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    Fine tune WHM VPS server for lots of hits

    Hi Guys Can anyone give some tips to optimize the server for the following Its just 1 account on the VPS (its not even a website, just 1 file) Basically its going to have 10,000's of hits per day to a very small (1kb php file which puts some data into an MySQL database) Each visitor may...
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    Google Scraper - Rate Limit

    Hi Guys Any ideas of Safe numbers for Search queries on google. Im building a google scraper, plan is to get about 10 proxies and cycle through them. Any ideas of a safe number of queries per IP per minute? Or any tips for preventing the IP's getting blocked. Ill be cycling the IP and have...
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    Google Shopping Search API

    Hi Guys Do you know of an API which allows you to run searches on Google Shopping and gather details such as product name, description etc? Ive looked into the shopping api and it looks like you can only access data in your account, rather than running a public search? If theres no API, does...
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    web archive downloader / ripper?

    Hi Guys Anyone found any good software for ripping a site down from Web Archive? Cheers
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    Taking % Rather Than Charging Development

    Hi Guys Ive been developing sites for clients for along time now, and I would like to start investing in companies which come to me. Theres one new project in particular who has come to me for a Web Dev quote. I feel its a project I would like to get involved with in terms of instead of...
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    Freelance Leads / Self Employed Traffic?

    Anyone have a list or traffic in Freelance / Self Employed niche. e.g Freelance Web Developers Freelance Marketers Freelance PR Freelance SEO etc Please drop me a PM
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    Argghhh SQL Statement running 4 times instead of One... Its weird

    Hi So ive got this SQL insert statement on a page which executes on page load. File name: job-view.php If i go directly to that page e.g (job-view.php?id=199) it executes once. However if I go to the SEO Friendly version RewriteRule ^jobs/(.*)$ job-view.php?id=$1 [L] so e.g /job/199...
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    Motivation and Productivity Tips

    So I always go through phases of being motivated and productive to just not wanting to get out of bed! I recently found that Im uuuber productive between 6-11 .. then have a bit of a downer till around 2ish where I can then crack on with work and get another 3-4 hours bashed out. So i try and...