YVOD Support

To own a domain you must register it every year. The charge for this is between $10 and $45 dollars. YVOD charges $10.

Each domain has three “Contacts” associated with it. The Registrant (that’s you) actually owns the domain and receives all administration emails relating to the domain. The Billing person receives notices when the domain is about to expire. The Technical person has authorization to update information about the domain. Ideally you want all three to be different people in order to enable to most people to fix any problems.

You alway own the domain. It does not matter who “hosts” it.

Hosting fees are separate. Each hosting company has their own business model. GoDaddy wants to host millions of domains
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[Update:] This issue has been fixed with WordPress 3.0.

WordPress has this nice feature where you can automatically upgrade your plugins from within the Administration area. Unfortunately, this feature was broken on a site I recently upgraded. I found this cool work around. Simply put the following two lines in the wp-config.php file:

//Automatic Upgrade fix – http://wordpress.org/support/topic/238738
putenv(’TMPDIR=’ . ini_get(’upload_tmp_dir’));

Cookies – What They Are

HTTP is, by design, a stateless protocol. Each HTTP transaction occurs independent of any previous or future transaction. Each transaction (session) consists of these steps:

1) user connects to a HTTP server, making a request for a web page (or other data)
2) server acknowledges request, responds with web page (or other data)
3) transaction is terminated (disconnects)

There is no way for the server to “relate” transactions to each other. No way for the server to know there was a previous transaction with a particular client nor what happened if there was. Hence, the concept of stateless.

Problems using Cookies

The most obvious problem relying on cookies is a user completely disabling them. If your web page relies on them,
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Coll stuff no? =)

YVOD is happy to work with clients who do not use us for hosting. Some of our smaller clients choose to host with GoDaddy and other cheaper solutions. If any of our clients want to use MediaTemple for hosting, we are happy to migrate them over there.

We create solutions that work for our clients. For example, a few of our clients use Postini for email. We recommend Postini to anyone who has critical email requirements that may not be satisfied with YVOD’s offerings.

YVOD does not compete on hosting alone, however. We offer a complete service. Call one number • (800) 434-YVOD • and we will work with you to get all of
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Keys to your Mac.

Magical Macintosh Key Sequences by Dave Polaschek

You can make YVOD payments online or by mail at:

YVOD LLC
1223 Solano Ave
Albany, Ca. 94706
(800) 434-YVOD

Here are a few nice things that people might want.

Information on Hotline

Magic key sequences to make your Mac do various things by Dave Polaschek

Neato (Free!) Javascript Stuff

The Day We Met NYCMW (Quicktime Video)

Complete City, State, Zip, County, and Area Code information for the State of California

Spammers use fake “From” addresses in the spam they send. Forging the “From”" field give spammers anonymity along with something else they crave:

Spammers do not want emails bounced back to them!

Forged Email

When a spam message does not have a valid address (eg: unknown@yvod.com), that message is supposed to be returned (bounced) to the sender notifying them that the message was undeliverable.

However, if the sender “From” address is forged, the message will be bounced to the forged email address allowing the spammer gets away clean. Unfortunately, the person who had their email forged gets all the non-delivered junk. Yuck!

Reverse DNS Lookup

As a means of avoiding this behavior YVOD has installed a Reverse DNS Lookup filter for all email to stop spam
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