Category: Blog

  • What is Zen Web Media?

    What is Zen Web Media?

    Zen Web Media was created in 2014 in San Diego, California to serve the needs of high-end Business Website Development & Hosting.

    Website Development:

    Website development involves designing, coding, and testing a website to ensure it meets the website owner’s or client’s requirements. It includes creating the layout, writing the code, adding content, and testing the website to ensure it functions correctly.

    Website development can be done using a variety of programming languages and tools, such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and WordPress, among others. Website development can be done by a web developer or a team of developers, depending on the website’s complexity and the project’s requirements.

    Website Hosting:

    Website hosting is the process of making a website accessible on the internet by storing it on a server that is connected to the internet. A web hosting service provider offers the infrastructure and services needed to host a website on the internet, including storage space, bandwidth, and security.

    There are different types of web hosting services available, such as shared hosting, VPS hosting, dedicated hosting, and cloud hosting. Each type of hosting has its own benefits and drawbacks, and the choice of hosting will depend on the requirements of the website and the budget of the website owner.

    Conclusion:
    Website development and hosting are two critical processes that are essential for creating and making a website accessible on the internet. While website development involves designing and coding a website, website hosting involves storing the website on a server and making it accessible on the internet. Both processes require technical expertise and can be outsourced to a professional service provider.

    We were ahead of the pack in offering:

    • HTML5 instead of Flash.
    • Custom PHP & CSS instead of Drag & Drop Builders
    • MP4 Video & Music Jukebox
    • Website Optimization for Speed, Security & SEO
    • Native WordPress code for easy Changes, Upgrades & Updates

    We offer simple hosting & management for your wordpress website:

    All packages include:

    WordPress Manager

    • Installs the latest wordpress with the click of a button.
    • Auto Backup options (Daily, Weekly, Qty of backups to keep)
    • Update options (plugins, themes, auto, manual, manual backup before updates)
    • Create a Development copy for experimenting with a new theme, plug-ins, customization… (has the option to replace the current website after a successful test. *if desired)

    We also offer advanced packages with Managed WordPress & more…

  • Tech Tips: 403 Forbidden Error Fix: .htaccess file creation

    Tech Tips: 403 Forbidden Error Fix: .htaccess file creation

    If you are starting a new account you may need to create an .htaccess file in order to view your website:

    403 forbidden Error will show up instead of your home page unless you have an .htaccess:

    403 Error Fix

    To fix go to “File Explorer” In Cpanel (or FTP) then enter the “public_html” folder and create(+File) or Edit the file: Name it: .htaccess

    Add the content below to the .htaccess file starting with “# Begin WordPress” & ending with “# END WordPress

    # BEGIN WordPress
    
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
    RewriteBase /
    RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
    
    # END WordPress
    
    
    Please see the official WordPress htaccess page for more options

    Please let us know if you need any assistance.

  • How to beat depression like a drum!

    How to beat depression like a drum!

    #1 Do what you want to. 

    What makes you happy?

    Surfing, Skateboarding, Flying, Drumming, Singing, etc…

    Make some time to do that especially if it is something you can share. Be careful of selfish things that make you feel as if you are doing something. Don’t get consumed, let it flow

    #2 Do not let anyone change your attitude.

    If you don’t like what someone’s doing then call them on it. 

    Just be careful not to get involved with other people’s need’s. 

    You could end up doing what you did not intend to

    Being who you want to be means not letting others upset you or make you do what you would not want to do. This does mean to replace kindness with weakness. Quite the other way. It takes strength to let it pass, move on and forgive and forget. 

    #3 Learn Self Defense 

    Some of the loudest jerks (and jerket’s, lol) are because they need to prove something to themselves. This is dangerous, when you are unsure of your self you can overreact and make the littlest thing in to a life or death situation. 

    True story, 

    A group of friends showed up at my rehearsal room and one of the girls asked if she could play my drums. I agreed, then she beat the drums (like someone trying to prove something, lol) so I grabbed the sticks out of her hands and said, this is how you play the drums. As I turned around I saw two fists flying my direction. I grabbed the wrists and said “Chill Out!” and let go. He lunged again and I ended up on top of him however, he had his arm around my neck. I said “Let go and this never happened ”, to which he replied “I am gonna kill you!” I broke free and hit him once. He laid there knocked out for what seemed like eternity. Lucky for me he woke up and left peacefully. I felt so bad thinking I killed him. Even if he deserved it, I felt terrible.   

    What this taught me though is that you can kill with your hand’s, without even trying. So I have stayed calm even while being jumped and simply grabbed the opponents wrists or arm and let them know. You cannot hurt me so don’t even try. It has worked so far, so am I weak for refusing to hit someone? I don’t think so 🙂

    #4 Exercise 

    Walk, run, swim, ride, climb, get out and get active. If your snowed in then run in place. 

    Do not push yourself, ease into it. The fastest drum chops are practiced slowly. The highest jumps start by feeling the ramp. etc, etc…

    #5 Make Something

    Create a great meal to share, write a song, a poem, a blog. If you don’t, you could become a vampire. Feeding off other’s creativity. 

    Be the light that sparks a fire in another

    #6 Don’t Go To Extreme’s

    If you are too passive you may give away your soul.

    If you are too stiff you could break. 

    Speak up if you feel something is not right. 

    Back down if you feel yourself getting angry

    As soon as you get angry you loose

    #7 Pay It Forward

    Do the best you can every chance

    #8 Don’t Should on Yourself

    What you say can effect your life. 

    Be kind in your observations of other’s, this will make you kind to yourself

    Do not hang out with negative people, you may get in to a competition!

    #9 Live in the moment

    You can never redo this moment so make the best of it. 

    #10 Live by Your Word

    Integrity can build fortune’s

    Mistrust can destroy it

    #11 Keep things temporary and specific.

    You can make temporary incident’s in to permanent and pervasive with words like Always and forever, or never.

    sample’s:

    I am always late

    You are never on time

    Get it?

  • why zen web media

    why zen web media

    Business Website Hosting Packages 

    WordPress / Email / Hosting / Security / Marketing

    Control Panel with WordPress & HTML Website Auto Installers:

    Custom Website Development, Upgrades, Themes, Plugins and more…

    You point your Domain Name Servers and Wallah!

  • Preferences Utilities

    Password & Security
    Change your account password below. Password strength is important in web hosting; we strongly recommend using the Password Generator to create your password. Follow the tips below to keep your password safe.
    Note: If you change your password, you will end your current session.

    Change Language
    This function allows you to change the language displayed in your cPanel interface

    Change Style
    Choose a style to customize your cPanel interface. For more information, read the documentation.

    Contact Information
    Edit Contact Information and Preferences

    User Manager

    Enable or disable user access to Email, FTP & Cpanel

    Applications Utility

    Auto Instal & Update WordPress Instalations

  • Software Utilities

    Site Software

    List of website software installed by Cpanel
    Notifications of software updates available
    Blogs

    WordPress
    PHP/MySQL Blog System

    Optimize Website
    Optimize the performance of your website by tweaking the way Apache handles requests.
    Info: This setting changes mod_deflate usage by Apache only. Use the MultiPHP INI Editor interface to manage Zlib compression on PHP scripts.
    Compress Content

    Apache allows you to compress content before sending it to the visitor’s browser. The types of content to be compressed are specified by MIME type. This feature requires Apache’s mod_deflate to function correctly.
    Disabled
    Compress All Content
    Compress the specified MIME types.

    MultiPHP Manager

    System PHP Version

    The system default PHP version is set by the system administrator.
    Any domain that is set to the inherent value indicates that it does not have its own PHP version explicitly set. Read more about inherit.

    MultiPHP INI Editor

    The MultiPHP INI editor writes to the .htaccess, .user.ini, and php.ini files. The system will only write a directive to a file if it is a valid directive for that file type. For more information, read our MultiPHP INI Editor documentation.
    Basic Mode
    Editor Mode

    Configure PHP INI basic settings

    Select the home directory or a domain’s document root to open the corresponding PHP configuration.

    Advanced Utilities

    Terminal
    This interface provides command line access to your account on the server.

    **Locked by Default. Please contact support for access

    Cron Jobs
    Cron jobs allow you to automate certain commands or scripts on your site. You can set a command or script to run at a specific time every day, week, etc. For example, you could set a cron job to delete temporary files every week to free up disk space.

    Track DNS
    Network Tools allow a user to find out information about any domain, or to trace the route from the server your site is on to the computer you are accessing cPanel from. Finding out information about a domain can be useful in making sure your DNS is set up properly as you will find out information about your IP address as well as your DNS.

    Indexes
    The Index Manager allows you to customize the way a directory will be viewed on the web. You can select between a default style, no indexes, or two types of indexing. If you do not wish for people to be able to see the files in your directory, choose No Indexing.

    Error Pages
    An error page informs a visitor when there is a problem accessing your site. Each type of problem has its own code. For example, a visitor who enters a nonexistent URL will see a 404 error, while an unauthorized user trying to access a restricted area of your site will see a 401 error.
    Basic error pages are automatically provided by the web server (Apache). However, if you prefer, you can create a custom error page for any valid HTTP status code beginning in 4 or 5.

    Apache Handlers
    Apache handlers control how the Apache webserver software manages certain file types and extensions for your site. Apache comes configured to handle CGI scripts and server-parsed files. You can configure Apache to handle a new file type with an existing handler by manually adding the handler and extension below. For example, to have the server treat files with the extension .example as CGI files, you would type “cgi-script” under Handler and “.example” under Extension(s).

    MIME Types
    MIME types tell browsers how to handle specific extensions. For example, the text/html MIME type equates to .htm, .html, and .shtml extensions on most servers, and this tells your browser to interpret all files with those extensions as HTML files. You can alter or add new MIME types specifically for your site (note that you can not alter the system defined MIME type values). MIME types are often used to handle new technologies as they appear. When WAP technology first appeared no one had these extensions set up on their server. With MIME types, however, you could have set it up yourself and begun serving WAP pages immediately.

  • Metrics Utilities

    Visitors
    This function displays up to 1,000 of the most recent entries in the Apache log for a given domain’s web site.

    Errors
    The function displays up to 300 of the most recent entries in your website’s error logs, in reverse chronological order. You can use this information to find broken links or problems with missing files. For more information, read our documentation.

    Bandwidth
    This function allows you to see the bandwidth usage for your site. It shows the current month’s bandwidth usage, as well as your total bandwidth usage. This will include all HTTP (web) and POP (mail) bandwidth usage and may include FTP bandwidth usage if your system administrator has enabled FTP bandwidth logging.

    Raw Access
    Raw Access Logs allow you to see who has visited your website without displaying graphs, charts, or other graphics. You can use the Raw Access Logs menu to download a zipped version of the server’s access log for your site. This can be very useful when you want to quickly see who has visited your site.

    Awstats
    Awstats produces visual statistics about visitors of your site.

    Analog Stats
    Analog produces a simple summary of all the people who have visited your site. It is fast and provides great lightweight statistics. Analog shows the people who have accessed your site during a specific month. It provides limited content but can be helpful to see where your main users are from.

    Webalizer – Not used
    Webalizer is a complex stats program that produces a variety of charts and graphs about who has visited your site.

    Webalizer FTP – Not used
    Webalizer FTP is a complex stats program that produces a variety of charts and graphs about who has visited your site using FTP protocol.

    Metrics Editor – Not Used
    This function allows you to choose what stats programs you will use when viewing site statistics, if you are allowed to do so.

  • Email Utilities

    Email Accounts
    This feature lets you create and manage email accounts. Want to learn more? Read our documentation.

    Email Account Forwarders

    Send a copy of any incoming email from one address to another. For example, forward joe@example.com to joseph@example.com so that you only have one inbox to check. For more information, read the documentation.

    Email Routing
    Route a domain’s incoming mail to a specific server. For more information, read the documentation.

    Autoresponders
    Configure an email account to send automated emails. This can be useful if you are on vacation or unavailable, or if you have a generic message that you wish to send from a support email address. For more information, read the documentation.

    Default Address
    Catch any email that is sent to an invalid email address for your domain. For more information, read the documentation.

    Track Delivery
    Review an email’s delivery route. This can be useful if you need to locate problems with email delivery. For more information, read the documentation.

    Global Email Filters
    Edit Filters for “All Mail on your Account”

    Create and manage email filters for your main email account. For more information, read the documentation.

    Email Filters
    Create and manage email filters for an email address that you specify. This can be useful if you want to avoid spam, redirect mail, or pipe messages to a program. For more information, read the documentation.

    Email Deliverability
    Use this interface to reduce the number of emails sent from this server that end up in spam folders. For more information, read our Email Deliverability documentation.

    Address Importer
    This feature allows you to use 2 types of files to create multiple email address or email forwarders for your account simultaneously. You may use Excel spreadsheet files (.xls) or a comma-separated values sheet, aka CSV file (.csv) to import the data. A CSV file is a plain text file that has been given a .csv extension.

    Spam Filters
    Manage the settings for the spam filters (powered by Apache SpamAssassin™) for your email accounts. Identify unsolicited bulk email, more commonly known as spam, and send it to a separate folder (Spam Box) or automatically delete it (Auto-Delete) from your email account. For more information, read the Apache SpamAssassin documentation.

    Encryption
    GnuPG is a publicly available encryption scheme that uses the “public key” approach. With GnuPG, messages are encrypted using a “public key” however, they can only be decrypted by a “private key”, which is retained by the intended recipient of the message.

  • Domain Utilities

    Site Publisher
    You can use this interface to quickly create a website from a set of available templates. This allows visitors to see some basic information while you continue to develop your website.

    Domains
    Use this interface to manage your domains. For more information, read the documentation.

    Addon Domains
    An addon domain is an additional domain that the system stores as a subdomain of your main site. Use addon domains to host additional domains on your account. For more information, read the documentation.

    Subdomains
    A subdomain is a subsection of your website that can exist as a new website without a new domain name. Use subdomains to create memorable URLs for different content areas of your site. For example, you can create a subdomain for your blog that is accessible through blog.example.com and www.example.com/blog

    Aliases
    Domain aliases make your website available from another domain name. For example, you can make www.example.net and www.example.org show content from www.example.com. For more information, read the documentation.

    Redirects
    A redirect allows you to make one domain redirect to another domain, either for a website or a specific web page. For example, create a redirect so that www.example.com automatically redirects users to www.example.net. For more information, read the documentation.

    Zone Editor
    DNS converts domain names into computer-readable IP addresses. DNS zone files configure domain names to the correct IP addresses. This feature allows you to create and edit these zone files. For more information, read the documentation.

  • Database Utilities

    Manage large amounts of information over the web easily. MySQL databases are necessary to run many web-based applications, such as bulletin boards, content management systems, and online shopping carts. For more information, read the documentation.

    phpMyAdmin

    Direct Access to Database with Import/Export, Edit and more…

    MySql databases

    Create and Modify Databases and Users

    MySQL Database Wizard

    Walks you through the steps to create a fully functional Database

    Remote MySQL
    Add a specific domain name to allow visitors to connect to your MySQL databases. Applications like bulletin boards, online shopping carts, and content management systems require databases to operate. For more information, read the documentation.