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Web hosting Websites

The cheapest web hosting service in the country

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Web hosting is an online service that makes your website’s content accessible on the internet. When you purchase a hosting plan, you are renting space on a physical server to store all the website’s files and data.

Web hosts provide the hosting technology and resources required for the effective and secure operation of your website. They are responsible for keeping the server up and running, implementing security measures, and ensuring that data such as texts, photos, and other files are transferred successfully to the visitors’ browsers.

In this article, you will learn what web hosting is, how it works, and what are the different types of web hosting available.

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Types of web hosting services

We hosting is grouped into 5 categories namely:

  • Shared Hosting
  • Dedicated Hosting
  • WordPress Hosting
  • VPS Hosting
  • Cloud Hosting

Explaining these types of web hosting services is a story for another day. Now after ths background on what web hosting is, let’s go onto the cheapest web hosting service in Zimbabwe.

NivaCity

NivaCity is a popular web hosting company which offers Cloud Hosting and VPS Hosting services. They are a South Africa based company who extended their outreach to Zimbabwe and made it possible for Zimbabweans to purchase their services using Paynow. Here in Zimbabwe the average price for the cheapest hosting plan for most web hosting providers is $3 which is quite cheap and affordable. However NivaCity managed to surpass that with their Direct Admin hosting plan going for $1.50. Now if you wanted to run a personal website or a project website which one would you choose? If my guess was right you would choose NivaCity. But let’s take a look at all of the plans they offer.

NivaCity’s shared hosting is divided into two groups. The first is cPanel web hosting and the second is Direct Admin web hosting.

cPanel web hosting

All of NivaCity’s sites are hosted on LiteSpeed servers hence speed is not a speciality for this hosting plan only. The cPanel hosting has 3 plans which are pretty much ideal for businesses and small websites. The plans are listed below.

Starter Plan

  • 1 Domain
  • 5GB disk space
  • Unmetered bandwidth
  • 10 mySQL databases
  • 10 secure emails
  • MailChannels guaranteed email delivery
  • Free SSL certificate

The starter plan is going for $2.50/mo

Intermediate Plan

  • 5 Domains
  • 20GB Disk Space
  • Unmetered Bandwidth
  • Unlimited MySQL Databases
  • Unlimited Secure Email Accounts
  • MailChannels Guaranteed Email Delivery
  • Free SSL Certificate

The intermediate plan is going for $4.50/mo

Deluxe Plan

  • Unlimited Domains
  •  Unlimited Disk Space
  •  Unmetered Bandwidth
  •  Unlimited MySQL Databases
  •  Unlimited Secure Email Accounts
  •  MailChannels Guaranteed Email Delivery
  •  Free SSL Certificate

The Deluxe Plan is going for $6.50/mo

Direct Admin web hosting

Now let’s get into their cheapest plans, the direct admin plans.

Starter Plan

  • 1 Domain
  • 5GB Disk Space
  • Unmetered Bandwidth
  • 10 MySQL Databases
  • 10 Secure Email Accounts
  • MailChannels Guaranteed Email Delivery
  • Free SSL Certificate

The starter plan is going for $1.50/mo

Intermediate Plan

  • 5 Domains
  • 20GB Disk Space
  • Unmetered Bandwidth
  • Unlimited MySQL Databases
  • Unlimited Secure Email Accounts
  • MailChannels Guaranteed Email Delivery
  • Free SSL Certificate

The intermediate plan is going for $3.50/mo

Deluxe Plan

  • Unlimited Domains
  • Unlimited Disk Space
  • Unmetered Bandwidth
  • Unlimited MySQL Databases
  • Unlimited Secure Email Accounts
  • MailChannels Guaranteed Email Delivery
  • Free SSL Certificate

The deluxe plan is going for $5.50/mo

Conclusion

If you’re someone who knows about the hosting services here in Zimbabwe, you would have noticed that their Direct Admin Deluxe Plan is almost the same price as other hosting providers’ Starter plans. So according to what I’ve come across lately, NivaCity has the cheapest hosting in Zimbabwe.

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Chrome Websites

Taking screenshots in incognito mode – Chrome

Private browsing is a privacy feature in some web browsers. When operating in such a mode, the browser creates a temporary session that is isolated from the browser’s main session and user data. Well it doesn’t matter what you’re doing in the private tab or incognito mode but there might come a scenario where you would want to take a screenshot. That’s absolutely fine, let’s take me as a good example. I run the Sqeel Blog using my admin account right, but on the other hand I wanna see what the fronded looks like or when I add certain changes I want to see them in the fronded so I create an incognito tab then login with my forum user account. Someone else would just open a different browser but for full time chrome lovers like me I know you understand the feeling of using a different browser. Now to take a screenshot in incognito mode, follow the steps below:

Alert

THIS IS AN EXPERIMENTAL FEATURE SO THERE’S NO GUARANTEE THAT IT COULD WORK ON YOUR DEVICE BUT IT ALREADY WORKED ON TWO OF MY ANDROID DEVICES. 

  1. Go to chrome://flags
  2. Search for Incognito screenshot
  3. Click the button labeled ‘Default’
  4. Click ‘enable’
  5. Click ‘relaunch’

And you’re done, you’ve successfully enabled the Incognito screenshot option. To test this just open an incognito tab and attempt to take a screenshot.

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Dark Web Domain The Internet Websites

Popular websites found in the darkweb

So recently I wrote an article on accessing the darkweb but I never listed the majorly known darkweb sites for you to try. So here they are but as I mentioned earlier ‘open on your own risk’

  • The Hidden Wiki – http://zqktlwiuavvvqqt4ybvgvi7tyo4hjl5xgfuvpdf6otjiycgwqbym2qad.onion/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
  • Facebook – https://www.facebookwkhpilnemxj7asaniu7vnjjbiltxjqhye3mhbshg7kx5tfyd.onion/
  • Keybase (darkweb social network) – http://keybase5wmilwokqirssclfnsqrjdsi7jdir5wy7y7iu3tanwmtp6oid.onion/
  • OnionLinks – http://s4k4ceiapwwgcm3mkb6e4diqecpo7kvdnfr5gg7sph7jjppqkvwwqtyd.onion/
  • Soylent News – http://7rmath4ro2of2a42.onion/Torlinks – http://torlinksd6pdnihy.onion/
  • The dark lair – http://vrimutd6so6a565x.onion/index.php/
  • BoardGalaxy3 – http://galaxy3m2mn5iqtn.onion/
  • DuckDuckGo – http://duckduckgogg42xjoc72x3sjasowoarfbgcmvfimaftt6twagswzczad.onion
  • Ahmia (s search engine) – http://juhanurmihxlp77nkq76byazcldy2hlmovfu2epvl5ankdibsot4csyd.onion/
  • Bitcoin generator – http://6gyyimlj7p4s3b6nslusx3xxzqeculbvd3ikbbezaw6p2bv4tazldgid.onion/
  • Deeplink onion directory – http://deeeepv4bfndyatwkdzeciebqcwwlvgqa6mofdtsvwpon4elfut7lfqd.onion/
  • Virgin Bitcoins, – http://ovai7wvp4yj6jl3wbzihypbq657vpape7lggrlah4pl34utwjrpetwid.onion/
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Chrome Tutorials Websites

Using automatic dark mode for every website – Chrome

Once again another Chrome experimental feature which I think everybody is gonna love. According to different surveys and studies, it has been concluded that most people prefer using dark themes compare to light themes. Personally I’m also a true fan of dark themes. Dark themes come with many pros compared to light themes. Many websites now have a ‘switch to dark mode option’ but some don’t. We’re going to discuss on how to enable ‘auto dark mode for every website’. This option works on every site regardless if it supports dark mode or not.

What to do: Step 1

Firstly go to chrome://flags

NB:This only works with Google Chrome

Step 2

Copy the following text ‘Darken websites checkbox in themes setting’ and paste it in the search box and click enter

Step 3

Click enable and your browser will automatically restart and you’re done.

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Domain Websites

Guide to creating a free domain name

So I wrote this article on creating websites with custom domain names, mentioning stuff about free domains but I’ve never wrote one on getting a free domain name.

First of all, What is a domain name?

A unique, case-insensitive, name, consisting of a string made up of alphanumeric characters and dashes separated by periods, that the Domain Name System maps to IP numbers and other information. 

Wiktionary

A domain name is one of the primary keys for running a website. Top Level Domains (TLDs) are mostly for sale but today I bring you a list of free TLDs and how to get them. Before we continue I need to clarify on what a domain name is, with the use of examples.

Example 1: sqeel.co.zw

Example 2: sqeel.ga

Example 3: google.com

Example 4: google.co.uk

Example 5: wikipedia.org

If you’ve noticed something on this list, all domain names have different domain extensions i.e wikipedia.org, google.com, google.co.uk and also all of these domain names are TLDs. On this list, I also included a free TLD which is the one marked in red and the .ga domain name is one of the free TLDs I’m going to list.

List of free TLDs

.ga

.gq

.tk

.cf

.ml

The above are all the free TLDs you can get online. Now let’s get started.

How to get a free domain name

There’s only one free domain registrar and that is Freenom, which I once spoke about in my other post, Creating a fully functional website with a custom domain name. Freenom provides all these domain names for free and that is free forever. However it’s quite hard to actually get the domain as this is a free service.

Before beginning the following steps, go to the US address generator site and generate a new US address and name information.

Step 1: Go to my.freenom.com

Step 2: Sign in using the information provided by the US address generator and only use your own email address and custom password

Step 3: Sign up

Step 4: Go back to the homepage, freenom.com

Step 5: Type in your desired domain name with the domain’s extension i.e if you want a .tk domain you’ll type in – example.tk instead of just example. This will automatically enter your domain name into the shopping cart when you click ‘Check Availability’

Step 6: Continue with the process and when a prompt to enter the period, enter 12 months. (you’ll be able to renew this domain name the next year for free). Go on with the process till you reach the end. If there’s no error shown on the screen, this means that your domain name has been successfully created, you can now go to the my domains center to manage your domain name.