I just had a really good lesson in domain name buying, I had decided on one domain name in the morning, it was a very short and cool domain name. In the morning it was available, I thought I will buy it in the evening (Once I am back from the meeting) and now this laziness is costing me very much..

The domain got registered in the afternoon and in short, I could not get it…

So, if you come up with an idea of some domain name, just buy it quickly.. don’t be lazy like me.. I guess John will also agree with me on this one.. (We both have had very good experiences in this)

I was just checking Google’s official blog and found this super cool link… It is called Indic Transliteration from Google India Labs.

In simple words, it coverts the English words to Hindi. Say, for example, if you want to write,  “Ye Mera Blog hai” in Hindi, so just type the same thing in English and the application will convert the same in Hindi characters. Remember, it is not a translator, but it will just write the English words in Hindi.

Though that’s a different story that, when we write “Google bahut acchi site hai” it shows गूगल बहुत अच्छी सीते है (Google bahut acchi seete hai) haha

But it is fun, it will be a heaven for Hindi Bloggers.

Go and play with it here

If you are facing problems with SQL queries, don’t panic.. take printout of the tables and start writing logical queries on paper. You will get the solution…

If you are facing problems with SQL queries, don’t panic.. take printout of the tables and start writing logical queries on paper. You will get the solution…

If you are facing problems with SQL queries, don’t panic.. take printout of the tables and start writing logical queries on paper. You will get the solution…

and yea.. it works.. tried and tested just now…

I think many of you guys know that I run an educational site for BCOM students and the site is busiest ever in the month of June i.e. during the results. The traffic reaches around 60,000 visitors per day. During this period, hosting on shared server becomes impossible and last year even dedicated server failed to serve the high traffic. (Dual Xeon 2.8 and 2 GIG RAM)

So, I was looking for some solid hosting solution which can keep my site online during the high traffic period. I was first impressed with the Grid Server technology of MediaTemple, tried them for couple  of months but they were miserable, in the terms of uptime, customer support, technical support.. in short in everything. Then I heard about Mosso from WHT forums. The technology they offered looked impressive and even reviews on WHT were pretty good.

I decided to give it a shot, they charge 100 USD per month which is quite cheap compared to what I had paid for dedicated server last year (around 300 USD). The coolest thing they have is, they allow you to choose operating system, Windows or Linux. I did not use this feature but it will be useful for the guys who have PHP as well as ASP / .NET based sites.

Ok, now I moved the stuff with the help of support guys (No, they do not have shell access so I had to ask them to untar the files and all) The things started running smoothly.. the real test started on 15th of June, when I had a spike in the traffic, got around 35K visits on that day, Impressive!!! not even a single minute of downtime. The site was running smoothly with more than 200 people online at the same time. This left smile on my face but hold on, the show is not over yet.

Then comes the result day, 20th June. 68,000 visitors and still standing rock solid, no downtimes, no slow load times.. site running as smooth as it was running with 1000 visitors in a day.

This is what impressed me most. Rock solid. But the sad part is, I won’t be able to with them for next few months as the traffic is normal now and my site will run just fine on shared server. I informed them about it and they even tried to help me out by offering 2 months of free hosting but still it will be costly for me but I am definitely gonna signup again during results time. No point in choosing any other host.

So let me just sum the whole ting up..

Pros:

• Pretty reasonable monthly charge, just 100 USD a month (80 GB Space / 2000 GB Bandwidth)
• Superb uptime, rock solid stability
• Top class Support, always available on Live chat, very helpful and with “very good” technical knowledge, I mean it, tried and tested
• Support for Linux and Windows
• Option to manage your clients, create various hosting packages etc..
• Backed by Rackspace

Cons:

• No shell (SSH) support for Linux
• No cron job support
• Need to create a new package every time to add a sub domain
• Not enough shortcuts in admin panel to access things quickly

Over all, I would rate it 4/5. It will be a really good option if your site is high traffic site and you do not need shell access or cron jobs. I would definitely go back to them again and will also recommend people.

Visit the site: Mosso.com

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Till yesterday I was all praising this cool Japanese innovation but now, if you ask me, I would just say my crappy Chinese stand which never worked properly. I had purchased this laptop stand a month back from a shop called Thanko RareMono Shop, a Japanese company which is into all kinda cool and crazy stuff.

The stand arrived within a week after placing the order, it looked pretty cool when I opened, within 2-3 minutes I figured out how to get it working (locks and all), the first thing which caught my eyes was, the label “Made in China”. This changed my expression a bit, I was like “ouch, Chinese; God save me!!” Well, god did not save me this time. The lock on the right hand side’s handle was not working and I could not keep the laptop on it properly.

I emailed their support guys with the video showing the bad lock. They sent me the new stand within a week.

New one had locks working properly, I even enjoyed using it for few hours, I even enjoyed showing off the “working” stand to my sister and Megha haha. BUT god again did not save me. One of the locks screwed up again. The condition is not as worse as the earlier one but still it is not fully functional. I am not planning to ask them to send me one more stand as I know the new one (if they send it) is going to be bad again.

So the moral of the story is? Never buy Chinese stuff, no matter how cool it looks. It is gonna be crappy mostly. (You will be lucky if it works well)

I have already wasted my 91$ for this crappy Chinese stand and I do not want you to waste money on it.

Edit: Btw if you wanna take a look at it, here you go: (it works only in this position lol)