SOPA – What does it all mean?

Last Updated on Tuesday, 3 January 2012 05:28 Written by Mike Hoffman Friday, 30 December 2011 04:41

The official position of Arvixe is against SOPA. This is an educational article informing blog readers about the current SOPA bill and its potential impact on the web hosting industry.

Over the span of the last two months, SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) [1] has garnered much attention and criticism. In a nutshell, this bill was designed and proposed to help protect artists and intellectual property owners. Sharing and illegal downloading of music, movies, and software  has been very prevalent since the inception of the internet, and even beforehand – some of our older readers might remember swapping floppy discs for the latest computer games. This bill also extends to the realm of counterfeit goods, such as purses and perscription drugs sold online.

SOPA would allow the US Justice Department to seek court orders against websites that host or provide access to these illegal goods. Proposed on October 26th, the CEO of the BBB says that online piracy costs companies billions of dollars a year [2]. We are all very familiar with the suits brought against sites like Napster, which were easy to bring down under US law since all facets of the website were in the US domain [3].

mojoPortal Tips: Step-by-Step Addition of Downloadable Products in Web Store

Last Updated on Wednesday, 23 November 2011 01:55 Written by Carole Bennett Tuesday, 22 November 2011 12:00

One of the challenges new users of mojoPortal encounter is the precise order in which to create products that are downloadable, and how to make the downloads accessible to customers after payment has been received. Today, I’ll go through the process step-by-step.

This tutorial is written with the expectation that you’ve already added the Web Store to your mojoPortal implementation, and have already set up a payment method. We’ll begin with the Store Manager:

How to Install phpOnline From Your cPanel Using Softaculous

Last Updated on Thursday, 4 March 2010 07:31 Written by Arian Jahansouz Thursday, 4 March 2010 07:31

This article will give you a step by step guide on how to install phpOnline from your cPanel. Sign into your cPanel and follow these steps:

1) Click Softaculous.

2) Scroll down to Customer Support. Find the phpOnline link and click on it.