Sandeep Hegde

Change has come to PingSense

// July 18th, 2009 // Comments // My Activities, My Works

Hello everyone,

Its has been quite a month , no posts on PingSense. I was pretty busy writing exams and had no time to write for pingsense. Also my Godaddy shared hosting server was expiring and had to move around 25+ sites to my brand new Virtual Private Server(VPS).  I’m back again with a Bang !

While reading this post you might have noticed some new stuuf on PingSense. Yes ! Change has come to PingSense.

* Virtual Private Server

PingSense is now on Godaddy – Virtual Private Server(VPS).  A VPS is like an semi dedicated server.  A server is divided into many parts and simultaneously many virtual servers are created using virtualization softwares like Zen and OpenVZ. Now I have a server with 256MB RAM which is burstable upto 1GB, with 10GB Disk Space and 500GB monthly Bandwidth. Thats more than enough for a small site like mine. This will provide me more control over the server. I can literally do whatever I want with my server.  Other features include better performance of site, more flexibility, secure etc The only drawback is managing the server and I hope I can do it properly

*  New Look !

The old template of PingSens ewas very flashy. Thats was good for an entertainment site not for my blog. I was searching for an simple template and ended up with The Morning After theme for WordPress created by Arun Kale. The features include Clean grid-based design, Support for WordPress widgets, Three-column home page,  “Featured” post highlighting, Support for WordPress’s in-built image wrapping classes and galleries, Threaded comments, Support for asides, Support for Gravatars, Option for readers to email posts to friends, Option to switch to a print-friendly view to print posts and many more… I hope you too liked the it !

* Asides

An aside is basically a very short post, more like a note. It could be an interesting link that you want to share with your readers, or just a quick opinion about something. This was an very essential thing for me since sometimes its hard for me to find time to write long posts. I could just share some things which I may like in the web world and can’t keep explaining about it. I’m pretty sure you will like it !

* Twitter

Yes ! Finally PingSense is on twitter.  Twitter is a service to communicate and stay connected with exchange of quick frequent short messages. It has revolutionized the defination of Social Networking. Hereafter all the posts being on PingSense will be automatically twitted with TwitterFeed. Please follow us on http://www.twitter.com/sandeephegde

* Community Toolbar

I have added a new community toolbar which can be found at the bottom of the page. This toolbar is powered by Wibiya.  The toolbar will help the PingSense community to be engaged. It has a quick search option making it easy to find things around. Latest notifications can be read immediately.The content can also be translated into various languages easily.  You could find the recent/random posts at one click. You can post into facebook or twitter using the toolbar. You could also read the rss feeds and play games if you are bored!

I hope this will make my readers ( you ! ) happy. I will try to keep adding more features in the coming days.

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Winners. Not Quitters

// May 6th, 2009 // Comments // Mail Box

After an Month

// March 16th, 2009 // Comments // Cool Sites, My Activities

So friends PingSense.com has successfully completed an month on internet. So just thought of looking a way back.

It was my first attempt of serious Blogging and the most important thing I’m still serious about it!

Although I started with a general post, it moved to movies and departmental stuff. The post related to wordpress workshop had good keywords and got some traffic from Google. My post on Billu Barber got a traffic to the site . This made me to make a post on Delhi 6 too which still stands to to be highest viewed page on the site (2000+ counting on…)

Next comes the series of Lab Programs. I don’t know in which mood I posted the File Structure Lab programs for 6th Semester Information Science. File Structure Lab programs got listed first in Google & other search engines and hence I got a huge response from my fellow engineers. Thanks to our madam! People started mailing me for remaining programs and it went to extend that they even ask for programs in guest book ! The post remains the top discussed post on the site and made me to post lex and yaac programs and other academic stuff too. File Structure programs are too difficult and I may have to post once I get the remaining programs.

Next coming to the design of the site. The colour changed from orange to blue to external world. Internally I change the Personal Magazine theme to new design. Personal magazine had a simply look and lacked functionality. I could not even add widgets in it!

The new layout has two level of menus – one for custom pages and another for post categories. The top slider and feature post helps me to show attractive posts to the readers. Only a small portion of post gets listed up giving an option for more posts on homepage and giving the option to the reader goto the post of his choice. The site has become more user friendly what do you say?

Coming to the interaction with the user , I have added the Email subscription option powered by Google feedburner. This is allowing the readers to get the latest post right in their mailbox. Feedburner has got a good response with a lot of people subscribing daily. I have also added an code to display the feedburner statistics and the site statistics i.e the number of people reading the feeds and the number of people visiting and viewing the site. The comes the tabbed menu which has 3-d tag cloud and the articles which are most discussed and most popular.

Recently I have also added widgets from “Pluck”. The widget scans the content on my site and embeds the related articles from other site on the internet. The content is displayed withing my site and hence making the readers happy.

I have tried to optimize the site with ads but it is not generating any revenue. People now a days does not seem to click on ads. If the site does not generate any revenue through ads it may be difficult to pay my hosting charges next year. The site is getting a lot of visits and is consuming a lot of resources of my shared web hosting account. Keep praying that the service provider to be kind enough not to ban me for over usage of CPU and Memory usage.

Now comes the search engine optimization part. Being in the web industry for more than 3 years search engine optimization ( SEO ) was like an child’s play to me. The site started getting listed on the top of the search engines like google, yahoo, msn etc. Although the visits initially cam through search engines 25% were loyal enough to come back directly and i thank them all for their support. My search engine efforts were only for a week but still giving good results. The site has got a lot of back-links through many social bookmarking sites.

The site has got an seo score of 93% from “DomainTools.com”

Meanwhile site has reached an alexa ranking of 1,696,145 Globally, 125,973 for India and 913,344 for United States. I believe it is an achievement to reach such an ranking within one month time duration.

The site is valued to be worth $1372.4 till date by “WebsiteOutlook.com” and I’m embedding the real time valuation :

But its still a long way to go to get approved by direct ad agencies like “buy sell ads”.

In meanwhile it is making me to think the site is more of programs and academic stuff. So I’m making my mind to keep the academic stuff in limit and post on my areas of expertise. This post is a preface to the coming changes….

I welcome the suggestion and feedbacks .

Hello world!

// February 10th, 2009 // Comments // Cool Sites, My Activities, My Works

This is the bigining of my Brand New Personal(?) Blog with the domain “PingSense.com”.  Many domains where available when I din have money to buy and when I have money it is already registered by someone. Even “sandeephegde.com” is lying there without any content. Anyway I’m satisfied with PingSense  Thanks to Pruthwi.

About Ping :

• Ping is a computer network tool used to test whether a particular host is reachable across an IP network; it is also used to self test the network interface card of the computer, or as a speed test.
• In blogging, ping is an XML-RPC-based push mechanism by which a weblog notifies a server that its content has been updated. An XML-RPC signal is sent to one or more “ping servers,” which can then generate a list of blogs that have new material.

Content of blog : I haven’t yet thought much about it. Whatever comes to my ming I’m going to  write it. It may be about the technology, softwares, Sci-Fi, movies, music, videos, gadgets, tools, life,………………………

Schedule : I cant say how frequently I can blog. It all depends on my work load. I have to manage my Web Design work at dotCORD , Academic stuff and other personal matters. I’l try to write atleast once a week.

This first time I’m writing something of my own. This me my first step towards coming out of copy paste world. I don’t know how well I can write, so please bear with me. All your suggestions and comments are welcome.