http://www.singaporewebhosting.com/blog Updates, Ideas, Tips... Related to Singapore Web Hosting. Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:34:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en we receive questions on how to make payment to us sometimes. instead of replying emails or support tickets time and time again, let me answer it here so that all clients can refer to this post in the future. 1)first of all, all invoices are posted in helpdesk at: http://www.singaporewebhosting.com/customer/ when you receive ... http://www.singaporewebhosting.com/blog/2008/03/21/payment/ just a quick note to let you know that on April 10 2007, ICANN approved price increases for 5 major TLD domain names, .com, .net, .org, .info, and . biz. here's the announcement: http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/registrars/msg04682.html  just received from our registrars that the price increases go into affect on October 12, 2007. monopoly is ... http://www.singaporewebhosting.com/blog/2007/10/12/industry-wide-tld-domain-name-price-increases/ If you are now having problem sending and receiving emails from/to China, you are not alone. China is an isolated island when email is concerned at this moment. Apparently someone "up there" behind the routers/switches is tweaking something and GFW has gone wild. We have customers in China reporting that they have ... http://www.singaporewebhosting.com/blog/2007/07/18/email-island/ Yes blogspot.com is dead, blocked, again, in China. Many of my friends in China told me that they have been not able to access blogspot.com from 20 Mar afternoon. Users of all most all ISPs, China Telecom, China Netcom, China Tietong, CERNET, are all experiencing difficulty accessing blogspot. Looks like a nation-wide ... http://www.singaporewebhosting.com/blog/2007/03/21/blogspot-is-dead-in-china-again/ recently there're more and more reports and complaints similar to this: I have been receiving bounced back messages from email addresses I never sent to. When I look at the bounced back message, it mentions failed delivery of emails I didn't send in the first place. And the bounced back message says ... http://www.singaporewebhosting.com/blog/2007/02/23/email-header-forgery/ what is default email account? default email account is also known as "catch-all account". the default/catch-all email account would "catch" any mail that is sent to an invalid email address for your domain. all mail that is sent to an address that does not exist will go to ... http://www.singaporewebhosting.com/blog/2007/01/26/default-email-account/ i feel the need to write more about what's considered spamming so that our clients can avoid sending spams without knowing. obviously if someone gathers email addresses from forums, newsgroups, web sites, etc. using email address harvesting software and sends emails to the list of email addresses trying to sell his ... http://www.singaporewebhosting.com/blog/2006/06/15/whats-considered-email-spam/ i wrote about web design with Flash and said "none of the big guys develops whole web site in flash". well, i was deadly wrong. i just went to Prada web site and was wondering where to go next. i was staring at a black belt with white text "PRADA" on it, ... http://www.singaporewebhosting.com/blog/2006/04/12/you-cant-follow-the-big-guys-when-you-design-your-web-site/ Flash has become a "must-have" for many web design companies and corporate as well as personal web sites. used properly, it can be cool, eye-catching, and useful to visitors. otherwise, it's often counterproductive. my take on this is, it can be used very well as part of your web site, for example, ... http://www.singaporewebhosting.com/blog/2006/04/08/to-flash-or-not-to-flash/ i was reading a newsletter where the the author listed most well known domain deals in the past few years: Amount Year Domain 12,000,000 - 2006 ... http://www.singaporewebhosting.com/blog/2006/03/30/domain-name-brandable-or-keyword-rich/