30 minutes to a better blog - Introduction - book started!

As some of you might know, I have been working on my website for a blog/book that I am going to be writing. The website http://www.thejonestheory.com is the home of "The Jones Theory: 30 minutes to a better blog". A blog series/book that takes you through the step's of creating a better blog.

This book, who's contents can be found at http://www.thejonestheory.com/blog.php walks reads through the steps that are needed to create a productive and Goal breaking blog.

Although the length of this blog series/blog will be unknown until it's completion, You can find the first section online now! http://www.thejonestheory.com/blogposts/introduction.php

The "Introduction" section of The Jones Theory: 30 Minutes To A Better Blog, covers my thoughts and information contained within the book. This section's focus is on ATTITUDE and EFFORT.

Stop by TheJonesTheory and read about how you can make your blog better, 30 minutes at a time.s

New Server: Update

Today's post is not a huge change from yesterday, But I have made some success today and wanted to prove my night wasn't a waste.

Updates:
- Fixed Public_html's directory permissions
- Fixed /home/* Permissions

- Fixed domain Vhosts for thejonestheory.com and www.thejonestheory.com
- Fixed domain Vhosts for Go-Green-Or-Go-Home.com and www.Go-Green-Or-Go-Home.com
- Aligned domain www.lokalwear.com to IP of server, Still need to fix Vhosts config

- Fixed welcome page for www.thejonestheory.com
- Rebooted Apache after permissions issue's were completely resolved

Security:
- Created a user logging system to record local logged in users
- Stopped FTP dameon until a use of it is needed
- Protected some public root files

All while never restarting the computer. I love linux. Centos is starting to make me happy. It's been a great choice so far.

When you break things down into lists, it makes them seem like more of an accomplishment. While it does not sound like a lot for an hours and a half work. I feel like I at least did something productive.

Remember, I am still looking for some new bloggers who want to do daily/weekly posts, either reviews or even now blogging about blogs them self's, such as SEO and Marketing tips.

www.thejonestheory.com will now be the home of "The Jones Theory: 30 minutes to a better blog" Which is a book Ill be writing based off of my website.

Thanks for stopping by!

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:


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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.

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FreeCreditReport.com - A Review

I have been using their site for about 2 months now. They offer a 14 day trial for getting your free report, and charge 14.95 monthly to track your credit score. For 24.95 monthly you can track you credit score on all 3 reporting agency's.

Although they are not the cheapest site out there (Wellsfargo offers all 3 scored for 14.95 to their customers) I have found that they have the easiest and nicest flowing site of all the ones I have tried.

I have also found their alerts to be very handy when keeping a close eye on your credit score. I get an alert sent to my email, in turn gets sent to my phone. So every time something on my credit happens, I am notified within 20 seconds of the action.

Over all I would say they are a little spendy, but for their well designed site, and easy to use layout, I think this is a great program for anyone working on building their credit back up. The first step to rebuilding credit, Is knowing your credit number.

There is only one book I ever recommend to people trying to get out of debt, and fix their credit. This is a must have! This is the book by Dave Ramsey called The Total Money Makeover.

Dearly Devoted Dexter

I started the second book about 3 days ago. I had just finishes Darkly Dreaming Dexter, which was the first in the set. So far the second book has kept me on a short leash. For the first part of this book Dexter takes us through some of his brain and paints a decently detailed picture about whats going on in his "lizard Brain" as he would put it.

Within the first few chapters we are introduced to his next victim. We also start to get a in depth layout of the rules and laws Dexter follows, which were laid down by Harry, His adopted father. There is still more yet to play out in this story of Dexter, our Good guy serial killer.

More updates to come as I get farther into the book, as well as a final review once I am done. I would highly recommend picking the first book up if you haven't already, this is a set of books you will love!

First Book: Darkly Dreaming Dexter (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
Second Book: Dearly Devoted Dexter (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
Third Book: Dexter in the Dark (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)