I see several good discussion comments coming from this thread here so I thought maybe it would be beneficial to continue in its own topic. I'll quote a few comments; forgive me if I don't include specific @ mentions.
I took the initiative to run a free SEO audit. The results weren't terrible - 76/100, but still plenty of room for improvement. There were 17 critical flags, all of which were the same: duplicate titles. I imagine it has something to do with the forum software (mybb if I'm not mistaken?) and the theme used. Without looking at the backend, I don't know exactly how to fix it, but there should be a way. I guess google likes it better if each page has a unique title, rather than all pages having the same title.
I can definitely see the benefit of this, if I'm understanding correctly. Gigarocket was set up much the same way - with a landing page and a few other pages describing the services offered and requirements for obtaining them, legal pages, as well as links to the community/forums. Maybe we could run the forums on a subdomain/directory and use a wordpress blog or some small flat file cms (like grav?) to create the "pillar" pages for post4vps.
A brilliant suggestion, if we can sort out a way to implement this effectively. I use a plugin on my wordpress blog to cross post weekly to my facebook page - but it can be scheduled/programmed in different ways. For example, to only post from a specific category, to post the most recent, or choose at random. The plugin I'm referring to is called "Revive Old Posts" and can be found at https://revive.social/
It's licensed GPL 2 so it's okay to modify for your own purpose.
I wonder if a similar plugin exists that could be used with the forums at p4v, or if the plugin could be modified to work here. In lieu of automation it could turn into a bit of work once a month to keep a few social sites current with giveaways, etc, but still very possible, and also maybe a good idea for someone willing to work for a second vps or substitute some of their posting requirements.
A valid point. Perhaps the script that counts/scores the posts could be made to sort through this information as well. If it were, there would be a possibility to create a minimum credit_point over post_amount for a post to be credited, encouraging better posting over time. Of course it'd have to be set up to not count posts in off-topic areas. The downside of this is that it may discourage some people from trying to post here: particularly persons that aren't very strong in English and may feel insecure about making a long post with deep explanations. As a note I'd like to add that I appreciate very much the non-native English speakers that post here. Your task is double difficult: not only do you have to make quality posts, you have to do it in a language in which you aren't completely comfortable. Cheers to those that make the effort through the struggle.
You raise an interesting point here, and I really want to drive it home. Now considering we have a few VPS that are really high specs and probably would sell for easily 20-30 VPS, and we have a lot of smaller ones worth easy 5-10$ a month. And over 20 vps not doing anything... I could ballpark it and say there's easily 2-3k a year in vps that could be doing something... anything at all. If you think about it like that was your money, in your wallet... 2-3000$ USD going to waste, doing nothing. Who among us would squander so much for no gain?
With the recent loss of gigarocket, there's a big empty hole in the free hosting market. Perhaps we could snatch up a piece of it? One of the nicer vps could be set up for shared hosting, and we could offer it to members in addition to a vps... perhaps with a posting requirement of 1 good post a week for a decent shared hosting package, enough to host a small-medium sized blog. Of course this suggestion comes with a lot of work involved - work for the moderators with a new category of posters to track, as well as a lot of admin work to set up the shared hosting service. But it's just an idea for discussion. Maybe it would be a fun community project for a few dedicated individuals
In my opinion, the ads are very minimal. That's how the site makes money. While no one wants to visit a forum overburdened with ads, I think p4v could handle a few more without being distasteful. Just my opinion.
Another option would be affiliate marketting. Like anything else, there's a bit of work involved. One would have to search through the providers list, determine which ones have an affiliate reseller plan, sign up, etc etc. However, it could work - If the affiliate accounts are properly set up, you could even give members an affiliate link to share rather than the vanilla link to their providers, if a web site is hosted. Sales that are created through member sites would then be credited to p4v and used to offset hosting costs or maybe even get a small paycheck on occasion.
Quote:I wonder the forum structure giving wrong vibes to Google search bots. Because we have about 36 boards under 6 forums i think. Only one forum has the word " VPS " and none has important keyword phrases like free VPS, Free Hosting etc. Word 'VPS' is mention it about 9 boards out of 36. Same goes for board descriptions. I don't see words like Web Hosting, VPS Hosting at all. Same goes for Title tag and Meta Description tag which is too long and says Free VPS too many times plus has no other related phrases.
I took the initiative to run a free SEO audit. The results weren't terrible - 76/100, but still plenty of room for improvement. There were 17 critical flags, all of which were the same: duplicate titles. I imagine it has something to do with the forum software (mybb if I'm not mistaken?) and the theme used. Without looking at the backend, I don't know exactly how to fix it, but there should be a way. I guess google likes it better if each page has a unique title, rather than all pages having the same title.
Quote:Another thing is I think the forum need few pillar type pages about important keywords we are targeting. For example a page for 'Free Game Server Hosting' with lots of details about game servers how to get a free one here, or getting cheap one from one of our sponsors and game server related urls, common problems etc. Pages like these will rank well in Google search and attract more new members.
I can definitely see the benefit of this, if I'm understanding correctly. Gigarocket was set up much the same way - with a landing page and a few other pages describing the services offered and requirements for obtaining them, legal pages, as well as links to the community/forums. Maybe we could run the forums on a subdomain/directory and use a wordpress blog or some small flat file cms (like grav?) to create the "pillar" pages for post4vps.
Quote: Also a better social media presence. Like details of monthly give aways should be posted in FB fan page etc.
A brilliant suggestion, if we can sort out a way to implement this effectively. I use a plugin on my wordpress blog to cross post weekly to my facebook page - but it can be scheduled/programmed in different ways. For example, to only post from a specific category, to post the most recent, or choose at random. The plugin I'm referring to is called "Revive Old Posts" and can be found at https://revive.social/
It's licensed GPL 2 so it's okay to modify for your own purpose.
I wonder if a similar plugin exists that could be used with the forums at p4v, or if the plugin could be modified to work here. In lieu of automation it could turn into a bit of work once a month to keep a few social sites current with giveaways, etc, but still very possible, and also maybe a good idea for someone willing to work for a second vps or substitute some of their posting requirements.
Quote:Now for the post quality. Okay! here we can't expect everyone to comply with that all the time, but we can see a pattern on how much hard they're trying over time. A look at the ratio of Credit_point over total_posts will tell you a lot about that. Simple unmistakable Math.
A valid point. Perhaps the script that counts/scores the posts could be made to sort through this information as well. If it were, there would be a possibility to create a minimum credit_point over post_amount for a post to be credited, encouraging better posting over time. Of course it'd have to be set up to not count posts in off-topic areas. The downside of this is that it may discourage some people from trying to post here: particularly persons that aren't very strong in English and may feel insecure about making a long post with deep explanations. As a note I'd like to add that I appreciate very much the non-native English speakers that post here. Your task is double difficult: not only do you have to make quality posts, you have to do it in a language in which you aren't completely comfortable. Cheers to those that make the effort through the struggle.
Quote:The value in VPS that one can get here far exceeds the time it takes to write those posts. Imagine a VPS with 8GB RAM, 2 cores, and 100 GB disk space. How much would that cost in a month and how expensive would the 20 posts be in comparison time wise? The VPS I have would be a minimum of 25-30 US$ a month.
We have a whole cache of VPSs that are not working for any one. We need to do something with those.
You raise an interesting point here, and I really want to drive it home. Now considering we have a few VPS that are really high specs and probably would sell for easily 20-30 VPS, and we have a lot of smaller ones worth easy 5-10$ a month. And over 20 vps not doing anything... I could ballpark it and say there's easily 2-3k a year in vps that could be doing something... anything at all. If you think about it like that was your money, in your wallet... 2-3000$ USD going to waste, doing nothing. Who among us would squander so much for no gain?
Quote:So Google Algo probably thinks this forum is not directly connect to web hosting but just a General Forum with web hosting part. We don't even have boards about Web Hosting generally.
With the recent loss of gigarocket, there's a big empty hole in the free hosting market. Perhaps we could snatch up a piece of it? One of the nicer vps could be set up for shared hosting, and we could offer it to members in addition to a vps... perhaps with a posting requirement of 1 good post a week for a decent shared hosting package, enough to host a small-medium sized blog. Of course this suggestion comes with a lot of work involved - work for the moderators with a new category of posters to track, as well as a lot of admin work to set up the shared hosting service. But it's just an idea for discussion. Maybe it would be a fun community project for a few dedicated individuals
Quote:On the other hand there is also the deeper dimension of being a contributing member of a community of VPS Holders, who like to help one another, and also would like to support the owner, Dynamo, so the business can continue. If anything should happen similar to freevps.us, it will be a huge loss to me as I really love my VPS. I also like the quality support from our specialist members and am learning from every one on a daily basis.
In my opinion, the ads are very minimal. That's how the site makes money. While no one wants to visit a forum overburdened with ads, I think p4v could handle a few more without being distasteful. Just my opinion.
Another option would be affiliate marketting. Like anything else, there's a bit of work involved. One would have to search through the providers list, determine which ones have an affiliate reseller plan, sign up, etc etc. However, it could work - If the affiliate accounts are properly set up, you could even give members an affiliate link to share rather than the vanilla link to their providers, if a web site is hosted. Sales that are created through member sites would then be credited to p4v and used to offset hosting costs or maybe even get a small paycheck on occasion.
Is there any one here with experience of scraping material from the WayBack Machine? I Googled it, and there are so many options, but I'm not comfortable with how legit or otherwise some of them are.
So this starts as a sad story. When Gigarocket closed, one of the members from Iran failed to respond in time, and as a consequence lost his blog. Initially I didn't take it to heart, as in this day and age it is very difficult for me to understand when someone doesn't make regular backups of their Website, particularly if it is a valued Website. But then I learned this guy has rheumatoid arthritis, and can barely use his fingers. The blog was really important to him. I had hoped that the owner of Gigarocket had made some backups of all of the hosting accounts, but learned that that had not happened, so the blog was no more.
I then checked first with DuckDuckGo to see whether I could find bits and pieces, which I could. When I read the bits and pieces I began to develop an understanding that this guy must be a lecturer or professor in engineering with lots of IT capabilities. The blog posts were written in excellent English so I began to understand that he must have put a lot of energy in it. It must be a great loss to him. I then thought to check the WayBack Machine to see whether I could find any material there, being doubtful initially as I wouldn't have thought the WayBack Machine would take copies of a personal blog. But then discovered that the blog had been "photographed" by the WayBack Machine 57 times, the last one on 31 October. It was that good a blog with substance.
The blog is a WordPress blog, but I get the feeling some of it was designed by the owner of the blog himself. Like the design is based on a WordPress Micro Blog template. Obviously I can't get the database, but I was able to copy and paste the source of the pages and CSS stylesheets to NotePad++, but there are still lots of material missing. Such as the images.
So if there is any one who has suggestions of how to scrape the WordPress site deeper than what I've been able to do, this will be much appreciated.
So this starts as a sad story. When Gigarocket closed, one of the members from Iran failed to respond in time, and as a consequence lost his blog. Initially I didn't take it to heart, as in this day and age it is very difficult for me to understand when someone doesn't make regular backups of their Website, particularly if it is a valued Website. But then I learned this guy has rheumatoid arthritis, and can barely use his fingers. The blog was really important to him. I had hoped that the owner of Gigarocket had made some backups of all of the hosting accounts, but learned that that had not happened, so the blog was no more.
I then checked first with DuckDuckGo to see whether I could find bits and pieces, which I could. When I read the bits and pieces I began to develop an understanding that this guy must be a lecturer or professor in engineering with lots of IT capabilities. The blog posts were written in excellent English so I began to understand that he must have put a lot of energy in it. It must be a great loss to him. I then thought to check the WayBack Machine to see whether I could find any material there, being doubtful initially as I wouldn't have thought the WayBack Machine would take copies of a personal blog. But then discovered that the blog had been "photographed" by the WayBack Machine 57 times, the last one on 31 October. It was that good a blog with substance.
The blog is a WordPress blog, but I get the feeling some of it was designed by the owner of the blog himself. Like the design is based on a WordPress Micro Blog template. Obviously I can't get the database, but I was able to copy and paste the source of the pages and CSS stylesheets to NotePad++, but there are still lots of material missing. Such as the images.
So if there is any one who has suggestions of how to scrape the WordPress site deeper than what I've been able to do, this will be much appreciated.
Please anyone help me in this. I have purchased a laptop.
Specs:
CPU: Intel Core i9 9th gen
GPU: Nvidia Geforce GTX 1650 DDR6 4gb
RAM: 8GB DDR5 (7.5 Usable)
Storage: 512 GB SSD (476 Usable)
Wifi: Wifi 6
Windows: Windows 10
I have downloaded Destiny 2 to run it on my laptop.
It was having V-Sync on so my fps was capped at 60 fps because my screen refresh rate is 60 hz.
I thought its capped at 60 so my GPU will not get used that much.
But while playing it the gpu was getting rapidly hot.
I don't know why
Other games like CS:GO, Rocket League works fine and doesnt heats my gpu much.
But Destiny 2 is heating a loss. That too in a very short time.
Help me out pls. And tell me how to fix it!
Will running destiny 2 in medium settings help? Currently running on high settings.
Specs:
CPU: Intel Core i9 9th gen
GPU: Nvidia Geforce GTX 1650 DDR6 4gb
RAM: 8GB DDR5 (7.5 Usable)
Storage: 512 GB SSD (476 Usable)
Wifi: Wifi 6
Windows: Windows 10
I have downloaded Destiny 2 to run it on my laptop.
It was having V-Sync on so my fps was capped at 60 fps because my screen refresh rate is 60 hz.
I thought its capped at 60 so my GPU will not get used that much.
But while playing it the gpu was getting rapidly hot.
I don't know why
Other games like CS:GO, Rocket League works fine and doesnt heats my gpu much.
But Destiny 2 is heating a loss. That too in a very short time.
Help me out pls. And tell me how to fix it!
Will running destiny 2 in medium settings help? Currently running on high settings.
I am a member of post4vps from 2018. I went offline many times (exams). And came online for some time (ofc exams).
Sorry for this
But now I am online back!
I have made a post about post4vps on medium to tell more people on web about Post2Host communities like ours!
Post4VPS is the best community. Community is supportive. Each aspect of folks are here so all our doubts get cleared!
And the main feature "Free VPS"
I have posted a brief post on medium
Here's The Link: https://aps09.medium.com/free-vps-provid...5c3a40df17
Sorry for this
But now I am online back!
I have made a post about post4vps on medium to tell more people on web about Post2Host communities like ours!
Post4VPS is the best community. Community is supportive. Each aspect of folks are here so all our doubts get cleared!
And the main feature "Free VPS"
I have posted a brief post on medium
Here's The Link: https://aps09.medium.com/free-vps-provid...5c3a40df17
I've got a couple VPS that aren't doing anything at the moment, which is somewhat offensive to my sensibilities. I decided that I would like to use these to experiment with some different server configurations, because I like to learn by trying new things.
My goal is to set up a server environment that can be used for shared hosting that is as lightweight as possible. The VPS has only .5GB RAM, so I want to keep resource consumption at an absolute minimum. I've been reviewing distrowatch and have a few possibilities:
1. 4MLinux: a miniature Linux distribution focusing on four capabilities: maintenance (as a system rescue live CD), multimedia (for playing video DVDs and other multimedia files), miniserver (using the inetd daemon), and mystery (providing several small Linux games). My first attempt to install this gave me strange errors. I've not been able to find any relevent documentation explaining these errors, so I'll cross this one off tentatively for now.
2. A minimal version of a more common distro: such as Debian or CentOS. These are probably the easier options with plenty of documentation, articles, and tutorials
3. Slackware: a distribution that strives for stability. A full installation of slack would definitely give me more than I need, but it can run even on old pentium 2s. A modern Ryzen VPS should be smoking fast on it. Slackware looks like it isn't updated frequently: the current version in use since 2016; which makes me a little uncomfortable; but there have been regular security updates.
4. A BSD alternative, such as FreeBSD. I tried BSD in the past, and was very pleased with the performance, but there it comes with a price: setup and configuration can be more labor intensive without a dependency resolving package manager.
5. Gentoo: the ultimate in customization. I've also tried Gentoo in the past: in my opinion, the most customizable distro. The first time I managed to complete a Gentoo installation it took me a week - over 20 hours in 7 days. Could be really great for learning, but a nightmare to set up.
Now, for the discussion piece: I'm curious if anyone has any current input on using any of these as a server on a VPS, and if so, what your experience was. Also, if you have other suggestions or alternatives I have missed that may be worth examining would be highly appreciated.
My goal is to set up a server environment that can be used for shared hosting that is as lightweight as possible. The VPS has only .5GB RAM, so I want to keep resource consumption at an absolute minimum. I've been reviewing distrowatch and have a few possibilities:
1. 4MLinux: a miniature Linux distribution focusing on four capabilities: maintenance (as a system rescue live CD), multimedia (for playing video DVDs and other multimedia files), miniserver (using the inetd daemon), and mystery (providing several small Linux games). My first attempt to install this gave me strange errors. I've not been able to find any relevent documentation explaining these errors, so I'll cross this one off tentatively for now.
2. A minimal version of a more common distro: such as Debian or CentOS. These are probably the easier options with plenty of documentation, articles, and tutorials
3. Slackware: a distribution that strives for stability. A full installation of slack would definitely give me more than I need, but it can run even on old pentium 2s. A modern Ryzen VPS should be smoking fast on it. Slackware looks like it isn't updated frequently: the current version in use since 2016; which makes me a little uncomfortable; but there have been regular security updates.
4. A BSD alternative, such as FreeBSD. I tried BSD in the past, and was very pleased with the performance, but there it comes with a price: setup and configuration can be more labor intensive without a dependency resolving package manager.
5. Gentoo: the ultimate in customization. I've also tried Gentoo in the past: in my opinion, the most customizable distro. The first time I managed to complete a Gentoo installation it took me a week - over 20 hours in 7 days. Could be really great for learning, but a nightmare to set up.
Now, for the discussion piece: I'm curious if anyone has any current input on using any of these as a server on a VPS, and if so, what your experience was. Also, if you have other suggestions or alternatives I have missed that may be worth examining would be highly appreciated.
hello all,
I wanted to know if any of you have ever used some AV to VGA converter to connect set top box to a monitor with VGA input ?
If yes then please share your experiences here. Any instructions or suggestions also welcome.
What I am planning to do:
Buying such an adapter that will work with a set top box (with card.. means digital. But only AV output) and a monitor with VGA input.
Thank you for any information.
I wanted to know if any of you have ever used some AV to VGA converter to connect set top box to a monitor with VGA input ?
If yes then please share your experiences here. Any instructions or suggestions also welcome.
What I am planning to do:
Buying such an adapter that will work with a set top box (with card.. means digital. But only AV output) and a monitor with VGA input.
Thank you for any information.
Hello everyone,
I got selected for the third phase of corona virus vaccine test at NICED in Kolkata,WB. I am to report there tomorrow.
It is not the one developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University.
It is by Bharat Biotech's COVID 19 vaccine , COVAXIN.
Hope everything goes well. Wish me luck.
Re. I have been a bit careless about mask and all. Yet Im still standing. Hope the vaccine doesn't knock me out instead. Hehe
I got selected for the third phase of corona virus vaccine test at NICED in Kolkata,WB. I am to report there tomorrow.
It is not the one developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University.
It is by Bharat Biotech's COVID 19 vaccine , COVAXIN.
Hope everything goes well. Wish me luck.
Re. I have been a bit careless about mask and all. Yet Im still standing. Hope the vaccine doesn't knock me out instead. Hehe
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You wont need any payment information.
Just register with your name and email/mobile no from web interface or android app and you are golden for the above mentioned 48 hours.
Enjoy !
"Starting 12:00 AM, 5 December, you can enjoy all of Netflix, for absolutely free until 11:59 PM, 6 December."
This is for Indian users only.
You wont need any payment information.
Just register with your name and email/mobile no from web interface or android app and you are golden for the above mentioned 48 hours.
Enjoy !
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Hello Post4VPS,
I have a question in my mind. is cPanel free ? Today in my VPS control panel i found an option of installation. There are three different options including Control Panel. I clicked and found that i can directly install control panels on my VPS. I saw that cPanel is also available in list. So my question is that by installing cPanel from VPS's Control Panel. Can i directly use it for free? or do i have to make a purchase?
If its free it will be very great.
but i don't think its free as we normally requires its License to use.
I have a question in my mind. is cPanel free ? Today in my VPS control panel i found an option of installation. There are three different options including Control Panel. I clicked and found that i can directly install control panels on my VPS. I saw that cPanel is also available in list. So my question is that by installing cPanel from VPS's Control Panel. Can i directly use it for free? or do i have to make a purchase?
If its free it will be very great.
but i don't think its free as we normally requires its License to use.
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