DNSTC and YourCustomItems.com will be hosting meeting

DNS Technology Consultants, Inc. and YourCustomItems.com will be hosting this month’s Mahoning Valley Wedding Network meeting at Fab Limousine, on Feb. 27, 2012.

Marianne will be covering our custom products that can be used for weddings or business promotions and I will be going over 3 of our major Internet marketing services that any small business can use to help their business grow.

Todd Herron - Spaghetti Dinner Benefit - Scheduled

DoItHere.net will have the green screen photo booth available at the Todd Herron – Spaghetti Dinner Benefit – on Saturday, March 10, 2012 at the American Legion in Lake Milton, Ohio.  2-6 p.m.

All 4x6 photos will be for donation only, and we will be giving all donations to the event.

Todd is diagnosed with a Grade IV Glioblastoma malignant brain tumor.  He is currently undergoing radiation and chemo at the Cleveland Clinic.  This benefit is to help with medical expenses.

Come on out, support the event, get your picture taken!

Ohio Senior Olympics Website Renovation

Deanna Clifford, web designer for Ohio Senior Olympics, has renovated their website using the DNSTC WSMS system and layout design by DNSTC.

The new website with updated content went live on-line this morning after several weeks of moving over and cleaning up the content.

Ohio Senior Olympics sanctions Senior Games competitions in the state and is responsible for the yearly state Senior Olympics competition.

Senior Olympics is open to men and women ages 50 and older. Regional competitions are held around the state. The state games are also held yearly. In even numbered year, the Ohio Senior Olympics State Games acts as a qualifying event for the National Senior Games, which are held in odd numbered years.

Visit the new Ohio Senior Olympics website for more information.

We are all now on the new server

I wanted to provide an update and closing of this project.  We are all now running on the new server and the old server has been off-line now for about a week.  I want to say thank you to everyone I have worked with on this project and hope that we get as many years of great operations out of the new server.  If you experience any issues with your website, please contact me to get them worked out.  I think we have identified any problems and fixed them all by now.

We are all now on the new server

I wanted to provide an update and closing of this project.  We are all now running on the new server and the old server has been off-line now for about a week.  I want to say thank you to everyone I have worked with on this project and hope that we get as many years of great operations out of the new server.  If you experience any issues with your website, please contact me to get them worked out.  I think we have identified any problems and fixed them all by now.

Checking the values of a submitted form

Occasionally you may way to check to see what data is being submitted form a form.  I have used this simple little code in the past, and it has help solved mysteries while trying to program.  Simply put this code before any section that would save the data to the database and it will display the results of the submitted form to the screen instead of saving it to the database.  Just remember to go in and either comment out the code or remove it.

echo "<pre>";
print_r($_POST);
exit();
echo "</pre>";

Blocking IP addresses from the server

I really got tired of dealing with spammers so I just started blocking IP address from these people who just want to submit garbage to our forms on the websites.  Here is how I block and IP address.

1. Log into the root account.

2. Enter the code below at the command prompt:

iptables -A INPUT -s x.x.x.x -j DROP

To list what is in the iptables:

iptables -L

That is pretty much it, and they should be shut-down from the server completely!