I have upgraded my account at Hostdepartment to “UNLIMITED DEVELOPER UNIX”.

Hostdepartment is not that bad after all. They offer unlimited number of dedicated IP addresses and they also offer support 24/7. It is better that other hosts who don’t have enough staff even to tend to support tickets. Most hosts charge about $1-2 per dedicated IP per month, so Hostdepartment does sound like a good choice if one has more than one domain.

I have left alone movable type. I am unable to configure it, I will try to install it on my Linux machine first then try it on a real host. So I have installed wordpress on my new domain. Life has to go around…

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I am shifting hosts again. I tried www.hostdepartment.com, then read some “terrific” reviews about them and decided to opt for another host. I tried to install Movable Type, but couldn’t get it running. I contacted support but they said that they do not allow CGI [or something like that] on that plan. If I wanted to upgrade, I had to delete that plan and signup again. I have requested for a refund which should be on the way within a few days. I may signup for the developer plan with them.

Installed StarOffice using Google Updater

I installed StarOffice using Google updater and I would say it is very good. If you are looking for a serious alternative to MS Office, StarOffice is for you.

StarOffice is not free [unlike OpenOffice, on which it is based]. It costs about $70, way much less than MS Office. However, it combines many proprietary features like a better spell checker and so is better than OpenOffice. I read somewhere that Sun takes a snapshot of OpenOffice source code once in a while and then adds some features to it to make StarOffice.

Why one should target MSN Live rather than Google

Webmasters often think of achieving high positions for keywords in Google. Google may be the de facto web search standard, but targeting MSN Live can be much more beneficial.

I will explain why. Google takes longer times to index the pages of the site. Its algorithm gives more importance to the age of the site and backlinks, rather than the actual content. For, if you create a page with more keywords and solid content, it still takes sometime for the page to appear in the search engine ranking positions.

Advantages of adding a sitemap to your Wordpress blog

If you are serious about blogging, you should add a sitemap to your blog. There are many advantages associated with a sitemap. Here are some:

• Search engines will be able to index your blog posts better. Search engines work by jumping from link to link [This is called spidering] and indexing the text [and images] they find on those pages. Sometimes, certain pages may not have many links pointing to them and so they do not get indexed. Using a sitemap will list all those pages in a place and so search engines will have no problem indexing your pages.