WordPress has already provided steps to perform upgrading in the Readme file. Because I didn’t use theme and plugins from third parties what I did was just uploading all the WordPress files and then pointing browser to the file upgrade.php. I even forgot to rename the file wp-config-sample.php. However it works well.

The advantage of using WP 2.3, besides providing a built-in tagging facility, is it allows user to remove comments with “Mass Edit Mode”. A really time saver, especially because there are about 600 spam comments on this blog that need to be removed. Perhaps it is the time to use Akismet or any other AntiSpam plugin. ]]> http://www.unlimitedhostingplan.com/blog/script-installation/upgrading-wordpress-213-to-23.htm/feed http://www.unlimitedhostingplan.com/blog/domain-name/registering-domain-names-with-namecheap.htm http://www.unlimitedhostingplan.com/blog/domain-name/registering-domain-names-with-namecheap.htm#comments Mon, 07 May 2007 15:33:36 +0000 admin http://www.unlimitedhostingplan.com/blog/2007/05/07/registering-domain-names-with-namecheap/ As one of the most domain registrars available today, NameCheap.com allows a webmaster to purchase cheap domain names. Currently the price for a .com domain is only $8.88 with the bonus of free whois protection (WhoisGuard) for one year. This offer is more interesting because you can get the free whois protection even if you only buy one domain. The price for a .info domain name is also much cheaper than many other companies. But although the prices offered are relatively cheaper, another popular registrar, GoDaddy, offers free extras such as free hosting with web site builder for every new domain name you purchase.

I can not tell you how good is NameCheap at the moment because I have just tried their service. But I believe both of them (NameCheap and Godaddy) have different advantages and disadvantages. One of the features I like most which is provided by GoDaddy is the “Status Alert” feature where you will get an email everytime something happens to your domain name. For example the alert will work in case there is someone changes the DNS addresses of a domain name. In addition I know the quality of their customer support who is quite fast and helpfull. The protection provided by Domains By Proxy also works well so far to stay away from spam messages. Of course everyone might have different views about both companies. However if you intend to host multiple websites, it would be a good idea to purchase domain names from both of them and use another hosting companies that supports for multiple websites under one hosting account such as Hostony or Hostgator.

I have done it for three times since I hosted my sites on this unlimited domain hosting provider and have never met a single problem with them.

What I like about this script are:
- Simple! I like something simple. Here is an example of how it presents the data:

- A user can use single database for different domains. He only needs to change the table prefix for each domain. Alhough Hostony allows me to setup unlimited databases, but using one database like this gives some advantages, particularly because I have to access the database in order to see visitors’ IP address and the time they clicked my links.
- The tracking URL is presented like this: http://www.domain.com/go/destination.html. It is nice to see the url ends with .html extension.

I have tried 10 links to track with this script. If it works properly, I want to use it for my other links.

I have checked whether the email messages which were sent to ad posters contained my top and bottom ads, and the system has worked properly. That’s true that Hostony, my hosting service has already provided 400 GB monthly data transfer (data transfer is usually refered as bandwidth) and 30 000 MB web space for me. But because I want to know how much data transfer and web space the classified ad needs, I opened my weblog. It seems that I don’t have to buy extra disk space and bandwidth. After two weeks, the classified ad site only took 2% of the total data transfer and 3% of the total web space I can use.