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Cheap yet reliable web host

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I found a few great web hosts, which are really cheap yet reliable for Professional Website Hosting. So thought to put a review about them here.

Today will discuss – Bluelemonhost

 

Its one of the cheapest host i had seen on web, that too with cPanel and 99.9% uptime! 

I had used it personally & its really good.

 

Good things about it:
 

  • Too cheap …basic plan costs $11/yr only.
     
  • cPanel based panel….thus really cool to manage things.
     
  • Great link speeds….as per my tests – uplink – 3.5MBps and downlink – 2.8MBps (though appears to be little slow…but believe me its far better then expensive Dreamhost!)
     
  • Good support….always responses with “done/solved/ok” :)
     
  • Daily free backups with free restoration (nice!)
     
  • No irritating limits on number of sub domains, sql databases & users, ftp users and even mailing lists. 

 

 

Bad things about it:

 

  • No ssh shell access (but i do accept its useless to give that in plan like $11 an year due to security reasons).
     
  • No wget allowed (even via cron jobs) though good way out is just using ftp commands in shell but again that’s not for home users. 
     
  • Irritating limit- in $11 plan you can host only 1 addon domain & parked domain.
     
  • No great cPanels addons like website builder or templates. (though you won’t need those ever!)

 

 

I recommend it using just for personal blogs and small professional sites because of its cost, features it just provides really solid hosting for personal blogs but because of limitations i won’t recommend it for an advanced user.

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Cheers!

Google’s SRV records

After recieving lots of emails regarding SRV records issue in Google Apps, i finally tried that in myeslf……unfortunately thats true that Google has missing info. about SRV records.

As per refering to official Google’s help here .

It has missing info. about the location servers.

Here are those missing SRV records…

_xmpp-client._tcp.YOURDOMAIN.TLD. IN SRV 5 0 5222 talk.l.google.com.

_xmpp-client._tcp.YOURDOMAIN.TLD. IN SRV 20 0 5222 talk1.l.google.com.

_xmpp-client._tcp.YOURDOMAIN.TLD. IN SRV 20 0 5222 talk2.l.google.com.

_xmpp-client._tcp.YOURDOMAIN.TLD. IN SRV 20 0 5222 talk3.l.google.com.

_xmpp-client._tcp.YOURDOMAIN.TLD. IN SRV 20 0 5222 talk4.l.google.com.

so finally saying…..just forget everything and have these SRV records to get your domain’s Gtalk working from external IM services…

I created a public G.docs spreadsheet here for easy viewing.

Feel free to post for any issues…

FAQ ON GApps SRV Records

[faq list Google Apps SRV Records]

[faq ask Google Apps SRV Records]

Hope this will help you out :)

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