on a rotary scrubber. Then check all of the patched areas. If the filled holes or cracks show imperfections, applying additional epoxy to low spots, allowing them to harden, and regrinding may be necessary for that final glass-smooth finish.

For the second coat, plan on about 90 sq. ft. per gallon. Be sure to vacuum the floor thoroughly before proceeding with an additional coat. Again, mix the epoxy as you need it and pour it at the far edge of the floor and then use a 16-in. notched squeegee to pull the material over the entire surface. The notched squeegee will allow extra material to flow into any low spots to make them level. Pull back about 6 ft. and then use a 3/16″ nap roller and pull it over the squeegeed areas to remove any rack marks or pools that may appear. Fifteen (15) hours later, screen again, vacuum well, and repeat the process to arrive at your final floor.

Web visitors can obtain free, job-specific quotes on materials or nationwide turnkey installations by completing a simple questionnaire at www.concrete-floor-coatings.com

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For more information, contact Harvey Chichester at harvey@concrete-floor-coatings.com or phone 1-800-466-8910 or 952-888-1488 (24/7).

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Hilary Hahn performs Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst’s Grand Caprice on Schubert’s Der Erlkönig, Op. 26 “Le roi des aulnes”. This transcription on Schubert’s Der Erlkonig is considered as one of the most difficult violin pieces ever composed and Hilary’s performance is sublime!

A year ago, I made the best and worst mistake of my life: I messed up my GRUB boot list, and didn’t have the wherewithal to fix it. I was so frustrated, that I chose to abandon the Microsoft axis altogether. What would I do without the tools I used in Windows? I found myself relying on some very helpful roundups online. You know “The 5 best apps for this or that”, and the like.

It turns out, after you read 50 or so Linux roundups that don’t help you at all, you find one shining program( or solution )in the rough that takes care of your issues. Sometimes, you end up using a combination of programs together, with varying degrees of success. Then, you have the “kludge”. This is a programming term that basically means ” an inefficient, clumsy way to get the result you want”. I have plenty of those, and have detailed a few of my favorites below.

I’m not saying that you will see much of a difference in the programs I suggest in this roundup. Depending on how new you are to the Linux scene, you might stumble onto something you aren’t currently using. What I will offer are unique and occasionally “kludgey” solutions to get the job done.

PDF’s: These gave me a real problem when I started using Linux full-time. Don’t get me wrong, Linux has plenty of PDF readers/writers. When it came to editing them all, I hit a bit of a roadblock. I have to amend PDF’s(photo and text-based) on a regular basis. So what are the solutions I found?

- PDFedit: This is okay, provided you are satisfied with having a one-shot edit. By that, I mean that you can access the document and change it, but it does not have an “undo” function. Hopefully, they will add this feature in future. You have to close the document in order to “undo” any changes. I only use this for highlighting text based PDF’s. For image based PDF’s I choose…

- GIMP(a kludgin’ we will go): Yes, that’s right. The venerated Photoshop replacement can edit text and image-based PDF’s. There are several issues with this method, but I’ll explain how to use it, should you be so inclined. The downfall of this method is that GIMP imports the PDF, whether Image or Text based as an Image. When it exports, it exports the file independently of the original as a PDF. That being said, it is a good solution for 1-3 page docs. All you have to do is create a new layer in Gimp, cover up the old information with a color( I use white, generally) and create a new text layer to replace the old data. Then export as a .jpg or .png (I generally use .jpg, but .gif works pretty well, should you need a smaller file size.)

Here comes the fun part: Now, you have to open up the other PDF pages in GIMP, and export them as a .jpg or whatever. Then, open up OpenOffice Draw. Insert the picture into the first slide. Insert another slide, insert pic. Repeat until done. Click “Export as PDF” button. Tada. Not fun. Or you can just write a PHP script to run on your Apache server, and use the PHP/PDF library to export your files as a single PDF(if you feel froggy, jump.) I hired someone to write a short script for me, and they were among the best dollars I have ever spent.

- Scribus: This is the most mature of the editing/publishing platforms out there. I have heard great things about its ability to edit PDF’s. The only problem is, I cannot get it edit a single PDF. It tells me that my PDF’s are not in an acceptable format. Should they fix this in a later release, this would be your best shot at a editing on a great platform. It just does not work with PDF’s generated in OpenOffice, or anywhere else for that matter.

- Xournal or Gournal: Xournal is the better of the two. They are both lightweight PDF annotators/editors. They do not work well with Image based PDF’s. They do an admirable job when dealing with text based PDF’s.

Let’s move on to picture formats, and photo management systems. Man, have I ever had a problem with these. This mostly has to do with the frequent inability of Linux programs to understand layers, as they relate to Adobe based products.

The following programs allow you to view, and even batch process photos. These are the ones that will save you more time than any other.

- Phatch: The single greatest contribution to Open Source photo editing since GIMP. Phatch allows you to quickly and easily batch edit thousands of files at the time. A simple GUI makes this a snap. Resize, change file quality parameters,rename, rotate, drop shadow, etc., without ever seeing the command line.

- Inkscape: A vector editor that comes close to accurately opening .ai and layered .eps files. I say, comes close, because it picks and chooses which of these files it interprets. It’s Russian Roulette. I wouldn’t pay for a vector graphics package based on its performance, unless it gives you the file in .svg, which it interprets without a problem.

- GIMP: Okay, if you don’t know already, GIMP is the app that started it all. You can open up pretty much anything in GIMP. It just works. There are enough scripts and tutorials out there that enable you to do anything you want with an image. Its batch processing abilities are not nearly as good as Phatch, but you can add “Dave’s Batch Processor” should you feel the urge.

(For all of you who say “Well, you can use Adobe products with WINE.”, let me remind you that I am not dual-booting MS and Linux. To speak of a solution using WINE would nullify the point of this article.)

Ok, now that I am done with programs, I’d like to share with you some websites that help you convert files into usable formats. You know the ones, the primarily brilliant spawn of Microsoft that are a pain to open: .docx, .xlsx, .pub, and anything else you need decoded on the fly.

(It should be noted that current Linux versions of OpenOffice will open .docx, .xlsx, and .pptx locally. Windows versions of the program do not support these files as of yet.) These are for when you are on the go, or using a machine that isn’t owned by you. You could always carry a custom distro on your keychain, but my guess is you are not that hardcore yet. If you are, you have probably discovered or coded far better solutions than I am offering.

- k2pdf.com : This will take .rtf, .txt, .doc, .eps, .docx, .mdi, .tif, and a few other formats, and convert them into a usable, viewable PDF for you.

- pdfonline.com- Should you need the document editable in word, head over here to convert your PDF to a standard MS Word file. The only reason that you would possibly need this, is to edit tables from an .xlsx to PDF conversion. Still, a reasonably decent kludge.

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/access_onlinetools.html- Yup. Adobe offers to convert your PDF to HTML for you here. You take the help where you can get it. Then you can paste the HTML into OpenOffice and save as .doc (or preferably, an .odt.) Again, not the greatest solution, but one that works.

The Linux community is doing an admirable job of making file formats accessible. Hopefully, in the near future, an open standard will overtake these proprietary formats. In the meantime, I hope some of these patched together solutions will help you get the job.

I have paperwork to do, so I’ve gotta run. The penguin shall prevail…

Top 10 Reasons To Choose A2 Hosting

Our customers have gotten used to getting “something more”. Something more as in Linux hosting features like our server backup technologyServer Rewind. Something more as in hosting services like Guru Crew Hosting Support. That something more like confidence your site will be available because of A2 Hosting’s 99.9% Uptime guarantee. The A2 Hosting Difference – that something more that you will find here.

We had a difficult time narrowing down the list, but here are the top 10 reasons to choose A2 Hosting for your web hosting needs.

24/7 Guru Crew Support

A2 Hosting’s very own team of knowledgeable, friendly and patient support technicians. Whether you’re new to web hosting and need basic help or are an expert requiring advanced assistance, rest assured that the Guru Crew is here to lend you a helping hand.

99.9% Uptime Guarantee

A2 Hosting customers are successful because they can rely on their sites and servers being available. There is no other way to express it; A2 Hosting’s 99.9% Uptime Guarantee is a necessity.

Developer Friendly Hosting

Web developers feel like kids in a candy store as they inspect A2 Hosting’s list of popular developer friendly features. But instead of becoming giddy over lollipops, chocolate bars and gummi worms, they’ll indulge in items like support for Linux scripting languages, databases and cron jobs.

5 Star – 3rd Party Testimonials

The best way to truly learn about a company is to read what current customers have written about them. We have partnered with 3rd party testimonials company RatePoint to allow current customers to post reliable reviews for future customers to read.

We truly listen to and use our customer feedback to improve our service. And it shows! According to recent customer survey, 97% of our customers would recommend A2 Hosting to family and friends who are looking for a web host.

Award Winning Hosting

A2 Hosting’s goal isn’t to win awards. We’re here to offer developer friendly Linux Hosting with top-notch Guru Crew support. But we certainly don’t complain when we add an award to our ever expanding gallery.

Socially Responsible Hosting

A2 Hosting is not only happy to lend a helping hand to social causes, but we also have a number of everyday Green friendly practices to contribute to a healthy environment.

30 Day Money Back Guarantee

You’ve read this list of some of our impressive features. Come host your site with us risk free. We wouldn’t offer this guarantee if we weren’t convinced that you will be impressed with our service.

Host-Guard Server Monitor

Host-Guard is A2 Hosting’s very own server monitoring system that patrols for server, software and network problems allowing for swift issue resolution. Not only does every A2 Hosting server contain Host-Guard, but it is hands-free monitoring managed entirely by the Guru Crew.

Perpetual Security

A2 Hosting security takes a proactive stance against security threats. Perpetual Security takes great strides to lock down our servers through a number of resources including Server Hardening and Brute Force Defense.

Server Rewind

You are going to love A2 Hosting’s very own backup hosting technology. Server Rewind automatically creates data backups of your server and site every few hours. This ensures that individual files, databases, websites and even full servers can be easily recovered from the most recent snapshot backup in just a matter of minutes.

I run a national-level nonprofit. Donations are our lifeline and donor list development is an essential staple for all nonprofits. But let’s be honest, don’t you hate it when someone calls you unsolicited asking for a donation during the dinner hour? Or when your in-box fills up with so much spam you waste valuable work time sorting through it all?

Most people do.

I want to be clear: all forms of direct marketing do involve communicating in unsolicited ways. But sending “spam” emails will not help your business grow. I repeat: becoming an Internet spam marketer will not help your business grow. Even worse, spam campaigns will hurt your reputation and could even get your Internet business shut down.
If You Do Send Unsolicited Emails Adhere to CAN-SPAM Laws the best email marketing tips
It is a legal requirement under the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 (enacted in 2004) that if your email is a solicitation you must be very clear that it is a solicitation, what you are soliciting, and who you are.

In all unsolicited emails, CAN-SPAM requires you include a physical address and contact information for your business. You may not hide, alter, or use fake aliases or give misleading information in your to, from, or subject fields.

Provide opt-out information (unsubscribe option) but I strongly recommend you never contact anyone more than once. There is no need or true value in following-up on unsolicited emails if you get no response. All you are doing is spamming someone twice.the best email marketing tips
If you want to know the open and click-through rate of any email campaign, choose a service that can track this information for you.
Keep Your Solicitation Mailing Lists Small
Unsolicited email lists should be small for two reasons:

1. No business can legitimately have thousands of unsolicited leads unless you purchase lists, illegally harvest email addresses, or obtain them in some other unethical (or illegal) manner and service providers know that.

2. Large email batches always draw considerable attention from service providers on your end and on your recipient’s end. If you start sending out thousands of solicitations you are likely to overload your own servers, your ISP’s or webhost’s servers, and you are likely to trigger spam filters on recipient’s email servers.

Microsoft Windows NT-based operating systems create a hard drive file system, known as stripe set. It is created by dividing the data into blocks and then spreading them in fixed order through all hard drive in RAID array. By adding information and data to all the partitions in set at same rate, disk striping provides best performance of all the Windows disk management strategies. Disk striping helps you to recover your data if any of the disk fails in array. But if more than one drives fail, data become unrecoverable and you need to opt for hard drive recovery solutions to get your mission-critical and valuable data back.

Server versions of Microsoft Windows operating system (including Windows Server 2000 and Windows Server 2003) enable you to set fault tolerance hard drive striping with parity that stores both stripped data and parity information on different disks of RAID array for redundancy. The disk striping can be done either with parity of without parity:

Striping with parity

You can create the stripe set with parity on minimum 3 and maximum 32 drives. A single stripe on stripe set with the parity could be located on every physical disk. Total amount of hard drive space used for storing the parity information is equal to size of a partition in set. Nevertheless of the number disks used in stripe set with the parity, data is retrievable only if a single disk is lost. Such cases need Hard Drive Recovery to be handled.

The FTDISK.SYS (Fault Tolerance Driver) makes loss of a disk partition in stripe set with the parity invisible, you could write and read data from a set with lost information as when it was healthy. But stripe set does not remain fault tolerant. Loss of any of the remaining hard drive partitions would cause data to be unrecoverable in stripe set.

Striping without parity

This process does not provide fault tolerance; if any of disk in stripe is damaged or bad, whole disk stripe would be lost. The stripe set could be created on minimum 2 and maximum 32 disks. A single stripe on stripe set could be located on every physical disk. It provides excellent performance of all the Microsoft Windows disk management strategies.

In such situations, data loss require Hard Drive Data Recovery to be sorted out. The recovery is best possible using advanced and powerful third-party applications, known as hard drive recovery software . They work in most of the data loss situations and retrieve all types of lost files, documents and other data.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is the most advanced and powerful tool for assured recovery. It recovers data from FAT32, VFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 file system partitions. The software is compatible with Microsoft Windows 7, Vista, 2003, XP and 2000.