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Composers.net - an i9000 Networks project that hosts a fantastic selection of community submitted content on musical composers has risen from Page Rank 4 to Page Rank 5. Also, Google is returning it as the 5th result when searching for composers. Nice!

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I’m now Page Rank 4

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Imagine you have a selection of domain names that point to the same site, are some of those domains specific to certain areas of your site?

Here’s how I redirect a domain name to a specific area on a site

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?cubecartexperts\.co.uk
Rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.i9000networks.com/landing-page/cubecart-experts/ [L]

You’ll also need the domain set in your virtualhost config like this

ServerName www.i9000networks.com
ServerAlias www.cubecartexperts.co.uk
ServerAlias cubecartexperts.co.uk

It is a much more helpful way of helping your users navigate your site.

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Wordpress Suicide is a fun, yet really useful plugin. I had a requirement to clean out a WP 2.5 blog because a client had really screwed up with the taxonomy directly in the database. I didn’t want to erase the entire blog because that’d be too easy. I stumbled over Wordpress Suicide and had great fun using it. It makes clearing a blog of all it’s life quite enjoyable!

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There is a little known feature in Wordpress 2.5 called “Secret Key“. If you’re upgrading from a previous version you probably won’t even know this feature exists as it only appears in clean installs where you have a brand new wp-config.php.
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A quick update on people that need the Crawl Rate Tracker to work with Wordpress 2.5 - just create the table manually.

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Following on from my previous article, regarding Setting up and using NFS on Ubuntu, here’s how I keep backups for quite a few clients.

On a particular site I maintain a single backup server that several clients backup to on a nightly basis.

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If you check the Page Rank of http://bloke.org against http://bloke.org/index.php, which are both, to a human, obviously the same page you’ll see two different results. My domain carries a PR3 whilst the latter carries a PR0.

We know they are both the same, but do the crawlers? No, they don’t.
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I really like Patrick Altoft’s Crawl Rate Tracker Plugin for Wordpress. I rolled it out on many of my sites and more of my client’s sites. I even used it on this site.

But my love for it was prematurely cut short.
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Network File System, NFS, has been around since Noah first networked his ark.

Setting up and using NFS on Ubuntu is surprisingly easy. i9000 Networks needed a slightly revised backup solution in one of it’s sites.

Obviously you’ll need two or more servers. One I’ll refer to as the server which will host the backups and the second/subsequent servers, which are the clients, ie. the live servers that need backing up.

Here’s how I did it.

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