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The solution you provided is perfectly fine, and although I haven't tried it yet, I am pretty sure that the user who is connecting to the server will have to operate a proper linux operating system. I want to talk about a scenario where the user is a complete novice with linux. He doesn't know how to handle a linux server and where are the different files placed that he must use. In this case, my opinion is that the vns system won't be much of a help, though it is perfectly capable of doing all the required stuff.What I want to talk about is a simplified web-based control panel where the user is not required to have any knowledge of linux, or server hosting or any similar thing. A good example would be the popular cPanel used by most webhosts including Xisto. But I am looking for some free alternate than can be used in my experimental and testing conditions.So the scenario would be that the user (who is a complete novice) will be provided with an ip address (of the server) which he will enter into his browser. He will be presented with a web-page that asks for username and password. And after successfully entering the credentials, the user will be presented a simplified control panel with few links and icons (all in his web-browser), through which he can do stuff like modifying databases, modifying files, modifying some basic server settings, and similar stuff.So what kind of material I need to create such a setup.......

Wow! that's easier than I thought. I will definitely give it a try and see how it works. As a matter of fact, I have once tried the vnc solution for controlling my pc through my android mobile phone. Though it didn't go very well for me but I got the idea of how it would work. Vnc would be just fine but I what about something that would give a restricted access to a user. I am pretty sure that there would be settings available for this in the vnc server but what about something like cpanel, where a user gets access to only his website related stuff. He cannot change the system configurations of the server and modify the software or install new software on it. Is there any solution for this kind of setup.

I have been trying to create an experimental/testing server for which I would install ubuntu server on my old desktop and connect it to my network. What I am trying to achieve is an easy to use environment where my server (the old desktop) lies in another room without any monitor, keyboard, or mouse etc attached to it. Just the CPU with it power and network connections.I understand that I would require a monitor, keyboard, mouse etc at the time of setting this server up. And that is what I would do. But once the server is set up and connected, I would like to move away from it and let it stay on its own in a separate room. All the stuff that need to be set up and looked after later, I would like to do it from my regular use computer over the internet (not Local area network). Controlling over the internet would make it possible for me to manage my server even when I am out of the city.From what I read and watch online, I am perfectly sure that this is not a difficult setup to achieve but I need some help on where to start.

Make this a bit more simple for me. Suppose I install ubuntu server on both of my desktops, giving them the same name during installation. Would this do the job for me. My assumption is that the ubuntu server comes preinstalled with all the necessary software and settings required to run a server. But I can't say anything for sure about it as I have never used it myself. But if all the software and settings are pre-installed, they must be on the same location on both the computers, as this would be the default configuration. Would this setup work? In addition, please guide me on what configuration need to be made on ununtu server operating system, before I can run a server on it. Manual work like above is fine for education but in the long run it can be quite a pain. But as you have mentioned alternate ways (see quotes below), I am pretty sure that this won't be a problem. I have another suggestion. Isn't there any solution such as a hard disk which can be used by two computers simultaneously or alternatively. For instance, if I am able to use one hard on both computers, I won't need to install two instances of the OS and other applications to make the server run on both computers. Instead I will just install on instance on the common hard disk and I will be good to go. In this case, the hard disk will have to remain powered on all the time but I think with proper ventilation, a good hard disk can manage that for a good amount of time. This setup (where only one hard disk is requrid) would be a bit different than an external hard disk scenario, where a total of three hard disks are required (two internal and one external). I have tried to do a quick search on google but I didn't find anything. I hope someone else have some knowledge on this. I didn't like the third computer thing as it would get more costly and more room demanding. Desktops usually can support a number of hard drives with huge capacities and as the project is experimental, I think there won't be much need of great storage space. However, I don't know how fileservers work and I would love to know about them. Is a separate processing machine necessary for file servers. My idea about servers that store huge number of files (and provide download/upload facility) was that the only extra thing needed by them is storage space. Can you tell me more about fileservers? Now this is something I have never heard before. I tried to find some info on what is a linux cluster but the all I could find passed over my head. Can you ease the concept on me and tell what is a linux cluster and what does it do? And the subject of dual-attachment disks is also new to me but I can find enough info for this to read and understand.

For normal http downloads, in case of connection loss or any other problem, it starts the download from the point where it was halted. In other words, it resumes the download. But it should be kept in mind that certain services like mediafire, hotfiles etc don't allow the file download to be resumed if the connection is broken. In such cases, it cannot resume the download and you will have to start from scratch.

Almost all web-developers like their websites to be hosted by professional hosting companies that provide high end services. But some also like some additional space where they can experiment, test new stuff, and improve their skills. For this they prefer something that may sacrifice some stability and other high end features but be easy on the pocket.One solution for this is hosting your own web server. Most people nowadays have a spare computer and internet connections are present everywhere. In addition, server hosting operating systems are also very easy to get. The learning curve is also not very steep and one can easily learn the basics within a few days. So, hosting your own web server has no become quite easy, simple and affordable.However, personal computers are not designed for server uses. In addition to many connectivity limitations (that can be overlooked in many testing environments), personal computers are not designed to run continuously 24x7. They need some cooling down after a couple of days to make sure the parts keep performing and the life span is not reduced. To overcome this issue, I have an idea in mind but I don't have any technical skill to convert this idea into reality. (Maybe the idea I am going to present is already tested and has been unsuccessful or successful).The idea is that instead of one computer, why not use two computers alternatively. Most modern computers have the ability to be automatically turned on and off at a specified time (from bios or use of software). So we can create a system where one computer is on at a specific time but after a certain period of time (say 24 hours) it turns off and the other computer turns on. This would make sure that there is always a computer on to maintain the server, at the same time providing proper (in fact more than proper) cooling time for both computers.The problem with this idea is that how would you make the server settings so that it can run when either of the computer is on. The computers will be connected to the same network but both would have different instances of the OS and the server software running. I hope this is possible and quite easy to do but I really don't have any idea how to do this.If this can be done, then people like me who have spare p4 desktops lying around and a reasonable internet connection can create a handy testing environment to test and improve their skills.

I have been a firefox fan since time too long to remember. It has been stable and solid for me and the Add-ons are extremely functional and reliable. I have never had any serious issue with the browser and that is why I have never looked at another browser to replace it. I am sort of addicted with it now, as I feel kind of strange when I am using other browsers like chrome or IE.The recent update to version 13.0.1 has been a disaster for me. Flash is not working with this version at all and this causes me a lot of trouble. I have all my bookmarks and passwords saved in the browser and I am so used to the look of it that I don't want to go elsewhere but this flash issue is driving me nuts as I have to shift to chrome every now and then whenever there is flash content involved.There is an option for me to leave firefox and move permenantly for chrome, but as I said earlier, I am so addicted to the look of the browser that all others feel strange to me. Yes, the strangeness will fade with time and everything will be normal, but I don't want to leave firefox.I searched for the issue and found that it is causing trouble for a lot of users, and I hope that mozilla will do something about it soon. Meanwhile, if anyone can help me get the flash working on this version of firefox, I will really appreciate it.

I have been using Internet Download Accelerator on my Windows machine for quite a long time and I am just about satisfied with it. There are a few glitches but none too serious. The best part is that it is completely free and you get premium like features without explosive advertisement (like in DAP free version). It can manage multiple connections and the download speeds are generally very good. The categorization of downloaded files is done automatically and pretty handsomly, though at times you may end up searching for your files within a few folders.The overall experience is pretty awesome and suggest you to give it a try.

And i agree with you completely.At this point i think it would also be usefuk if you talked a little bit more about the extra and advanced techniques that big companies like facebook and google use. It might be very interesting because they have to maintain a very delicate balance betweem user security and convenience. more security could potentially mean unhappy users and.more convenience could result in unauthorized access that ciuld be gained easily..... complete nightmare

Youtube is definitely meant for entertainment and that is what it does best but one additional thing that I have found it useful with is reviews and tutorial stuff. All the videos of "phonearena.com", a very respected mobile phones and tablets review website, are hosted on youtube. And this is pure information. You get to know stuff that you cannot lay your hands on for the time being. You get guidance for your future decisions and you get very valuable information. Additionally, you also get a chance to view things that you cannot afford to buy and see why they are so expensive. I think of it as pure information that is easily available. In addition to reviews, another great class of videos is tutorials especially gaming tutorials. These tutorials are mostly made by gamers who cannot afford their own video website and youtube provides them an easy solution to show their expertise to the world. This is also a pure form of information that is easily available and beautifully presented.

If someone is serious about his website, then subdomain hosting is not the way to go. It is very unprofessional and will prove to be the ultimate hurdle in the success of your website. Especially now when hosting a website is so cheap, I don't think subdomain hosting is the way to go for any reasonable website.It might be good for learners and experiments but not for professional stuff.

I am not an expert PHP developer, nor do I have much knowledge about server side stuff. But I remember one tutorial about php sessions and cookies where the demonstrator mentioned somewhat similar stuff. What I learnt from that tutorial was that cookies reside on the user computer while sessions on the server. And this very fact makes sessions a little bit more secure than the cookies. User machines can easily be compromised through social connections and cookies can be stolen from them, which eventually can be used to find out restricted information about the user. But sessions are stored on the server, and because server is a "server" and only certain individuals have direct access to it, the security cannot be compromised through social connections easily. So data on server, according to this philosophy, is more secure than data on user machine. There might be another side of the picture. Servers are prone to more hacker attaches than user machines because they are always connected to lots of people from different parts of the world and the connection is available 24x7. On the other hand, getting backdoor access to a user machine might be extremely difficult if the user does have some knowlege of internet security. So the eventual fact remains that nothing in the digital world is safe and everything has a vulnerability that can be exploited.

I have read similar review from numerous other people around the web and that is why I didn't go through the effort of doing business with a company which is notorious for not honoring its agreements. If moredigital.com is not a scam, then I think they really need to work on their reputation. After they improve this side of their face, they will definitely get more business. But for the time being, they are not going to get attention of many publishers.

A couple of years back, when I was a real newbie in the web development stuff, I also looked for easier ways of getting my website together. Though I knew some HTML and a bit of CSS before I developed my first professional site, but the amount of effort I had to put in to assemble every single page was hugely troublesome. And if I had continued that way, I wouldn't have been able to earn enough from my website to cover all my online and offline expenses and save some for the future. It was a fellow member "@starscream" right here at Xisto forums who told me that I should give up on programs like frontpage, dreamweaver and blah blah blah. He said that I should go for a CMS and wordpress is the best option as it is easier to learn and once you understand it, you can do really fancy stuff with it. In addition it has a great community that would help you troubleshoot every possible issue you come to face. I tthink that my shift from "code-everything-yourself" to "just-write-content-yourself" was the most significant event in my web-development career. And as I have passed through every single phase of it myself, I would recommend it to everyone who has a content website. The best thing about it is that it shifts your focus from coding to the actual content of the site and for content based website, the content itself is the most important thing and should receive the greatest attention.

I am not a Windows phone fan (cuz I love my android phone) and I have never used a windows phone 7, 7.5 or 8 device but my opinion on the tile design is that "change is good". Well, that might not seem to be very much of a change, as older nokia phones also had tiles (not so sophisticated though) but the point is that in the smartphone universe, there are app icons everywhere. Iphone, blackberry, Android all use the app icons as a significant component. And it is human nature to fall in love with a change, so I think Microsoft have done a good job going away from the icon thing and introduction something new. Additionally, the tiles are pretty smart (according to what I have read and seen online). They call it something like "interactive tiles" and rightfully so as they show the latest information to the user in a very handy way. I won't be able to talk more about the tiles until I use one of windows phone myself and see how it really works and looks. But I really like the idea of going away from the traditional.

There is an update to the situation. My ticket was finally answered by the Xisto members and they were as helpful as always. I don't know why it took them so long to answer the ticket. But anyhow, they answered it and they helped me solve the issue and the most important thing that matters the most is: The issue has been solved....So I guess, I am happy with Xisto again...I hope they reduce the delay in the first answer to a ticket because once your ticket has been answered, they will be brisk about solving your issues and there won't be any problem.

So your speed is about 80 WPM. which is definitely a lot better than mine (60 WPM)I guess this confirms that your style is better than mine and if I have to attain higher speeds, I may have to make some changes to my typing style.Because 60 WPM is not that bad speed, therefore I don't have to make brisk changes. I can go with it slowly, and I hope I achieve that 100 WPM mark some day soon.

@yordan, the quote you had from my previous post has really bad english. I need to think about this as well...

I guess you have a different typing style than mine. Whenever I try to type smoothly, without trying for speed, I also get the soft sound from my keys but whey I try to attain maximum speed, the keys of my keyboard seem to be shouting at me. Personally, I like the soft style more than the hammering one for a number of reasons, the most important of which is that it doesn't make your hands tired and you can type for longer periods of time. @yordan, can you tell me the speed at which you type? This would help me make a comparison, and probably provide an incentive to change my style so that I can attain higher typing speeds: as I have always wanted that.....

My opninion is that tutorial and help articles help only as far as guiding you about where to start and a general idea about what to do.. But if you are not willing to spend your time doing the actual thing, you are never going to get good at this. So in addition to reading valueable resources like this, a newbie should spend most of his time practicing the actual thing.The minor details and arrangements, which are extremely essential for a website, cannot be learned by reading other people's resources. Unless you get your hands dirty with the actual work, you might never learn those tricks that decide how good you are at the respective field.

LOL! that was funny:I am not a Doctor YET:I have still to go through the harsh studies for 3 more years and then you can call me a doctor...I hope I complete it while I am still alive........

I dont know anything about C yet but what I know is that it is the most powerful language out there. Almost all the operating systems and major software are written in this language. This is a proof of its usability and effectiveness. This also means that once you master this language, you would master the entier computer universe as almost everything is built using this language. After finding out this fance stuff about C, I have become a big fan of it but the unfortunate part for me is that everyone says it is a hard language to learn and requires a lot of time. I have read on numerous websites that python should be given a shot before going into C as this would make a strong base for computer programming. So I have started to learn python. I hope this all goes well for me.

Before I made a proper install of the Ubuntu 12.04, I had ubuntu 11.10 installed on vmware for quite a long time. But I ended up using it not very often because of a few issues. The most important issue was the lack of good performance. I don't know the reason, but ubuntu installed on vmware didn't perform as good as a proper installation even with more than enough resources dedicated to the vmware machine. Probably this has to do with dirvers or other stuff but the performance was not good. Secondly, I use multiple monitors, which in vmware was next to impossible as I have no idea how to get it wroking. Plus there were numerous other issues that made me go with a proper install. I have currently switched back to the windows 7 because of one main issue: Power consumption. Ubuntu seems to consum much more power on my laptop than windows7 and consequently, the battery backup time is very low. The multimedia performance of the default player on ubuntu was also not satisfactory, but I guess that can be overcome with other media applications and won't be much of a problem. I also find it extermely hard to troubleshoot various issues that arise from time to time. The reason probably is that I am yet not familiar with the structure of ubuntu and how to edit various settings. I think I need to invest more time in it to be able to use it on the same level as I use windows 7 but this is where the problem lies. In my current situation, I cannot spend most of my time just trying to figure out how to solve problems related to my OS., I hope I could make a permanent shift to ubunt as I am a big fan of it, but unfortunately, this doesn't seem to be happening anytime soon.

If this is right then I think I have to seriously think about what I was actually doing when I was appearingly listening to the PHP tutorials. My thought on session and cookies was that the session is file is stored on the server and the cookie file is stored on the user machine. For your discussion, I guess my knowledge was incomplete. The session file do exist on server but a cookie is needed for it as well. I hope I get it this time correctly. I am unable to make a decision on which one is more secure: sessions or cookies? Can you please talk about this a bit more....... I have heard (or read) somewhere that sessions are more secure than the cookies because the file that has most of the information resides on the server and thus access to the file is limited. On the ohter hand, because the cookie file resides on the user machine, access to it is relatively easier and the chances of leaking out of secret information are much greater. What do you have to say about this?

I have opened a ticket (about 5 days ago) but unfortunately I haven't got any response yet. By the way, do you have any suggesitons on why my website is requiring such high amount of memory. In my personal opinion, 32 Megs should be much more than enough for a website like that of mine, as there is no fancy stuff that could potentially use additional memory. I guess it has something to do with wordpress. Maybe the wordpress platform requires such memory. I will try to do some research on the topic (If I find time for it) but some input from forum-fellows is definitely going to be helpful.