As digging more about DNS performance benchmark, i found a great tools instead using the command prompt as you can see in my previous post: Test DNS Server Speed, Google Public DNS and OpenDNS Benchmarking. With DNS Benchmark tools, i can find many free DNS server from inside my country (Indonesia) and outside.How to use it: 1. Download and run DNS Benchmark (See the screenshot above) 2. Click Nameservers Tab, And it will find any DNS Resolvers near your location and put it to the … Read more...
Test DNS Server Speed, Google Public DNS and OpenDNS Benchmarking
February 12, 2011 • Leave a Comment
DNS (Domain Name System) is a hierarchical naming system built on a distributed database for computers, services, or any resource connected to the Internet or a private network. It associates various information with domain names assigned to each of the participating entities. Most importantly, it translates domain names meaningful to humans into the numerical identifiers associated with networking equipment for the purpose of locating and addressing these devices worldwide. With this DNS you … Read more...
Remove All Annoying Ads With Greasemonkey
February 9, 2011 • 2 Comments
Greasemonkey is a Mozilla Firefox extension that allows users to install scripts that make on-the-fly changes to HTML web page content on the DOMContentLoaded event, which happens immediately after it is loaded in the browser. As Greasemonkey scripts are persistent, the changes made to the web pages are executed every time the page is opened, making them effectively permanent for the user running the script. Greasemonkey can be used for adding new functions to web pages (for example, embedding … Read more...
Use Pastebin.com To Share Your Code Or Result Set
February 9, 2011 • 4 Comments
Sometimes a software or web developer or web administrator or server admin, stuck with the problem they are facing. And you need help from the expert. So you need to paste your code for temporary, so the expert can help you find where the problem is. For network admin probably you need to see the client routing log or ping log, so you know why your client couldn't connect to the server/network. You can use pastebin.com for this purpose.Pastebin.com is a website where you can store text for a … Read more...
Registered Your Domain To Use Google Service API
February 2, 2011 • 5 Comments
Google have many services and you can use their API to access and send your website data. For example you can use Google Analytics, Google Calender, and Google shortener link with API. But not just that, almost all Google services have their API and you can access it for free. But you need to add your domain to Google Services so your website can use Google Services.If you haven't add your domain you there will be an error message like this:"The page you have requested cannot be … Read more...
Google Doesn’t Count Billing When Using Custom Domain
February 1, 2011 • 6 Comments
From my previous post Setup Your Google App Engine Application To Use Your Own Domain, you can use Google App Engine as CDN and use your subdomain as alias to Google App Engine application. So instead of using this url: [application-id].appspot.com you can use cdn.domain.com. It is more look neat and professional.But after i use my custom domain to serve my Google App Engine application, seems like Google doesn't count the bandwidth dan billing. See this screenshot:I don't know why … Read more...
TeamViewer Cannot Work Well With Skype
February 1, 2011 • 33 Comments
TeamViewer and Skype is completely different software and different purpose. But they have some same features, they are share screen and voice over IP (voice call). I love both softwares and i'm using it frequently. But it seems they doesn't work together. I don' mean to integrate them, but TeamViewer doesn't want to connect to other computer while Skype voice call is active.My case is like this: I'm using voice call with screen sharing on Skype with my friend, to teach her to use … Read more...
MaxCDN vs Google App Engine, Simple Benchmarking
January 29, 2011 • Leave a Comment
MaxCDN is one of the Content Delivery Network service which have grown fast in the last few years. And MaxCDN is close to Wordpress blogger as it is integrate very well and boost Wordpress blog performance. You can use either W3 Total Cache or Wordpress CDN to integrate it with MaxCDN. And MaxCDN´s Network uses the Packet Exchange backbone exclusively for content delivery, featuring direct reach to over 90+ countries and more than 900 peering partners worldwide. Packet Exchange is a robust … Read more...
How to Check If Your Domain Full Propagated
January 28, 2011 • 6 Comments
Sometimes you need to move to the new host for whatever reasons. And when you moving to the new host you are also need to repoint your domain nameserver to the new host name server. When repoint your nameserver it's not instantly change to all dns server, this process called dns propagation. DNS propagation need maximum 48 hours for it to fully propagated.While in propagation time, you may still access to your old server as well as your other visitors. So while in propagation time i suggest … Read more...
Free Web Proxy Server To Bypass Access Filter
January 26, 2011 • 4 Comments
Some countries or ISP have their access rules for their people to access the internet. Like China's government that block Facebook in their country for any reasons. Then some website only accessible from some country, but mostly allowed US. But you need the information from that website, so to bypass all that filters or access rules, you can use web proxy.What is web proxy? Web proxy (proxy server that focus on WWW request only), is a server (a computer system or an application program) that … Read more...
