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1. The Intel® Core™ i7 2.66ghz CPU is the most recent technology from Intel® providing faster, intelligent, multi-core technology that applies processing power where it’s needed most.
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4. 250 GB of storage is included, with room to grow if needed.  You’ll never have to worry about disk space again.
5. Coming in at only $245 per month, I’m not sure if this would fall under the deal or the steal category. 
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Every dedicated hosting plan from Lunarpages also comes with the unparalleled security, control and management options you need.  If you are looking to upgrade to a dedicated hosting plan – or get your first, there is no better dedicated hosting platform out there today. 

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Original post by Mitch

Deep within the confines of my wiki writing hideaway, I have been hard at work coming up with tutorials and documentation covering how to manage databases with your LPCP powered web hosting account. 

MySQL Web Hosting Tutorials

• Create and Delete MySQL Users in LPCP
• Create and Delete MySQL Databases in LPCP
• Assign and Un-assign MySQL Users in LPCP

PostgreSQL Web Hosting Tutorials:

• Create and Delete PostgreSQL Users in LPCP
• Create and Delete PostgreSQL Databases in LPCP

Remember, if you have any article suggestions for the web hosting wiki, you can always send them my way, leave a comment, or even submit your own.  The Lunarpages web hosting wiki is the home of over 300 tutorials, articles, tips and tricks you can use with your web hosting account here at Lunarpages.

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Original post by Mitch

Need to test if a mySQL database has been setup, associated with a user and working properly?  In most cases where you get a “can not connect to database” issue when installing a script, it is caused by something in your configuration files being wrong. To help you test, create a .php file (could be named anything, such as dbtest.php) and then put this inside of it:

&lt?php

= ‘localhost’;

= ‘mysqluser’;

= ‘mypass’;

= ‘databasename’;

//Don’t change below here

= mysql_connect(, , );

mysql_select_db(, );

echo ‘<hr />anything above this linebreak is BAD!’;

Make sure you change mysqluser, mypass, and databasename to the correct variables as you set them up in your hosting account control panel.  Then, upload the test .php file into your public_html directory, and try to go to it via your browser.  If you see no errors above the line break, it is connecting successfully.  If you do see errors, then there is something wrong with the database or how you typed the information into the test script.

Remember also to use the

hostingusername_databaseusername

or

hostingusername_databasename

format (as it was told to you after creating the database or user for the database) when typing in your information.  Kudos goes to the Joomla forum where I found this script.

Either way it should be a helpful tool when it comes to troubleshooting your MySQL database issues. 

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Original post by Mitch

When it comes to testing how fast a page is loading, and what content might be slowing it down, I only have two favorite sources I like to recommend people check out the Web Page Analyzer and Pingdom Tools.  

Web Page Analyzer

This web site will give you a quick and easy way to test how speedy your web site and code really are.  All you have to do is enter your URL and hit “Submit Query”. 

Pingdom Tools

Another nice tool to keep handy for web site speed and content testing would be Pingdom Tools.  After loading in your URL, it will tell you how long your web page takes to load and what on the web page is taking the most time.  This is good for identifying exactly what is making your page load slower.

Hopefully these two web sites will be of great use to you, next time you need to figure out what on your web site is causing it to slow down.  From too many images, to out of control JavaScript, there are a lot of things that can cause you issues.  With these two resources, you should be better able to find out what the problem is so you can get back up and running faster.

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Original post by Mitch

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