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Google adwords the best?:?
Hi 1.I have just uploaded my first site, i want to know how to get website traffic in large numbers? 2.Also who offers the cheapest dedicated server hosting? 3.Google adsense was recomended to me for revenue, is that the best, and how do you get traffic top reveue conversion? kind regards Tovia S

Well, well done for starting your first site. The bad news is that you are not even a quarter of the way there. Building traffic is the tough part. It requires an abundance of A. Money or B. Great content + lots of quality inbound links. My advise to you would be to hire a writer http://www.website-copy-writer.com because on the net, content is king. While your writer is writing, you can focus on building up links to your site. Take a look at this article to get a run down on what is important for great traffic levels. http://www.website-copy-writer.com/google-guy-recommendations.html It is basically the recommendations of an ex-google employee for having a successful website.

What is a Dedicated IP Address ?
A hosting company offers that on its gold packet. I am thinking to go for the silver packet which is cheaper. Am I going to loose much if I don't have a dedicated IP ? I am planning to have some joomla sites in that host's servers.

The only real advantage of a Dedicated IP is that you can install secure certs so if you plan on any https activity, get the Dedicated unit. Be aware that without a dedicated IP if anyone on the server spams and gets the IP blacklisted you will be also.

Dynamic URLs based on server root with PHP?
I'm trying to setup a site to use dynamic URLs based on the the root of my paid, non-dedicated server's site. My problem is that if I use a full URL, I.E. http://www.blah.bla/folder/page.bla, if get the error "URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration." This was from the following script: $server_name= $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']; $server_root= "http://www." . $server_name; include ("$server_root/ blah/page.bla"); (I did those new lines after the "=" signs because Yahoo was cutting them off and a space between $server_root/ and blah/) So I then tried this: $envhome=$_ENV['HOME']; $page= $envhome."blah/page.bla"; include ("$page"); (Again, new line after "="...) This returned this error: "open_basedir restriction in effect." Now this is really starting to piss me off because I believe I'm coming to the realization that my host is very cheap and makes you pay for the higher priced accounts for decent features. (To be continued in "details" section) Also, if it helps, I have PHPBB 3 running just fine in the /forums/ directory. I doubt it, mostly because it's a flat file directory structure, but maybe there's a function used in there that works? Thanks in advance. ...By the way, does anyone else think this site is pretty incompetent for programming questions because of the 1000 character limit and it cutting off lines, ending them with "..."? Oh, and the reason for the dynamic links is that the page may be run where it's at or it may be included into another page. ...Oh ya, and I do NOT have .htaccess even though the file is actually in the main ftp directory. I mean, it's there, just not functioning under my account. I swear, whenever I finally give up and post a question, the answer comes to me VERY fast! I found a solution by using: $document_root= $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']; $server_root= realpath($document_root); include("$server_root/ folder/page.bla"); (Yes, new lines after the "=" signs and a space between server_root/ and folder/) However, is there a more efficient/professional way of doing this? Will give a best answer...

You're running into PHP's safe mode restrictions. You can read more about it here: http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.safe-mode.php Safe mode is usually turned on when your ISP's server is providing shared hosting. It tries to prevent access to other user's code/data, but as you've discovered, it's a bit of a band-aid. It also helps prevent certain kinds of cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks where an attacker can alter variables your PHP scripts are using to maintain state that might be used to include other PHP scripts. How bad would it be if one of your include statements included code from http://attacker.com/? Often, the attacker would have control of your web site and possibly the web server itself. Also, yes, YA's truncation of longer lines is a real pain because most askers posting code don't notice the truncation, so helping them is often very difficult, if not impossible.