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Drupal and CRON

Icon Written by Daniel Llewellyn on March 12, 2010 – 12:19 am

All installations of Drupal (as available from our one-click installation catalogue) require the site owner to set up so-called “Cron”, which is a way of executing a specified command at regular intervals. Our system has been designed to be easily understandable, so we have renamed the configuration screen label from Cron to “Scheduled Commands” so that [...]

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How do I embed media into my blog?

Icon Written by Martin Guppy on January 28, 2010 – 4:44 am

There are 3 methods of embedding media into your blog, the first is the default way within your post or page editor within your admin pages.
This is more useful for linking media and placing pictures within your blog but it is possible to add media from external web sites using oEmbed and Shortcodes.
Using oEmbed
Since January [...]



What FTP client would you suggest I use?

Icon Written by Martin Guppy on September 5, 2009 – 4:24 am

There are plenty of FTP clients that you can use to connect to your Web Hosting account and all of them will work although some are indeed better than others.
FileZilla Client is a fast and reliable cross-platform FTP, FTPS and SFTP client with lots of useful features and an intuitive graphical user interface.
Taken from the [...]



Do you support Streaming on your servers?

Icon Written by Martin Guppy on April 14, 2009 – 10:07 am

Yes we do. Using the HTTP streaming method, we can support the streaming of preloaded clips from our servers in a variety of formats including Real Audio, MP3 and many others. Such clips will need to be generated by the user and then uploaded to the server via FTP. To activate the stream, a simple [...]



How do I run scheduled tasks (CRON) on my account?

Icon Written by Martin Guppy on April 14, 2009 – 9:47 am

Scheduled tasks (also known as CRON jobs) can be setup in your Control Panel. This feature allows you to enable a program to run automatically on the server, you can set your program to run every hour, daily, weekly or monthly. We allow up to 3 CRON jobs per account, a CRON job cannot be [...]



How can I post to my blog from a mobile phone?

Icon Written by Martin Guppy on April 10, 2009 – 1:17 pm

Most mobile phones today can render web pages with ease even if they are not purposly designed for mobile phone viewing, screen size can make it a bit of a problem navigating a page.
It is perfectly possible to log into your blog using your mobile phone and create blog posts while on the move but [...]



Why can’t I upload large files with FTP?

Icon Written by Martin Guppy on March 31, 2009 – 4:00 am

FTP uploads are limited to 150MB per file. If you really need to use a larger file than this in your web space, you will need to split it into chunks and reassemble them after uploading/downloading them separately.



Why Am I being asked to agree to the Terms and Conditions again?

Icon Written by Daniel Llewellyn on December 12, 2008 – 4:11 am

Daniel has developed a new feature which allows us to force users of our free services to agree to a standard set of Terms and Conditions before they can post articles to their blog-space. This is an industry-standard practice, and our documents contain nothing out of the ordinary. Please do read the terms that you [...]

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Am I allowed more than 1 blog?

Icon Written by Martin Guppy on October 20, 2008 – 9:12 am

At IND-Web.com, you are allowed to create as many FREE Blogs as you need.
If you have already signed up to our free service and would like to create a new blog, then there are two ways to add another.

Log in and simply click ‘Create Blog’ at the top of this website
Sign Up as a new [...]



What is a Blog?

Icon Written by Martin Guppy on October 14, 2008 – 5:59 am

After offering our Free Blogs to some friends and family, I received the following message:
Am I being really massively thick… …but what the heck is a “free blog”?????
I would say that “No, you are most definitely NOT being massively thick – and I think I need to explore the question a little more so that [...]