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Due to scheduled maintenance, paypal service will be down aprox one hour

As announced on the official website, Paypal will be down for approx one hour. PayPal, one of the most popular websites on the Internet and surely the most used service for online payments and money transfers, has announced that the service would be unavailable on May 29 for approximately one hour due to scheduled maintenance. Jim McGuire, vice president of network operations at PayPal, said the website would become inaccessible on Thursday, May 29, at 11pm PDT (Friday, May 30, at 6:00 am GMT) for one hour during which most of the PayPal payment functions will be unavailable. However, Payflow Gateway customers will not be affected by the maintenance, McGuire explains.

Besides the unavailability of the PayPal website, payments processed by PayPal on the popular eBay bidding website will also be unavailable. Moreover, users won’t be able to log into their PayPal accounts to verify payments. Obviously, those made through PayPal or other merchants will also be suspended for one hour.

“PayPal continually makes improvements to our systems and platforms so that we can continue to provide you with the best online payment processing solution. Rest assured, we will be monitoring the scheduled maintenance very closely to ensure that we return to normal functionality as soon as possible,” Jim McGuire explains.

As mentioned, PayPal is one of the most popular services on the Internet and, for many users, it represents the main solution when it comes to online payments and money transfers. PayPal was acquired by eBay in October 2002, when the company paid $1.5 billion. Since the acquisition, PayPal has grown up a lot and currently exists in several countries around the world.

According to Wikipedia, PayPal hosts more than 164 million accounts and supports no less than 19 currencies worldwide. Moreover, people from 190 countries could take advantage of the PayPal features, more countries being expected soon as part of the PayPal evolution

According to the IT Blog that I always go for news, Google announce that they have open wide their door to third-party. This is also posted at Google’s blog and posted by Rajas Moonka, Senior Business Product Manager.

Here are the detail announcements:

Today, we’re announcing that Google is accepting third-party advertising tags on the Google content network in North America. This will empower advertisers to work with approved third parties to serve and track display ads, including rich media ads, across the Google content network through AdWords, giving them more options, flexibility and control over their campaigns.

We had not accepted third-party tags in the past because we didn’t have a process for reviewing ads to make sure that they comply with our format standards and policies, which were established to ensure that ads we serve provide the best possible user experience. Now that’s in place.

Ad servers, rich media ad agencies and research firms can now go through a certification process that ensures the highest level of advertiser service and user experience. In fact, advertisers and agencies now have the ability to serve ads and measure performance through these certified third parties:

• Advertiser ad servers: DoubleClick (DFA), Mediaplex
• Rich media agencies: DoubleClick Rich Media, Eyeblaster, EyeWonder, Interpolls, PointRoll, Unicast
• Research firms: Dynamic Logic, IAG Research, InsightExpress, Factor TG

Well, this is really good news for all webmaster, for sure!

A blade server is a server with several apartments’ slim chassis, modular, electronic circuits, known as the blade server. Blade servers are to allow more energy treatment in less than rack, which simplifies the wiring and to reduce energy consumption. SearchWinSystems.com According to an article on the server technology, the company on the blade servers can offer so much experience that 85% discount on the wiring for the blade in comparison to the facilities or 1U server round. With less than cabling, administrators can spend less time with the management of infrastructure and more time in order to achieve greater availability.

Blade servers are self-server computing, designed for IT-High-Density. Whereas a rack-mount server can do it with (at least) a power cord and network cable, blade servers have removed many elements for space, power and other considerations, taking into account all elements to be functional as a computer.

A blade server is often described as a high-density servers and is usually in a group of servers, which has become a unique task, such as: • File Sharing • use of the Web page and caching • SSL encryption for Web Communications • The transcoding content of the web page for the small screens • streaming audio and video Like most requests for reunification, the blade server, may also be to support the load balancing and failover capabilities.  That is the reason why blade server

One the free service from google that every webmaster always use is add-to-google-url. This service is allowed us to put our url to google with the expect that google will index the entered url as soon. But is that true?

The way google index each website is not predictable, but if your site don’t get index by google for along period of time, this tools may help, but normally if your site already indexed you don’t need to use this tools at all.

Don’t add more url for the same domain, as noted at Add your URL to Google page, that you only need to add your url once, Only the top-level page from a host is necessary, its mean that only add your domain not the sub-url.

For example, my domain is darseytech.com, then my prefix http url is http://www.darseytech.com/ and only this url are required to be added to google, you do not need to submit each individual page to google, because once got index, googlecrawl or googlebot will do the rest.

Other thing that you should careful and make sure is your robots.txt files, make sure to allow google to access your website, if you block google (even by accident) your site will never being index forever, so robots.txt is very important and kind permission for any search engine.

Be aware of blog visibilities in Wordpress 2.5

If you have migrated to WordPress 2.5 you should carefully check your visibilities setting, its look like the default is blocking any search engine to index or crawl your blog.

If that is the case, your site or blog will not be index by search engine and it will be disaster.

Got indexed by search engine is very important, if your site or blog being index by search engine its traffic, when people type your keyword in search engine it will bring to your site.

Popular search engines are usually focus on the full-text indexing of online, natural language documents. Such as your article on blog, your keywords, tags and post title.

Because search engine is so important, so allow them to get back to your search anytime. Follow these steps to make sure your blog visibilities in WordPress 2.5

• Within your WordPress admin page, select setting;

• select privacy and you will directed to Privacy setting;

• there is two option on your Privacy setting, always select the first option, “I would like my blog to be visible to everyone, including search engines (like Google, Sphere, Technorati) and archivers”

• click Save changes button

The second option “I would like to block search engines, but allow normal visitors” it will prevent all search engine to access your blog, means will not get index or crawl.