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Thank You Our Valued Sponsors For Being With Us In The Month Of February

AN Jay — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:05:27 +0000

This is a post in which we want to say a big Thank You to the SmashingApps’ fastest growing community for regularly visiting our blog. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and be the one of 600k+ subscribers. But how can we forget to say a Great Thank You to our valued sponsors who helped us to make this blog possible in reach of everyone in the month of February, 2010 as well.

Do you want to get noticed? Advertise with us and feel the difference!

Smashing Apps always welcome new sponsors for our large and diversified visitor base from more than 188 countries. They are designers, developers, internet marketers, bloggers, IT entrepreneurs, etc. You will get noticed by the thousands of visitors every day. Moreover, a monthly recognition post to thank you as our valued sponsors. Are you really interested? Click here to contact us or see advertisement section for more information on advertising details.

Our valued sponsors were:

AN Hosting hosts more blogs than anyone else, hosting tens of thousands of independent blogs. With plenty of disk space, huge data transfer and the ability to host 20 sites on one account. You will get relax with them. We are thankful to them for hosting our website and to make us free of tension.

Wix.com is a Flash website builder, built to create a simple way for everybody to build and design Flash website. Create a free website like whether it’s business or personal, music or art. Wix’s Flash website builder is simple to use with a “drag and drop” builder and is the complete solution to publish & promote your Flash website like a pro.

Newtek Web Hosting is an industry leading provider of hosting and business solutions, servicing developers, resellers, and business owners around the globe.

UPrinting.com is a leading online printing company that provides high quality printing at the most affordable prices.

RapidxHTML is a small team of designers and developers, with a wide range of skills and experience. They know their strengths and weaknesses and how these fit into the big picture.

ThemeForest is a website from where you can buy and sell site templates and themes to skin popular CMS products like Wordpress Drupal and Joomla. Files are priced from just five dollars, based on the complexity, quality and use of the file. Anyone is free to signup for an account and begin trading or purchasing files.

PSD2HTML.com provides fast, high quality conversion of graphic Web design into Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and its extensions, as well as skins / themes / templates for various engines.

FreshBooks is an online invoicing and time tracking service that saves you time and makes you look professional.

Premier Survey is the users’ choice for free online survey management. This system, a powerful self-service application developed on the concept of Software As A Service (SAAS) is designed to minimize cost and maximize ease of use.

We are also thankful to those advertisers who purchased favicon ads.

Do you want us to say Thank You in this special way? So help us to help you!

You will just need to take a look at our advertisement section on how you can start advertising at SmashingApps to grow and spread more or contact us for more information and details related to

direct marketing
sponsored giveaways and contest for Smashing Apps readers
releasing a free font, a Wordpress-theme, some wallpapers, an icon-set or anything else

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Thank You Our Valued Sponsors For Being With Us In The Month Of January

AN Jay — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 06:59:24 +0000

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Our valued sponsors were:

HotCards offers services of Highest Quality, Lowest Cost Full Color Printing in the Nation. Business Cards, Postcards, Flyers and Club Cards, Posters and More.

Newtek Web Hosting is an industry leading provider of hosting and business solutions, servicing developers, resellers, and business owners around the globe.

UPrinting.com is a leading online printing company that provides high quality printing at the most affordable prices.

At Dreamstime.com, you can find a large variety of Royalty-Free stock images.

Icons-Land offers Vista style royalty-free stock icons, vector icons, emoticons and custom icon design service.

koflash.com is a flash websites gallery that features truly amazing, interactive and high quality flash websites including 3D, automobiles, games, portfolios, etc.

RapidxHTML is a small team of designers and developers, with a wide range of skills and experience. They know their strengths and weaknesses and how these fit into the big picture.

PSD2HTML.com provides fast, high quality conversion of graphic Web design into Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and its extensions, as well as skins / themes / templates for various engines.

FreshBooks is an online invoicing and time tracking service that saves you time and makes you look professional.

We are also thankful to those advertisers who purchased favicon ads.

Do you want us to say Thank You in this special way? So help us to help you!

You will just need to take a look at our advertisement section on how you can start advertising at SmashingApps to grow and spread more or contact us for more information and details related to

direct marketing
sponsored giveaways and contest for Smashing Apps readers
releasing a free font, a Wordpress-theme, some wallpapers, an icon-set or anything else

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Thank You Our Valued Sponsors For Being With Us In The Month Of December

AN Jay — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 07:18:43 +0000

Do you want to get noticed? Advertise with us and feel the difference!

Our valued sponsors were:

HotCards offers services of Highest Quality, Lowest Cost Full Color Printing in the Nation. Business Cards, Postcards, Flyers and Club Cards, Posters and More.

RapidxHTML is a small team of designers and developers, with a wide range of skills and experience. They know their strengths and weaknesses and how these fit into the big picture.

PSD2HTML.com provides fast, high quality conversion of graphic Web design into Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and its extensions, as well as skins / themes / templates for various engines.

FreshBooks is an online invoicing and time tracking service that saves you time and makes you look professional.

5pm can be your central location for project and task management, team collaboration, time tracking, reporting and more…

LayerOnline provides the fastest, most reliable and secure blog/forum/web hosting at cheap prices. Our hosting is optimized for all popular scripts such as Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, phpBB, B2Evolution, VBulletin and SMF.

We are also thankful to those advertisers who purchased favicon ads.

Do you want us to say Thank You in this special way? So help us to help you!

You will just need to take a look at our advertisement section on how you can start advertising atÂ SmashingApps to grow and spread more or contact us for more information and details related to

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sponsored giveaways and contest for Smashing Apps readers
releasing a free font, a Wordpress-theme, some wallpapers, an icon-set or anything else

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LayerOnline: Need For Speed – Google loves it fast

AN Jay — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:48:55 +0000

Professional bloggers and webmasters know that nowadays having good content on a website is not good enough to rank high in Google and other search engines. The ranking is also determined by the loading speed of your website. The faster the better. The loading speed also directly determines the cost of CPC for your AdWords campaigns. No matter how good your content is, if your landing page loads slowly, it would directly be taxed on your CPC. Therefore, SEO experts, bloggers and webmasters are constantly looking for faster web hostings. Unfortunately, many hosting companies are unable to meet the need for their users. Their web services are often overloaded or down, left alone fast web hosting. That’s where LayerOnline comes in. Now, bloggers and webmasters are able to gain an unfair advantage in website speed with LayerOnline.

LayerOnline web hosting was designed from the ground up to be digg, slashdot and stumbleupon effect ready. We understand the needs for speed and uptime of website users. Our web hosting is able to outperform our competitors by 60 times or more, and able to maintain 100% uptime even under digg effect. How do we do it? In this article we will explain some of the technologies we use.

Under the Hood

LayerOnline uses many optimization technologies, the most noticeable ones are FastCGI, PHP Opcode Cache, and HTTP Compression. We also offer many features such as free DDOS-Protection, unlimited inodes and we are one of the greenest hosting companies.

FastCGI

There are three ways of serving PHP webpages under Apache Web Server:

CGI/suPHP
Apache PHP Module
FastCGI

With CGI/suPHP method, a PHP process is called each time a php page is hit, and quit after the page is served. This means for each php page hit, it requires one PHP process. Each PHP process takes quite a bit of memory and is slow to initialize. The constant running and quitting of PHP processes also stress the server, making it slower. The CGI method doesn’t scale well since if there are 100 page requests at the same time, there would be 100 PHP processes running, and 1000 PHP processes if there are 1000 page requests, which will soon cause memory errors and eventually bring down the server. With PHP running as an Apache module, there is only one PHP engine per Apache process, so no need to run another PHP process, hence saving some memory. However, there are also issues with this approach. Some PHP extensions are not made to be thread-safe and can cause problem in this setup, also if the PHP engine crashes, it would bring down the entire Apache web server because it is part of the Apache process. Running PHP as a module also means that if Apache is serving a long PHP request, it cannot serve other HTTP requests. Also if you don’t have any PHP-based websites, you still need to load the PHP module in each Apache process, wasting memory.

FastCGI solves both problems of CGI/suPHP and Apache PHP module. FastCGI serves PHP pages from a PHP application server seperated from Apache. Apache serves all regular HTTP requests and passes all PHP requests to the application server. This setup is the most efficient since FastCGI process is always alive and ready to serve, offload the heavylifting work from Apache. Therefore in this setup, Apache server is more stable, uses less memory and can serve more HTTP requests faster. This is the method which LayerOnline uses.

Unfortunately, most hosting companies are still in the CGI/suPHP era, because FastCGI is expensive and complicate to setup. Since the CGI/suPHP solution doesn’t scale well, to prevent the servers from overloading and crashing, these hosting companies need to quickly suspend users with the most PHP processes during peak load, cause loss of money and troubles for the website users.

If you like to see some benchmark numbers for FastCGI, you can check out Brandon’s blog.

PHP Opcode Cache

Each PHP page must be compiled into machine code before it can be executed. This compiled binary is also known as the opcode. Without a PHP opcode cache, the compiled binary is simply discarded after execution, and must be recompiled for each page hit, resulting in wasted CPU cycles. There are three main opcode caches in PHP world: Eaccelerator, APC and XCache. LayerOnline supports all three. In LayerOnline’s setup, Eaccelerator is loaded by default, APC and XCache are loaded on-demand by the applications. These opcode caches are compatible and can accelerate all PHP applications. For popular PHP applications such as WordPress and Drupal, they go even further by detecting and integrating opcode cache’s APIs to accelerate many of their internal functions.

HTTP Compression

All major web browsers such as Firefox, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Opera support HTTP compression which can download web pages at up to 90% faster. However, the web server must support this technology. There are two types of HTTP compression methods: gzip and deflate. LayerOnline support both of them. Many popular PHP applications are able to make use of this technology and therefore able to send the web pages at a much faster rate. LayerOnline servers also cache all the cacheable compressed pages in memory so no CPU cycles are wasted.

The Result

So, do all these speed optimizations really improve ranking? Do they really pay off? If they are as good as LayerOnline claims to be, how well do they do for LayerOnline’s own search engine rankings? Does LayerOnline really offer the fastest blog hosting? Well, check out our ranking with the following keywords in Google, Bing and Yahoo:

fastest blog hosting

fastest forum hosting

fastest php hosting

fastest web hosting

fastest wordpress hosting

fastest joomla hosting

fastest drupal hosting

fastest phpbb hosting

fastest vbulletin hosting

fastest ffmpeg hosting

fastest green hosting

fastest hosting…

Try your favorite search keywords relate to hosting above, chances are LayerOnline is either 1st position or within the first page. Wait, there is more, try some search phrases related to hosting speed, reliability and features, such as:

highest performance hosting

fastest webhost

100% uptime hosting

green hosting

reliable hosting 100% uptime

ffmpeg hosting

free ddos protection hosting

…

You can probably come up with hundreds of them, too many to list here. That’s one page against millions of keyword optimized homepages and subpages, and those hosting companies with higher page rankings. Not bad is it? So what Google has to say about LayerOnline? Try these searches:

fastest reliable hosting

cheapest fastest hosting

cheapest fastest reliable hosting

world’s cheapest fastest reliable hosting

So there you go, according to Google, LayerOnline is world’s cheapest, fastest and most reliable blog/web hosting. Well, with less than $2/month and $6.99 domain names, FastCGI, 100% uptime guarantee and all the fantastic features, you be the judge.

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Thank You Our Valued Sponsors For Being With Us In The Month Of November

AN Jay — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 07:09:02 +0000

Do you want to get noticed? Advertise with us and feel the difference!

Our valued sponsors were:

HotCards offers services of Highest Quality, Lowest Cost Full Color Printing in the Nation. Business Cards, Postcards, Flyers and Club Cards, Posters and More.

They are a well knitted team of web designers forming an integral part of printwords.co.uk. Their team of professionals specializes in web designing, banner designing, logo designing, flash intros, brochure designing etc.

RapidxHTML is a small team of designers and developers, with a wide range of skills and experience. They know their strengths and weaknesses and how these fit into the big picture.

FreshBooks is an online invoicing and time tracking service that saves you time and makes you look professional.

We are also thankful to those advertisers who purchased favicon ads.

Do you want us to say Thank You in this special way? So help us to help you!

You will just need to take a look at our advertisement section on how you can start advertising atÂ SmashingApps to grow and spread more or contact us for more information and details related to

direct marketing
sponsored giveaways and contest for Smashing Apps readers
releasing a free font, a Wordpress-theme, some wallpapers, an icon-set or anything else

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Thank You Our Valued Sponsors For Being With Us In The Month Of October

AN Jay — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:53:22 +0000

Do you want to get noticed? Advertise with us and feel the difference!

Our valued sponsors were:

Wix.com is a Flash website builder, built to create a simple way for everybody to build and design Flash website. Create aÂ free website like whether it’s business or personal, music or art. Wix’s Flash website builder is simple to use with a “drag and drop” builder and is the complete solution to publish & promote yourÂ Flash website like a pro.

HotCards offers services of Highest Quality, Lowest Cost Full Color Printing in the Nation. Business Cards, Postcards, Flyers and Club Cards, Posters and More.

RapidxHTML is a small team of designers and developers, with a wide range of skills and experience. They know their strengths and weaknesses and how these fit into the big picture.

Sifter is a hosted bug and issue tracking application focused on making work less tedious. This isÂ is specially designed for non-technical people.

FreshBooks is an online invoicing and time tracking service that saves you time and makes you look professional.

We are also thankful to those advertisers who purchased favicon ads.

Do you want us to say Thank You in this special way? So help us to help you!

You will just need to take a look at our advertisement section on how you can start advertising atÂ SmashingApps to grow and spread more or contact us for more information and details related to

direct marketing
sponsored giveaways and contest for Smashing Apps readers
releasing a free font, a Wordpress-theme, some wallpapers, an icon-set or anything else

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Thank You Our Valued Sponsors For Being With Us In The Month Of September

AN Jay — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 14:32:20 +0000

Do you want to get noticed? Advertise with us and feel the difference!

Our valued sponsors were:

DreamTemplate offers exclusive premium web content solutions for web developers and webmasters. Our service lets you access a large collection of professionally designed website template files. Designing for the web has never been easier, with DreamTemplate you can rapidly create and deploy professional looking website’s quickly.

HotCards offers services of Highest Quality, Lowest Cost Full Color Printing in the Nation. Business Cards, Postcards, Flyers and Club Cards, Posters and More.

RapidxHTML is a small team of designers and developers, with a wide range of skills and experience. They know their strengths and weaknesses and how these fit into the big picture.

5pm can be your central location for project and task management, team collaboration, time tracking, reporting and more…

Sifter is a hosted bug and issue tracking application focused on making work less tedious. This is is specially designed for non-technical people.

FreshBooks is an online invoicing and time tracking service that saves you time and makes you look professional.

ShrinkTheWeb is the most powerful, FREE website thumbnail provider.

We are also thankful to those advertisers who purchased favicon ads.

Do you want us to say Thank You in this special way? So help us to help you!

You will just need to take a look at our advertisement section on how you can start advertising atÂ SmashingApps to grow and spread more or contact us for more information and details related to

direct marketing
sponsored giveaways and contest for Smashing Apps readers
releasing a free font, a Wordpress-theme, some wallpapers, an icon-set or anything else

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Thank You Our Valued Sponsors For Being With Us In The Month Of August

AN Jay — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 07:55:04 +0000

Do you want to get noticed? Advertise with us and feel the difference!

Our valued sponsors were:

HotCards offers services of Highest Quality, Lowest Cost Full Color Printing in the Nation. Business Cards, Postcards, Flyers and Club Cards, Posters and More.

RapidxHTML is a small team of designers and developers, with a wide range of skills and experience. They know their strengths and weaknesses and how these fit into the big picture.

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5pm can be your central location for project and task management, team collaboration, time tracking, reporting and more…

FireHost provides secure hosting without sacrificing the redundancy and speed you would expect from an enterprise hosting provider. When you’re ready to protect your website and web application vulnerabilities from malicious hackers, look no further than FireHost Advanced Secure Hosting.

FreshBooks is an online invoicing and time tracking service that saves you time and makes you look professional.

We are also thankful to those advertisers who purchased favicon ads.

Do you want us to say Thank You in this special way? So help us to help you!

You will just need to take a look at our advertisement section on how you can start advertising atÂ SmashingApps to grow and spread more or contact us for more information and details related to

direct marketing
sponsored giveaways and contest for Smashing Apps readers
releasing a free font, a Wordpress-theme, some wallpapers, an icon-set or anything else

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Thank You Our Valued Sponsors To Be With Us In The Month Of July

AN Jay — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 20:36:22 +0000

This is a post in which we want to say a big Thank You to the SmashingApps’ fastest growing community for regularly visiting our blog. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and be the one of 600k+ subscribers. But how can we forget to say a Great Thank You to our valued sponsors who help us to make this blog possible in reach of everyone in the month of July, 2009 as well.

Do you want to get noticed? Advertise with us and feel the difference!

Our valued sponsors were:

FreshBooks is an online invoicing and time tracking service that saves you time and makes you look professional.

HotCards offers services of Highest Quality, Lowest Cost Full Color Printing in the Nation. Business Cards, Postcards, Flyers and Club Cards, Posters and More.

Feedmyapp is a Web 2.0 Directory with the best and latest web 2.0 sites, daily updated. They classify web apps by tagging them and creating a brief description for each one listed.

GoodBarry is the all-in-one product that replaces 10+ tools that are essential for internet business – making life easier and business more profitable.

In Web 2.0 style, Solve360 provides an integrated CRM and Project Management solution that uses private project blogs to organize your team and get work done.

We are also thankful to those advertisers who purchased favicon ads.

Do you want us to say Thank You in this special way? So help us to help you!

You will just need to take a look at our advertisement section on how you can start advertising atÂ SmashingApps to grow and spread more or contact us for more information and details related to

direct marketing
sponsored giveaways and contest for Smashing Apps readers
releasing a free font, a Wordpress-theme, some wallpapers, an icon-set or anything else

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Thank You Our Valued Sponsors To Be With Us In The Month Of June

AN Jay — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:05:34 +0000

This is a post in which we want to say a big Thank You to the SmashingApps’ fastest growing community for regularly visiting our blog. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and be the one of 600k+ subscribers. But how can we forget to say a Great Thank You to our valued sponsors who help us to make this blog possible in reach of everyone in the month of June, 2009 as well.

Do you want to get noticed? Advertise with us and feel the difference!

This month, Our valued sponsors are:

BoonEx Community Software Experts provides free, open-source and downloadable community-building software for websites. BoonEx delivers quality software, which enables you to build any kind of website: COMMUNITY, DATING, or SOCIAL NETWORKING.

Feedmyapp is a Web 2.0 Directory with the best and latest web 2.0 sites, daily updated. They classify web apps by tagging them and creating a brief description for each one listed.

GoodBarry is the all-in-one product that replaces 10+ tools that are essential for internet business – making life easier and business more profitable.

FreshBooks is an online invoicing and time tracking service that saves you time and makes you look professional.

HotCards offers services of Highest Quality, Lowest Cost Full Color Printing in the Nation. Business Cards, Postcards, Flyers and Club Cards, Posters and More.

In Web 2.0 style, Solve360 provides an integrated CRM and Project Management solution that uses private project blogs to organize your team and get work done.

We are also thankful to those advertisers who purchased favicon ads.

Do you want us to say Thank You in this special way? So help us to help you!

You will just need to take a look at our advertisement section on how you can start advertising atÂ SmashingApps to grow and spread more or contact us for more information and details related to

direct marketing
sponsored giveaways and contest for Smashing Apps readers
releasing a free font, a Wordpress-theme, some wallpapers, an icon-set or anything else

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Do you want to advertise here? Click to get more info…