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Mon, 28 Jul 2008 05:05:49 -0700

By: Suresh Khanal

Hosting a website require many services depending on your content and site functionality. In this article you'll find a guaranteed guide to build up your dynamic website with full features without spending a cent as I build http://www.howiearned.com and use it to make money online.
The services you'll need for your website
1. Web hosting

This is the service that lets you to store your site files in their server computers and accessible to internet users. You can find uncountable free web hosts in the internet. Most of the free hosts provide you some space but to promote their products in return of free hosting. Many of them display their advertisement in your site, some pops up another window with advertisement or advertised sites when users open your site. This is certainly not desired nor gives professional feel of your site. I would like to share some of my experiences with the hosts I've worked with. These are the one who don't display any advertisements or pop ups on your site.

1. Awardspace.com

This host is good enough if you want to serve static websites or your own web applications. They don't display any advertisements on your site and supports php, mySql. I hosted some sites such as http://smallicons.awardspace.com, http://kathmandu.awardspace.com in their server. The limitation with them is that you can not host a file there larger than 500 kb. They provide only two databases. E-Mail facility is not there for free accounts.

2. Freehostia.com

This is another good free web hosting company I used. I hosted a site http://studypark.frehostia.com with them. They provide all the services as mentioned for awardspace plus they have auto installers for the scripts like Joomla, SMF and many more. Why I did not continue them was due to their server failure the next day I launched my site there and was down for about a week then. They do not provide e-mail service for free accounts is their another limitation.

3. 000Webhost.com

000Webhost is a free joomla hosting. They have almost all the facilities required for a dynamic websites. What they do not provide there is SMTP, though you can use their mail forwarding or update MX Record. What I dislike most of them is their downtime. I hosted http://www.studypark.site88.net on their server.

4. Frihost.com

This is the latest host I am using and this is the best free hosting. This is the free smtp hosting, free joomla hosting, best free web hosting indeed. Here are the least limitations and rich in features. This provides premium like hosting service for free. They support PHP, mySql, CPanelX, POP, SMTP, Joomla and many others. You can use your domain name with their hosting. You can even upload your scripts and install on your site. The only limitation on frihost is that you need to be active on their forum to continue hosting with them. But posting one or two line of text on their forum for getting all these free services is really worth. You can find my sites http://computerOperator.frihost.net and http://www.howiearned.com hosted on frihost.
2. Domain Name

Domain name is the address for your site hosted on any webhost. Your users will type this name on their browser to open your site. Global domains such as .com, .net, .org costs around $7 to $15, some high priced domains such as .TV may cost higher and .info might be obtained cheaper. Can these domains be obtained for free!

I made a long quest about free global domain and finally found one that really provides free domain name of your choice. Among many options I got on internet, I refer two of the services I believed.

1. NamePros.com

In my quest at first I encountered with NamePros. It is a forum about domain name discussions. Here you can get a link `Visit Sites for Domain Credit'. It lists about 10 links ...

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Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:18:06 -0700

Turn One PC to Many - MultiPC, beTwin, Thin Client

One CPU connected with many keyboards, mouse, monitors, web cams,speakers and microphones so that more than one user can operate a computer simultaneously is the concept of MultiPC or Thin Client as I am going to discuss here.

Here in Kathmandu, I saw this system for the first time when I was setting up a cyber cafe. Very limited budget and heavy cost of hardware along with the expectation of small return everyday of a cyber cafe made me think about the alternet way to reduce the installation cost. When I started my cyber cafe, the cost of a computer set (some how working medium quality) was around 30 thousand rupees. That way purchasing fifteen computer sets would directly cost 4,50,000 Rs set aside the cost of furnitures and decoration. When I calculated the expected income that a cyber may earn everyday was quite disappointing with respect to this investment. The cyber rate at that time was Rs. 20 per hour and we had to manage it to Rs. 15 for us to sustain and attract customer. That way, the daily income from the cyber would be Rs. 1,125 if all the computers were occupied all five hours a day. So investing much amount on cyber was useless.

I started to search on internet if any alternative is found to reduce the system cost in considerable amount so that a cyber could be run with a safe invest. The first thing I found was Applica, a system that claimed as I expected, but the problem here was I need to import all the hardware, wires, switch/router like devices, Software everything and the whole system was rather different made me doubt if it could be applied to a Cyber Cafe. Next thing I found was Userful a multiuser software based solution that could connect upto 10 user stations with a CPU. This was quite OK as I could purchase the required devices from my local market. But this was with a Linux Operating System and I was sure that my customer here are not familiar with Linux and would feel uncomfortable. This solution too became useless. I found a free download of Userful too. I downloaded but never tested, thinking that here in Kathmandu the general users of Cyber Cafe won't appreciate it much.

In the course of my quest for the multiuser system, one day, I landed on thinsoft site. There I found beTwin. This was the solution. It run on Windows. Upto 5 stations could connect to a CPU. Did not require heavy processing neither lot of RAM. It supported Networking and Installation was quite simple. My intuition told me that this is the right choice.

I bought 5 CPUs, one for the server and four for the client stations. I did not like to share the server CPU as it had to work for scanning, printing, operating cyber timer software and store a lot of backups. One CPU will be connected with four stations including the host staion.

List of Devices, as I remember, I purchased

Monitors: 17 pcs

Keyboards/mices: 17 pcs

Headsets: 4 pcs

Printer: 1 pcs

Scanner: 1 pcs

Webcam : 4 pcs

Monitor Extension Data Cable: 12 pcs

USB extension Cable : 12 pcs

PS to USB converter (Y-Cable) : 12 pcs

USB splitter : 4 pcs

I decided to use the voice chat and video chat on only four of the stations considering the internet bandwidth requirement and extra harware. One switch connected those five CPUs through CAT5 cables to form LAN.
CPU configuration I purchased

Intel 845 GVFN motherboard (this was the latest then)

Hynix 512 MB RAM 2 pcs

VGA/Sound Card/NIC Card inbuilt in motherboard

80 GB PATA hard disk

ATI 8MB VGA Card 3 pieces (to connect with added monitors; one VGA was inbuilt)

How I Installed MultiPC

Positioned all the CPUs and Monitors, Keyboard/Mouse on their designed places.

Connected one monitor, keboard and mouse with a CPU on the board's built in port. So a single set of computer was prepared.

Installed Windows XP on that CPU.

Installed all device drivers. Device Drivers of ATI VGA Cards displayed conflict. I removed the windows installed drivers for ATI VGA Cards and reinstalled the drivers from the CDs that came with the VGA cards. The conflict was resolved.

Then I inserted the Y-Cable one by one.

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