Blog Made Simple

Updated my BrandYourself Review, want to know the results

danny — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 03:19:23 +0000

I have now been signed up for Brandyourself.com for about 1 week now. I know that SEO can take time, I am curious how much time. Brandyourself.com makes it sound like you will have results overnight. Well that was not that case for me.

See the full review here.

Leave a comment, let me know if you tried Brandyourself.com and what your experience was.

Blog Made Simple Updates Coming Soon!

danny — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 00:06:00 +0000

It has been a while since I have updated anything on this site. You may ask what have I been working on. Well the answer to that would be, many things. It seems as if when I decide to take things on, I always go big. In the last three months I had to hold of on work on blog made simple due to many other things. Here are a few of them:

Creating a site for a non-profit http://jandrboosters.org
Creating DannyMullen.Net, this has been my primary focus as it ties directly to this site.
Creating and fixing my cash register software for a small business here in town.
Most importantly getting organized

Follow my personal blog if you would like to track my progress. New how to’s will be out on blog made simple soon.

DNS transfer week of 3-18-2012

danny — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 16:19:38 +0000

I am in process of moving Domain host and DNS servers. I don’t expect problems, but sometimes there could be minimal downtime caused.

Thanks!

How to Configure WordPress for your Domain, without DNS

danny — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 01:57:41 +0000

I recently answered this question on a forum so I figured it was a great tip to post here also. I found that repeatedly, people struggled with installing and configuring their website without having DNS setup. The scenario for this would be you are moving hosting accounts or running on a local development server. Using my trick will allow you to debug on the live domain while DNS points at the old server.

Add the domain to your hosting account setup as if you were going to host it there. If/When asked any questions about DNS, answer configure later or I have my own.
- Windows (c:\windows\systyem32\drivers\etc\hosts)
- Linux (/etc/hosts)
- Mac /private/etc/hosts
Modify the Hosts file on your local computer to point at your domain and hosting account.
**********************************
#xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the ip of your new hosting or development server
#yourdomain here is your domainname
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx yourdomainhere #<----add this line
**********************************
Open a browser and go to your website. You should go to the new hosting account not your old site.
If you have WordPress installed on the new hosting account you can now point your browser and configure it for your
real domain.
If you want to view your old site you will have to put a # at the beginning of the line that contains you domain in your hosts file.

Non-profits Fear Not!

danny — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:10:29 +0000

Do you own/operate a non-profit organization? If so I may be able to help. I have found non-profit organizations like booster clubs or scout troops seem to fear having their own website. I am here to tell you that this is not something you should fear. In today’s ever changing world a website can be had for a minimal cost per month and very low setup cost. In fact this was my one of my primary drivers when creating BlogMadeSimple.com.

Contact me if you would like an assessment of your non-profit organizations needs.

How to backup Database via SSH

danny — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 03:44:05 +0000

I know many of you out there have asked yourself the question “how do I backup my website’s database?” Well I have the one line of code that will rock your world. This method assumes that you have SSH access(You will need to check with your hosting provider for setup).

Step one, obtain your database credentials. Typically, you can find these in your hosting accounts control panel or WordPress config file.

Step two, establish a ssh connection to your hosting account.

Step three, execute the following command:
mysqldump -u[username] -p[password] –host=[dbserver] –all-databases | gzip > ~/database_`date +%m-%d-%Y-%H%M`.sql.gz

Once the backup is done, you can ftp the file from your server for a rainy day. Personally, I just leave them on the server, they are picked up when I do an account backup. As you can see this method makes it very easy to make a full database backup in minimal time. I like it because I don’t need to spend time logging into my accounts control panel and browsing through menus. I just find SSH much easier.

Keep in mind you could use this command many ways. You could place it in a cron or implement it via the PHP exec function. Leave a comment and let me know, how do you plan on using the command.