Here at J-insights, we have explored the different options available to setup An SMTP server and send unlimited emails. we have here, the postal smtp setup guide, postfix smtp setup guide, and other detailed mail transfer agent setup and configurations guide. Today we will see the PowerMTA Setup Guide, a special type of mail transfer agent for high-volume sending. Port25 Solutions inc develops Powermta to serve and send high-volume emails. So, whilst other mail transfer agents are limited in the number of emails they can process say per hour, powermta can truly send hundreds of thousands of emails per hour. As a result of its high processing power, it is used by most reputable email marketing companies like getresponse, systeme.io, etc. So, if you are looking to send a high volume of emails, then Powermta is your best option. Let’s go through this PowerMTA Setup Guide without delay and see what is in it for us. Let’s go oo 🔥🔥🔥 What is PowerMTA PowerMTA is a leading mail transfer agent (SMTP) or delivery system used to send emails over the Internet. There are other mail transfer agents like Postal (You can join the GitHub repo to view and maybe contribute to the project if you are a developer), postfix, Exim, etc. Here at j-insights, we have also explored postal SMTP setup, postfix smtp setup, etc. You can also check them out to see their relationship with powermta. Components of a complete email marketing system Just like we described in our different types of email marketing platforms, any Email marketing system is made up of two parts: To have a functional email marketing system, the above two components of an email marketing system must be connected together to make a whole. We also have different types of email marketing systems depending on manageability and how the systems are built. This gives rise to the different types of email marketers because as they are built differently, are advantages and disadvantages associated with them all. As an email marketer, you have to go with the ones that best fits your need. Ensure to check those guides out to understand the type of email marketer you’re as this will help you to know the kind of system to go with. Is Powermta an Open-source Project? No, PowerMTA is not an open-source project. PowerMTA (Power Mail Transfer Agent) is a commercial email delivery software developed by Port25 Solutions, Inc. It is a high-performance email server that provides advanced features for managing and delivering large volumes of email. PowerMTA is not available for free and requires a license to use. Being an enterprise-grade software for sending high-volume and mission-critical messages, it’s somehow expensive as opposed to its open-source counterparts like Postal, Postfix, Exim, etc. What makes PowerMTA unique is that it provides high performance, stability, and deliverability in line with perfect manageability. And it’s built with a much smaller hardware footprint than is possible with other products like Postalhq, MAIB, postfix, Exim…etc. How to Get & Download PowerMTA? Powermta isn’t a small software that can be seen anywhere. It’s enterprise software used by big companies like getresponse, Mailchimp, systeme.io, etc. So. how do we get Powermta or better still how do we download it? Well, as part of our commitment to copyright adherence at j-insight, we don’t share cracked software licenses of any sort not even powermta on our network and subsidiaries. So, we respect copyright as much as we’d love others to respect ours. So from where do we get Powermta for this Powermta setup guide? or at least how do we get a trial version so we can test it before we buy? To get a trial version of PowerMTA or buy a license, you can simply send a small message to the owner (Spark Post) using this contact form. They are responsive, and they will respond within a day or two. then they may ask you some questions regarding your business just to make sure you are not a spammer, and you will get two months trial copy to learn and test everything in the software before you buy a paid license. Quick Question: Do you really need PowerMTA? Since PowerMTA serves commercial purposes for large volume sending/hr. it is used by enterprise companies which means it is not cheap. I’d advise, if you are not an email marketing company or at least a high volume sender with a few tens of millions email list and traffic, I don’t think you should go with Powermta as that will be expensively overwhelming for you. Aside from expansiveness, you don’t even need it since you will be sending just a few thousand emails which can easily be handled by free open-source projects like postal, postfix, Exim, etc . Better still you can go with alternative cheap solutions like using SMTP services (Amazon SES, Sendgrid, Mailgun, Mandrill, Spark Post SMTP Service…) and then integrate with an email marketing application like mailwizz. Not let’s get into our PowerMTA Setup Guide in detail. Powermta setup Guide: Let’s get started. As I said earlier, there are two components of an email marketing system. The email marketing application (EMA) like mailwizz, moosend, or any EMA of your choice and the SMTP server or the delivery system eg powermta. We have also discussed here how to install the Mailwizz email marketing application with and without a control panel. You can go through and see how simple it is to install the Mailwizz email marketing application. But for this tutorial, let’s focus on setting up powermta. So, what do we need for this powermta setup guide? What are the purchasing requirements? let’s see Powermta purchasing requirements. Just like any web application. We need two things: Getting a domain name Getting a domain name is more than simple. Just head on to Namecheap or any domain registrar of your choice, search for any domain of your choice, and check out using your preferred payment method and you will be up and running. For the
How to Setup SMTP Server and Send Unlimited Emails: The Ultimate Guide
There are various ways to setup smtp server and send unlimited emails. Here at J-insights, we have explored how to setup an SMTP server with postal. There are still other mail transfer agents to setup SMTP servers such as PowerMTA, Exim, Postfix, etc. In this tutorial, we will see how easy it is to setup postfix and configure everything. The most interesting part of the whole setup is that we are not going to install Postfix manually, like the way we did with postal, powermta, etc. We’re going to just install a control panel or a web hosting manager just like cPanel, known as webmin. Webmin will help us pre-install postfix automatically. All we have to do now is to just configure. Without much talk let’s see… Components of An email marketing system To better understand Setup SMTP Server and Send Unlimited Emails, I feel we should really understand the different components of an email marketing system. Off course we already have a guide on the different types of email marketing systems and marketers. I encourage you to go over it so as to understand everything deeply. But for the sake of this tutorial let’s go over the little we need. There are two components of an email marketing system: The email marketing system (EMA) To make things very simple, An email marketing application is an interface where you manage your email marketing stats. Here you can create and manage your email lists, create and send campaigns, track open rate, and click-through rate, perform A/B split test, etc. This part has nothing to do with the delivery of emails to your subscribers. The SMTP server/ the delivery system SMTP is short for simple mail transfer protocol. This is the technical part of an email marketing system that delivers the email you typed on the email marketing application to the subscribers. Just assume an email marketing application to be your phone while the smtp is your internet service provider which helps you to make calls or access the internet. Your phone helps you to collect and save numbers just like the email marketing application which helps you to collect and save emails in organized tags or lists. Just like we have different internet service providers for our phone calls is the same way we have different delivery networks or mail transfer agents for sending emails. The mail transfer agents can be postal, postfix, exim, power MTA, etc. While the email marketing application can be Mailwizz, moosend, mailster, etc. Note: in email marketing companies like systeme.io, getresponse, convertkit, etc, both the email marketing application and the SMTP server are integrated as one platform. In such companies, all you have to do is to sign up for their free or paid plan upload your lists, and begin your sending. in our own case, our email marketing system and delivery system are going you be separate. All we got to do is to connect both of them together, warm up our newly built system, and send unlimited emails depending on your server resources (CPU, RAM, etc). This is unlike email marketing companies where you have to subscribe to a plan for a particular list size or for a pay-as-you-go plan. Setup SMTP Server and Send Unlimited Emails, Let’s get started! Before we fly on the strength of our wings, let’s see the purchasing requirements to Setup SMTP Server and Send Unlimited Emails: Requirements to Setup SMTP Server. Here are the main requirements to Setup SMTP Server and Send Unlimited Emails: Getting a Domain Name Domain name is the address of your website like j-insights.com. To send an email you need a domain name just like j-insights. You can then create domain emails like Johnkachi@j-insights.com. if you just want to send emails to your blog subscribers that genuinely opted into your email list, you can use your main domain email just like johnkachi@j-insights.com. But if you are doing a cold mailing, you need to get a clone domain for your mailing purposes. What is a clone domain?? A clone domain is a domain that resembles you’re domain name especially when it differs from your main domain by extension. Let’s see an example: Take my main domain name to be j-insights.com. Consider another domain name j-insights.io or j-insights.net. Two domains resemble my main domain, the only difference is the .io and .net extensions. So, if you are doing cold mailing I advise you to get a clone domain to avoid being blacklisted on your main domain. If people report spam, or your domain gets blacklisted for spam you will be sure that your main domain is safe. There are different registrars where you can get your domain name. A few of them are: in this tutorial, I will go with Namecheap. You are not obliged to go with Namecheap. You can go with any registrar of your choice. Getting a VPS server To setup SMTP server and send unlimited emails, we need a VPS server. Not just any type of VPS, but the one with port 25 open. unlike the conventional web hosting, we are familiar with, we need port 25 to be open in our VPS server. This tiny port is what is required for us to be able to send outgoing emails from our server. The few companies below are the ones that allow port 25 open on their VPS server. So, it doesn’t matter the VPS provider you are using, just ensure that they allow port 25 to be open on their server. You can verify this by searching online or by messaging their support and asking if port 25 is open on their VPS. To make things easy we already have an article that outlined the lists of VPS providers with port 25 open. I have taken time to talk with their support and they confirmed their port 25 is open. Note: These are not all the companies there is that have port 25 open. You can always reach out to
How to start premium URL Shortener Saas Business: Definitive Guide
There are thousands, if not millions of saas businesses scattered all over the internet. This can be attributed to the different factors; which are not limited to the quest to solve pressing problems, make money, and generally feel fulfilled and be part of humanity. A buoyant fraction of the most successful saas businesses today are hard-coded and require a great team and skills to get steadily up and running. Now the question is …, how can anybody start premium URL Shortener Saas Business in the absence of complex skills and a team? What are the options available for anyone who wants to start a premium URL Shortener Saas Business without breaking the bank financially or on strange technicalities? Let’s see…., Options to start premium URL Shortener Saas Business There are a lot of ways to set up and launch a premium URL shortener saas business. We explore them all and itemized them into 3 viable ways: In this guide, we will go with the third option simply because; it is the easiest. So, you can get everything up and running within the twinkling of an eye. What is SAAS? SAAS is short for software as a service. This can be either a mobile or web-based software application. You may be familiar with chatgpt Premium, Netflix, Twitter premium subscription, etc. All these are all saas services, which you have to pay monthly, quarterly, or yearly depending on the plan you chose. SAAS; or software as a service, is a cloud-based service where instead of downloading software to your laptop to run an occasional update, you access the application via your browser. Since we’re rooting to set up a premium URL Shortener Saas Business, you need a premium URL shortener script. There are a lot of marketplaces to purchase a premium URL shortener script but the most reputable in my experience is codecayon ( one of the Evanto marketplaces). But wait…, before then, there are some factors you need to bear in mind before getting an already-made script from any marketplace. Let’s see…, Factors to consider when choosing a premium URL You may like to check out our article on how chatgpt will never replace google Premium URL Shortener Script Setup As I have said before, this is an already-made script you can buy from the script’s authors. They’ll give you the license to install it. You’ll also have access to further updates on the hand and access to a variety of integrations like Stripe if you get the extended license. In this tutorial, we are going to be using the premium URL saas script from Codecayon. Remember that some people might have bought it, so, you have to be different by tweaking things like the color, and a few other things to your taste to be unique. Was the premium URL bought?? Let’s go… 🔥🔥🔥 Requirements to Setup premium URL shortener saas business. Just like any normal business, setting up a premium URL shortener SAAS business have some requirements to get things up and running. And don’t worry, the requirements are not enormous. Let’s see below: Getting the premium URL shortener script As of the time of writing this article, the premium URL saas script cost only $45 and it is a one-time fee. So, you don’t have to pay for anything more in the future. You can get it from codecayon ( one of the Evanto marketplaces) and start using it for your business and for your client too. A quick note before we continue: Before you purchase any script from script marketplaces like codecayon, there are things to look out for. This will ensure you don’t run into issues with the script in there future. Just like in the screenshot above, try and look out for the number of sales. I believe that if a script is great a lot of people will buy it. for instance, the premium URL script we are using in this setup at the time of writing has gathered 7,565 sales. Also, check out the support and comment section of the script to see how great their support is and how the authors respond to comments. This is very important because, you are setting up a business, and you wouldn’t want to set up businesses that won’t stand the taste of time. From the screenshot above, the support ticket and comment are 746 and 6.500+ respectively. That is a lot and it indicates one thing, which is responsiveness. So, we are safe. Lastly, just like I said before; you need to white-label; the script to look different. Try to be different, change the color, remove settings that don’t fit into your brand, and add ones that suit and you will be ok. That being said, let’s continue…., Getting a domain name A domain is the address of your website and as a consequence, you need to have a domain name since, the premium URL Shortener Saas Business is going to be accessed through the web. There are a lot of domain registrars where you can get a domain name. You can check the list below: These are not all domain registrars there are on the internet. They are just the most popular on the lists. So, feel free to use any domain registrar of your choice but ensure they allow you access to the DNS management zone of the domain you buy. For this tutorial, I’m going with Namecheap. Just head on to Namecheap, the process is pretty easy. Choose your domain name. Make sure the domain is short, concise, and reflects what your brand is all about. Enough of justasknnannajohnonyekachiogonna.com. Go for names that are sexy and can be subconsciously remembered by your audience. Domain bought?? Great ✔️✔️✔️ Getting a VPS machine While the domain is the address of your website, the VPS server or machine is where your website files and folders are seated. This is called web hosting. To make things super simple, just like liken web hosting to a
17 best offshore hosting providers: Full list 2023
For some time now there has been an increase in the world of anonymous hosting. I already knew you have reasons for wanting to use offshore or anonymous web hosting. In this guide, we’ll explore the best offshore hosting providers, and factors to consider before making a buying decision, Whether you’re worried about data privacy or seeking protection against block or censorship, looking to have more access to more flexible payment methods, etc. In general, this guide will help you make an informed decision on the best offshore hosting providers for your business need. What is Offshore Hosting? One word I can conveniently use to describe offshore hosting is 100% anonymity. The concept of offshore hosting involves hosting your website in locations where there are no restrictions or censorship. Government policies in the United States impose numerous restrictions on hosting websites on physical servers. They decide which type of content to host. In cases of government requests or fraud, companies or hosts must surrender private information to the government. They can also take down your website without your notice and you may not be able to retrieve it. Summarily speaking, 100% offshore hosting offers to solve this issue. It really protects your data privacy, and your contents from censorship. It also gives you access to more flexible payment methods like cryptocurrency which is another layer of anonymity. In all, this guide will help you make an informed decision on the best offshore hosting providers for your business need. Best Offshore hosting providers and their features: There are a lot of offshore hosting providers and the below are the best based on our experience, users review, and research. Note that we arranged them in the other of importance. You can explore them and see the one that resonates with you. You may also like to check out the lists of VPS providers with port 25 open and the Best cloud hosting & shared hosting providers. Turnkey Internet Offshore Hosting Established in 1999 turnkey internet is one of the thought leaders not just in offshore hosting but in the hosting business in general. Turnkey Internet has a deep commitment to customer service, uptime monitoring, network reliability, and supersonic web servers. It is really one of your best go-to places when it comes to offshore hosting. Dreamhost Offshore Hosting If you are familiar with the web hosting industry, you might have heard about DreamHost. Coincidentally, it is one of the best offshore hosting providers out there with data centers in Europe and many areas that offer 100% anonymity. Dreamhost pride itself on many features some of which include: Free automated migration, unlimited emails, 24/7 customer support, on-demand backups, 1-click restore, 1-click staging, unlimited bandwidth, fast SSD storage, 30 days money-back guarantee, and many other great features. You can click on the coupon link below to try Dreamhost. You may also like How to install WordPress on a contabo VPS without cPanel. ScalaHosting Industry brands and websites have recommended Scalahosting over the years. Websites such as WPbeginners, Forbes, hosting advice, Neil Patel, hostadvice, etc. This endorses scalahosting as a go-to place in your offshore hosting need. Here are the great features of scalahosting: Free 24/7 customer support so you don’t have to worry about any technicality, free effortless and guaranteed migration, NVME SSD storage, unmetered bandwidth, automatic offsite backups, and easy website management. Hostinger Hostinger is one of the best traditional hosting companies with everything you need for your offshore hosting need. Unique features ranked it high among the best offshore hosting providers. Such features include 100 subdomains, DNS management, unlimited database, secured access manager, unlimited FTP accounts, unlimited cronjobs, GIT access, ssh access, 99.9 uptime guarantee, 30 days money back guarantee, 24/7 support and other great features obtainable in other offshore hosting providers. How to make a forum on WordPress Orangewebsite. Personally, I am super pumped at the mind-blowing customer reviews of Orange website all around the world. Statistical proof demonstrates that buyers always check online customer reviews before making purchasing decisions. These can be attributed to their customer service and other great features of Orange website. Here few of the great features of Orange website: Flexible multiple cryptocurrency payment, advanced DDoS protection, spamexpert filtering, 1-click installer, free site builders, cPanel, unmetered bandwidth, jetbackup etc. Another reason why I greatly prefer Orange website is that it has data center in Iceland, meaning there is no censorship of any type, and your privacy is 100% protected. Again they offer 30 days money-back guarantee so you are not risking anything. Abelohost Offshore Hosting In Abelohost, SSD hosting pro is launched on the latest SSD to increase your site speed at an incredibly supersonic fast load time. You also have access to a dedicated Ip Address, meaning that you with have the flexibility of determining what happens to the IP and the number of domains that are gonna be mapped to the IP address. Follow the link below to explore the great features of Abelohost. 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How to make a forum in WordPress
Since the launch of the biggest AI project by Openai known as Chatgpt, a lot of other AI projects have emerged. Out of the many great use of AI and chatbots are some potential challenges it has posed on businesses. it is essential to be more strategic in brand building if one must remain relevant in the space. Bloggers and content creators have lost and are still drastically losing traction because of chatbots. To keep your customers coming back to your website you need to be very strategic and provide an extra level of value in your site that chatbots aren’t providing. One of the ways to keep users coming back to your site is by having a community or forum either as an entire site or as part of your site that offers them real help and value. In this tutorial, we will see how to make a forum in WordPress very easily using a 100% free plugin. Forum as a great source of traffic Having a forum on your website will really give a sense of belonging to your site visitors. This forum will help to keep users coming to your site even when they use Chatgpt. Adding a forum to my site J-insights is part of what reinstated my website traffic and sales. Today I have over 3 thousand members in the j-insights forum. Now let’s see how to make a forum on WordPress very easily without coding or doing complex integrations. This will help you build a strong community and greatly reduce the effect of AI on your business. Requirements to Make a Forum on WordPress Getting a Domain Name A domain name is basically the address or URL of your website. There are different domain registrars to get your domain name. We have Dreamhost, Namecheap, GoDaddy, Bluehost, etc. But for the sake of this tutorial, I will be using Namecheap because it is more newbie friendly and it offers domains at ridiculously cheap rates. Just go to NameCheap and search for your preferred domain name and checkout. Getting a Fast Hosting Server Your website files and folders are located or seated in your web hosting. Generally, a website in the backend is just files and folders which your browser requests from the host and returns to your browser as static HTML pages which you see. From what I said now you will see that your visitors reaching your site is a science of back-and-forth requests between the host and the browser. A slow response from the host to the browser will result in a delay in loading requested resources, causing slow website loading time for visitors. This means poor user experience and average poor load time. Most shared hosting servers typically have poor load times, although not all of them do. You can check a list of the recommended fast ones here on our deals and coupon page. Shared hosting is the type of hosting common with traditional hosting companies you can think of. This type of hosting involves the hosting company placing multiple websites on the same server. The lack of control over the server’s content leads to average slow load times for all users on the server. Since we want to make a forum where a lot of members will interact we need a very fast server that we will have full control over and host only our site or sites. As a result, we’ll go with a special type of hosting known as VPS hosting and specifically with Cloudways and I will tell you why shortly. Whichever one you are rooting to use, you’ll see how to make a forum in WordPress. Let’s get this 🫶🫶🔥🔥 …… What is a VPS Hosting? Without going into much technical detail, VPS stands for Virtual private server. Just like the name implies it is private to you. VPS hosting assigns server resources to your website, which only the websites you add to the server can use. Since it is only your site that is on the server, your server will be faster than the regular traditional servers from shared hosting companies. To better understand the concept of shared hosting, VPS hosting, and dedicated server hosting just picture a dedicated server to be a full physical server just like the one below: Different Types of Hosting Explained Dedicated server hosting refers to the allocation of a full physical server to host a single website. High-performance websites with millions or billions of monthly visits, such as Facebook, Netflix, and OpenAI, use this type of physical server. VPS hosting divides a dedicated server into multiple virtual servers, with each server assigned specific resources for hosting individual websites. Shared hosting allocates the same virtual server to multiple individuals, who host multiple websites, resulting in hundreds or even thousands of different individuals sharing a particular virtual server. Here they can host as many websites on the servers as they want. This will obviously result in a slow server response and loading times for all websites hosted on the server. The question is … if Dedicated and VPS hosting is the best, why do people tend to go for shared hosting?? well, I have two answers to that: Why do People go for shared Hosting? Which Hosting is best to make a forum in WordPress? We have already understood the different types of hosting and the best to go with for high performance of your forum site is VPS hosting. Out of the many VPS companies that exist, we can only recommend a few. They are the ones that incorporate fast servers, customer support, user-friendliness, and friendly starter price, among other factors to consider. In the course of this, I have tested a lot of VPS companies and can specifically recommend Cloudways for this. I have partnered with Cloudways and obtained a coupon code that offers a discount on your purchase. Click here to start a 3-day free trial with Cloudways. After the 3 days, if you like the performance of the server, you can continue to upgrade your account. Now let’s see how to configure our Cloudways server and get our WordPress forum up and running. Cloudways server configuration
What is port 25 in a VPS server?
When we talk about ports, it really depends on whether we are talking about physical devices or ports in terms of networking or virtual machines or devices. We are very much familiar with ports in physical devices, which can be a hole in your physical computer, phone, or any gadget that helps you to connect to an external device. Shortly, we are going to understand what is port 25 in a VPS server, its security strength, and its role in the world of email transmission. Note: We have already had an article on the lists of VPS companies with port 25 open. You may want to check it out. Examples of ports in physical devices Ports on physical devices can be the most popular USB port, Headphone or earpiece port, VGA port, LAN Port, Serial Port, firewall port, printer port, and the list goes on and on and on. The above-listed port only helps you to connect to physical devices. The topic we are talking about ‘What is port 25 in a VPS server’ you can see it is totally unrelated to physical devices. It totally has to do with computer networking or virtualization. What is port in virtualization? According to Cloudflare A port is a virtual universally accepted point where network connections start and end. In other words, ports are protocols this allows connections or traffic to pass from one computer to another, it doesn’t matter the type of traffic it is. Examples of ports in Virtualization There are wide ranges of ports available in networking or in network virtualization. A few of them and what they do includes: The below screenshot shows some examples of virtualization To this point, since we’re more concerned about knowing ‘what is port 25 in a VPS server’ we will be exploring only port 25. Check out our postal smtp setup guide and learn how to send unlimited emails. What is port 25 Simply put, port 25 is an unencrypted internet protocol for incoming and outgoing mail. it was formally genuinely assigned by the internet engineering task force as the default port for email transmission. Today it’s still recognized by the internet-assigned numbers authority as the default SMTP port. But, there arises an issue of great concern. Port 25 is an unencrypted port for email transmission. This means that during the email transmission process, an unscrupulous person can intercept the email and maybe modify it. As a result, internet service providers, email clients and most web hosts have decided to block port 25 for all incoming mail. This will greatly help the to prevent spam and modified emails from passing through their servers. In general port 25 is very great for sending and receiving outgoing and incoming mail. Due to the unencrypted nature of port 25 transmissions, many hosting companies blocked it on their servers. Though we still have a few companies that allow port 25 open on their server. Such companies make it easier for private email marketers to send unlimited emails from their servers. And this isn’t even a criterion for them to send spam emails. They will always monitor you to see the kind of email, at what frequency, response rate, and IP blocklist. Keeping these in check will help them to see if spam emails are originating from you. If so you will be blocked. So, don’t even think of spamming just because you saw a company that allows you access to an open port 25. How to install wordpress without cpanel. VPS Providers with port 25 open The list above is a list of the numerous VPS providers with port 25 open. For the sake of clarity, it will be great to mention that it is only turnkey internet, hostwinds, VPSBG, ovhcloud of the lists above have port 25 open by default. For Contabo and Vultr, you need to message them and tell them to open the ports for you, you may be required to answer some questions, just supply your answers and wait for their approval. To learn more about What is port 25 in a VPS server, you can visit the following site: Hostinger, Computerhope, cloudflare, techtarget. You can also post any question you may have in the comment section below or in our forum and we will be so happy to attend you.
Why Google Remains the Superior Choice: ChatGPT’s Limitations
It has been some months since the launch of ChatGPT as one of the most successful projects of OpenAI, a research organization dedicated to advancing AI in a safe and beneficial way for all. Since OpenAI launched this great AI simulation and made them available to the public via various integrations and APIs, it amassed over 100m users within the space of 2 months. This new out-of-the-blue tech eruption has affected a lot of businesses including our website (J-insights.com), google, Jasper, and many other premium AI platforms. In this article, we will explore the limitations of chatbots like Chatgpt by Openai, Bard by Google, AI in general, and Why Google Remains the Superior Choice. A few weeks after Chatgpt was launched; I noticed a ridiculous drop in both my traffic and sales. Google, and other major AI platforms like Jasper, there has been a significant decrease in monthly traffic and revenue too. The question is… why will I go about surfing Google for like 30 mins looking for the answer to a question when I can use chatGPT and get the answer within seconds, provided I use the right prompt? Why should I pay Jasper to write for me while I have ChatGPT that can write for me without placing any cap on the number of words It can write for me for free? Though for some time now Jasper has added a lot of great features to make the platform way better than before. I made the chatgpt-jasper comparison above based on text-content generation, there are other great features of Jasper, you can go to Jasper and explore more. Now let’s dive deep and see reasons Google remains the superior choice. Why AI Won’t Displace Google or your website This has brought a lot of debate between me, my team, and friends on the future of Google as a company. Most of them argued that a time will come when AI and chatbots will replace Google and regular search engines. From my spectrum of the argument I believed and subscribe to the fact that; though chatbot will take some portion of the search engine or brand’s traffic, it will never replace Google or other search engines completely. I told them the reason below: Lack of photorealism As we all know Chatgpt, Bard and most AI projects lack the photorealistic representation of the conversational code and text that they generate. In some technical situations, we really need to see the pictorial representation of what each point should look like in order to fully grasp what things should look like. For instance, we have a guide on how to install Mailwizz with and without cPanl, how to install WordPress without cPanel, How to set up Postal SMTP server, and send unlimited emails. In technical topics as such, I showed all the little details including the pictorial representation of each step for a better understanding of the email-sending concept. Chatbots like chatgpt or bard today can only give instructional and conversational guides on approaching technical stuff. At some points in following the chatbot’s response, it is very easy to get confused at some point if you don’t have a pictorial representation of what what you’re doing looks like. The reason is simple, chatbots are fed with text datasets that they’re meant to give back to you as a text response and not as an image response. Since they can only give conversational text responses, when approaching some technical stuff you may still need to refer to Google where a real human explained the concept in question. So, chatgpt can’t replace what it still has to depend on at some point to give a better understanding to users. No Community to assist with Technical details Just as in the photorealistic nature of Google suggestions. Google Suggestions have real humans that are willing and able to assist with any issue one might encounter in the course of any technical concept. We know a lot of support forums and communities today that can further help users with any issue they might be facing even when it has been explained textually and pictorially. An example is the WordPress forum, Stackoverflow, J-insights forum, etc. They all offer support to users which chatbots can’t do as of today. They can’t also provide a forum or community to help users with the questions they might have in the course of applying what it has generated for them. This is part of Why Google Remains the Superior Choice even in the future. Access to Limited Information It is very important to understand that Chatgpt is just an NLP model (Natural language processing model) which is fed with billions of datasets and codesets. They only have access to the information they are being fed by regurgitating human-like strings of words. This is the reason it has access to limited information. Chatgpt always states that it has no information about events that happened from 2021 upward. Chatgpt can’t do more than the information it has been trained with. Hallucination and Regurgitation of information You might have witnessed that when you type a query on AI models like chatgtp it will return a very wild response that you will even be asking yourself what the hell is this? Most times than non you need to put chatgpt in the right perspective to be able to give you a near-to-reality response. Aside from that it regurgitates information or response. Upon evaluating responses from chatbots like Bard or ChatGPT, one can observe that the responses lack a basis in reality. it doesn’t really understand what they are giving back to you after running a query. This is because they are giving back the data it has been fed without real human effort to explain stuff deeply. This is Why Google Remains the Superior Choice. Different search engines recommendation is explained in human-like form. Though not all suggestions on the search results will be as deep-rooted as the reader may want it generally depends on
How To Install Mailwizz on Contabo VPS (With & Without cPanel)
If you have been looking for how to install Mailwizz on Contabo VPS, Vultr, turnkey internet, or any VPS company with and without cPanel, cyberpanel, or any freemium or premium control panel you are in the right place. In this tutorial, we’ll see how to install Mailwizz on Contabo VPS with and without cPanel, Cyberpanel etc. Cyberpanel is a very great control panel with a lot of premium features not even available in most paid control panels. I’d love to say that if you want to run this installation without cPanel, you can go to the later part of this tutorial, but if you want to learn from With cPanel down to without cPanel you can continue from here. To install mailwizz on Contabo vps with Cyberpanel we definitely need to install Cyberpanel. It is on cyberpanel that we’ll upload our Mailwizz files and run our installations via the web interface. But the good news is we already have a tutorial here on how to install Cyberpanel with ease without getting your hands dirty on ambiguous technicalities. We are not gonna waste time installing cyberpanel again. Just go through the tutorial then come back here to continue with the Mailwizz installation. Done!! Let’s get the ground running now 🔥🔥🔥….., Requirements to install Mailwizz on contabo VPS In order to get Mailwizz up and running on our server, we need a few things to achieve our goal: From no 1 to 3 requirements above have been achieved in the tutorial on how to install cyberpanel. You can go through it and get the first 3 requirements ready then come back. Once you’re done you can Click Here to get mailwizz license from codecayon at a discounted price so that we can finish up our installations. What is Mailwizz Mailwizz is a versatile and powerful email marketing platform that can help you automate your campaigns, track results, and engage your subscribers with ease. I strongly believe by now you have installed cyberpanel? Let’s see how to install Mailwizz on Contabo VPS with Cyberpanel. I’ll cover everything you need to know, from setting up your server to configuring Mailwizz and optimizing its performance. Whether you’re a seasoned marketer or just getting started, you’ll be up and running with Mailwizz in no time. Now let us see why email marketing is very important and a must-do for any business. Why you must be doing email marketing Email marketing is an effective way for businesses to reach out to their customers, build relationships, and drive sales. Here are a few reasons why email marketing is worth considering for your business: Example of how Email marketing can make your business effective. For example, a fashion retailer might send a weekly newsletter to its subscribers, featuring new products, styling tips, and exclusive discounts. By segmenting its audience based on past purchases or browsing behavior, the retailer can send personalized recommendations that are tailored to each subscriber’s interests. This can help drive sales, build brand loyalty, and increase website traffic. Overall, email marketing can be a powerful tool for businesses of all sizes and industries. By providing relevant content, personalized recommendations, and exclusive offers, businesses can build stronger relationships with their customers, drive sales, and achieve higher ROI. You can check our post on the 15 best email marketing templates and examples. This will help craft the best email marketing campaign. Now you know email marketing is very important for your business let’s go and get our Mailwizz up and running and start sending our emails. Install Mailwizz on Contabo VPS Since we already have our Cyberpanel installed, all we got to do now is to log in to our Cyberpanel, upload the Mailwizz files, and run the installation on the web interface. Once you are in, click on websites to create the site where you will upload your Mailwizz files. See the picture below to see what it looks like: Then, click on Create website. Supply the details required below to create your website as suggested by cyberpanel Above select package as Default, owner as admin, add your email address, and select also the php version you want your website, web application, or email marketing application to run on. In my case, i selected PHP 8.1. Note: You can also downgrade to lower versions of PHP if the current isn’t running your web application smoothly. Check all the the additional features boxes. Turn off the test domain option to be able to add your domain name which is basically the website you want to create. Turning on the test domain toggle will exit live to testing environment. You can use the test domain for testing purposes only and for staging sites before launch. But since we wanna install mailwizz, just turn off the test environment and add your domain name without the www. Hope you understood?? 🫶🫶🫶 Upload & Extract the Mailwizz files After creating the website, go to manage, then File manager. Note: You can create multiple as seen from the top right hand side of the screenshot above. What this means is that you can add more than one website on our vps plan. All you got to do to access other domains or sub-domain you added to cyberpanel is to also map and point them to your VPS IP address using A record. Now open the Public_html. Here is the place you are gonna upload your mailwizz files and complete the web interface installation. You can also delete the index.html file in the public_html folder since it is empty and practically useless. Once the mailwizz files are done uploading, extract it and delete the parent mailwizz zip file. To complete the installation, go your web browser and locate the exact install directory or folder and hit enter. You will be brought to the installation prompt. Let’s see…., In my case, I navigated to Mydomain/mailing/install. I was brought to the installation prompt and seen below: Input your purchase Code and agree to terms, then
How To Install WordPress on Contabo VPS (Without cPanel)
Here on my blog, I have written different WordPress installation guides. You can check, how to install WordPress on a VPS server with the Plesk panel. We’ve also seen how we can install WordPress on Cyberpanel. Today let’s see how to install WordPress on Contabo VPS without cPanel, Cyberpanel, or Plesk and your popular freemium and premium control panels. This tutorial can be applied to any VPS company, I was just using Contabo here. In this guide, I’ll show you how to configure your Contabo VPS with the right server architecture to get your server up and running without having to install the server requirements singly. We’ll configure LAMP Stack on our Linux VPS. This is going to save us time by instantly installing all our server requirements like APACHE, MYSQL, PHP, and all the necessary PHP modules needed to run our site successfully. Without wasting much of our time let’s get to work and see how to install WordPress on Contabo VPS without cpanel. Ready?? Let’s goooooo Requirements to install WordPress on Contabo VPS without cPanel The following are the few things we need: Getting a domain name A domain name is simply the address of your website. While hosting can be visualized as the plot of land where you build your house, getting a domain name is pretty simple and I believe we won’t waste much time here. Just go to any domain registrar at all like Namecheap, GoDaddy, Bluehost, etc, and buy your domain name. But, if you want to follow me religiously, I am going with Namecheap. You can get it too and follow along. Note: You can use any domain registrar of your choice. The processes are all the same. Also, ensure any domain registrar you’re going with allows you access to the DNS management zone of your domains. Your domain got?? Let’s continue…..🫶🫶🫶 Getting Contabo VPS to install WordPress Over the years there has been a swift transition from shared hosting to VPS and dedicated server hosting. The question is what is shared hosting, what are VPS and dedicated server hosting and which one is the best option for your hosting needs? And most importantly Why do we have to go with VPS other than other options available for us? Let’s see below ……. What is shared hosting? This is simply hosting your websites or website with like: Bluehost, DreamHost, hostwinds, Namecheap, wp engine, cloudways, scalahosting, webhostingpad and other popular hosting you can think of. Most of these companies have grown to add VPS and dedicated server hosting options to their hosting plans. Above we did not even explain what is shared hosting 😃😃. Let’s go this way, shared hosting simply means you have hundreds to thousands of other websites hosted on the same server or hosting machine as you. The implication of this is an averagely slower server, though that isn’t necessarily the case, as some shared hosting is still supersonically fast. So, to keep things simple, in shared hosting you don’t have control over the server, you don’t have control over critically important issues like the SEO. One person’s action might affect all websites on the server since you aren’t the only one on that server. This is mostly what people go for because it is simply very affordable. Check out our top shared hosting deals for the best-shared hosting choice for your business. What is VPS hosting? VPS is short for virtual private servers. Unlike shared hosting, you are the only person that has this server. The implication is that you’ll have only your site or sites on it unless you want to help a friend host their site by adding their site to your VPS Hosting. You catch the drift 👍👍👍 What is dedicated server Hosting? To better understand what a dedicated server is, let’s see what ChatGpt has in stock for us. Look at the picture below, it perfectly explained everything in a very simple-easy-to-understand manner. From the explanation above it can be understood that dedicated hosting is an advanced form of VPS hosting. Also, we can see the relationship between dedicated hosting, VPS hosting, and shared hosting. From the spectrum of server resource allocation, a dedicated host has an entire physical server allocated to a single individual to host a site. When the physical server is divided into sectional virtual servers, and each virtual section of the resources is allotted to different individuals it is called VPS hosting. And lastly, when each of the sectional virtual servers isn’t managed by one person it is known as shared hosting. I hope the concept is now simple and understood. I always try my best to explain in simple terms. now let’s continue to install WordPress on Contabo VPS …… Install WordPress on Contabo VPS Now let’s configure our server with our desired resources on Our Contabo VPS. Pls, let’s take note that there are other VPS companies you can use for this purpose like Vultr, turnkey internet, and any other one you might know. You may also check our other tutorials on the different ways to install WordPress let’s now see how we can configure the LAMP stack on our Contabo VPS and save time. Now go to the Contabo website as in below: If you don’t find this page when you are visiting just navigate to Cloud VPS on Contabo Homepage. Select the $8.49/month plan and you will see the next page below: Here we have our 4 vCPU cores, 8 GB RAM, and 50 GB NVMe or 200 GB. Here we will select the location we want our resources to be hosted. In my case here I chose Germany. You might have to pay an extra $$ if you aren’t going with a free location. For my storage, I left it at the default 200 GB because I think it is more than enough storage resources for us to install WordPress. Installing LAMP Stack Scroll to the Image section of the page. This is where you will install
How to install WordPress on Cyberpanel
If you have been looking for how to install WordPress on the very popular control panel known as Cyberpanel, this tutorial is for you. For some years now cyberpanel has gathered a great deal of popularity amongst other control panels. This can be attributed to its user intuitiveness, easy installations, great premium features available for free, and easy integrations with third-party applications, and content management systems. One of the great Content management systems (CMS) available for launch on Cyberpanel is WordPress. So, here we will see how we can install WordPress on Cyberpanel very easily without worrying about technical hassles. Ready?? Let’s go …… Requirements to install WordPress on Cyberpanel Here I used CentOS7. You can use an entirely different operating system for example ubuntu. The above requirements or steps are also requirements or steps to install Cyberpanel. It is after we have had our Cyberpanel up and running we can install WordPress on Cyberpanel. The interesting thing is that we already have tutorials on how to install Cyberpanel on how to install Cyberpanel on centOS7 VPS. Just go through it to get your Cyberpanel installed then you can come back here and install WordPress on Cyberpanel. Processes to install WordPress on Cyberpanel Once you are done installing Cyberpanel on your VPS, you will be greeted with such a Cyberpanel interface as the one below: Input your username and password in the username and password field and you will be in as in below: Once you are logged in, click on WordPress on the left-hand side, then deploy WordPress. Then choose your plan and you will be up and running. Here you can start your free trial. I do hope you try running WordPress on Cyberpanel today and tell me your thought on it, if it is really worth it or not for you. Got Any Questions? If you still have issues with how to install WordPress on Cyberpanel, do well to ping me in the comment section and I will be very glad to be of help. Thanks for stopping by and reading through my blog.