Another domain on Godaddy need my attention 🙂
Yes, renewal time is coming next month and this time I have other domain registrar to try. name.com offer $7,39 for transfer domain to their service and since I already have an account after bought a domain on name.com I can continue flawlessly.
Here the process during the transfer
What you need to do on Godaddy side
1. Unlock domain
Login to godaddy and pick domain name you want to transfer.
Click link ‘manage’ near Locked status.
Another great service that allow us to use own domain is soup.io . I see soup.io feature is great for community base, when you have similar interest, hobbies etc.
As part of spread service series I’ll show how to use custom domain feature for our sample subdomain (http://soup.hostingformula.net)
Lets get start!
Login to soup.io and find this icon, click third icon.
Click “Custom Domain” link.
Enter domain or sub domain and click Update button.
At this stage, all things required for use domain or sub domain completed.
Next step is login to cpanel and click Simple DNS editor.
Choose domain name and Add a CNAME Record.
Name : soup
CNAME : soup.io
Click Add CNAME Record button.
or you can use IP address 77.244.245.130 for A record.
Wait for 24 hours and you should be able to access this sub domain :
I hope you see the point and see you in other post.
Little note between cname vs a record. In term of speed a record is faster than cname record when user try to access it but if need something than frequently changed like ip address then you need cname record. But if you have good dns cache service you can stick with cname record.
Today I’ll continue with spread service series and today I use blogetery service. At the end of this how to I’ll get subdomain of hostingformula dot net pointed to blogetery.
Lets get start!
Login to blogetery and add new blog by click My Sites under Dashboard menu.
Click Create a New Site.
As system administrator myself I prefer to use A record over CNAME. Simply answer on why question is : fast.
This post came when I have problem with setting blogspot custom domain, I put right entry but still not get resolved. I ever use it many times and wondering if Google also give A record for blogspot and they did.
Yes, its my fault for not re-reading google help page and I found these IP :
216.239.32.21
216.239.34.21
216.239.36.21
216.239.38.21
awesome.
I can use those IP.
Login to cpanel and find Simple DNS Zone Monitor.
Choose domain
Find “Add an A Record” section.
Enter name and address (repeat for all ip)
Click Add a Record button.
The result will be like this picture
Simple click proof the address for you 🙂
How are you today, I hope you’re great and always have good health. Today I’ll continue spread blog service series. I’m going to cover procedure for setting subdomain with address http://blogspot.hostingformula.net using blogspot as blog provider service.
Lets get start!
Login to blogger and create new blog
Enter blog title, blog address and word verification.
Choose template, I pick ‘simple‘ theme and click Continue.
Ok, the famous message “your blog has been created” show up.
Click link “Set up a custom domain” under Advanced Setup Options.
Find “Switch to advanced settings” link.
My friend ask me about possibility for spread service and reduce the cost of hosting. He want to teach blog with more than 12 person of his photography class. He only have one domain and hosting account with 50 MB space 🙂
I understand his situation and give straight solution : use free blog service.
Yes, he can use blogspot, wordpress.com or blogetery or posterous or tumblr.
But, his question lead me to new experiment too.
I want to try to test this :
All sub domain use hostingformula.net as main domain and cpanel that bluehost provide.
At the end of this experiment I will have these :
Lets get start!
Read how to set subdomain of hostingformula.net using blogspot service.
Read how to set subdomain of hostingformula.net using blogetery service.
Read how to set subdomain of hostingformula.net using soup.io service.
Posterous provide everything within their service and one service that I like is their custom domain service. I plan to add subdomain for my daughter and pointing it to existing posterous account where my wife upload photo of our daughter.
For sake of share I use other domain but the concept still same, lets get start!
Login to your account and click “Setup yourdomain.com” under Tools menu.
My friend ask me about Blogetery service. He want to point his domain to blogetery and want me to show the way. I’m little busy last few weeks and today I have chance to test it with a domain.
Lets get start!
Login to blogetery and choose “Go to the Advanced Admin Area”
I love coupon code and everybody loves them too. Today I’m going to share my experience with namecheap coupon code. I have completed the process of move 9 of 10 domains from various registrar in one management.
Yes, the background why I choose to transfer my domain are :
Hahaha, in coincidence namecheap give me chance to migrate them all with low price $3,99 each. (the promo code might be over at time of writing or this moment)
I have experience with namecheap before when I migrate my domain from godaddy to namecheap.
Recent experiment with CSR on Windows 7 for testing valid https on PHP Installer give an CSR. I want to try it with freessl as they provide 30 days free ssl certificate.
After enter information about server that I want to use I enter CSR (from previously created step)
Being regular user of cpanel make little nervous when using another control panel system. Today I want to access my database with phpmyadmin and figure out how to that with Parallels Plesk Panel.
Actually its simple as 123 but I want to document it for my future reference.
Login to panel and click Database icon.
There are two databases
click on Webadmin icon, make sure to enable pop up with your browser.
Bingo, phpmyadmin will show up
phpmyadmin ready to rock 🙂
In recent domain purchase on Godaddy I have disable automatic domain renewal (goes to manual and force Godaddy to send an email about expire domain) and change dns record to bluehost.
Due to that change I force myself to choose 1st option of activate google apps.
I’ll show you how to add TXT Record on bluehost hosting for activate google apps.
1. Sign up for google apps
2. Activate google apps for domain
google apps provide 4 ways :
I choose number 1.
Choose other from ‘select your domain registrar or provider’ option.
copy and paste TXT record to notepad
Find ‘advanced dns zone editor’ .
click the icon
Select a domain
Add a record
click ‘Add record‘ button.
You’ll see summary of your domain dns configuration.
Click “Delete” for existing TXT record (optional)
3. Verify domain ownership
Back to google apps page. Click Verify button to start verify the TXT record modification.
You’ll see this page if you do right job.
You can continue to activate email service and others from your google apps panel.
See you on other post and stay health!
I used to use free domain managment service like mydomain, zoneedit etc for manage my domain dns record. My previous experiment with weebly free website give me new knowledge if Godaddy also enable us to change dns record.
Case : Weebly allow me to use my own domain with condition that I must point A record to IP 199.34.228.100.
How to change IP record on Godaddy without use mydomain, zoneedit etc?
Here’s how to do that task.
My friend tell me about his new blog that he claim he get it for free. He only pointing his domain to ip address of service provider. After see his website I found he use Weebly service.
Its easy to create an account with weebly, just visit weebly address and fill the form as seen on the picture.
Click Sign Up button will bring you to welcome page.
I’m sorry for late update since I get busy with my resign process that make me forget to post an update of this post. At previous post I have post about initial steps for domain migration.
Wait for few days ( yes, I’m waiting for 4 days to get email from register.com )Â for transfer authorization code .
Email from register.com
Subject : Auth Code Request Approved
Dear alamsyah rasyid,
You recently requested an auth code to transfer your “domainname.com” domain name.Your request has been processed and approved.
The Auth Code for your transfer is “000000000xxxyyyy“.We sincerely appreciate your business at Register.com and are sorry that you are transferring your domain.
We hope that you will consider Register.com in the future for your web service needs.If you have any questions, please contact one of our web service consultants at 1.888.734.4783.
Thank You
Save that code to notepad.
Login to godaddy and choose transfer menu from my account, enter domain name that you want to transfer and pay for that order.
After pay for that order I got email with subject :
Transfer Acknowledgement
Dear alamsyah rasyid,
To complete your recently requested transfer, we must receive approval of the administrative contact currently associated with the domain name(s) below, which we have determined to be [email protected]. A request for approval has been sent to that address. If you believe the email address is not correct, you must visit your current registrar and have it updated.
View a complete listing of registrars: http://www.internic.net/regist.html
Domain name(s) associated with this transfer:
DOMAINNAME.COM
Should you update the administrative email address at your current registrar, please restart this transfer.
You may be asked to log in to restart the transfer. To safely log in:
1. Go to the GoDaddy.com home page and log in with your name or customer number and password.
2. In the My Account section, select “Domain Transfers.”
3. Select the transfers you wish to re-initiate and then click the “Reinitiate” button to proceed.If for any reason this information is incorrect or you feel this domain transfer request was made in error, please contact us at [email protected].
Sincerely,
GoDaddy.com, Inc
Another email from godaddy arrive to my inbox with subject : Transfer of Domainname.COM
Re: Transfer of 101XMAS.COM
Dear alamsyah rasyid,
GoDaddy.com, Inc. received a request on 11/2/2010 for us to become the new registrar of record.
You have received this message because you are listed as the Registered Name Holder or Administrative contact for this domain name in the WHOIS database. If you are not the Account Holder, or you are transferring the domain to a new owner, please forward this email to the appropriate Account Holder so that they may complete the transfer process.
IMPORTANT: If the steps below are not completed, the domain name(s) listed above will NOT be transferred to us.
To proceed with the transfer, log in and follow these instructions.
In the process of authorizing this transfer, you will be prompted to provide the Transaction ID and Security Code:
Transaction ID: 908xxxxx
Security Code: BUzzzz686Once a transfer takes place, you will not be able to transfer to another registrar for 60 days, apart from a transfer back to the original registrar, in cases where both registrars so agree or where a decision in the dispute resolution process so directs.
If you DO NOT WANT the transfer to proceed, then please don’t respond to this message.
Save Transaction ID and Security Code on my notepad.
Choose Transfer menu and click on ‘Authorization’ after select domain you want to transfer.
Enter Transaction ID and Security Code as specified in the email and click Next.
Choose Domain Name, click Authorize and click Next.
Enter domain authorization for the domain and click Finish.
At this stage just pay attention to ‘Recommended Action’.
After doing that procedure I got email from register.com with subject : DOMAIN NAME TRANSFER
Dear alamsyah rasyid,
Register.com received notification on 11/2/2010 that you have requested a transfer of domainname.com to another domain name registrar.
We are saddened to see you go and would like to offer you an exciting offer to remain a Register.com customer. Renew for only $15.95 when you use Invitation Code: RENEW77 today. Doing so will provide you with peace of mind that your domain name is safe with a company that offers free live phone support 24/7 and is here to help you build your business online.
If you still wish to proceed with this transfer, you do not need to respond to this message. To cancel the transfer please contact us before 11/5/2010 by replying to this email or by calling 1.877.731.4442. To take advantage of the $15.95 offer, click below to log-in to your account and select your domain you wish to renew. https://www.register.com/myaccount/product/renew.rcmx
If we do not hear from you by 11/5/2010, your domain name transfer will proceed.
Thank you for choosing Register.com.
Done.
I just have to wait for domain name transfer proceed by register.com
Summary :
1. Make sure to set status of domain in ‘unlock’ mode.
2. Get authorization key from current registrar
3. Order domain transfer from new registrar and initiate domain transfer
4. Enter authorization / EPP key
5. Read every email carefully from current registrar and new registrar for smooth domain name transfer process.
How to add password protection to a folder inside my blog?
That question came from a hostingformula.net reader and I try to answer it with example.
I use cpanel based hosting where facility for password protect directory provided under ‘Security’ section.
Target :
I’ll create new folder called ‘magic‘ that protected by username and password.
Open cpanel and find security area, find password protected directory and clic the icon.
Pick a directory to open. I choose hostingformula.net
click Go.
I have job to transfer wordpress multi user to new host. The wpmu system currently host 400+ with subdomain type.
The old host and new host use same operating system FreeBSD dedicated server but with different version.
The procedure for move wpmu to new host not different than moving ordinary wordpress blog.
1. Dumping mysql database
#Â mysqldump -udtonet2 -pdotnet22008 dotnet2 > dotnet.sql
2. Packing all files to one tarball
# tar cvzf wordpress-mu.tar.gz wordpress-mu
3. Transfer the file to new host
# scp wordpress-mu.tar.gz [email protected]:/home/erau
Password:
wordpress-mu.tar.gz                   100%  402MB 13.9MB/s  00:03
#
4. Change dns setting
I love Google Apps!
Its free and I can save space in my hosting account while spread the risk of downtime between hosting and email system.
Here step by step guide how to integrate Google Apps Email with Cpanel Domains :
1. Login to cpanel
Find MX Entry within Mail menu.
2. Choose domain in cpanel that you want to outsource the email.
Yes, another move to new host bring new home work and I love to solve it 🙂
Ioncube loader need to enable at this host and I’m lucky the process it self not difficult to accomplish.
Here step by step guide on how to enable ioncube loader on bluehost web hosting :
Create new php file, for example info.php and put this line :
<?php
phpinfo();
?>
save the file and access it from web browser :
http://your.url/info.php
Scroll down and pay attention to this picture
As you see no support for IonCube by default bluehost account.
It’s my pleasure to see my stat page in wordpress show some number and I can know where they come from. That mean what I write call others attention and perhaps also overcome their problem.
Migration to new host and new domain hostingformula.net also give me other job. Tell google about this new URL beside create permanent redirection 301. Submit to Google Webmaster Tools is my concern right now and I’d love to make screnshoot as usual 🙂
1. Go to Google Webmaster Tools
2. Click ‘Add a Site…’ button.
3. Enter the URL of a site you’d like to manage and click Continue button.
