Jelsoft just announced a bunch of changes in their pricing scheme. They must have read my blog about whether vBSEO is worth the money and decided they could charge more! 
While not a huge increase, it’s enough to make me shake my head as I now run several vBulletin forums. That’s the nature of business though, and hopefully Jelsoft will continue to improve their software and make use of all that extra cash.
I’m taking the plunge with vBSEO on Fury-Tech Forums. $149 for vBSEO is almost twice as expensive as a leased vBulletin license, so like many vBulletin owners I’m tentative to say the least. To make things worse, they want $117 to remove vBSEO branding from your forum. On the bright side of things, I should have a reliable SEO solution for vBulletin - where Jelsoft is really lacking in my opinion.
More fun in the Webmaster world of updates. Jelsoft today announced vBulletin 3.6.10, including various backported bugfixes from 3.7.0 but primarily to fix a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) in vBulletin 3.6.9.
I just read about the new version of Cpanel / WHM that is supposed to use much less memory on Virtual Private Servers (VPS). Aside from the obvious benefit of freeing up resources and improving performance and capacity, cPanel also points out the benefits of being more eco-friendly than standard cPanel releases. I’m not sure how efficiently cPanel VPS Optimized translates into less energy consumption, but I’ll just take their word for it. This is exciting news for me, because I run many domains hosted on multiple VPS with cPanel/WHM.
After upgrading to PHP 5.2.5 and Apache 2.6.9 using the new easyapache3 scripts (WHM > Software > Apache Update) I was still left without Zend Optimizer. WHM and easyapache3 installed Zend Optimizer (located in /usr/local/Zend/lib/Optimizer-3.3.0/) but after some mucking about I made the mistake of running /scripts/installzendopt - previously used to install Zend Optimizer with a step-by-step installer.
Admins running cPanel w/ Horde should pay special attention to the security update released by cPanel. An arbitrary file inclusion vulnerability was discovered in the Horde webmail app and a patch is included in cPanel builds 11.18.2+ (11.19.2+ for EDGE).
This guide explains how to configure a new IMAP email account in MS Outlook 2002.
This post contains slides and details of the PHP presentation I did for the MESDA Webmasters Group (MaineWUG) in May 2004.
Learn why PHP is one of the most popular web programming languages today. From evaluating the basics of a PHP web page to discussing multi-tier applications in PHP, we will cover topics of interest for both the beginner and the professional.
