It is official, Sizable Send is the number #1 rated FREE file sending program on the net. It’s free to send large files without having to deal with a pesky login or trial registration and did we mention they’re no upload/download limits!

NEW! – Sizable Send Advanced Options:

It also lets you send unlimited files, up to 2GB max per file – they are the only site in the industry that allow a file maximum upload size limit of 2GB. Even many premium services don’t do this!!!

So I know what you’re thinking: What about Mega Upload and You Send It, they’re free also, and they have been around much longer than sizable send. Listen my Friend, GM has been around longer than Toyota and which of them is better?

http://www.megaupload.com/ sucks because it has a 500MB limit – as does http://www.yousendit.com/ – They both try to get you to sign up for a trial offer in one form or another before sending the files, they fill their emails with tons of ads and SPAM the hell out of you with unsolicited emails that are impossible to all but unsubscribe from. Once you send a file expect an indefinite bombardment of other emails trying to get you to sign up for a premium account.

But wait, it gets worse, if you don’t have a premium account the upload and download speed are slow as heck, like 56K AOL dial-up slow, and there are limits on how many times the file can be downloaded! Have a free account? Then don’t plan on downloading that file more than a few times. Finally their free versions only store the file for a few days which also is a major buzz kill.

Here is why Sizable Send is the best file sending program:

All you need to do is:

1. Enter your email
2. Enter the recipients email
3. Select the file(s) and BOOM, you’re done!

This is why http://www.SizableSend.com is a million times better:

• It’s 100% free to use
• There is no trial registration required to send files
• There is no login required to send files
• They don’t send SPAM emails to try and get you to sign up for a premium account
• There are no upload restrictions, send as many files as you want and send as many large files as you want.
• There are no download restrictions, you’re users can download the files as many times as they want.
• Essentially, it’s like America was 300 years ago – no restrictions at all!

Here is a great quick reference guide for SEO. Thanks to our friends over at OptimizationInc.com  for this awesome guide. Of if you want something more comprehensive that a 2 page cheat sheet, check out this SEO Term Definitions site. 
 

 

• 301 Redirect for Apache
• Canonical Links
• Common Robot Traps
• Robots Meta Tag
• Robots.txt Syntax
• SEO HTML tags
• SE Indexing Limits
• Search Engine Robots
• Sitemap Syntax
• Title Tag Syntax

You can also download the full PDF here:

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Many times when writing syndication or ad tracking scripts it is important to track what search bots are clicking through your links, as opposed to an actual users; thus allowing you to better track actual user interaction over bot interaction. Here is a script we wrote to accomplish the function.

First we compile an array of all the known search bots. (Although this is not comprehensive, it does cover the main web crawlers – and we will update it as we see the need.)

//********************* || LIST OF KNOWN SEARCH BOTS ||
function GetBotList(){
$BotList = array("Teoma", "alexa", "froogle", "Gigabot", "inktomi", "looksmart", "URL_Spider_SQL", "Firefly", "NationalDirectory", "Ask Jeeves", "TECNOSEEK", "InfoSeek", "WebFindBot", "girafabot", "crawler", "www.galaxy.com", "Googlebot", "Googlebot/2.1", "Google Webmaster", "Scooter", "Scooter", "Slurp", "msnbot", "appie", "FAST", "WebBug", "Spade", "ZyBorg", "rabaz", "Baiduspider", "Feedfetcher-Google", "TechnoratiSnoop", "Rankivabot", "Mediapartners-Google", "Sogou web spider", "WebAlta Crawler", "MJ12bot");
return $BotList;
}

Next, we scan through the search bot array and match it up against out $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] variable.

//********************* || SEARCH BOT DETECTION FUNCTION ||
function DetectBot(){
	$BotList = GetBotList();

foreach($BotList as $bot) {
	if(ereg($bot, $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'])) {
		$thebot = "BOT: " . $bot;
		return $thebot;
	}
        }
}

Finally, we use the PHP get_browser() function to format and return everything pretty and double check the code against $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'].

//********************* || USER AGENT DETECTION FUNCTION ||
function DetectBrowserInfo() {
	$UserAgent       = get_browser(null, true);
	$UserBrowser     = $UserAgent['parent'];
	$UserOS          = $UserAgent['platform'];

	if(DetectBot() != false) {
		$UserBrowser = DetectBot();
	} elseif (isset($UserBrowser)) {
		$UserBrowser = $UserBrowser;
	} else {
		$UserBrowser = "BOT: Unknown";
	}	

	if($UserOS != "unknown") {
		$UserOS  = $UserOS;
	} else {
		$UserOS  = "BOT: N/A For Traffic";
	}

	$UserAgentDetails = array($UserBrowser, $UserOS);
	return $UserAgentDetails;
}

Ever need to send a file so large that email can’t handle it?

What to do? You have a file larger than 25 MB’s that you want to send, your email won’t let you send anything that large, and most services charge a premium to send large files. At Streamlined Fusion, we believe sending large files is an innate right of all Internet users, and that’s why we offer the service free!!!

SizableSend.com - The best way to send large files for free:

• Send up to 20 GBs worth of files.
• It’s easy to use – seriously, it’s really easy.
• No login required, ever.
• 100% FREE!

Again, this service is 100% free and super easy to use! Check it out for yourself: www.sizablesend.com

Many of our Hosted Exchange customers often rave about the all but disappearance of Spam in their inbox. They are amazed that we can so accurately filter junk mail while not deleting legitimate messages. While this is partly due to the proprietary nature setup of our IT infrastructure, we can’t take full credit…

As an Enterprise Partner with Barracuda Networks, we rely on their rock solid Model 1000 Spam and Virus Firewalls to power our Hosted Exchange Clusters. Combine this with hourly definition updates aggregated from around the world and you start to get a better picture of why your Streamlined Fusion Exchange Inbox is so junk mail free.

The Barracuda Spam Firewall is an integrated hardware and software solution designed to protect your emails from spam, virus, spoofing, phishing, and spyware attacks. It leverages 12 comprehensive defense layers to provide industry-leading defense. As the No. 1 most widely used spam filtering appliance, and winner of numerous industry honors, Streamlined Fusion trusts Barracuda Spam Firewalls for complete protection against Spam and Viruses for all its Hosted Exchange clients.

We Filter Spam Differently!

Most Hosted Exchange Providers choose software based Spam filters that reside on the actual Exchange servers. They do this because you can save hundreds of thousands of dollars a year – but that cost savings has a hidden expense – software based Spam filters aren’t nearly as reliable and often lack the ability to cope with bursts of email traffic. So when those traffic bursts come, software based filters can only sort junk so fast and after a point they just let the junk through without any Virus or Spam filtering. Compound this with subpar Spam filtering techniques and your inbox can quickly become bloated with junk.

Streamlined Fusion doesn’t cut corners when it comes to our hosted clients! We use hardware Spam and Virus filtering from Barracuda Networks. As with any decision Streamlined Fusion makes, infrastructure cost is no object if it’s beneficial to the customer. So where others skimp on filtering software, ALL Streamlined Fusion Hosted Exchange Inboxes have dedicated Barracuda Spam and Virus Hardware Firewalls.

Do you write a lot of jQuery, MooTools, Prototype, Dojo (all types of JavaScript) code?

If you do then you should also be compressing (or minify) that code on all your live websites. And not just the large scripts either… You should use a Javascript Compressor on every script that is going to be loaded by any of your web pages; especially the ones that are highly trafficked. Even is the Javascript file is only 2KB in size, you should still compress it! Try our new free minify tool at www.MinifyJS.com

What does a Javascript Compressor do?

It shrinks the size of your code so it loads faster. Faster loading websites make your User’s browsing experience more enjoyable and it saves you money on your monthly hosting bill. So use our JS Minify Tool now; we promise your users will thank you + it’s super easy to use!

In fact, of all the techniques Yahoo! recommends in speeding up your website, Javascript Compression gives the best performance benefits with the least effort.

Advanced Javascript Compression: For the super nerds!

If you’re a beginner don’t freak out, these controls are optional and you can still get great JS compression without using them. For those uber geek programmers (like us) you can compress with 4 different methods:

• high ASCII
• Normal encoding
• Numeric encoding
• Or no encoding at all.

You can also allow special characters, use the Javascript Packer or enable “fast decode” when you are debugging on the fly or in a text editor.

Minify Javascript, Free and Fast

Not only is it a 100% Free Javascript Compressor, but it’s hosted on Hosted Fusion’s multi-million dollar managed hosting infrastructure. Why is this important? 10,000 lines of Javascript code? No problem, we can minify your Javascript, use Javascript obfuscation and pack that code in no time at all!

Here is a list of the top 35 search engine spiders that crawl the web. Although this list is not comprehensive, it does cover the main spiders – and we will update it as we see the need.

UPDATE: Learn how to detect web crawlers in PHP

• Teoma
• alexa
• froogle
• Gigabot
• inktomi
• looksmart
• URL_Spider_SQL Firefly
• NationalDirectory
• Ask Jeeves
• TECNOSEEK
• InfoSeek
• WebFindBot
• girafabot
• crawler
• www.galaxy.com
• Googlebot
• Googlebot/2.1
• Google Webmaster
• Scooter
• Slurp
• MSNbot
• appie
• FAST
• WebBug
• Spade
• ZyBorg
• rabaz
• Baiduspider
• Feedfetcher-Google
• TechnoratiSnoop
• Rankivabot
• Mediapartners-Google
• Sogou web spider
• WebAlta Crawler
• MJ12bot

Streamlined Fusion has been helping develop and beta test Data Protection Manager 2007 with Microsoft since 2004, many years before it was even released to the public. As the premier enterprise back solution of choice, Streamlined Fusion uses it exclusively to protect all email, CRM and SQL data, for all hosted clients.

We are an industry leader in backup copy retention duration and backup frequency – especially when it comes to disk-to-disk backup copy retention duration. We keep 60 days worth of incremental backups on disk, making recovery time quick and easy, and allowing you to choose from over 2800 backup snapshots of your data. This ensures you can recover data at the exact time and date you need.

Our disk-to-disk backup policy is as follows:

• Incremental disk-to-disk backups are taken every 15 minutes.
• Full disk-to-disk backups are taken nightly between 12 AM and 2AM PST.
• Both incremental disk-to-disk and full disk-to-disk backups are kept for 60 days. A total of over 2800 data snapshots are accessible for real-time data recovery.

Our disk-to-disk-to-tape backup policy is as follows:

• Disk-to-disk-to-tape backups are taken every Sunday between 10 PM and 12AM PST.
• Disk-to-disk-to-tape backups are kept for 36 months (3 years).
• Users can request a tape copy up to 3 times a month. Additional costs may apply.