Introduction To Blogging - New post on www.thejonestheory.com

Introduction To Blogging Has now been posted at www.thejonestheory.com/blog

This is the first informative post from the blog series/book "The Jones Theory: 30 minutes to a better blog" A book on creating better blogs. If you are new to blogging or even for a experienced blogger, 30 minutes to a better blog can provide you with information that can improve your blogs popularity, increase traffic, or even just walk you through getting started.

Enjoy.

New Web Server: And Promotional Prices

Today's post is a little off topic from where I am usually posting, but I have just got a new server up and running and had to post about it.

Yesterday and today, I started a fresh installation of CentOS on my blade server I purchased several months ago. CentOS is a Linux distribution based on the Red Hat open source operating system. It's design is leaned to those who want to run secure servers with high performance.

The installation went off without any problems, other then the ones I had with my network. After fixing the network everything work great out of the box, so they say. My next step was getting Apache setup.

Apache by it's self was a fairly quick and painless process, the installation was as simple as typing "yum install Apache" and waiting just a few minutes. Again, out of the box, Apache does it's job very well, and for single site hosting has almost no extra configuration's to make. I however plan and am hosting multiple sites. This is where Vhost's come in.

Vhost stands for "VirtualHost" and allows Apache to run multiple websites from one daemon. Setting up the configs for this feature was what took me most of my time. After fixing a few daemon start up bugs, and getting my configs right, Vhost is now working as expected!

People who visit my IP directly will get a warning page asking them to use a valid URL, where visiting by link: www.mediaxsolutions.com will bring you to the hosted page for my web host company.

At this time the server is up and running, and running with great performance.

Now that the new server is running I am offering a special promotion to those who visit this blog, and for all their friends! Here is a small breakdown:


Website Hosting - 1.99/M Your web page, unlimited pages and sub-domains.
Blog Hosting - .99/M Your customized blog, Setup is free!

All new customer's will get free advertising on this website for a month!

Referral Program: Once you try out our new server, and see just how nice it work's for you, tell a friend. When you get your friend to sign up, www.MediaXSolutions.com will give you half of their monthly spending's! This is the highest earnings offered by any other company.

To get setup or ask any questions, Email: jjonesdesign@gmail.com

www.mediaxsolutions.com - Prices and Services - Web Services

www.mediaxsoltions.com List of Services and Prices.

Web Hosting Packages:
Economy : 3.99/Month
1Gig Hosting Space

Basic: 6.99/Month
5Gig Hosting Space

Advanced: 10.99/Month
10Gig Hosting Space

Dedicated Server Packages:
Server specifications are variant on time of ordering.
Base File Space is based on available hardware on time of ordering, At times base space will be higher then listed size. Upgrades can be purchased
All Packages are subject to a 10 Dollar setup Fee, Unless otherwise noted.

Dedicated Economy Server - Full Root Access: $54.99/Month
CPU: 1.4Ghrz or greater
Memory: 1Gig or greater
Space:40Gig's or greater

Dedicated Basic Server - Full Root Access: $74.99/Month
CPU: 1.6Ghrz or greater (Possible Multi-core, OR duel processor)
Memory: 2Gigs or greater
Space:60Gig's or greater

Dedicated Advanced Server - Full Root Access: $99.99/Month - Free Setup
CPU: 2 X 2.0 Ghrz or greater
Memory: 4Gigs or greater
Space: Duel 60Gig's or greater
Free 60Gig Backup Space
3 Month Contract Required

Data Back Up Packages:

Packages For Service Add ons
1Gig Backup - FTP Access - $1.99/Month
5Gig Backup - FTP Access - $2.99/Month
10Gig Backup - FTP Access - $3.99/Month
50Gig Backup - FTP Access - $6.99/Month

Small Business Off Site Complete Backup - FTP Access - $24.99/Month
50 Gig's Of Backup space Redundant backup

Medium Business Off Site Complete Backup - FTP Access - $44.99/Month
150 Gig's Of Backup space Redundant backup

Large Business Off Site Complete Backup - FTP Access - $64.99/Month - 3 Month Contract
1 TB Of Backup space Redundant backup

MediaXSolutions.com

So I did a bit of research the other day and found the most affordable IT solutions around. MediaXSolutions.com has packages for everything! mediaxsolutions.com has cheap prices on Web-hosting, Dedicated Servers, Data back up and even a bunch of great reseller packages.

I think that the coolest part about www.mediaxsolutions.com is that everything they have is affordable and reliable.

mediaxsolutions.com had the one thing I was looking for most. A reliable yet affordable Dedicated server package. I was able to get a Dedicated server for around 50 dollars a month! Not only is that the cheapest prices around for Dedicated servers, the server they setup for me was online fast!

Check out our next post when We list all the services and prices for www.mediaxsolutions.com

SEO - search engine optimization

So I have noticed that I am still getting a decent amount of traffic to this website. so I decided to do an update post.

www.thejonestheory.com is the new SEO and marketing web blog for thejonestheory

I will be keeping this page up until the search engines catch up to the new URL.

Traffic to www.thejonestheory.com in this month (month of opening) is at 288% as of today.

Traffic to thejonestheory.blogspot.com is at 68% increase for this month.

I am happy about these increase but highly encourage people visiting to comment and email information for postings.

Marketing, and SEO

So Google.com (or some Qualified company's) are pretty sweet. been working for about 6 days now and have learned a huge amount about the way Google works and the Google Ad words campaigns. I have also had a chance to do a lot of research on Organic page ranking and how to increase it.

A cool tool that we use in my industries is the Google Ad Viewer. A nifty tool we use to see Google.com real time with effecting registered traffic. Since we are working with SEO and traffic reports we don't want our work or research using Google to create false result information for our buyers.

I'm heading back to work but will be doing some more Posts about Google and SEO

Some changes to the site

So as you can probably tell I have been making some changes to the site lately.

I have been tying some things up on my end of life, and am starting to get some time to put into the site. I will be getting a domain name soon, and some private web hosting, and get a new blog going.

For now I will be using Blogger to keep my posts going, and to keep my pay per post up. But eventually (meaning in a couple of days) I will be setting up my personal website, with my own domain, and my own blog.

I will also be starting up a partner ship with another friend of mine and setting up a blog with several authors, along with a public forum to talk about the articles we post on there.

If you would like to help support either websites, please let my know by sending me a email at jjonesdesign@gmail.com with the subject "TheJonesTheory"

Thank you all, and have a great night.

Big Corporations remind me of Higschoolers

So Ive been recently told about a little issue that AOL has been having with a small group of people who have created a program that allows the combination of AIM,Yahoo,Msn,Jabber, and a few other chat messengers, All in one single program.

The group of developers created this application and named it "Gaim" While this stood for "GTK + AOL Instant Messenger" there is where my point leads me to. Although this name closely resembles the name "AIM" the application "Gaim" was created before AOL ever started calling their service "AIM".

Big Corporations remind me of High school students. They nag, complain, and do anything to make someone else's life a living hell. I support open source developing, and in doing so beleive that just because a name is like another, Doesn't mean they are trying to steal your work.

How often do you go to a computer store and see off brand products using things like "I " when they have absolutely no relevance to APPLE. They are merely item's for the product they put out called "IPOD" This is nothing different from this situation. AOL put out a product called "AOL Instant Messegner". "Gaim" is a off brand of "AIM".

Do you catch my drift here? Not only was "Gaim" around before the name "AIM" but "Gaim" is an open source project. Which means they the developers are not making anymoney from people using the product.

If you would like to read the whole artical you can go here: http://www.pidgin.im/

Google Analytics

So if none of you noticed, during the loading stage of this page at the bottom left you will probably see something like "connecting to google.analytics.com" or something of that sort. That is because I have a code in on my page (which you can't see, its just a code that tells some information to my Analytics account).

What does this do for me?

I run two websites, This blog, and my peon server which is affiliated. I am able to go into my account and setup two sites, this one, and peon server. Putting each code in the corresponding websites. When i log in I choose which site I want to check, and by clicking on the name of the site, pulls up a page which shows statistics about the site. How many visits, a pie chart showing where they came from (IE. Google.com, your site.com my site.com) each having their own peace of pie showing %'s.

This is a great thing to have when you are trying to figure out how many hits you get per day and so on.

If you own a website, or even multiple websites, I highly recommend this tool for you. Its great and causes practically no lag in your website.