My Website Journey

Now that the WordPress blog is setup, the most important thing is to fill the the WordPress blog with relevant and unique content.  Google is able to determine if content has been spun or reused from other websites so the best way to really get your blog out there to start with is having great unique content.  The best way to get hits to a website is to have great content that users will actually refer to and read.   Of course just writing content isn’t always enough but it is a great start to getting your blog up and running.

Once the blog has unique content, you can begin different SEO Techniques that will help your site get found by various search engines. Read more…

So I was poking around my VPS and I figured I mine as well tell everyone what type of server that I am getting from Burst.NET. So below are the specifications that I am getting from my Burst.NET CentOS 5 64-bit VPS.

Advertised: The VPS was advertised as having 512RAM, 1ghz processor, 2 IP addresses, 2000 GB/month, and hardware DDOS protection.  It is currently running on a vePortal and OpenVZ virtualization platform.  When installing my VPS, I decided to choose the CentOS 5 because i heard it is the best and lightest for websites.

My actual web specs:

Release information: cat /etc/*elease*
CentOS release 5.3 (Final)

Now that I was able to get Apache, PHP and MySql running on my CentOS 5 64-bit VPS, I have to actually build a website.  I decided to go with WordPress because it is one of the best Blogging/CMS systems out there.  After all this site is powered off of WordPress as well.  So I purchased a domain, http://www.popcornblogs.com/ set up the DNS servers to point to my VPS from Burst.NET.  Now that everything is setup, I just need to go to the WordPress website to download the latest version.

WordPress can be obtained by visiting http://wordpress.org/.  Download the latest version and extract the contents into your webserver’s directory.  After you have extract the contents to your webserver’s folder.  Navigate to the home directory and a page should come up stating that a configure file is required.  Click to configure your WordPress blog and input your database information (Database, server, login, password).  If you click next and you come up with the same prompt again, that means that your file permissions aren’t set correctly. Read more…