This will be a 2 part guide and this is part 1

What are the common mistakes that you make!

ever got your wordpress blog hacked? Well even my blog got hacked once Take a look at the image on the top. From this simple how to guide, Im going to explain some little facts about the common mistakes that you make against security and if you got hacked some tips that you can use to remove the malicious stuff from your blog and get back to running condition.

• Most of us tend to CHMOD ( setting permissions about the usage of files and folders) our files and directories to 777 maybe on the start and forgets or don’t even consider to set back the permissions to something secure like 644

Thats what happens most of the time. Some scripts even wordpress requires some directories such as upload directories to be set 777 permissions recursively in order to store the uploads and temporary files.  Newbies who setting up their blogs sometimes gets mad on the directories and set whole http directory and files to 777.  Yes some of you might laugh at this but this happens. And even I did the same thing on the beginning. But fortunately wordpress has been evolved these days and its smart enough to tell you what are the permissions required and its able to check if the permissions are correct on the folders while installation. So you might be lucky these days but even today some additional plugins require the file permissions specially to be set on some folders and you should be careful while doing those things.

• Never set 777 permissions on the main http folder. If your plugin require that, forget about the plugin!

• Always use trusted web hosts.

No matter how secure your blog is there can be loopholes on your hosting.  Yes you might be short with money but still there are plenty of good web hosts on the world which you can get bang for the buck. Forget about the web host advertised on your local discussion forum. Starting a web host is like nothing these days. Anyone with a dedicated server or VPS and cpanel license, whmcs license can start a web host. But good security wont be there most of the time. So you need to be careful. Chances of leaking your data to others is very high.

• Dont use your mysql database user password for something else such as your email accounts or anything.

You might be wondering why is that, its not because of someone stealing your email account password and then accessing your sql database. But I meant the reverse process. Think if your db user name and password got exposed due to a web server hack or something. Hacker will probably try the credentials for login to your email account or other online accounts. So have something special and unique as your mysql user password and never use it on anything!

• Using your web host provided backup system? Good! but take your time and backup off site too!

Its not always the index.php exploit. Sometimes wordpress core gets attacked due to weak-spots on the core itself and some brutal things happened with wordpress not far ago. So backups are most important. If your database got exploited and there is no information yet about how to remove the exploit and get back running you may really enjoy if you have backups in hand. Waiting for a statement and patch from wordpress team or something is not the best way specially if you are running a busy site. So if you have backups its like cheese!

So listen we know most web hosts give you the option to backup data on their control panel so the restoration will be easy and such. But dont depend on it. Like on the previous case if the whole server gets hacked or something. You might lose the backups and will left with nothing but sorrow! So be prepared and take backups redundantly!

• There is cool plugin on for wordpress I’m going for it! That’s not a problem. But view the ratings and read the forums on wordpress before installing a life changer plugins.

This is crucial. WordPress plugins emerge day by day and you need to be careful. The more plugin gets complex and interesting the better the chance of modifying the wordpress core heavily. So those plugins can really maybe weak spots later because of the modifications done to the wordpress core thus leaving possible exploit options. The best way to get around this problem is downloading your plugins from the wordpress.org plugin repository itself and read the ratings and corresponding forum ( there is separate forum for each plugin which can be found on plugin page) about the user experience! Trust me plugins are evil!

• Always update the plugins and wordpress core to latest

See Im using LNMP on my VPS which runs this blog and Im not running FTP service on it. So wordpress updates on the control panel and the easy one click plugin updates doesnt work because they all require FTP to do the trick.

So the get around is following the traditional way of upgrading stuff which  we did on wordpress 2.x.x That is downloading updates and overwriting files . What Im going to tell you is that always keep up to date on the plugins and wordpress core. See my way is very hard and sooo 2008 but I still do that when upgrade comes out and trust me I see upgrades very often with my 25 plugins.

• Read wordpress.org about the latest news and new releases.

Do this at least twice a week. Sometimes you may not even know when a large scale attack or loop hole on wordpress gets exposed to hackers and they are doing mass destruction. WordPress.org maintains a news blog here which provide news about new wordpress releases and most importantly security releases and flows. Don’t think wordpress core itself is very secure and you don’t have to look in to that, WordPress core loop holes has been exploited many times before. So be prepared!

Continued to Part 2

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I have published article about my modified nginx auto installer about little over a year ago. Which can be found here. Which got somewhat famous and counted over 1000 installs. The framework which I was used was came from a chinese developer called licess and the framework now has been evolved a lot and now we can count it as fully fledged auto installer.  It now includes latest nginx version ( Which lacked at the time which I modified the script to include the latest and greatest) . And also now it includes separately tweaked installers for debian, centos, and ubuntu, which I had on my modified installer since day one   So its nice to see that he baked 2 options which my modified installer had since day one.

This installer is extremely useful but its not popular in the international community since its written in Chines and no support provided on English.  So with this post I just wanted to introduce that great tool to you guys and edit the original source code little bit to remove the time zone rewrites.

What I have removed

•  Original installer rewrites the time zone to China. I have removed that so your original time zone will remain on the server.

All the credits must go to Licess at www.lnmp.org and you can donate him there. I take no credit for this and I’m just listing the installer here and I just wanted to provide some support for it in English, thats the moral of the post!

What does the installer include

• Nginx 1.0.10
• PHP 5.2.17
• Mysql 5.1.60
• PHPMyAdmin
• Eaccelerator (optional 1 click install)
• VsFTPd, PureFTPd (Optional 1 click install)
• PHP Suhousin Patch
• Memcached (optional)
• Zend Optimizer

install Instructions-

You can use debian/ubuntu/centos 32bit or 64bit. So login via SSH and issue these commands (you must be root user to install LNMP )-

1. Download the installer package-

wget -c http://www.ruchirablog.com/lnmp0.8-full.tar.gz

2. Decompress the install package-.

tar zxvf lnmp0.8-full.tar.gz

3. Go to install directory-

cd lnmp0.8-full /

4.  Start installing-

For ubuntu  – sh ubuntu.sh

For Centos  – sh centos.sh

For Debian – sh debian.sh

It will ask some questions like your domain name , mysql root password ( Use your root password if you are newbie) just answer to them promptly.

It will take at least 30 minutes to fully install and then you will see a massage saying install completed. So then you can try navigating to your ip address to see it working.

After installation -

• PHPMyAdmin will be located on http://yourip/phpmyadmin
• Navigate to your url or ip and it will display a test page

1, install eAccelerator, execute the following command.  / eaccelerator.sh , follow the prompts to select the version, press Enter, it will automatically install and restart the web service.

2, the installation of ionCube, execute the following command  / ionCube.sh Enter to confirm, it will automatically install and restart the web service.

3, the installation imageMagick, execute the following command  / imageMagick.sh Enter to confirm, it will automatically install and restart the web service.

4, install memcached, execute the following command  / memcached.sh Enter to confirm, it will automatically install and restart the web service.

And a advantage of  the new installer is you can upgrade nginx or php with just one shell command.

• To upgrade the nginx  execute the following command:. / upgrade_nginx.sh It will prompt a thing which you need to enter the nginx version number. Its simply asking which version that you want to upgrade. So head over to http://nginx.org/en/download.html and find whats the newest nginx version and enter the number correctly on the shell prompt. For ex- 1.0.10 and press enter. its just easy!

• PHP  upgrade, execute the following command:. / upgrade_php.sh prompted, enter your php version number, such as 5.3.6.

You can manage the LNMP by issuing these commands-

/root/lnmp {start | stop | reload | restart | kill | status}

• For example if you want to restart lnmp issue /root/lnmp restart

LNMP files will be located on
mysql: /usr/local/mysql
php: /usr/local/php
nginx: /usr/local/nginx
Site Directory: /home/wwwroot

How to add more domains (Virtual hosts) for this setup?

You can add more domains to your setup with easy steps. You just need to open your SSH client and type

./vhost.sh

And it will ask you which domain name to add also if you are setting up new domain for wordpress it can automatically add rewrite rules for your permalinks Just answer for the questions when you run ./vhost.sh

Here are another guides for full LNMP 0.8 setup!

• How to upload files to LNMP0.8 without SSH deamon

• How to setup DNS to point your domain to LNMP0.8 server ip

So enjoy your server and please add a comment if you are happy with outcome!

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If you are sending considerable amount of emails to your visitors or customers you may have a problem reaching most of the users inbox because the risk of getting your IP’s blacklisted etc. So using your own servers to send emails for like 1000 users per day is a disaster because of the possibility of getting blacklisted. And a simple workaround for this problem is using Google Apps mail and its SMTP functionality.

And even there is a hard cap on sending emails from google apps mail and you will need to consider something else for the demand. And Amazon SES (Simple Email Service) offers a great and simple way to get through this problem but hey its not a innovation and these kind of service providers existed long before SES. But SES offers you very good price than the other providers.

But until now SES lacked major functionality. Thats sending emails over SMTP. All your web apps which need to send emails outside will simply use SMTP when you want external service to send the emails for it. Best example is wordpress. you can find SMTP plugins to use with google apps. But previously SES required some complex CLI actions and special programs to do the trick! In simple words its not user friendly.
But now Amazon SES introduced SMTP functionality and new section inside your amazon aws account.

you can simply obtain your SMTP login details from SES control panel and implementing it is very easy.
I have gave it a try and unfortunately for some reason it didnt worked for me on this blog and other site and I guess its minor problem on my own account or something like that and I will give a try again. I hope it will work Happy sending everyone

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Too many reviews these days meh? But I cant pass this one because working on this thing has become integral part of my carrier now. Its SocialEngine and its used to create social networks. Yes its like wordpress, its a script but costs money.  In my case we spent $669 for the script and all the default plugins. But its kinda worth the money we spent and it got many options to customize the features.

Script Features

• Built on Zend Framework PHP+MySql
• Most importantly code isn’t encrypted ( IonCubed) so any type of custom modifications are possible which is very handy
• All Licenses comes with “No branding” option. which means there wont be any copyright text from developer company left in the footer and they wont ask more $$ to remove it. Which is very good considering other commercial scripts charge $$ or $$$ to remove the branding.

Community Around it

• You will find considerable community working behind it unofficially. which means many sites to download plugins, themes,addons are available  and some forums are there to get help if you need.

• Since this is a paid script you will have to pay to get the plugins and things from those web sites as for now I have found only few free plugins to it.

• Also socialengine.net site itself got some great documents about how to get things up and going.

Value Added Features

• There is built in CDN support which supports Amazon S3,CloudFront and MaXCDN. And setting it up is very easy and probably this is the best cloud integration that I ever seen on a script.

• Admin panel plugin,theme,addon installation support. Remember the days you installed plugins via FTP on your wordpress blog? yes things have changed and with socialengine you can install plugins saved on your computer and upgrade to newer version by using your admin panel GUI.

• Admin panel editor for site layout and theme codes is available and its even better than wordpress theme/layout editor.
• Built-in support for caching is available and supports File Based caching (like WP-Super-Cache) , Memcached, APC, Xcache

What kind of cost you should be looking at

• Well it mostly depends on you. minimal code base (without default plugins) costs $299
• All the official plugins cost $370
• If you want fully fledged site with this it will easily run you about $1000 and even more.
• Third party plugins starts at about $10 and costs as much as $120 for some great plugins.

Whats Bad

• And its very bad! Take a look at below image

And its a screenshot of my amazon S3 bucket which I use to host images,mp3s,thumbnails of the users of our socialnetwork. As you can see it creates stupid amount of Folders to store images and thumbnails of users.

For example remember wordpress creates single folder to store a month worth of uploads such as wp-content/uploads/2011/10/ that directory stores all uploads to web site on october 2011.

But this socialengine script creates stupid and crazy amount of folders to store images and most of the time there is only 1 image on a folder and I think there are folders than the files And its bullshit! I dont know why they did this and this might be artifact of Zend Framework. ( please correct me on comments if im wrong) And this makes the backing up process hard and it would be ridiculous to backup those folders without like zipping the whole directory and then backing it up.

its fairly easy to manage the script via admin interface and can be easily get used to it after few days of use. At last I would recommend SocialEngine to anyone who is searching for good socialnetwork script and I would rate this 8/10 and you lost 2 stars because of that folder problem socialengine

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I have always recommended linode ( A XEN VPS hosting company) for you! Checkout my last 100 day uptime review here- http://www.ruchirablog.com/linode-xen-vps-review/

Trust me guys its amazing experience which I’m having with Linode. Today I hit the milestone of 365 days of uptime on the VPS which hosts this blog. Now I have 4 Linode 512 plans on their London Data Center and another one which runs the web site of the company which I work on is having 371 of uptime as of now.

You can check my blogs uptime here - http://www.ruchirablog.com/uptime.php

My blog runs on Ubuntu 10.04LTS and Nginx is serving the requests, and my Linode never skipped a beat. And also the 2 VPS’s im having 1+ years of uptime are on different host boxes and its amazing.

You can find the network uptime graph of my blog by pingdom below

As you can see I only had 17 minutes of network downtime according to linode and longest downtime was 3 minutes. Do the math and you can find that I had about 99.9978% of network uptime while Linode promises us 99%.

I never had any problems with 4 of my VPS’s with linode and support is amazing and never took more than 10 minutes to answer any serious question.

And the exciting thing is its very hard to find a negative review about linode on the internet and even Linode got thousands of customers, I never able to find bad things like “I lost my data” on internet about linode.

Its the most amazing hosting experience I ever had in my life and I’ll give 10/10 marks for linode any day.

You can find my old detailed review here- http://www.ruchirablog.com/linode-xen-vps-review/

And if you wish to signup for linode you can do so here- http://www.ruchirablog.com/go/linode ( Its a referral link )

*Disclaimer- Linode hasn’t paid me cent to write this review and my expressions are solely based on my own experience!

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If you want to download pictures from internet its easy as right clicking on it -> Save Image as But if you want to download lots of pictures like facebook album it wont be easy to right click on every one and saving it.

There are many apps,software’s are designed to help you with this issue. One is FBdownloader  thats the most popular one but I found that its not convenient as it should be. You should give your fb login credentials to use it and you can only download your frinds photos and your photos but even to download your friends photo albums, they must have set the albums are public and even when you can view it on web browser fbdownloader wont allow to download photo albums of your friends if they marked them as “Private” or “Friends only” .  So its not a good option.

And when I was searching for the most convenient and easy solution I found great Google Chrome extension for doing this.

However Im using firefox for browsing but I have chrome and use it sometimes so it being a chrome extension isn’t much a problem to me.  You can find the extension and install from here- https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/blbmhonenddnnmbailokbccgmikhkpni

Instruction on that page says this-

Usage:

1. Link to the album on your facebook page.

2. Click the “Download FB phtos” Icon.

3. You will see all photos on a new tab.

4. Press “Ctrl+S” and select “Save whole pages”.

5. Great! You will see a folder including all the photos in this album.

However as the instruction says you need to open up the album on your chrome browser and click the download photos icon which is located on your right corner of address bar.

All other steps are easy to follow and you will have the ability to download any photo album that you can view on web browser unlike the limitations of fbdownloder

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Apple sent a email to reporters Tuesday saying “Let’s talk iphone” . You can see the image contained on it above, Actually Apple is getting ready to announce next generation Iphone on on October 4th. We cant expect apple to launch the device on the same day but they will release specs,pics and also a feature video about it.

For now we got 2 judgements about the name of the device it will be Iphone 5 or Iphone 4S. So in this post I’ll post my assumptions about it

• I think it will be Iphone 4S rather than 5. The main reason to think like that is I believe technology isn’t developed much since Iphone 4 to convince Apple to make it “Iphone 5″. But who knows its their decision.
• Screen size will be bumped up to 4 inches.  4inch is becoming a standard these days. Personally I wont go for a phone which got below 4inch display after using my Galaxy S
• Most likely it will get HD 720P Retina display.
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• Thickness wont go beyond Iphone 4
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• most likely processor will be 1Ghz dual core A5 or 1.2Ghz Dual core?
• 8MP primary CAM which shoot 1080P at 30FPS and 2MP secondary HD cam for Facetime.
• 4G LTE for verizon and HSPA+ for AT&T and T-mo.

Those are just assumptions of mine and its open for discussion. However October 4th isnt far away and time will tell us whats going to be there

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Having some special unforgettable skype video calls?  Then you might be interested in recording those video calls for later reference. There is a perfect solution for it called “SuperTinTin” yeah I know it sounds weird but does the thing.

However its a premium software which means you have pay for it. But there is a trial version. Trial version got all the options but it got 5 minute record limit. But thats not a problem, when it finishes recording 5 minutes it will stop but you can start recording again instantly by pressing the RED button. There is no limitations between records on the free version.So for me free version is completely Okay. Its about recording the call and as soon as first 5 minutes finishes press record button again and it will start to record again vice-versa

I have personally tested this and

• It records videos of both cams on picture in picture or any method that you set
• Records sounds of both sides
• No Quality degradation on recorded videos. It records same as what you see on skype and saves on .AVI format

You can download and read more about it here - http://www.ruchirablog.com/go/supertintin  ( This isn’t a referral link)

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Linode which is my favorite VPS host, recently announced their service availability on Tokyo,Japan data center.  If your visitors reside in Asia you might be interested in jumping to Tokyo data center.  But what about speeds? London data center is already performing very well for Asian linode customers.

So to find out what kind of speeds that I can get with Tokyo Data Center, I have snatched a 512MB linode on Tokyo DC and decided to perform some network speedtests. All tests were done with 100MB test files.

Unfortunately the results are extremely poor as you can see below. I wont put the blames quickly on linodes part because since its new there can be few minor problems and most likely be able to resolve this by simple support ticket. But I found something interesting,

As a tradition Linode hosts their speedtest files on their 1st server of specific data center. For an example their first server on London DC is london1.linode.com and their london speedtest is located on London1.linode.com ( http://london1.linode.com/100MB-london.bin ) too.

Vice-versa Tokyo speedtest file is hosted on Tokyo1.linode.com ( http://tokyo1.linode.com/100MB-tokyo.bin ) But when I saw the Linode Manager Dashboard I saw my Tokyo Linode also resides on Tokyo1 host node

And I guess that’s the major reason I got this kinda slow speeds because since its new data center, many customers might be testing speeds by downloading that 100MB test file which is hosted on the Tokyo1 Node which my Linode resides in.

So Its not a good idea to host public speedtest files on a customer production server. Specially since linode is a big company it can be brutal for the other linode members resides on the same node.  However things can be different and Ill put this to linode staff attention and lets see what their answer is!

Anyway here are the results

1. Lets start with Cachefly 100MB test which become community standard by now

Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net|205.234.175.175|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `100mb.test.1'

100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 2.94M/s   in 35s

2011-09-25 09:25:23 (2.84 MB/s) – `100mb.test.1′ saved [104857600/104857600]

I have performed this cachefly test about 2 times and this is the best that I managed to get. Since Cachefly also got Tokyo POP, Im wondering why this test got slow

2. Linode Newark NJ

http://newark1.linode.com/100MB-newark.bin
Connecting to newark1.linode.com|207.192.68.6|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `100MB-newark.bin'

100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 1.59M/s in 79s

2011-09-25 09:56:33 (1.26 MB/s) – `100MB-newark.bin’ saved [104857600/104857600]

3. Linode Fremont CA

http://fremont1.linode.com/100MB-fremont.bin
Connecting to fremont1.linode.com|64.71.152.17|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `100MB-fremont.bin'

100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 2.47M/s in 38s

2011-09-25 10:05:16 (2.62 MB/s) – `100MB-fremont.bin’ saved [104857600/104857600]

4. Linode Atlanta GA

http://atlanta1.linode.com/100MB-atlanta.bin
Connecting to atlanta1.linode.com|63.247.71.196|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `100MB-atlanta.bin'

100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 1.51M/s in 1m 51s

2011-09-25 10:09:44 (920 KB/s) – `100MB-atlanta.bin’ saved [104857600/104857600]

5. Linode Dallas TX

http://dallas1.linode.com/100MB-dallas.bin
Connecting to dallas1.linode.com|69.164.200.100|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `100MB-dallas.bin'

100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 1.76M/s in 68s

2011-09-25 10:12:18 (1.46 MB/s) – `100MB-dallas.bin’ saved [104857600/104857600]

6. Linode London UK

http://london1.linode.com/100MB-london.bin
Connecting to london1.linode.com|109.74.207.9|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `100MB-london.bin'

100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 1.15M/s in 92s

2011-09-25 10:14:42 (1.09 MB/s) – `100MB-london.bin’ saved [104857600/104857600]

7. Hetzner Germany

http://hetzner.de/100MB.iso
Connecting to hetzner.de|213.133.107.227|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
Location: http://www.hetzner.de/100MB.iso [following]
--2011-09-25 10:17:49-- http://www.hetzner.de/100MB.iso
Resolving www.hetzner.de... 213.133.107.227
Reusing existing connection to hetzner.de:80.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 104840234 (100M) [application/x-iso9660-image]
Saving to: `100MB.iso'

100%[======================================>] 104,840,234 508K/s in 3m 33s

2011-09-25 10:21:22 (482 KB/s) – `100MB.iso’ saved [104840234/104840234]

8. Serverboost Netherlands

www.serverboost.nl/snelheid/100mb.bin
Connecting to www.serverboost.nl|213.152.169.209|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `100mb.bin'

100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 366K/s in 5m 30s

2011-09-25 10:30:26 (310 KB/s) – `100mb.bin’ saved [104857600/104857600]

Now that sucks. 310KB/s I was able to max out my DSL with that same serverboost speedtest by downloading it at 460KB/s

9. OVH France

ftp://ftp.ovh.net/test.bin
Connecting to ftp.ovh.net|213.186.33.9|:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
==> SYST ... done. ==> PWD ... done.
==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD not needed.
==> SIZE test.bin ... 104857600
==> PASV ... done. ==> RETR test.bin ... done.
Length: 104857600 (100M) (unauthoritative)

100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 903K/s in 2m 23s

2011-09-25 10:34:38 (716 KB/s) – `test.bin’ saved [104857600]

10. Finally for the lulz lets try the Linode Tokyo speedtest

Linode hosts their tokyo test file here http://tokyo1.linode.com/100MB-tokyo.bin and Like I said before I found that my linode resides on Tokyo 1 too. So lets try same host speedtest to see what kind of result that we can get.

Connecting to tokyo1.linode.com|106.187.33.12|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `100MB-tokyo.bin.1'

100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 53.0M/s in 1.9s

2011-09-25 10:41:45 (53.0 MB/s) – `100MB-tokyo.bin.1′ saved [104857600/1048576]

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You may have seen my post  Amazon S3 review. Looks like it went viral and some famous amazon s3 managing software vendors commented on that post and some vendors sent emails to me asking to review them. Nadya from Cloudberry Explorer is one them. She asked me to review cloudberry explorer, Since I love freewares and I was using cloudberry explorer already to manage my S3 instances I thought I should write a review about them.

I begun to use Amazon S3 last year and now its more than 1 year since I’m using amazon s3 to hold files for my web sites. And on the first day I signed up for amazon s3 I felt in need of a nice and fast interface to manage my files on s3. Main reason for that is Amazon AWS Console is too slow and the the console slowness is a common fact on amazon aws. They need to work on that or provide native pc/mac client to manage s3 and other AWS services.

Because of those problems I searched Google for a nice amazon s3 managing software. And first I got firefox addon called S3Fox and it wasn’t worked for me for some reason. And I even tried the limited freeware called S3 Browser and the limitations of the free version moved my hands away from using that.

Finally I found the Cloudberry explorer and from the first impression I was amazed and simply it turned out that this is the one and only thing that I need to manage all things with my amazon s3.

With cloudberry Explorer its very easy to upload files to amazon s3 and manage them as you see with the image above. When I upload images to s3 for the purpose of posting them on web Cloudberry explorer came in handy because there is a option to generate the web link within the software and its really a time saver to me because after upload the image I can get the link by just 3 mouse clicks.

So really cloudberry explorer is really a nice software which did everything that I expected and I needed. There is a advanced pro version and I really recommend buying the pro version for advanced options and as props to these guys. Its really worth it but if you are just a regular user to tight in budget the free version is more than fine!

Checkout them at - http://www.cloudberrylab.com/

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