ServerGenie Cloud Servers and Managed WordPress Hosting

We are still looking at hosting providers! We are more than happy with DigitalOcean‘s offering so far but have also just spied ServerGenie – a managed hosting provider based in Oklahoma.

The company also now offers fully managed WordPress hosting that’s insanely fast and infinitely scalable.  Plans start at only $20 per month and include free migration from a client’s old hosting provider regardless of the number of blogs and domains to be moved.

ServerGenie’s entire customer support staff are WordPress and cPanel experts who are able to instantly assist a client with any hosting issues twenty-four hours a day – while we haven’t had reason to test this yet, reports are good and we are confident.

The company’s fully managed WordPress hosting accounts are hand-tuned to deliver the fastest WordPress experience available.  A representative for ServerGenie said, “Our cloud servers also give us the capability to scale your sites with zero downtime in case of heavy usage or during the holidays when Internet shoppers are at their peak.”

In today’s technologically advanced world website load speed matters a great deal.  In fact, Google recently reported that slower sites lose about 20% of their traffic for each additional 100 milliseconds it takes a page to load into an Internet browser.  Google changed its algorithm several times last year.  One of those changes incorporates a website’s page-load time into its rankings so that only the fastest sites are displayed on the search engine results pages.

The company’s free migration assistance includes moving a client’s website, email, and all configurations from their previous web host.  The company’s representative said, “We’re so confident that we provide the best fully managed WordPress hosting services that we give each new client 30 days to test it, and if they don’t like it, we will move them back to their old host or a provider of their choice for free.”

Small business owners who are experiencing hosting issues with their current provider are encouraged to visit ServerGenie’s website to read more about the company’s fully managed WordPress hosting options.  There is always a customer service rep available to answer questions via a live chat, email or on the phone.

About ServerGenie.com:
Headquartered in Oklahoma City, ServerGenie operates a global cloud infrastructure platform built for Internet scale. ServerGenie has partnered with SoftLayer Technologies to provide all data center management. SoftLayer’s network spans 13 data centers in the United States, Asia and Europe and a global footprint of network points of presence. ServerGenie’s modular architecture provides unparalleled performance and control, and sophisticated automation controlling a flexible platform that seamlessly spans physical and virtual devices, and a global network for secure, low-latency communications. For more information, please visit www.servergenie.com or call 1.800.560.3450.

VMWare: Installing VMware vSphere Client 4.x on Windows 8

Installing VMware vSphere Client 4.x on Windows 8

When installing VMWare vSphere Client 4.1 to manage VMWare ESX, you observe the following error:

Windows 8.1 Error

 

 

 

 

 

“This product can only be installed on Windows XP SP2 and above.”

Although Windows 8 is obviously above XP SP2, it would seem that Windows 8 wasn’t about when vSphere Client 4.1 or 5.0 was released. In order to work around this you simply need to do the following:

1. Extract the content from the installation file to a folder of your choice. Using 7zip, you can right click the executable file, go to 7Zip, and choose Extract to folder name.

2. Go to the extracted folder, bin sub-folder, right click VMware-viclient.exe and choose Properties. Go to Compatibility tab, and check the option “Run this program in compatibility mode for” and pick Windows 7 from the list:

Window2s 7 Compatibility Mode

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3. click OK to save the setting, and launch VMware-viclient.exe to start the installation again.

Note: If you are running vSphere 5.x you can download the newly released client which supports Windows 8 without the workaround above.

The link above also contains direct download links for all released vSphere clients.

Misc: Data source name not found and no default driver specified – ODBC / MySQL

Error: Data source name not found and no default driver specified

Platform: Windows7 (64 bit), MS Office 2010 (32 bit)

After downloading and installing the ODBC driver from oracle.com for 64 bit, this is the error observed when trying to access a MySQL server via Micrsoft Word VBA using a connection string:

conn.connectionString = "Driver={MySL ODBC 5.1 Driver};Server=10.1.1.10;Database=contacts; User=admin;Password=qwerty1"

Solution: The key issue here is that you must you must install the db drivers corresponding to the architecture of the application which is to use them, i.e.:

If you have 32 bit MS Office you MUST install the 32 bit MySQL drivers, if you have a 64 bit release then you MUST install the 64 bit drivers. There is absolutely no harm in installing both!

Notes: To access the 64 bit ODBC manager, pull up “Data Sources (ODBC)” from the start menu, to access the 32 bit manager, run the following: “C:\Windows\SysWOW64\odbcad32.exe

In the ODBC managers, make sure that you have the drivers installed:

Data source name not found and no default driver specified