As you may know by now CouchPotato is a great little app that automates your media center. In this post, I will present an automatic 1-step CouchPotato installer script for Ubuntu. For simplicity, I am going to call this script AtoMiC CouchPotato Installer (Automated Media Center). Update (April 2015): AtoMiC … read more
As you may know WordPress and Genesis Theme Framework are the workhorses behind htpcBeginner. I was trying to write a new article and out of the blue I started getting the infamous WordPress HTTP Error while trying to upload images. If you search around you will find a lot of … read more
Considering that there are several articles on htpcBeginner that refer to or use Usenet, it time we briefly explain what is Usenet and do a mini Usenet vs Torrents comparison. There are tons of articles on the internet that provide a much detailed explanation of what is Usenet and how … read more
There are several posts out there to get Alexa traffic rank using PHP. In fact, few months back I published an article on how to get Alexa traffic rank using PHP. In this post, I am going to expand the code to include more Alexa stats such as Country Rank … read more
GoDaddy is one of the most widely used domain and hosting provider. The offer hosting plans as low as $1 per month. In this post, I will provide a detailed explanation of how to create automatic MySQL database backup on GoDaddy’s Linux shared hosting. Please note that this method works … read more
PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) is a server side scripting language that powers several million dynamic websites, including those that run on WordPress. In this post, let us look at how to install PHP on Ubuntu and secure it before releasing it into the wild. After you install PHP, you may choose … read more