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Recently another client of mine was having so many issues with his joomla site and this was really really driving him mad. The major problem was his host that keeps turning off his site due to the fact that it is causing overloading to the system on a shared hosting. Please note that this same topic was previously written about in this post here but this is just an update on a related issue.

Problem: Please see a list of problems that you may be experiencing with joomla server overload:

1. My site loads too slowly

2.It gives you an error page when it loads

3. I’m regularly switched off by my host and i have been asked to turn on my cache before my site would be put back online

4. My site loads into a white dis organized page (first check that you are not importing articles from a microsoft word)

5. I have been warned by my host that my site is using too much resources.

Solutions:

1. I would recommend that you get rid of some un-necessary modules you dont need and delete them entirely from the site and server as these may be calling up some database queries even if they are disabled ( A case of bad programming).

2. Another thing is to go to your hosting provider and check if you need to move to a bigger server space either a VPS or Dedicated server, i know most hosting companies would like to push you to do this but make sure you are seeking the best advice. Check your Bandwidth limit used up monthly and your remaining disk space and then determine if you will really heed their advice and try to get a second and third opinion from an expert in the related field, you can do this by simply visiting hosting forums online and asking questions. Most forum members are usually very helpful and would offer you the best and truthful advice they can give.

3. If your case is the case where you are using up too much resources, please take note, if you are on a shared hosting or VPS, please tell your hosting provider to  help you delete your trash bin, usually you would not have access to this trash bin , you may think you have deleted all your trash from cpanel admin but really that is not the case. A helpful hosting admin was able to dig around the problem and found that my client had 18 GB worth of trash not deleted. Once this was done, the site’s speed was up again and there was little issue with resource. so it is really advisable to let your host make sure all the trash has been deleted.

Thanks and watch out for more update.

Hello all,

Recently after i installed Dolphin 7 on a shared hosting, a lot of bugs came up and i tried my best to solve the ones i can , the major bugs were video and sound not loading, email not being sent out even after configuring a cron job very well etc .

Anyway after talking to my hosting company hostgator (highly recommended) , i was told that Dolphin 7 cannot run on a shared hosting but would need a dedicated server. Please read the extract here from the hostgator site.

Again let’s call to your attention a little problem with Module title not showing after you have designed your own custom templates. Normally the basic joomla template tutorial which many would tend to follow would show you how to go about your template design but  after designing you may find out that your modules do not show titles even for the fact that you have commanded it to do so in  the joomla admin .

Normally you will get a code like this to display module ‘<jdoc:include type=”modules” name=”left” />’,  to get it to display module titles just replace it with this one ‘<jdoc:include type=”modules” name=”left” style=”xhtml” /> ‘

Notice that the only thing added there is only ‘style=”xhtml” ‘

This is just a quick one , i know most of the people using outlook already know this but this is meant for those curious ones. Outlook express has what they call a distribution list, if you want to import email list from a word document to your distribution list. The most important thing and which might be the hardest thing here is to make sure all your email addresses ends in a semi colon, you may have to do this manually. It is even more demanding when outlook tells you to go back and edit an email address by adding semi colon to it.

At the same time it’s all very easy , just follow the link here for a guide and then after you have succeeded with it, follow this link here for a guide on how to send an email to a distribution list.

Hope this helps out!

This is xmas and i thought i should just give you this for the season. Recenty i was looking for an image flow for my new blog because i wanted a way to rotate youtube videos on my blog and was lucky to find imageflow, basically this lets you search and rotate youtube videos on your page but the problem was that it came with a seperate page of its own and i wanted to integrate it into the front page of my blog www.bloggingyoutube.com. Now this is what i did in order to get it working close to what i need.

Download image flow from imageflow.nl and then upload it to the folder you would like to use it  on your server

Find and open the css file sreen.css and if you know css very well you can tweak the page the way you want , in this case i wanted to just embedd the page on my blog as part of the blog.

Find this line in your screen.css file

#imageflowstart {
max-width: 600px;
width: auto !important;
width: 600px;
min-height:310px;
height:auto !important;
height:310px;
margin-left:0px;
position: relative;
background-color:#000;
padding: 0px 0px;
text-align:center;

The highlighted margin-left:0px; should be adjusted till it fits the page the way you want, as you can see i left it at “0px” because i wanted it to align to the left of the page entirely for the embedding purpose.

Find and do the same for the  css code below;

#main {
max-width: 600px;
width: auto !important;
width: 600px;
min-height:150px;
height:auto !important;
height:150px;
margin-left:0px;
}

Please note you can manipulate the whole css file the way you want but in this case i just needed to tweak the two parts of the css code to get what i wanted.

Afterwards i used the <iframe> </iframe> tag to embedd the page where i want. Please note that the embedd parameters were  set to “0″because i wanted it to embedd neatly as part of the page without a scroll button.

Here is the embedded code below;

<iframe src="http://bloggingyoutube.com/themes/garland/index.php" style="width:500px; height: 480px"
scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0" vspace="0" hspace="0">
</iframe> <br />

Hope this helps out.