We are aware of slow site access and downtimes on the site, which are affecting several users. Thanks for emailing in your concerns. We are currently working to restore normalcy.

In the process we are upgrading the server to add more firepower to it. You might see a further downtime of 15-20 minutes. Please bear with us, till we fix the issue.

Sorry for the inconvenience, we are working hard to get things back to normal.

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Techie Buzz is proud to be a Top 100 InfoTech and Technology Blog in the world, according to Technorati, who track millions of blogs from across the world. This is a great achievement for us, since Technorati tracks more than 133 millions blogs across the internet, and being in the Top 100 puts us into a very elite position.

Overall, we are ranked 110th 100 in the general technology category, among 133 million blogs from across the world. Which again is great considering the amount of blogs that write about technology.

Once again, we want to thank all our readers for all the support you have given us. And like always, we aim to please. You will notice a lot of changes in how we review software and services, making it much more easier for you to make a decision to try out new and useful software.

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We are a 20 member strong editorial team, some of who contribute regularly and some who cover specific topics. However, we are missing a few bright guys in our team.

We are looking to expand in more specific areas, if you fit the bill, feel free to shoot me an email at keith[@]techie-buzz[dot]com.

• Mac/Apple/iPhone content – If you own a Mac product, we are looking for you. You can write about software reviews, Apple news and iPhone Apps.
• Software/Freeware Reviewer – You will work directly under me, reviewing software and freeware and unleashing all the benefits to the user.

There are two positions available right now, both of them are internships, which will be closely monitored by all the editors on the team. In future, all internships will be converted to regular author positions based on performance. Interested in joining? Just email me with your bio.

When you email me, please answer the following questions:

• Why do you want to write for Techie Buzz?
• What area(s) you can cover from the above list?
• Have you written elsewhere or own a blog? If so please provide samples.
• How often can you contribute?
• Anything else you might want to include is welcome.

Looking forward to having you on the Techie Buzz team. If you are keen to join the team and contribute to Techie Buzz, but don’t fall in the above two areas. No problems, you can always guest post for Techie Buzz.

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9rules is a premium blogging network, which showcases the best content of the Independent web. Techie Buzz was selected in round 9 of blog submissions, along with several other popular blogs. There were more than 150 blog submissions, out of which 43 blogs were chosen to be a part of the network.

We want to take this opportunity to thank member of the 9Rules team, consisting of Scrivs, Mike and Tyme, for selecting us to be a part of the network. It is indeed a privilege to be part of a network, which features some of the best blogs from across the Internet. We are more than eager to add the 9Rules leaf to our cap .

And last but not the least, we want to thank all our readers for all your love and loyalty, that contributes towards making Techie Buzz a success. We look forward to delivering the best news and become a one-stop resource for all your computing needs.

P.S. Want to show more love? Become a fan of Techie Buzz on Facebook, or follow our friendly update robot @techiebuzzer on twitter.

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If you are a newbie to all these things you might not be able to do that with ease and professional services cost you a bomb.

To save you from paying a ton of money to just get started out and also from taking too long to move from shared hosting to a VPS like Slicehost or Linode, I am offering my services to make the move seamless for a minimal amount.

Basic VPS Setup Package

NAMP Server (Linux, Nginx, MySQL and PHP [FastCGI]) from Scratch

This is a recommended setup if you just wish to use you get the best out of limited resources. I have been using Nginx on this site and it works like a charm serving 10000s of users on a day to day basis without crashing.

LAMP Server (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) from Scratch

In this package I will setup Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP on your VPS server and optimize all the settings for optimal usage.

WordPress Setup and Migration [Add-on Service]

If you are moving from a shared hosting you will have to setup WordPress and do other things like migrate your MySQL database, themes and plugins.

I will help you will all of this and also setup your server with WP Super Cache a excellent plugin to cache your files on any of the Basic VPS setup you choose.

Server Monitoring Scripts to Restart Server When it Goes Down [Add-on Service]

Monitoring and managing a VPS server can be quite a headache, in this add-on service I will setup scripts that will monitor your server resources and automatically restart Apache/Nginx and other monitored services when it stops working.

These scripts are very useful if you want to sleep peaceful nights without having to worry your server going down and when you don’t want to spend more money to upgrade your VPS plans.

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By default you will not require FTP servers for your VPS and can use SFTP instead, if you require a FTP server to be setup, I can do that and also create users and restrict them to certain directories.

In addition to that I will also help to setup a remote server management tool that you can use to monitor system status, create users, add virtual hosts, start and stop services and more.

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In addition to that you can also ask for additional services which will be considered as add-on services.

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We do this by making changes to the website over and over again. This time around I decided to dirty my hands and do a redesign of the theme for better navigation and content presentation.

I am not a designer per se, but I do dabble a bit in it whenever it is worthwhile. I spent a few hours doing some thinking and designing to come up with a new theme for the site. It has hints of the original theme, but I have tried to keep the content more readable. You can take a look at it in the screenshot below or browse the newly created theme.

Although there are still things that might need tweaking and changing, I depend on your feedback to further improve the theme. Please feel free to browse it and let me know if you want to see any changes in it.

Your suggestions and feedback is highly appreciated and like always the comment form is open for you.

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Techie Buzz is not just a one man show, and there are several authors who contribute their knowledge and expertise to make it a place where you can know your Technology head on.

That has been my motto from day 1 that I started this blog.

However I do feel that certain areas still need to be covered and want to explore those areas, even though I think I can contribute in those areas, I don’t really think that I can find time to do it.

So am looking for few more writers that can fill up that void, if you have the skills and expertise to do that you are more than welcome to join us on the Techie Buzz team, and this will be a paid gig, so you get a chance to showcase your skills and get paid for it too .

Here are some areas that I am looking to expand in and require authors for;

• Linux (Ubuntu and other flavors) related articles and tips and tricks.
• Apple/Mac related content.
• Detailed How-to articles.
• DIY (do it yourself) sort of articles.
• Mobile related content (iPhone/Symbian etc), this is for Mobile Buzz.
• Gadgets/Hardware related content, this is for Gadgets Buzz.
• Hot, Awesome, Funky and Unique List Posts, this is for Damn Good Lists.
• Newbie tutorials, excellent step by step tutorials, this is for KISS Geeks.

What do you get when you write for Techie Buzz?

• A robust and hassle free environment to write content, no editorial interference from my end.
• You get paid to write.
• Some of your content might land up on Google News.
• Backlinks to  your own blog from every post you write.
• Will look good on your resume
• And last but not the least, attention and love from our readers, which to me matters the most.

Are you interested in writing for us? How do you get in touch with us? Just drop a email to keith [@] techie-buzz.com. Please make sure to include the following details, all are not required but it helps.

• Why do you want to write for Techie Buzz?
• What area(s) you can cover from the above list?
• Have you written elsewhere or own a blog? If so please provide samples.
• How often can you contribute?
• Anything else you might want to include is welcome.

Once I get your email, I will get in touch with you and personally discuss things and we can take it forward from there. Looking forward to having YOU on the Techie Buzz team.

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It has been a exciting journey and I have enjoyed it to the core, which could not have been fulfilled without your active support.

Out here we celebrate all our achievements because we want you to be part of our success and help us grow more and more successful everyday.

And to thank you all I have decided to club all the remaining prizes and offer it as a in a mega competition to our readers, details of which will be coming shortly.

In the meantime please give us your feedback, we value it more than anything, your words whether good or bad motivates us to strive and do better, so do let us know what you think.And we are pretty social networking savvy, so don’t forget to join our communities on the social networks, here is a list of places where you can join us and communicate the way you want, don’t forget to keep commenting here too .

• Become a Fan on Facebook
• Join This Blog using your Google Account
• Follow us on Twitter
• Favorite us on Technorati
• Favorite us on MyBlogLog

Don’t forget to comment and tell us what we need to do to improve, we are more than looking forward to it.

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More than a year ago we also held a user recommendation marathon where we wrote several user recommended posts based on your suggestions, and we are back with the second edition of the user recommendation series.

Once again we want to take a backseat and let our readers tell us what they want us to write about, so go ahead and tell us, BTW here is some background about this series.

What is User Recommendation Marathon?

User Recommendation Marathon is a series where we will write posts based on what readers want us to write about, we take their suggestions, ideas and questions and convert them into posts and publish it on the blog.

This is a no holds barred recommendation series, however we may skip certain things that may not be appropriate to publish on the blog.

How Can You Be Part of the User Recommendation Marathon?

User Recommendation Marathon is all about you as a reader, you choose what we should write about and tell us about it, by either using the contact us form or dropping us a email at tips [at] techie-buzz.com.

Your recommendation could be anything, a question, a suggestion or something else you want us to write about. You just tell us about it and we will do the hard work and write about it.

However while contacting please make sure to tell us it is a user recommendation as we get lots of emails everyday, if you choose to use the contact us form, please make sure to select User Recommendation from the drop down list of reasons for contacting us.

I am a Blogger. How Can I take part in User Recommendation Marathon?

If you are a blogger and want to recommend something to our readers, you can do it with by writing a guest post for us, we will publish the guest post and include links to your blog.

You can send us more than one guest post if you want, no holds barred, however we may edit it to fit our guidelines.

If you want to send us a blog post for the user recommendation, you can directly email it to us at tips [at] techie-buzz.com, please add that it is a user recommendation guest post.

We will run the user recommendation series for a month and write at-least one post a day based on user recommendations, however we expect that to be more than one a day, so go ahead what are you waiting for, tell us what you want us to write about right away.

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However we all look to going higher in whatever we do, and for that we strive harder every day, it has been the same with me for the blog.

There is a really good news I want to share with everyone, we recently put in a application for the first time to be included as a source of news in Google News, and I am more than proud to tell you that we have been approved.

This is really a celebratory moment, hard work definitely pays off, and I would like to take this chance to thank all the wonderful authors other than me who write for Techie Buzz, all our loyal readers who have borne with ups and downs and stuck with us, given us feedback and helped us improve day after day.

I credit this to all of you, you have really been the backbone of this site, and I hope that you will stick by with us for a long long time.

However with the larger audience we will get, we will have to get better and do much more than we did, improve quality and give everyone the best, we definitely have been improving everyday and you as a reader have had the first hand experience of it.

You won’t be seeing our articles in Google News right away, the entire process may take a few weeks, we will definitely let you know whenever things are finalized.

And last but not the least I want to thank Martin from Ghacks.net who helped me out by providing the initial help.

Hope all of you will enjoy this news and help us grow better everyday.

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