Monitor Your Website’s Uptime and Downtime

Knowing that your websites are up and running and being profitable is very important. Many times things will happen to servers that will shut down your website temporarily. Customers usually aren’t able to let you know because naturally your website is down and there is no way to contact you. If you are on vacation ...

No Permissions in HTML Folder of EC2 Instance

I’ve been learning a lot recently about AWS and EC2 instances and how to deal with them. The AWS interface isn’t the most user-friendly for a non-programmer like me and the documentation is non-existent but I find almost all the answers I need from other kind souls who have posted their solutions in their blogs ...

Free Website Script for FAQ and Contact Form

Way back in 2006 when I was first creating my websites I was searching for a script that would help me create an easy to use frequently asked questions or FAQ page. I also wanted it to integrate into my contact form so that people would see the answer to these questions before they sent ...

Hotmail Customers Not Receiving Emails from Website and IP

Since January 1st 2013 I started receiving complaints from some customers that they had not received their email receipts for their orders. I also sent a newsletter out to our list of 130 composers and all of the composers with hotmail addresses bounced back as undeliverable. I suspected something was wrong so did some research ...