Topic: small business

When you're looking at purchasing a domain name, you might be wondering which registrar to use. Namecheap and NameSilo are two well-known, affordable, reputable domain name registrars. You can't really go wrong with either one in terms of reliability, but they have a different set of pros and cons that you should be aware of.

I've had personal experience buying domain names with both registrars. Here are the advantages and disadvantages of each.

You've installed Webmin, you can log in and out as root, but you don't want to do everything as root. It's better for both security and convenience if you can log into Webmin as your non-privilged Linux user. The problem: even though you've already got an existing Linux user on the server other than root, that user doesn't show in Webmin. Don't worry, this is completely normal for a new Webmin install.

Here is an illustrated tutorial for how to allow an existing Linux user to login to Webmin.

You've probably seen information online that makes it sound like there are bloggers making $1000 a month or more starting from their first month and going up from there, and you're (quite correctly) suspicious. Otherwise everyone would be blogging instead of doing other jobs, right?

To answer your questions, based on my experience, yes it is difficult to make money blogging, and yes I suspect there are a few bloggers out there who are lying on their income reports. I'll provide reasoning for this here and let you know the red flags to watch for.

Adding schema markup to your website is a great way to give search engines extra information about your site. Google Structured Data Markup Helper is an easy point-and-click tool that lets you pick what goes into that information by highlighting the appropriate bits from your page.

There are two common errors that come up when using this tool, which are both covered in this article. The first is the "Unable to create page" error. The other problem is an inability to fill in the bits from your website and move on to get the code with the "Create HTML" button.

Fortunately, there are easy fixes for both of these problems. I'll cover them one at a time.

Let's assume you don't yet have a website and you're trying to figure out how much bandwidth and disk space you need from your hosting plan. Here we'll use data from 3 of my own blog-style sites to find out how many visitors add up to how much bandwidth, and what amount of disk space is used.

You're hoping not to go over your allocated bandwidth or disk space at your web host, but you may be wondering what happens if you do. For example, what happens if you get a sudden traffic spike to your website, or your website simply grows faster than expected? Here the answers.