Most of us are on shared servers. One server, many hosted sites. We used to run our business on one until a Thai dating site was put on the server and our sites were constantly going down.
We now have our own servers- that we use for our clients. We host about 100 clients per server- and have had minimal problems. Many server companies excel at seeing how many sites they can stuff on one server- and that’s how you get cheaper hosting.
Use My IP Neighbors to see who is on your same IP- of course, a server can have multiple IP addresses on the same server which can obfuscate the answer to how many sites are on my server.
My IP Neighbors lets you find out if any other web sites (“virtual hosts”) are hosted on a given web server.
The tool is a great way to find out who your hosting neighbors are, or just to see how many other websites your hosting company runs from the same machine. Or perhaps you’d like to know if that flashy company still uses cheap hosting like the rest of us.
You can search by hostname or by IP. Search results include the neighbor’s website URL’s and titles, and links to WHOIS data.
Note, this service isn’t exactly fool proof- it also lists domains that are pointed to the same IP- and not all domains are hosted. It’s pulling out of Whois data instead of actually scanning the server.
It’s hard enough to secure a url for many companies now- but what about the array of social media sites?
Meet KnowEm– which checks all the social media sites for your user name:
KnowEm was developed to assist everyone – from individuals to Fortune 500 companies – in discovering where their names, brands, or trademarked terms are available (or stolen) on Social Media networks. KnowEm will not only help you secure your name across the vast social media landscape but we can also show you how to contact each site in order to have the name released and returned to you.
via About Knowem, LLC.
A handy dandy tool for finding out who has your user name- and what Social Media sites you could be on.
We think the most important are YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn- and possibly FourSquare. But, you can decide after a visit here.
Lately, I’ve been on a usability kick- and looking at better ways to interface with programs we work with everyday.
WordPress has a really great interface- except, that the left sidebar with all it’s drop downs for the different options- seems to have a mind of it’s own- when something is dialed down, you don’t know where to click.
Enter- Ozh- and his plugin for moving the menus to the top- saving space, and making things appear in the same place every time!
When WordPress 2.7 and its new and optimized user interface came, I thought there was still room for improvements: a horizontal menu gave the admin area more of a “desktop application†feel, and I think it’s superior to a vertical menu. So I updated the WordPress Admin Drop Down Menu.
You can download older versions and the current version on his site- but, I always prefer to get it from the Codex:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ozh-admin-drop-down-menu/