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Commands using iconv to fix website Characters
by admin on Jun.03, 2009, under Best Webhosts
Here are some useful SSH commands to fix special characters on your website.
Sometimes you would see ? or strange charsets…
Recommended to use UTF-8 and have your database collation also as utf-8
Convert a bunch of HTML files from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8 file encoding in a folder and all sub-folders
for x in `find . -name ‘*.html’` ; do iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8 $x > “$x.utf8″; rm $x; mv “$x.utf8″ $x; done
Convert mysql database from latin1 to utf8
mysqldump –add-drop-table -uroot -p “DB_name” | replace CHARSET=latin1 CHARSET=utf8 | iconv -f latin1 -t utf8 | mysql -uroot -p “DB_name”
find . -name “*.php” -exec iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8 {} -o ../newdir_utf8/{} \;
Batch convert files to utf-8
iconv -f ISO8859-1 -t UTF-8 OLDFILE > NEWFILE
For example in ssh type:
iconv -f ISO8859-1 -t UTF-8 listing_default.tpl >listing_default2.tpl
Then rename or delete your old listing_default.tpl and rename listing_default2.tpl to listing_default.tpl
For example in ssh type:
iconv -f ISO8859-1 -t UTF-8 listing_default.tpl >listing_default2.tpl
Then rename or delete your old listing_default.tpl and rename listing_default2.tpl to listing_default.tpl
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by admin on Apr.04, 2009, under Best Webhosts
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| Host Unlmited Domains | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Hosting Space | Unlimited | “Unlimited” but if high youraccount will be suspended | 150GB |
| Bandwidth | Unlimited | Unlimited | 1500GB |
| SSH Access | By Default | Need to send ID | Can be requested no ID needed |
| CPU Limit | No Limitation | 60Sec then Site suspended | No Limitation |
| Uptime | 99.8 | 99.9 | 99.9 |
| MYSQL Databases | Unlimited | 100 | 25 |
| Email Accounts | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| First Yr Domain Registration Free | Yes | Yes | No |
| Custom Cronjob | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Tech Support | Email Ticket system(response time: 6-24hours),Phone: only call back | Phone, Chat, Ticket(Response time 1-24 Hours) | Phone,Ticket(slow 1 Day response time) |
| Install Custom PHP | Yes | No | No |
| FFMPEG | Yes | No | No |
| Max File Upload Size | 7MB, unlimited with Custom PHP install | 2MB, can be increased with copiing php to all folders, still limited with CPU time limit | 7MB |
| Can host Adult Content | Yes | No | Yes |
| Loading speed for a 64kb website size | 2-5 Seconds performance varies depending on day and server load | 2-3 Seconds, performance was stable | 5-6 Seconds |
| Midnight Commander | Installed by default | Not installed and can not install it | Not sure |
