Varsha is GUI-based, drag-and-drop DVD authoring software. It uses tools such as dvdauthor, mkisofs, and dvd+rw-tools to perform various things behind the scenes. It can make simple static menus right now. It will be able to handle dynamic menus in future. A slideshow feature was added. You can drag-and-drop your digital camera pictures and create slideshow DVDs that are playable on home DVD players.

You can even have multiple slideshows and have a menu to choose which one to play. Menus work now. A white background problem was rectified. The “menu_11.mpeg not accessible” problem was fixed. Menu color updates were made. Colors are still fixed for now, but they look a little better. The default values for UI sizes and divider locations were set. A Motion Menu feature has been added. spumux processing while generating menus has been sped up, and there is some cleanup. This release adds context menus for Menu, Title, SlideShow, etc. The “Divider on Menu” editor stays visible now instead of locking to one side.

A “Validates” file is provided for video background menus. Motion menus are present from 0.63. This release fixes the duplicate “Properties” menu item in the popup associated with MenuItem, fixes the “last character not updating” problem in the menu item editor GUI, adds a button for AutoArrange of menu items (not yet enabled in the code), and fixes the NullPointerException which occurred when the right button was clicked on an empty tree. The directory tree is now sorted.

I’m just getting started with my web site. I would like to register the domain with one company, so I can make it a private registration, but host the site with a different company. Is that possible? When I go to sign up for web hosting, they want me to transfer the domain to them.

I emailed one of the web hosting companies to ask about that, and they said “transferring” just makes the DNS server point to them, and my domain would stay with the company I registered it with — but I read their faq about it, and it talked about them becoming the new registrant. (In my mind, I just want the web hosting company to “use” the domain name.) The other confusion I have is that when I went to buy the domain name, before purchasing it it asked for the DNS names, which I didn’t have since I hadn’t bought the hosting yet.

But the first step of buying the hosting is registering a new domain or transferring a domain. You should NEVER allow them to be the new registrant! The registrant is the owner. Some (rare today?) might ask you to transfer registrars, whereby they become the new registrar. But again, there is no need whatsoever to do that, and most people would advise against it. I would say most certainly get the domain name first. There’s a million hosts out there that are eager for your business, but getting a good name won’t be as easy.

I am currently with HostSave but I’m tired of their 5-13 hour email forwarding delay. Do you have any suggestions about cheap but (more) reliable web hosters? Try Cavendo.com they host my site with PHP, Perl, Python, Java and C++ for only 7.00/mnth (actually I think they just lowered the cost to around $5.00) The email is great (no delays for me) and so is tech support. The only negative about them is trying to call the 1-800 tech support number will sometimes yield a hold time of 30 minutes but from my experience that doesn’t happen to often.

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I need some advice on where to go next… I’ve had a lot of problems with webhosting.com over the last 12 months and it’s time to take some legal action. I know people usually suggest the BBB, but they’re in Canada. I feel that this company needs to be held accountable for their bad business practices, I’ve stayed with them for the last 6 months in hopes that they would come through on their promises, but they have finally said most definitely “no.” I’m willing to do whatever it takes, provided it isn’t too expensive.

You have unlimited data transfer (or hits) on your virtual server. Any outward-bound traffic from your web site is considered data transfer. For example, each time a html file, image, or other element on your web page is loaded, data transfer is generated. I had an account with them a couple of years back. When it came time to pay them, I wanted to pay by credit card. It was stated on their site that they accepted cc’s but had no method to pay via their website.

I emailed them three times and used their online contact form twice over a 2-month period inquiring as to the procedure for paying by cc. I never received any response from them. I figured if they won’t respond when I’m trying to _give them money_, they won’t respond if I have any support issues. I emailed them to close my account with them and moved my site to WebServePro. I never received any response to my cancellation request either, and the account remained active for another 16 months.

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I currently have a reseller account with Webfusion, however I am looking into their dedicated server packages such as the RAQ4. My only concern with this package is the amount of bandwidth that is on offer – 5GB. Is this enough for a server that will host a growing number of websites? I intend to configure multiple websites on the server using virtual servers, however the bandwidth allowance seems a bit small to me when you compare that each virtual server on the standard reseller account gets 3GB each per month, what does anyone else think?

This is one of the web hosting issues that you really need an actuarial qualification to work out. You need to charge enough for hosting to cover your bandwidth costs, keep prices attractive and make a profit. You sell 10 plans with 3GB allowance each per month = 30GB However, you know that half those plans will use nearer 500MB so you take an average of 1GB = 10GB Then you have to look at the cost of the additional 5GB and try and fix a price for the plan which balances the risk correctly. A lot of this will depend on how Webfusion bill for additional bandwidth. Do they do it per GB or do they do it in discounted blocks.

If they do discounted blocks like 10 or 25 GB you can add the cost of one of those into your equation to start with. OR do they use the 95% rule where they charge for bandwidth based on 30 x 95% of the usage on the peak day of the month (very sneaky – done by quite a number of server hosting companies). If it helps you I know that our average bandwidth use across all clients is around 1 – 1.5GB per month. I also know another web hosting company who have similar figures, but it will really depend on the type of site you are hosting.