Changing the hosting servers of WordPress sites is always tricky because of the WordPress files and folder permissions differ from that of a normal shared web hosting and a dedicated / VPS server.

The site may work properly but the updates won’t install or you can’t upload your image files and I have faced this issue when I moved from shared web hosting to my private VPS from DigitalOcean. I have built the hosting server from scratch on top of Ubuntu and I’ll tell you about the proper Wordpress files and folder permissions required for the smooth running of your website.

Lesson 9 - Integrating Payment Gateway with Opencart site

In this lesson, we will see how to integrate our payment gateway with our Opencart Installation.

1. Login to your Instamojo dashboard and click on API’s and Plugins.

2. Under available platform plugins, click on the relevant Opencart version of your installation and download the plugin.

3. Login to your Opencart admin dashboard and click on Extensions->Extension Installer.

4. Click the upload button and upload the plugin you have downloaded earlier.

Lesson 7 - Install OpenCart CMS on your website

In the previous lesson of the free e-commerce course, we have seen how to set up web hosting for your Website.

In this lesson, we will see how to Install Opencart CMS on your website.

What is a CMS?

CMS is the short form of Content Management System and it’s like a Software application developed for a specific use and we use the Web Content Management System (Web CMS) called Opencart for our purpose. There are a lot of Web CMS like Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, Opencart etc and each one specializes in some specific functions.

Are you constantly distracted by various sounds while working and couldn’t concentrate? Listening to soothing white noise might help you focus.

These days I don’t like feeling to go to my office because of the sounds from the nearby construction site and it kind of irritates me. Then I researched on the Internet and found out that listening to some soothing White noise will calm your mind and help you focus on your work.

World bank has released the latest (2018) Ease of Doing business Index report for 2018 and India has moved up 30 ranks and currently ranks at 100 out of 190 countries and this is the best ever rank India has achieved.

Update: India has achieved the 77th rank in Ease of Doing business Index 2019. More power to India & Modi!

What is Ease of Doing Business Index?

Ease of Doing Business index is the annual report published by the World bank after analyzing over 10 factors which are conducive to doing business in the country.

Do you know playing chess increases your creativity, awareness, and problem-solving skills?

The earlier a person starts playing chess in his/her life, higher the brain functions. So, It is recommended to teach children to play chess at the earliest.

We need not enroll them in a professional chess coaching class and make them a grandmaster, just teaching them how to play and encourage them to play regularly will make wonders. But If you want to, feel free to do it.

Google has been launching a lot of Android apps lately and I’ll list 5 lesser known apps that they have launched.

Google Keep

Google Keep lets you take notes, create a checklist and has a lot of other features which are clearly explained in this article.

Google Fit

Google Fit lets you track your daily activity and your fitness and is explained in detail in this article.

Google Opinion Rewards

Google Opinion rewards let you earn free google play store credits for answering a few questions and you can know more here.

In the previous part, I have discussed how my relationship with computers started.

Even though I have tried Linux based operating systems from time to time, the terminal commands scared me and I have always gone back to Windows.

But when I started learning about how the Internet and websites work, I have started building websites and I have always preferred Linux based Shared web hosting because they had CPanel to manage your web hosting, which is easy to use compared to Windows-based control panels and Linux hosting is cheaper than Windows hosting.

Would you like to get a free payment gateway consultation for your business?

I have been in the e-commerce and Payments industry for 4+ years now and I have been running a free e-commerce course for those who wanted to get into the e-commerce business. I have been getting several inquiries from SME’s regarding getting a payment gateway for their business, hence I have decided to offer free payment gateway consulting for business as we have partnered with a startup-friendly major online payment gateway, we are in a better position to offer payment gateway consulting services.

I have added a list of books that must be read by everyone and I hope it helps you better your life.

Self help books

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

The Power of your Subconcious Mind

How to Win Friends and Influence People

How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

Happiness Unlimited - Awakening the Brhamakumaris

You Can Win

Believe in Yourself

Think and Grow Rich

Books for entrepreneurs

Zero to One: Note on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel.

Lesson 7 - How to Register Web Hosting for your Website?

In this lesson, we will see how to Register Web Hosting for your account and use it to host your domain.

Watch the below video to start the lesson. In the video, we show you different Hosting companies and their pricing and how to get special offers using coupon codes etc. Select One hosting provider, who you feel affordable and register hosting with them.

All of must be using some sort of App to take Notes on the go. But the best among them all is Google Keep.

Why is Google Keep the best?

Google Keep has a clean and simple UI with tons of useful features.

You can use Google Keep to take Notes, create Checklist, Set Reminders - both time based and location-based reminders, use it as a drawing pad, create image notes, scribble on images etc.

Lesson 6 - Create free Professional Business email with custom domain using Zoho mail

Welcome to the Lesson 6 of the Free e-commerce course.

In this lesson, I’m going to show you how to get a free professional business email with your own website (eg, [email protected]) using Zoho mail.

In order to complete this tasks, you must have already purchased a domain name and added it with CloudFlare to manage the DNS settings.

If you haven’t done already, please complete those first and if you don’t know how to complete those steps, please refer the “Learn e-commerce” page for help articles.

Lesson 5 - Managing your website DNS with CloudFlare

Welcome to the 5th Lesson of the Free e-commerce course.

In this lesson learn how to sign up for CloudFlare and change the nameservers accordingly to accommodate the change and also how to create an “A” record to point your domain name to your server IP.

Click the below video to start the lesson.

Once you have signed up and updated the name servers, you can manage all the DNS settings of the website from CloudFlare.

Lesson 4 - How to Signup for a Payment Gateway in India?

Are you a small business worried about getting a Payment gateway?

Are you looking for a payment gateway for a home business without company registration?

Do you want to collect payments online without having a website?

Are you looking for a payment gateway for your e-commerce store?

Are you worried about the initial cost of setting up a payment gateway?

Lesson 3 - How to Register your website domain name?

Welcome to the third lesson of the Free Online e-commerce course and in this lesson, we show you how to register your own website domain name.

Start the below video to watch it.

You can use other domain registrars such as Namecheap, GoDaddy, Google domains etc as well. The core concepts remains the same.

Lesson 2 - Business and Tax registrations required for an e-commerce business in India

Welcome to the Second lesson of the Free online e-commerce course and in this lesson, we discuss the Business and Tax Registrations required to run an e-commerce business in India and also how to do the said registrations.

Click on the below video to start the lesson, also you can subscribe to the youtube channel to get a notification whenever a new video is uploaded.

Lesson 1 - What is ecommerce and it’s types?

Welcome to the First lesson of the Free e-commerce course and in this lesson, I’ll be speaking about what is e-commerce and what are the types of e-commerce.

Click on the below video to watch it.

In the next lesson, we will learn about what are the legal registrations (such as business reg., GST, PAN etc) required to run an e-commerce business in India.

I have been into Internet/e-commerce/online payments for the last 5-7 years and I have been working in the online e-commerce industry full-time for almost 3 years now after resigning from my corporate job.

I have worked on my own as well as client e-commerce projects and that constitute my experience and I have learned all these things from my own research in the past 7 years and I must admit, it took a lot of time learning all these things and a still a lot to learn.

Most of you must have used Google play store to download Apps, music, movies, books, games etc. Some of them are free, most of them are either paid or ad-supported.

At times you must have wanted paid products or premium version of products to remove annoying ads or you just wanted to buy a book or something but you don’t want to pay for them, so you search for pirated apk’s and end up installing malware on your mobile.

I have always wanted to become a successful blogger and there are lot of things going on in my mind which I have wanted to express through my blog every single day but I have been procrastinating for almost the better part of the last 3-4 years, call it laziness, lack of motivation or whatever you want but I’m done with it.

So I’m launching this 100 Day blogging challenge to motivate and challengemyself to write at least 1 blog post for every single day continuously for 100 days.

Modi’s Foreign Policy with regards to India-China relations and its impacts on Taiwan

India - China Relations overview

India & China has always remained competitive especially in the past few decades. However both being developing countries and major economies, they collaborate on a wide range of issues and show a united face in major forums but however, the relationship has its own share of issues.

China wants to topple the United States as the sole superpower and wants to take over the world and is using a mix of Economic, Military and historical strategies such as OBOR / BRI, CPEC, Gwadar Port, Hambantota Port, String of Pearls strategy, Nine-dash line, South China sea etc. These are major flash points between India & China, not to mention the border disputes simmering over many decades (Recent doklam dispute) and its continued support to India’s arch-rival and China’s all-weather friend Pakistan in providing Nuclear technology, missiles, and fighters etc.

Do you know playing chess increases your creativity, awareness, and problem-solving skills?

The earlier a person starts playing chess in his/her life, higher the brain functions. So, It is recommended to teach children to play chess at the earliest.

We need not enroll them in a professional chess coaching class and make them a grandmaster, just teaching them how to play and encourage them to play regularly will make wonders. But If you want to, feel free to do it.

Lesson 9 - Integrating Payment Gateway with Opencart site

In this lesson, we will see how to integrate our payment gateway with our Opencart Installation.

1. Login to your Instamojo dashboard and click on API’s and Plugins.

2. Under available platform plugins, click on the relevant Opencart version of your installation and download the plugin.

3. Login to your Opencart admin dashboard and click on Extensions->Extension Installer.

4. Click the upload button and upload the plugin you have downloaded earlier.

Lesson 2 - Business and Tax registrations required for an e-commerce business in India

Welcome to the Second lesson of the Free online e-commerce course and in this lesson, we discuss the Business and Tax Registrations required to run an e-commerce business in India and also how to do the said registrations.

Click on the below video to start the lesson, also you can subscribe to the youtube channel to get a notification whenever a new video is uploaded.

Amazon launched their Prime membership last year in India and I’ve been using it for the past 1 year and based on my 1-year experience if you ask me if it is worth paying ₹499 / ₹999 (You can get ₹500 Cashback in your Amazon Pay wallet), I would say, Absolutely yes. First, let’s see what are the benefits of Prime Membership.

Benefits of Prime Membership

• Free delivery on all products Fulfilled by Amazon and most of the high moving products are fulfilled by Amazon.
• Free One Day and Two day delivery on eligible products and pin codes, for which you have to pay extra if you are not a prime member.
• Early access to deals and special offers for Prime members.
• And my favorite, unlimited access to Amazon Prime Video which includes a lot of Hollywood movies and popular TV series

Should you go for it?

You should. If you are a heavy shopper and you are based in any of the metros, then you can get free fast delivery and it’s more than worth.

Amazon launched their Prime membership last year in India and I’ve been using it for the past 1 year and based on my 1-year experience if you ask me if it is worth paying ₹499 / ₹999 (You can get ₹500 Cashback in your Amazon Pay wallet), I would say, Absolutely yes. First, let’s see what are the benefits of Prime Membership.

Benefits of Prime Membership

• Free delivery on all products Fulfilled by Amazon and most of the high moving products are fulfilled by Amazon.
• Free One Day and Two day delivery on eligible products and pin codes, for which you have to pay extra if you are not a prime member.
• Early access to deals and special offers for Prime members.
• And my favorite, unlimited access to Amazon Prime Video which includes a lot of Hollywood movies and popular TV series

Should you go for it?

You should. If you are a heavy shopper and you are based in any of the metros, then you can get free fast delivery and it’s more than worth.

Amazon launched their Prime membership last year in India and I’ve been using it for the past 1 year and based on my 1-year experience if you ask me if it is worth paying ₹499 / ₹999 (You can get ₹500 Cashback in your Amazon Pay wallet), I would say, Absolutely yes. First, let’s see what are the benefits of Prime Membership.

Benefits of Prime Membership

• Free delivery on all products Fulfilled by Amazon and most of the high moving products are fulfilled by Amazon.
• Free One Day and Two day delivery on eligible products and pin codes, for which you have to pay extra if you are not a prime member.
• Early access to deals and special offers for Prime members.
• And my favorite, unlimited access to Amazon Prime Video which includes a lot of Hollywood movies and popular TV series

Should you go for it?

You should. If you are a heavy shopper and you are based in any of the metros, then you can get free fast delivery and it’s more than worth.

In this article, I would like to discuss the importance of the Art of Swimming.

According to me, it’s not just a sport it’s a divine Art, a therapy, and the obvious, a life saver (litterally).

The Divine Art

There are 5 fundamental elements of Nature Air, Water, Earth, Fire and Space (as in sky) and normal humans (who doesn’t swim) can manage to live only in the Air medium. The human body is designed in such a way. But it has been told that Yogis can navigate in all the mediums.

In this article, we will see step-by-step instructions to setup AWS EC2 Instance Monitoring Alarms using AWS Cloudwatch and CloudWatch Agent. The purpose of this post is to create a unified guide document to implement CloudWatch alarms as I couldn’t find any such documents when I tried to implement this for the first time.

Assumption:

This guide is written with the basic assumption that you want to implement Cloudwatch alarms in Linux based operating systems and the instructions are given for Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04 operating system, however, it will work for other Linux variants also but commands like “apt” or “apt-get” must be replaced with command like “yum” relevant to the operating system.

Would you like to get a free payment gateway consultation for your business?

I have been in the e-commerce and Payments industry for 4+ years now and I have been running a free e-commerce course for those who wanted to get into the e-commerce business. I have been getting several inquiries from SME’s regarding getting a payment gateway for their business, hence I have decided to offer free payment gateway consulting for business as we have partnered with a startup-friendly major online payment gateway, we are in a better position to offer payment gateway consulting services.

Being a Startup entrepreneur and service provider involved in ecommerce and allied fields, I know the importance of collecting payments online and the role of Payment gateway in it. There are lot of factors involved while selecting a Payment gateway especially when you are starting new.

After years of searching and analysis, I believe, I have a winner,

I’ll try to explain why Instamojo is the best payment gateway for startups in India and the factors I have considered while choosing the payment gateway.

Looking for the Best Remove.bg Alternatives?

For years, Remove.bg has been the default savior for anyone needing a quick transparent PNG. Whether you are setting up clean e-commerce product shots, designing a logo, or cutting out headshots, it simply works.

However, Remove.bg has a major catch: the free tier limits you to low-resolution preview files. If you want full-resolution HD downloads, you have to buy credits or subscribe. Also, it’s being shutdown from Dec 2026 after their Canva acquisition.

Looking for the Best Remove.bg Alternatives?

For years, Remove.bg has been the default savior for anyone needing a quick transparent PNG. Whether you are setting up clean e-commerce product shots, designing a logo, or cutting out headshots, it simply works.

However, Remove.bg has a major catch: the free tier limits you to low-resolution preview files. If you want full-resolution HD downloads, you have to buy credits or subscribe. Also, it’s being shutdown from Dec 2026 after their Canva acquisition.

Lesson 7 - How to Register Web Hosting for your Website?

In this lesson, we will see how to Register Web Hosting for your account and use it to host your domain.

Watch the below video to start the lesson. In the video, we show you different Hosting companies and their pricing and how to get special offers using coupon codes etc. Select One hosting provider, who you feel affordable and register hosting with them.

Little background

If you had visited my blog a few weeks back, it must have looked different, loaded slowly and there was a ton of crappy ads and it was having only basic security features.

Old setup

Before this transition, the blog was using a Self-hosted version of Wordpress on a 10 USD/month Digital Ocean droplet (2GB RAM, 1 CPU, 50GB SSD disk) served via an Apache server serving over https using free TLS (or as people generally say, SSL) certificates provided by LetsEncrypt.

Day 1: 27-Sep-2017  100 Day Blogging Challenge - Launch

Day 2  Tez - The India Specific Payments app from Google

Day 3  Is Amazon Prime Membership Worth it?

Day 4  Store Unlimited Photos and Videos online with Google Photos for free

Day 5  How to get free google play store credits using Google Rewards App?

Day 6  Get a free credit line approved and use it as a Credit card/loan without extra charges

Day 7  Get a High-performance full SSD Free VPS Server from Digital Ocean

I have always wanted to become a successful blogger and there are lot of things going on in my mind which I have wanted to express through my blog every single day but I have been procrastinating for almost the better part of the last 3-4 years, call it laziness, lack of motivation or whatever you want but I’m done with it.

So I’m launching this 100 Day blogging challenge to motivate and challengemyself to write at least 1 blog post for every single day continuously for 100 days.

Changing the hosting servers of WordPress sites is always tricky because of the WordPress files and folder permissions differ from that of a normal shared web hosting and a dedicated / VPS server.

The site may work properly but the updates won’t install or you can’t upload your image files and I have faced this issue when I moved from shared web hosting to my private VPS from DigitalOcean. I have built the hosting server from scratch on top of Ubuntu and I’ll tell you about the proper Wordpress files and folder permissions required for the smooth running of your website.

Lesson 7 - How to Register Web Hosting for your Website?

In this lesson, we will see how to Register Web Hosting for your account and use it to host your domain.

Watch the below video to start the lesson. In the video, we show you different Hosting companies and their pricing and how to get special offers using coupon codes etc. Select One hosting provider, who you feel affordable and register hosting with them.

Modi’s Foreign Policy with regards to India-China relations and its impacts on Taiwan

India - China Relations overview

India & China has always remained competitive especially in the past few decades. However both being developing countries and major economies, they collaborate on a wide range of issues and show a united face in major forums but however, the relationship has its own share of issues.

China wants to topple the United States as the sole superpower and wants to take over the world and is using a mix of Economic, Military and historical strategies such as OBOR / BRI, CPEC, Gwadar Port, Hambantota Port, String of Pearls strategy, Nine-dash line, South China sea etc. These are major flash points between India & China, not to mention the border disputes simmering over many decades (Recent doklam dispute) and its continued support to India’s arch-rival and China’s all-weather friend Pakistan in providing Nuclear technology, missiles, and fighters etc.

I have been into Internet/e-commerce/online payments for the last 5-7 years and I have been working in the online e-commerce industry full-time for almost 3 years now after resigning from my corporate job.

I have worked on my own as well as client e-commerce projects and that constitute my experience and I have learned all these things from my own research in the past 7 years and I must admit, it took a lot of time learning all these things and a still a lot to learn.

I have been into Internet/e-commerce/online payments for the last 5-7 years and I have been working in the online e-commerce industry full-time for almost 3 years now after resigning from my corporate job.

I have worked on my own as well as client e-commerce projects and that constitute my experience and I have learned all these things from my own research in the past 7 years and I must admit, it took a lot of time learning all these things and a still a lot to learn.

I have built an attic for chickens to lay eggs in our Paravali farms during my last trip home. Now I can see, hens are using it to lay eggs on the designated containers.

Generally, chickens (Hens) prefer places which are higher and safer from predators to lay eggs but often times they lay eggs on top of improper structures resulting the egg falling on the ground and you know what happens to the egg thereafter (guess someone needs to teach the chickens about gravity, lol!). So in our farm, inside a hut, they have placed coconut leaves (or branches) in some sort of structure but it didn’t help as it was poorly constructed.

I have built an attic for chickens to lay eggs in our Paravali farms during my last trip home. Now I can see, hens are using it to lay eggs on the designated containers.

Generally, chickens (Hens) prefer places which are higher and safer from predators to lay eggs but often times they lay eggs on top of improper structures resulting the egg falling on the ground and you know what happens to the egg thereafter (guess someone needs to teach the chickens about gravity, lol!). So in our farm, inside a hut, they have placed coconut leaves (or branches) in some sort of structure but it didn’t help as it was poorly constructed.

Lesson 2 - Business and Tax registrations required for an e-commerce business in India

Welcome to the Second lesson of the Free online e-commerce course and in this lesson, we discuss the Business and Tax Registrations required to run an e-commerce business in India and also how to do the said registrations.

Click on the below video to start the lesson, also you can subscribe to the youtube channel to get a notification whenever a new video is uploaded.

Do you know playing chess increases your creativity, awareness, and problem-solving skills?

The earlier a person starts playing chess in his/her life, higher the brain functions. So, It is recommended to teach children to play chess at the earliest.

We need not enroll them in a professional chess coaching class and make them a grandmaster, just teaching them how to play and encourage them to play regularly will make wonders. But If you want to, feel free to do it.

I have built an attic for chickens to lay eggs in our Paravali farms during my last trip home. Now I can see, hens are using it to lay eggs on the designated containers.

Generally, chickens (Hens) prefer places which are higher and safer from predators to lay eggs but often times they lay eggs on top of improper structures resulting the egg falling on the ground and you know what happens to the egg thereafter (guess someone needs to teach the chickens about gravity, lol!). So in our farm, inside a hut, they have placed coconut leaves (or branches) in some sort of structure but it didn’t help as it was poorly constructed.

I have built an attic for chickens to lay eggs in our Paravali farms during my last trip home. Now I can see, hens are using it to lay eggs on the designated containers.

Generally, chickens (Hens) prefer places which are higher and safer from predators to lay eggs but often times they lay eggs on top of improper structures resulting the egg falling on the ground and you know what happens to the egg thereafter (guess someone needs to teach the chickens about gravity, lol!). So in our farm, inside a hut, they have placed coconut leaves (or branches) in some sort of structure but it didn’t help as it was poorly constructed.

Modi’s Foreign Policy with regards to India-China relations and its impacts on Taiwan

India - China Relations overview

India & China has always remained competitive especially in the past few decades. However both being developing countries and major economies, they collaborate on a wide range of issues and show a united face in major forums but however, the relationship has its own share of issues.

China wants to topple the United States as the sole superpower and wants to take over the world and is using a mix of Economic, Military and historical strategies such as OBOR / BRI, CPEC, Gwadar Port, Hambantota Port, String of Pearls strategy, Nine-dash line, South China sea etc. These are major flash points between India & China, not to mention the border disputes simmering over many decades (Recent doklam dispute) and its continued support to India’s arch-rival and China’s all-weather friend Pakistan in providing Nuclear technology, missiles, and fighters etc.

Lesson 7 - How to Register Web Hosting for your Website?

In this lesson, we will see how to Register Web Hosting for your account and use it to host your domain.

Watch the below video to start the lesson. In the video, we show you different Hosting companies and their pricing and how to get special offers using coupon codes etc. Select One hosting provider, who you feel affordable and register hosting with them.

Lesson 5 - Managing your website DNS with CloudFlare

Welcome to the 5th Lesson of the Free e-commerce course.

In this lesson learn how to sign up for CloudFlare and change the nameservers accordingly to accommodate the change and also how to create an “A” record to point your domain name to your server IP.

Click the below video to start the lesson.

Once you have signed up and updated the name servers, you can manage all the DNS settings of the website from CloudFlare.

Lesson 3 (Bonus) - What is Domain Name, Hosting and DNS?

Welcome to the bonus lesson of Free e-commerce course, in the last lesson I explained how to register a domain name for your website but seems people are confused about certain things….

If you are trying to understand How a website works and What is the difference between a Website and domain name, what is hosting, then it might be overwhelming at first.

In this article, we will see step-by-step instructions to setup AWS EC2 Instance Monitoring Alarms using AWS Cloudwatch and CloudWatch Agent. The purpose of this post is to create a unified guide document to implement CloudWatch alarms as I couldn’t find any such documents when I tried to implement this for the first time.

Assumption:

This guide is written with the basic assumption that you want to implement Cloudwatch alarms in Linux based operating systems and the instructions are given for Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04 operating system, however, it will work for other Linux variants also but commands like “apt” or “apt-get” must be replaced with command like “yum” relevant to the operating system.

In this article, we will see step-by-step instructions to setup AWS EC2 Instance Monitoring Alarms using AWS Cloudwatch and CloudWatch Agent. The purpose of this post is to create a unified guide document to implement CloudWatch alarms as I couldn’t find any such documents when I tried to implement this for the first time.

Assumption:

This guide is written with the basic assumption that you want to implement Cloudwatch alarms in Linux based operating systems and the instructions are given for Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04 operating system, however, it will work for other Linux variants also but commands like “apt” or “apt-get” must be replaced with command like “yum” relevant to the operating system.

Lesson 7 - Install OpenCart CMS on your website

In the previous lesson of the free e-commerce course, we have seen how to set up web hosting for your Website.

In this lesson, we will see how to Install Opencart CMS on your website.

What is a CMS?

CMS is the short form of Content Management System and it’s like a Software application developed for a specific use and we use the Web Content Management System (Web CMS) called Opencart for our purpose. There are a lot of Web CMS like Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, Opencart etc and each one specializes in some specific functions.

Free online course to Learn e-commerce

Welcome to the Free online course on e-commerce.

You can view the topics covered in this course below and you can start reading the lessons right away by clicking on the lessons directly.

Course Contents

Course Resources

Free online course on e-commerce - Launch

Lesson 1 - What is e-commerce and it’s types?

Lesson 2 - Business and Tax registrations required for an e-commerce business in India

Lesson 7 - How to Register Web Hosting for your Website?

In this lesson, we will see how to Register Web Hosting for your account and use it to host your domain.

Watch the below video to start the lesson. In the video, we show you different Hosting companies and their pricing and how to get special offers using coupon codes etc. Select One hosting provider, who you feel affordable and register hosting with them.

Lesson 7 - How to Register Web Hosting for your Website?

In this lesson, we will see how to Register Web Hosting for your account and use it to host your domain.

Watch the below video to start the lesson. In the video, we show you different Hosting companies and their pricing and how to get special offers using coupon codes etc. Select One hosting provider, who you feel affordable and register hosting with them.

All of must be using some sort of App to take Notes on the go. But the best among them all is Google Keep.

Why is Google Keep the best?

Google Keep has a clean and simple UI with tons of useful features.

You can use Google Keep to take Notes, create Checklist, Set Reminders - both time based and location-based reminders, use it as a drawing pad, create image notes, scribble on images etc.

If you are a small business or a startup looking to collect online digital payments from Credit / Debit cards, net-banking and you couldn’t afford the fancy swiping machine or a costly payment account. Now you can simply share payments link via Whatsapp, Facebook, SMS, e-mail etc and your customers can pay online easily with the comfort of home and the amount gets settled in your bank account in 2 days.

Learn how to create your own free online store without any coding in under thirty minutes in 5 easy steps and also get Rs.500 in your bank account after completing your first sale.

We will show you an example with a hobby business called Prighu - Art crafts & Jewellery

Create a Facebook page for your business

First create a Facebook page for your business (if you haven’t done already) and post about your business and related images.

In this article, we will see step-by-step instructions to setup AWS EC2 Instance Monitoring Alarms using AWS Cloudwatch and CloudWatch Agent. The purpose of this post is to create a unified guide document to implement CloudWatch alarms as I couldn’t find any such documents when I tried to implement this for the first time.

Assumption:

This guide is written with the basic assumption that you want to implement Cloudwatch alarms in Linux based operating systems and the instructions are given for Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04 operating system, however, it will work for other Linux variants also but commands like “apt” or “apt-get” must be replaced with command like “yum” relevant to the operating system.

World bank has released the latest (2018) Ease of Doing business Index report for 2018 and India has moved up 30 ranks and currently ranks at 100 out of 190 countries and this is the best ever rank India has achieved.

Update: India has achieved the 77th rank in Ease of Doing business Index 2019. More power to India & Modi!

What is Ease of Doing Business Index?

Ease of Doing Business index is the annual report published by the World bank after analyzing over 10 factors which are conducive to doing business in the country.

Few people have asked me about the tools and technical setup I’m using to run my blog and website.

It is difficult for me to explain them orally everytime but it is important because it will help them learn and do their own thing. So, I’m going to mention about the most of the tools and technologies I use in my blog and my business.

Web Services I use or have used in the past

World bank has released the latest (2018) Ease of Doing business Index report for 2018 and India has moved up 30 ranks and currently ranks at 100 out of 190 countries and this is the best ever rank India has achieved.

Update: India has achieved the 77th rank in Ease of Doing business Index 2019. More power to India & Modi!

What is Ease of Doing Business Index?

Ease of Doing Business index is the annual report published by the World bank after analyzing over 10 factors which are conducive to doing business in the country.

Learn how to create your own free online store without any coding in under thirty minutes in 5 easy steps and also get Rs.500 in your bank account after completing your first sale.

We will show you an example with a hobby business called Prighu - Art crafts & Jewellery

Create a Facebook page for your business

First create a Facebook page for your business (if you haven’t done already) and post about your business and related images.

I have been into Internet/e-commerce/online payments for the last 5-7 years and I have been working in the online e-commerce industry full-time for almost 3 years now after resigning from my corporate job.

I have worked on my own as well as client e-commerce projects and that constitute my experience and I have learned all these things from my own research in the past 7 years and I must admit, it took a lot of time learning all these things and a still a lot to learn.

If you are looking for a high-performance free VPS Server without any ads to test your application, host a website or evaluate VPS servers for your production environment, then you have come to the right place. For the uninitiated, let’s introduce VPS.

What is Virtual Private Server (VPS)?

Virtual Private Server (VPS) are virtual computers that are hosted on a physical server in the cloud, which can be accessed via the Internet. These servers have their own operating system, own server resources and functions like a normal server except that multiple VPS can reside in a Single Physical server but they will have their dedicated Storage and RAM.

Would you like to get a free payment gateway consultation for your business?

I have been in the e-commerce and Payments industry for 4+ years now and I have been running a free e-commerce course for those who wanted to get into the e-commerce business. I have been getting several inquiries from SME’s regarding getting a payment gateway for their business, hence I have decided to offer free payment gateway consulting for business as we have partnered with a startup-friendly major online payment gateway, we are in a better position to offer payment gateway consulting services.

Lesson 4 - How to Signup for a Payment Gateway in India?

Are you a small business worried about getting a Payment gateway?

Are you looking for a payment gateway for a home business without company registration?

Do you want to collect payments online without having a website?

Are you looking for a payment gateway for your e-commerce store?

Are you worried about the initial cost of setting up a payment gateway?

If you are a small business or a startup looking to collect online digital payments from Credit / Debit cards, net-banking and you couldn’t afford the fancy swiping machine or a costly payment account. Now you can simply share payments link via Whatsapp, Facebook, SMS, e-mail etc and your customers can pay online easily with the comfort of home and the amount gets settled in your bank account in 2 days.

If you are looking for a high-performance free VPS Server without any ads to test your application, host a website or evaluate VPS servers for your production environment, then you have come to the right place. For the uninitiated, let’s introduce VPS.

What is Virtual Private Server (VPS)?

Virtual Private Server (VPS) are virtual computers that are hosted on a physical server in the cloud, which can be accessed via the Internet. These servers have their own operating system, own server resources and functions like a normal server except that multiple VPS can reside in a Single Physical server but they will have their dedicated Storage and RAM.

Modi’s Foreign Policy with regards to India-China relations and its impacts on Taiwan

India - China Relations overview

India & China has always remained competitive especially in the past few decades. However both being developing countries and major economies, they collaborate on a wide range of issues and show a united face in major forums but however, the relationship has its own share of issues.

China wants to topple the United States as the sole superpower and wants to take over the world and is using a mix of Economic, Military and historical strategies such as OBOR / BRI, CPEC, Gwadar Port, Hambantota Port, String of Pearls strategy, Nine-dash line, South China sea etc. These are major flash points between India & China, not to mention the border disputes simmering over many decades (Recent doklam dispute) and its continued support to India’s arch-rival and China’s all-weather friend Pakistan in providing Nuclear technology, missiles, and fighters etc.

I have built an attic for chickens to lay eggs in our Paravali farms during my last trip home. Now I can see, hens are using it to lay eggs on the designated containers.

Generally, chickens (Hens) prefer places which are higher and safer from predators to lay eggs but often times they lay eggs on top of improper structures resulting the egg falling on the ground and you know what happens to the egg thereafter (guess someone needs to teach the chickens about gravity, lol!). So in our farm, inside a hut, they have placed coconut leaves (or branches) in some sort of structure but it didn’t help as it was poorly constructed.

Lesson 5 - Managing your website DNS with CloudFlare

Welcome to the 5th Lesson of the Free e-commerce course.

In this lesson learn how to sign up for CloudFlare and change the nameservers accordingly to accommodate the change and also how to create an “A” record to point your domain name to your server IP.

Click the below video to start the lesson.

Once you have signed up and updated the name servers, you can manage all the DNS settings of the website from CloudFlare.

Lesson 5 - Managing your website DNS with CloudFlare

Welcome to the 5th Lesson of the Free e-commerce course.

In this lesson learn how to sign up for CloudFlare and change the nameservers accordingly to accommodate the change and also how to create an “A” record to point your domain name to your server IP.

Click the below video to start the lesson.

Once you have signed up and updated the name servers, you can manage all the DNS settings of the website from CloudFlare.

Lesson 3 (Bonus) - What is Domain Name, Hosting and DNS?

Welcome to the bonus lesson of Free e-commerce course, in the last lesson I explained how to register a domain name for your website but seems people are confused about certain things….

If you are trying to understand How a website works and What is the difference between a Website and domain name, what is hosting, then it might be overwhelming at first.

Lesson 3 (Bonus) - What is Domain Name, Hosting and DNS?

Welcome to the bonus lesson of Free e-commerce course, in the last lesson I explained how to register a domain name for your website but seems people are confused about certain things….

If you are trying to understand How a website works and What is the difference between a Website and domain name, what is hosting, then it might be overwhelming at first.

Lesson 3 (Bonus) - What is Domain Name, Hosting and DNS?

Welcome to the bonus lesson of Free e-commerce course, in the last lesson I explained how to register a domain name for your website but seems people are confused about certain things….

If you are trying to understand How a website works and What is the difference between a Website and domain name, what is hosting, then it might be overwhelming at first.

Lesson 3 (Bonus) - What is Domain Name, Hosting and DNS?

Welcome to the bonus lesson of Free e-commerce course, in the last lesson I explained how to register a domain name for your website but seems people are confused about certain things….

If you are trying to understand How a website works and What is the difference between a Website and domain name, what is hosting, then it might be overwhelming at first.

Lesson 3 - How to Register your website domain name?

Welcome to the third lesson of the Free Online e-commerce course and in this lesson, we show you how to register your own website domain name.

Start the below video to watch it.

You can use other domain registrars such as Namecheap, GoDaddy, Google domains etc as well. The core concepts remains the same.

World bank has released the latest (2018) Ease of Doing business Index report for 2018 and India has moved up 30 ranks and currently ranks at 100 out of 190 countries and this is the best ever rank India has achieved.

Update: India has achieved the 77th rank in Ease of Doing business Index 2019. More power to India & Modi!

What is Ease of Doing Business Index?

Ease of Doing Business index is the annual report published by the World bank after analyzing over 10 factors which are conducive to doing business in the country.

If you are looking for a high-performance free VPS Server without any ads to test your application, host a website or evaluate VPS servers for your production environment, then you have come to the right place. For the uninitiated, let’s introduce VPS.

What is Virtual Private Server (VPS)?

Virtual Private Server (VPS) are virtual computers that are hosted on a physical server in the cloud, which can be accessed via the Internet. These servers have their own operating system, own server resources and functions like a normal server except that multiple VPS can reside in a Single Physical server but they will have their dedicated Storage and RAM.

Lesson 2 - Business and Tax registrations required for an e-commerce business in India

Welcome to the Second lesson of the Free online e-commerce course and in this lesson, we discuss the Business and Tax Registrations required to run an e-commerce business in India and also how to do the said registrations.

Click on the below video to start the lesson, also you can subscribe to the youtube channel to get a notification whenever a new video is uploaded.

I have been into Internet/e-commerce/online payments for the last 5-7 years and I have been working in the online e-commerce industry full-time for almost 3 years now after resigning from my corporate job.

I have worked on my own as well as client e-commerce projects and that constitute my experience and I have learned all these things from my own research in the past 7 years and I must admit, it took a lot of time learning all these things and a still a lot to learn.

Learn how to create your own free online store without any coding in under thirty minutes in 5 easy steps and also get Rs.500 in your bank account after completing your first sale.

We will show you an example with a hobby business called Prighu - Art crafts & Jewellery

Create a Facebook page for your business

First create a Facebook page for your business (if you haven’t done already) and post about your business and related images.

Being a Startup entrepreneur and service provider involved in ecommerce and allied fields, I know the importance of collecting payments online and the role of Payment gateway in it. There are lot of factors involved while selecting a Payment gateway especially when you are starting new.

After years of searching and analysis, I believe, I have a winner,

I’ll try to explain why Instamojo is the best payment gateway for startups in India and the factors I have considered while choosing the payment gateway.

World bank has released the latest (2018) Ease of Doing business Index report for 2018 and India has moved up 30 ranks and currently ranks at 100 out of 190 countries and this is the best ever rank India has achieved.

Update: India has achieved the 77th rank in Ease of Doing business Index 2019. More power to India & Modi!

What is Ease of Doing Business Index?

Ease of Doing Business index is the annual report published by the World bank after analyzing over 10 factors which are conducive to doing business in the country.

World bank has released the latest (2018) Ease of Doing business Index report for 2018 and India has moved up 30 ranks and currently ranks at 100 out of 190 countries and this is the best ever rank India has achieved.

Update: India has achieved the 77th rank in Ease of Doing business Index 2019. More power to India & Modi!

What is Ease of Doing Business Index?

Ease of Doing Business index is the annual report published by the World bank after analyzing over 10 factors which are conducive to doing business in the country.

Lesson 7 - Install OpenCart CMS on your website

In the previous lesson of the free e-commerce course, we have seen how to set up web hosting for your Website.

In this lesson, we will see how to Install Opencart CMS on your website.

What is a CMS?

CMS is the short form of Content Management System and it’s like a Software application developed for a specific use and we use the Web Content Management System (Web CMS) called Opencart for our purpose. There are a lot of Web CMS like Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, Opencart etc and each one specializes in some specific functions.

In this article, we will see step-by-step instructions to setup AWS EC2 Instance Monitoring Alarms using AWS Cloudwatch and CloudWatch Agent. The purpose of this post is to create a unified guide document to implement CloudWatch alarms as I couldn’t find any such documents when I tried to implement this for the first time.

Assumption:

This guide is written with the basic assumption that you want to implement Cloudwatch alarms in Linux based operating systems and the instructions are given for Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04 operating system, however, it will work for other Linux variants also but commands like “apt” or “apt-get” must be replaced with command like “yum” relevant to the operating system.

In this article, we will see step-by-step instructions to setup AWS EC2 Instance Monitoring Alarms using AWS Cloudwatch and CloudWatch Agent. The purpose of this post is to create a unified guide document to implement CloudWatch alarms as I couldn’t find any such documents when I tried to implement this for the first time.

Assumption:

This guide is written with the basic assumption that you want to implement Cloudwatch alarms in Linux based operating systems and the instructions are given for Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04 operating system, however, it will work for other Linux variants also but commands like “apt” or “apt-get” must be replaced with command like “yum” relevant to the operating system.

In this article, we will see step-by-step instructions to setup AWS EC2 Instance Monitoring Alarms using AWS Cloudwatch and CloudWatch Agent. The purpose of this post is to create a unified guide document to implement CloudWatch alarms as I couldn’t find any such documents when I tried to implement this for the first time.

Assumption:

This guide is written with the basic assumption that you want to implement Cloudwatch alarms in Linux based operating systems and the instructions are given for Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04 operating system, however, it will work for other Linux variants also but commands like “apt” or “apt-get” must be replaced with command like “yum” relevant to the operating system.

Lesson 9 - Integrating Payment Gateway with Opencart site

In this lesson, we will see how to integrate our payment gateway with our Opencart Installation.

1. Login to your Instamojo dashboard and click on API’s and Plugins.

2. Under available platform plugins, click on the relevant Opencart version of your installation and download the plugin.

3. Login to your Opencart admin dashboard and click on Extensions->Extension Installer.

4. Click the upload button and upload the plugin you have downloaded earlier.

Lesson 7 - Install OpenCart CMS on your website

In the previous lesson of the free e-commerce course, we have seen how to set up web hosting for your Website.

In this lesson, we will see how to Install Opencart CMS on your website.

What is a CMS?

CMS is the short form of Content Management System and it’s like a Software application developed for a specific use and we use the Web Content Management System (Web CMS) called Opencart for our purpose. There are a lot of Web CMS like Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, Opencart etc and each one specializes in some specific functions.

Would you like to get a free payment gateway consultation for your business?

I have been in the e-commerce and Payments industry for 4+ years now and I have been running a free e-commerce course for those who wanted to get into the e-commerce business. I have been getting several inquiries from SME’s regarding getting a payment gateway for their business, hence I have decided to offer free payment gateway consulting for business as we have partnered with a startup-friendly major online payment gateway, we are in a better position to offer payment gateway consulting services.

Lesson 7 - How to Register Web Hosting for your Website?

In this lesson, we will see how to Register Web Hosting for your account and use it to host your domain.

Watch the below video to start the lesson. In the video, we show you different Hosting companies and their pricing and how to get special offers using coupon codes etc. Select One hosting provider, who you feel affordable and register hosting with them.

Lesson 6 - Create free Professional Business email with custom domain using Zoho mail

Welcome to the Lesson 6 of the Free e-commerce course.

In this lesson, I’m going to show you how to get a free professional business email with your own website (eg, [email protected]) using Zoho mail.

In order to complete this tasks, you must have already purchased a domain name and added it with CloudFlare to manage the DNS settings.

If you haven’t done already, please complete those first and if you don’t know how to complete those steps, please refer the “Learn e-commerce” page for help articles.

Lesson 5 - Managing your website DNS with CloudFlare

Welcome to the 5th Lesson of the Free e-commerce course.

In this lesson learn how to sign up for CloudFlare and change the nameservers accordingly to accommodate the change and also how to create an “A” record to point your domain name to your server IP.

Click the below video to start the lesson.

Once you have signed up and updated the name servers, you can manage all the DNS settings of the website from CloudFlare.

Lesson 4 - How to Signup for a Payment Gateway in India?

Are you a small business worried about getting a Payment gateway?

Are you looking for a payment gateway for a home business without company registration?

Do you want to collect payments online without having a website?

Are you looking for a payment gateway for your e-commerce store?

Are you worried about the initial cost of setting up a payment gateway?

Lesson 3 (Bonus) - What is Domain Name, Hosting and DNS?

Welcome to the bonus lesson of Free e-commerce course, in the last lesson I explained how to register a domain name for your website but seems people are confused about certain things….

If you are trying to understand How a website works and What is the difference between a Website and domain name, what is hosting, then it might be overwhelming at first.

Lesson 3 - How to Register your website domain name?

Welcome to the third lesson of the Free Online e-commerce course and in this lesson, we show you how to register your own website domain name.

Start the below video to watch it.

You can use other domain registrars such as Namecheap, GoDaddy, Google domains etc as well. The core concepts remains the same.

Lesson 2 - Business and Tax registrations required for an e-commerce business in India

Welcome to the Second lesson of the Free online e-commerce course and in this lesson, we discuss the Business and Tax Registrations required to run an e-commerce business in India and also how to do the said registrations.

Click on the below video to start the lesson, also you can subscribe to the youtube channel to get a notification whenever a new video is uploaded.

Lesson 1 - What is ecommerce and it’s types?

Welcome to the First lesson of the Free e-commerce course and in this lesson, I’ll be speaking about what is e-commerce and what are the types of e-commerce.

Click on the below video to watch it.

In the next lesson, we will learn about what are the legal registrations (such as business reg., GST, PAN etc) required to run an e-commerce business in India.

I have been into Internet/e-commerce/online payments for the last 5-7 years and I have been working in the online e-commerce industry full-time for almost 3 years now after resigning from my corporate job.

I have worked on my own as well as client e-commerce projects and that constitute my experience and I have learned all these things from my own research in the past 7 years and I must admit, it took a lot of time learning all these things and a still a lot to learn.

If you are a small business or a startup looking to collect online digital payments from Credit / Debit cards, net-banking and you couldn’t afford the fancy swiping machine or a costly payment account. Now you can simply share payments link via Whatsapp, Facebook, SMS, e-mail etc and your customers can pay online easily with the comfort of home and the amount gets settled in your bank account in 2 days.

Amazon launched their Prime membership last year in India and I’ve been using it for the past 1 year and based on my 1-year experience if you ask me if it is worth paying ₹499 / ₹999 (You can get ₹500 Cashback in your Amazon Pay wallet), I would say, Absolutely yes. First, let’s see what are the benefits of Prime Membership.

Benefits of Prime Membership

• Free delivery on all products Fulfilled by Amazon and most of the high moving products are fulfilled by Amazon.
• Free One Day and Two day delivery on eligible products and pin codes, for which you have to pay extra if you are not a prime member.
• Early access to deals and special offers for Prime members.
• And my favorite, unlimited access to Amazon Prime Video which includes a lot of Hollywood movies and popular TV series

Should you go for it?

You should. If you are a heavy shopper and you are based in any of the metros, then you can get free fast delivery and it’s more than worth.

Lesson 2 - Business and Tax registrations required for an e-commerce business in India

Welcome to the Second lesson of the Free online e-commerce course and in this lesson, we discuss the Business and Tax Registrations required to run an e-commerce business in India and also how to do the said registrations.

Click on the below video to start the lesson, also you can subscribe to the youtube channel to get a notification whenever a new video is uploaded.

Lesson 6 - Create free Professional Business email with custom domain using Zoho mail

Welcome to the Lesson 6 of the Free e-commerce course.

In this lesson, I’m going to show you how to get a free professional business email with your own website (eg, [email protected]) using Zoho mail.

In order to complete this tasks, you must have already purchased a domain name and added it with CloudFlare to manage the DNS settings.

If you haven’t done already, please complete those first and if you don’t know how to complete those steps, please refer the “Learn e-commerce” page for help articles.

I have built an attic for chickens to lay eggs in our Paravali farms during my last trip home. Now I can see, hens are using it to lay eggs on the designated containers.

Generally, chickens (Hens) prefer places which are higher and safer from predators to lay eggs but often times they lay eggs on top of improper structures resulting the egg falling on the ground and you know what happens to the egg thereafter (guess someone needs to teach the chickens about gravity, lol!). So in our farm, inside a hut, they have placed coconut leaves (or branches) in some sort of structure but it didn’t help as it was poorly constructed.

Are you constantly distracted by various sounds while working and couldn’t concentrate? Listening to soothing white noise might help you focus.

These days I don’t like feeling to go to my office because of the sounds from the nearby construction site and it kind of irritates me. Then I researched on the Internet and found out that listening to some soothing White noise will calm your mind and help you focus on your work.

Modi’s Foreign Policy with regards to India-China relations and its impacts on Taiwan

India - China Relations overview

India & China has always remained competitive especially in the past few decades. However both being developing countries and major economies, they collaborate on a wide range of issues and show a united face in major forums but however, the relationship has its own share of issues.

China wants to topple the United States as the sole superpower and wants to take over the world and is using a mix of Economic, Military and historical strategies such as OBOR / BRI, CPEC, Gwadar Port, Hambantota Port, String of Pearls strategy, Nine-dash line, South China sea etc. These are major flash points between India & China, not to mention the border disputes simmering over many decades (Recent doklam dispute) and its continued support to India’s arch-rival and China’s all-weather friend Pakistan in providing Nuclear technology, missiles, and fighters etc.

Lesson 6 - Create free Professional Business email with custom domain using Zoho mail

Welcome to the Lesson 6 of the Free e-commerce course.

In this lesson, I’m going to show you how to get a free professional business email with your own website (eg, [email protected]) using Zoho mail.

In order to complete this tasks, you must have already purchased a domain name and added it with CloudFlare to manage the DNS settings.

If you haven’t done already, please complete those first and if you don’t know how to complete those steps, please refer the “Learn e-commerce” page for help articles.

I have been into Internet/e-commerce/online payments for the last 5-7 years and I have been working in the online e-commerce industry full-time for almost 3 years now after resigning from my corporate job.

I have worked on my own as well as client e-commerce projects and that constitute my experience and I have learned all these things from my own research in the past 7 years and I must admit, it took a lot of time learning all these things and a still a lot to learn.

Most of you must have used Google play store to download Apps, music, movies, books, games etc. Some of them are free, most of them are either paid or ad-supported.

At times you must have wanted paid products or premium version of products to remove annoying ads or you just wanted to buy a book or something but you don’t want to pay for them, so you search for pirated apk’s and end up installing malware on your mobile.

I have been into Internet/e-commerce/online payments for the last 5-7 years and I have been working in the online e-commerce industry full-time for almost 3 years now after resigning from my corporate job.

I have worked on my own as well as client e-commerce projects and that constitute my experience and I have learned all these things from my own research in the past 7 years and I must admit, it took a lot of time learning all these things and a still a lot to learn.

Most of you must have used Google play store to download Apps, music, movies, books, games etc. Some of them are free, most of them are either paid or ad-supported.

At times you must have wanted paid products or premium version of products to remove annoying ads or you just wanted to buy a book or something but you don’t want to pay for them, so you search for pirated apk’s and end up installing malware on your mobile.

Looking for the Best Remove.bg Alternatives?

For years, Remove.bg has been the default savior for anyone needing a quick transparent PNG. Whether you are setting up clean e-commerce product shots, designing a logo, or cutting out headshots, it simply works.

However, Remove.bg has a major catch: the free tier limits you to low-resolution preview files. If you want full-resolution HD downloads, you have to buy credits or subscribe. Also, it’s being shutdown from Dec 2026 after their Canva acquisition.

Most of you must have used Google play store to download Apps, music, movies, books, games etc. Some of them are free, most of them are either paid or ad-supported.

At times you must have wanted paid products or premium version of products to remove annoying ads or you just wanted to buy a book or something but you don’t want to pay for them, so you search for pirated apk’s and end up installing malware on your mobile.

I have been into Internet/e-commerce/online payments for the last 5-7 years and I have been working in the online e-commerce industry full-time for almost 3 years now after resigning from my corporate job.

I have worked on my own as well as client e-commerce projects and that constitute my experience and I have learned all these things from my own research in the past 7 years and I must admit, it took a lot of time learning all these things and a still a lot to learn.

I have been into Internet/e-commerce/online payments for the last 5-7 years and I have been working in the online e-commerce industry full-time for almost 3 years now after resigning from my corporate job.

I have worked on my own as well as client e-commerce projects and that constitute my experience and I have learned all these things from my own research in the past 7 years and I must admit, it took a lot of time learning all these things and a still a lot to learn.

Learn how to create your own free online store without any coding in under thirty minutes in 5 easy steps and also get Rs.500 in your bank account after completing your first sale.

We will show you an example with a hobby business called Prighu - Art crafts & Jewellery

Create a Facebook page for your business

First create a Facebook page for your business (if you haven’t done already) and post about your business and related images.

Lesson 4 - How to Signup for a Payment Gateway in India?

Are you a small business worried about getting a Payment gateway?

Are you looking for a payment gateway for a home business without company registration?

Do you want to collect payments online without having a website?

Are you looking for a payment gateway for your e-commerce store?

Are you worried about the initial cost of setting up a payment gateway?

Looking for the Best Remove.bg Alternatives?

For years, Remove.bg has been the default savior for anyone needing a quick transparent PNG. Whether you are setting up clean e-commerce product shots, designing a logo, or cutting out headshots, it simply works.

However, Remove.bg has a major catch: the free tier limits you to low-resolution preview files. If you want full-resolution HD downloads, you have to buy credits or subscribe. Also, it’s being shutdown from Dec 2026 after their Canva acquisition.

Lesson 6 - Create free Professional Business email with custom domain using Zoho mail

Welcome to the Lesson 6 of the Free e-commerce course.

In this lesson, I’m going to show you how to get a free professional business email with your own website (eg, [email protected]) using Zoho mail.

In order to complete this tasks, you must have already purchased a domain name and added it with CloudFlare to manage the DNS settings.

If you haven’t done already, please complete those first and if you don’t know how to complete those steps, please refer the “Learn e-commerce” page for help articles.

Looking for the Best Remove.bg Alternatives?

For years, Remove.bg has been the default savior for anyone needing a quick transparent PNG. Whether you are setting up clean e-commerce product shots, designing a logo, or cutting out headshots, it simply works.

However, Remove.bg has a major catch: the free tier limits you to low-resolution preview files. If you want full-resolution HD downloads, you have to buy credits or subscribe. Also, it’s being shutdown from Dec 2026 after their Canva acquisition.

If you are looking for a high-performance free VPS Server without any ads to test your application, host a website or evaluate VPS servers for your production environment, then you have come to the right place. For the uninitiated, let’s introduce VPS.

What is Virtual Private Server (VPS)?

Virtual Private Server (VPS) are virtual computers that are hosted on a physical server in the cloud, which can be accessed via the Internet. These servers have their own operating system, own server resources and functions like a normal server except that multiple VPS can reside in a Single Physical server but they will have their dedicated Storage and RAM.

If you are looking for a high-performance free VPS Server without any ads to test your application, host a website or evaluate VPS servers for your production environment, then you have come to the right place. For the uninitiated, let’s introduce VPS.

What is Virtual Private Server (VPS)?

Virtual Private Server (VPS) are virtual computers that are hosted on a physical server in the cloud, which can be accessed via the Internet. These servers have their own operating system, own server resources and functions like a normal server except that multiple VPS can reside in a Single Physical server but they will have their dedicated Storage and RAM.

In this article, I’ll be writing about how to solve your problems and challenges using the Power of projects and gamification based on my personal experience.

What is this power of Projects and Gamification?

It’s a simple concept of taking a problem or a challenge in your life (either personal or professional) and converting it into an interesting project or breaking into a game with multiple stages and trying to accomplish each stage and finally winning the game.

If you are looking for a high-performance free VPS Server without any ads to test your application, host a website or evaluate VPS servers for your production environment, then you have come to the right place. For the uninitiated, let’s introduce VPS.

What is Virtual Private Server (VPS)?

Virtual Private Server (VPS) are virtual computers that are hosted on a physical server in the cloud, which can be accessed via the Internet. These servers have their own operating system, own server resources and functions like a normal server except that multiple VPS can reside in a Single Physical server but they will have their dedicated Storage and RAM.

All of must be using some sort of App to take Notes on the go. But the best among them all is Google Keep.

Why is Google Keep the best?

Google Keep has a clean and simple UI with tons of useful features.

You can use Google Keep to take Notes, create Checklist, Set Reminders - both time based and location-based reminders, use it as a drawing pad, create image notes, scribble on images etc.

Most of you must have used Google play store to download Apps, music, movies, books, games etc. Some of them are free, most of them are either paid or ad-supported.

At times you must have wanted paid products or premium version of products to remove annoying ads or you just wanted to buy a book or something but you don’t want to pay for them, so you search for pirated apk’s and end up installing malware on your mobile.

Most of you must have used Google play store to download Apps, music, movies, books, games etc. Some of them are free, most of them are either paid or ad-supported.

At times you must have wanted paid products or premium version of products to remove annoying ads or you just wanted to buy a book or something but you don’t want to pay for them, so you search for pirated apk’s and end up installing malware on your mobile.

Most of you must have used Google play store to download Apps, music, movies, books, games etc. Some of them are free, most of them are either paid or ad-supported.

At times you must have wanted paid products or premium version of products to remove annoying ads or you just wanted to buy a book or something but you don’t want to pay for them, so you search for pirated apk’s and end up installing malware on your mobile.

Most of you must have used Google play store to download Apps, music, movies, books, games etc. Some of them are free, most of them are either paid or ad-supported.

At times you must have wanted paid products or premium version of products to remove annoying ads or you just wanted to buy a book or something but you don’t want to pay for them, so you search for pirated apk’s and end up installing malware on your mobile.

World bank has released the latest (2018) Ease of Doing business Index report for 2018 and India has moved up 30 ranks and currently ranks at 100 out of 190 countries and this is the best ever rank India has achieved.

Update: India has achieved the 77th rank in Ease of Doing business Index 2019. More power to India & Modi!

What is Ease of Doing Business Index?

Ease of Doing Business index is the annual report published by the World bank after analyzing over 10 factors which are conducive to doing business in the country.

Lesson 2 - Business and Tax registrations required for an e-commerce business in India

Welcome to the Second lesson of the Free online e-commerce course and in this lesson, we discuss the Business and Tax Registrations required to run an e-commerce business in India and also how to do the said registrations.

Click on the below video to start the lesson, also you can subscribe to the youtube channel to get a notification whenever a new video is uploaded.

I have built an attic for chickens to lay eggs in our Paravali farms during my last trip home. Now I can see, hens are using it to lay eggs on the designated containers.

Generally, chickens (Hens) prefer places which are higher and safer from predators to lay eggs but often times they lay eggs on top of improper structures resulting the egg falling on the ground and you know what happens to the egg thereafter (guess someone needs to teach the chickens about gravity, lol!). So in our farm, inside a hut, they have placed coconut leaves (or branches) in some sort of structure but it didn’t help as it was poorly constructed.

Lesson 7 - How to Register Web Hosting for your Website?

In this lesson, we will see how to Register Web Hosting for your account and use it to host your domain.

Watch the below video to start the lesson. In the video, we show you different Hosting companies and their pricing and how to get special offers using coupon codes etc. Select One hosting provider, who you feel affordable and register hosting with them.

Lesson 3 (Bonus) - What is Domain Name, Hosting and DNS?

Welcome to the bonus lesson of Free e-commerce course, in the last lesson I explained how to register a domain name for your website but seems people are confused about certain things….

If you are trying to understand How a website works and What is the difference between a Website and domain name, what is hosting, then it might be overwhelming at first.

Lesson 7 - How to Register Web Hosting for your Website?

In this lesson, we will see how to Register Web Hosting for your account and use it to host your domain.

Watch the below video to start the lesson. In the video, we show you different Hosting companies and their pricing and how to get special offers using coupon codes etc. Select One hosting provider, who you feel affordable and register hosting with them.

Changing the hosting servers of WordPress sites is always tricky because of the WordPress files and folder permissions differ from that of a normal shared web hosting and a dedicated / VPS server.

The site may work properly but the updates won’t install or you can’t upload your image files and I have faced this issue when I moved from shared web hosting to my private VPS from DigitalOcean. I have built the hosting server from scratch on top of Ubuntu and I’ll tell you about the proper Wordpress files and folder permissions required for the smooth running of your website.

Lesson 9 - Integrating Payment Gateway with Opencart site

In this lesson, we will see how to integrate our payment gateway with our Opencart Installation.

1. Login to your Instamojo dashboard and click on API’s and Plugins.

2. Under available platform plugins, click on the relevant Opencart version of your installation and download the plugin.

3. Login to your Opencart admin dashboard and click on Extensions->Extension Installer.

4. Click the upload button and upload the plugin you have downloaded earlier.

Lesson 7 - Install OpenCart CMS on your website

In the previous lesson of the free e-commerce course, we have seen how to set up web hosting for your Website.

In this lesson, we will see how to Install Opencart CMS on your website.

What is a CMS?

CMS is the short form of Content Management System and it’s like a Software application developed for a specific use and we use the Web Content Management System (Web CMS) called Opencart for our purpose. There are a lot of Web CMS like Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, Opencart etc and each one specializes in some specific functions.

Are you constantly distracted by various sounds while working and couldn’t concentrate? Listening to soothing white noise might help you focus.

These days I don’t like feeling to go to my office because of the sounds from the nearby construction site and it kind of irritates me. Then I researched on the Internet and found out that listening to some soothing White noise will calm your mind and help you focus on your work.

Lesson 7 - How to Register Web Hosting for your Website?

In this lesson, we will see how to Register Web Hosting for your account and use it to host your domain.

Watch the below video to start the lesson. In the video, we show you different Hosting companies and their pricing and how to get special offers using coupon codes etc. Select One hosting provider, who you feel affordable and register hosting with them.

All of must be using some sort of App to take Notes on the go. But the best among them all is Google Keep.

Why is Google Keep the best?

Google Keep has a clean and simple UI with tons of useful features.

You can use Google Keep to take Notes, create Checklist, Set Reminders - both time based and location-based reminders, use it as a drawing pad, create image notes, scribble on images etc.

Lesson 6 - Create free Professional Business email with custom domain using Zoho mail

Welcome to the Lesson 6 of the Free e-commerce course.

In this lesson, I’m going to show you how to get a free professional business email with your own website (eg, [email protected]) using Zoho mail.

In order to complete this tasks, you must have already purchased a domain name and added it with CloudFlare to manage the DNS settings.

If you haven’t done already, please complete those first and if you don’t know how to complete those steps, please refer the “Learn e-commerce” page for help articles.

Lesson 5 - Managing your website DNS with CloudFlare

Welcome to the 5th Lesson of the Free e-commerce course.

In this lesson learn how to sign up for CloudFlare and change the nameservers accordingly to accommodate the change and also how to create an “A” record to point your domain name to your server IP.

Click the below video to start the lesson.

Once you have signed up and updated the name servers, you can manage all the DNS settings of the website from CloudFlare.

Lesson 4 - How to Signup for a Payment Gateway in India?

Are you a small business worried about getting a Payment gateway?

Are you looking for a payment gateway for a home business without company registration?

Do you want to collect payments online without having a website?

Are you looking for a payment gateway for your e-commerce store?

Are you worried about the initial cost of setting up a payment gateway?

Lesson 3 - How to Register your website domain name?

Welcome to the third lesson of the Free Online e-commerce course and in this lesson, we show you how to register your own website domain name.

Start the below video to watch it.

You can use other domain registrars such as Namecheap, GoDaddy, Google domains etc as well. The core concepts remains the same.

I have been into Internet/e-commerce/online payments for the last 5-7 years and I have been working in the online e-commerce industry full-time for almost 3 years now after resigning from my corporate job.

I have worked on my own as well as client e-commerce projects and that constitute my experience and I have learned all these things from my own research in the past 7 years and I must admit, it took a lot of time learning all these things and a still a lot to learn.

If you are a small business or a startup looking to collect online digital payments from Credit / Debit cards, net-banking and you couldn’t afford the fancy swiping machine or a costly payment account. Now you can simply share payments link via Whatsapp, Facebook, SMS, e-mail etc and your customers can pay online easily with the comfort of home and the amount gets settled in your bank account in 2 days.

If you are looking for a high-performance free VPS Server without any ads to test your application, host a website or evaluate VPS servers for your production environment, then you have come to the right place. For the uninitiated, let’s introduce VPS.

What is Virtual Private Server (VPS)?

Virtual Private Server (VPS) are virtual computers that are hosted on a physical server in the cloud, which can be accessed via the Internet. These servers have their own operating system, own server resources and functions like a normal server except that multiple VPS can reside in a Single Physical server but they will have their dedicated Storage and RAM.

Most of you must have used Google play store to download Apps, music, movies, books, games etc. Some of them are free, most of them are either paid or ad-supported.

At times you must have wanted paid products or premium version of products to remove annoying ads or you just wanted to buy a book or something but you don’t want to pay for them, so you search for pirated apk’s and end up installing malware on your mobile.

Lesson 7 - Install OpenCart CMS on your website

In the previous lesson of the free e-commerce course, we have seen how to set up web hosting for your Website.

In this lesson, we will see how to Install Opencart CMS on your website.

What is a CMS?

CMS is the short form of Content Management System and it’s like a Software application developed for a specific use and we use the Web Content Management System (Web CMS) called Opencart for our purpose. There are a lot of Web CMS like Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, Opencart etc and each one specializes in some specific functions.

Lesson 3 - How to Register your website domain name?

Welcome to the third lesson of the Free Online e-commerce course and in this lesson, we show you how to register your own website domain name.

Start the below video to watch it.

You can use other domain registrars such as Namecheap, GoDaddy, Google domains etc as well. The core concepts remains the same.

In this article, we will see step-by-step instructions to setup AWS EC2 Instance Monitoring Alarms using AWS Cloudwatch and CloudWatch Agent. The purpose of this post is to create a unified guide document to implement CloudWatch alarms as I couldn’t find any such documents when I tried to implement this for the first time.

Assumption:

This guide is written with the basic assumption that you want to implement Cloudwatch alarms in Linux based operating systems and the instructions are given for Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04 operating system, however, it will work for other Linux variants also but commands like “apt” or “apt-get” must be replaced with command like “yum” relevant to the operating system.

In this article, we will see step-by-step instructions to setup AWS EC2 Instance Monitoring Alarms using AWS Cloudwatch and CloudWatch Agent. The purpose of this post is to create a unified guide document to implement CloudWatch alarms as I couldn’t find any such documents when I tried to implement this for the first time.

Assumption:

This guide is written with the basic assumption that you want to implement Cloudwatch alarms in Linux based operating systems and the instructions are given for Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04 operating system, however, it will work for other Linux variants also but commands like “apt” or “apt-get” must be replaced with command like “yum” relevant to the operating system.

In this article, we will see step-by-step instructions to setup AWS EC2 Instance Monitoring Alarms using AWS Cloudwatch and CloudWatch Agent. The purpose of this post is to create a unified guide document to implement CloudWatch alarms as I couldn’t find any such documents when I tried to implement this for the first time.

Assumption:

This guide is written with the basic assumption that you want to implement Cloudwatch alarms in Linux based operating systems and the instructions are given for Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04 operating system, however, it will work for other Linux variants also but commands like “apt” or “apt-get” must be replaced with command like “yum” relevant to the operating system.

Would you like to get a free payment gateway consultation for your business?

I have been in the e-commerce and Payments industry for 4+ years now and I have been running a free e-commerce course for those who wanted to get into the e-commerce business. I have been getting several inquiries from SME’s regarding getting a payment gateway for their business, hence I have decided to offer free payment gateway consulting for business as we have partnered with a startup-friendly major online payment gateway, we are in a better position to offer payment gateway consulting services.

Modi’s Foreign Policy with regards to India-China relations and its impacts on Taiwan

India - China Relations overview

India & China has always remained competitive especially in the past few decades. However both being developing countries and major economies, they collaborate on a wide range of issues and show a united face in major forums but however, the relationship has its own share of issues.

China wants to topple the United States as the sole superpower and wants to take over the world and is using a mix of Economic, Military and historical strategies such as OBOR / BRI, CPEC, Gwadar Port, Hambantota Port, String of Pearls strategy, Nine-dash line, South China sea etc. These are major flash points between India & China, not to mention the border disputes simmering over many decades (Recent doklam dispute) and its continued support to India’s arch-rival and China’s all-weather friend Pakistan in providing Nuclear technology, missiles, and fighters etc.

In this article, I’ll be writing about how to solve your problems and challenges using the Power of projects and gamification based on my personal experience.

What is this power of Projects and Gamification?

It’s a simple concept of taking a problem or a challenge in your life (either personal or professional) and converting it into an interesting project or breaking into a game with multiple stages and trying to accomplish each stage and finally winning the game.

Are you constantly distracted by various sounds while working and couldn’t concentrate? Listening to soothing white noise might help you focus.

These days I don’t like feeling to go to my office because of the sounds from the nearby construction site and it kind of irritates me. Then I researched on the Internet and found out that listening to some soothing White noise will calm your mind and help you focus on your work.

Do you know playing chess increases your creativity, awareness, and problem-solving skills?

The earlier a person starts playing chess in his/her life, higher the brain functions. So, It is recommended to teach children to play chess at the earliest.

We need not enroll them in a professional chess coaching class and make them a grandmaster, just teaching them how to play and encourage them to play regularly will make wonders. But If you want to, feel free to do it.

Are you constantly distracted by various sounds while working and couldn’t concentrate? Listening to soothing white noise might help you focus.

These days I don’t like feeling to go to my office because of the sounds from the nearby construction site and it kind of irritates me. Then I researched on the Internet and found out that listening to some soothing White noise will calm your mind and help you focus on your work.

Modi’s Foreign Policy with regards to India-China relations and its impacts on Taiwan

India - China Relations overview

India & China has always remained competitive especially in the past few decades. However both being developing countries and major economies, they collaborate on a wide range of issues and show a united face in major forums but however, the relationship has its own share of issues.

China wants to topple the United States as the sole superpower and wants to take over the world and is using a mix of Economic, Military and historical strategies such as OBOR / BRI, CPEC, Gwadar Port, Hambantota Port, String of Pearls strategy, Nine-dash line, South China sea etc. These are major flash points between India & China, not to mention the border disputes simmering over many decades (Recent doklam dispute) and its continued support to India’s arch-rival and China’s all-weather friend Pakistan in providing Nuclear technology, missiles, and fighters etc.

World bank has released the latest (2018) Ease of Doing business Index report for 2018 and India has moved up 30 ranks and currently ranks at 100 out of 190 countries and this is the best ever rank India has achieved.

Update: India has achieved the 77th rank in Ease of Doing business Index 2019. More power to India & Modi!

What is Ease of Doing Business Index?

Ease of Doing Business index is the annual report published by the World bank after analyzing over 10 factors which are conducive to doing business in the country.

World bank has released the latest (2018) Ease of Doing business Index report for 2018 and India has moved up 30 ranks and currently ranks at 100 out of 190 countries and this is the best ever rank India has achieved.

Update: India has achieved the 77th rank in Ease of Doing business Index 2019. More power to India & Modi!

What is Ease of Doing Business Index?

Ease of Doing Business index is the annual report published by the World bank after analyzing over 10 factors which are conducive to doing business in the country.

Modi’s Foreign Policy with regards to India-China relations and its impacts on Taiwan

India - China Relations overview

India & China has always remained competitive especially in the past few decades. However both being developing countries and major economies, they collaborate on a wide range of issues and show a united face in major forums but however, the relationship has its own share of issues.

China wants to topple the United States as the sole superpower and wants to take over the world and is using a mix of Economic, Military and historical strategies such as OBOR / BRI, CPEC, Gwadar Port, Hambantota Port, String of Pearls strategy, Nine-dash line, South China sea etc. These are major flash points between India & China, not to mention the border disputes simmering over many decades (Recent doklam dispute) and its continued support to India’s arch-rival and China’s all-weather friend Pakistan in providing Nuclear technology, missiles, and fighters etc.

Modi’s Foreign Policy with regards to India-China relations and its impacts on Taiwan

India - China Relations overview

India & China has always remained competitive especially in the past few decades. However both being developing countries and major economies, they collaborate on a wide range of issues and show a united face in major forums but however, the relationship has its own share of issues.

China wants to topple the United States as the sole superpower and wants to take over the world and is using a mix of Economic, Military and historical strategies such as OBOR / BRI, CPEC, Gwadar Port, Hambantota Port, String of Pearls strategy, Nine-dash line, South China sea etc. These are major flash points between India & China, not to mention the border disputes simmering over many decades (Recent doklam dispute) and its continued support to India’s arch-rival and China’s all-weather friend Pakistan in providing Nuclear technology, missiles, and fighters etc.

I have added a list of books that must be read by everyone and I hope it helps you better your life.

Self help books

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

The Power of your Subconcious Mind

How to Win Friends and Influence People

How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

Happiness Unlimited - Awakening the Brhamakumaris

You Can Win

Believe in Yourself

Think and Grow Rich

Books for entrepreneurs

Zero to One: Note on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel.

Lesson 7 - Install OpenCart CMS on your website

In the previous lesson of the free e-commerce course, we have seen how to set up web hosting for your Website.

In this lesson, we will see how to Install Opencart CMS on your website.

What is a CMS?

CMS is the short form of Content Management System and it’s like a Software application developed for a specific use and we use the Web Content Management System (Web CMS) called Opencart for our purpose. There are a lot of Web CMS like Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, Opencart etc and each one specializes in some specific functions.

Lesson 9 - Integrating Payment Gateway with Opencart site

In this lesson, we will see how to integrate our payment gateway with our Opencart Installation.

1. Login to your Instamojo dashboard and click on API’s and Plugins.

2. Under available platform plugins, click on the relevant Opencart version of your installation and download the plugin.

3. Login to your Opencart admin dashboard and click on Extensions->Extension Installer.

4. Click the upload button and upload the plugin you have downloaded earlier.

Would you like to get a free payment gateway consultation for your business?

I have been in the e-commerce and Payments industry for 4+ years now and I have been running a free e-commerce course for those who wanted to get into the e-commerce business. I have been getting several inquiries from SME’s regarding getting a payment gateway for their business, hence I have decided to offer free payment gateway consulting for business as we have partnered with a startup-friendly major online payment gateway, we are in a better position to offer payment gateway consulting services.

Lesson 4 - How to Signup for a Payment Gateway in India?

Are you a small business worried about getting a Payment gateway?

Are you looking for a payment gateway for a home business without company registration?

Do you want to collect payments online without having a website?

Are you looking for a payment gateway for your e-commerce store?

Are you worried about the initial cost of setting up a payment gateway?

If you are a small business or a startup looking to collect online digital payments from Credit / Debit cards, net-banking and you couldn’t afford the fancy swiping machine or a costly payment account. Now you can simply share payments link via Whatsapp, Facebook, SMS, e-mail etc and your customers can pay online easily with the comfort of home and the amount gets settled in your bank account in 2 days.

Learn how to create your own free online store without any coding in under thirty minutes in 5 easy steps and also get Rs.500 in your bank account after completing your first sale.

We will show you an example with a hobby business called Prighu - Art crafts & Jewellery

Create a Facebook page for your business

First create a Facebook page for your business (if you haven’t done already) and post about your business and related images.

Being a Startup entrepreneur and service provider involved in ecommerce and allied fields, I know the importance of collecting payments online and the role of Payment gateway in it. There are lot of factors involved while selecting a Payment gateway especially when you are starting new.

After years of searching and analysis, I believe, I have a winner,

I’ll try to explain why Instamojo is the best payment gateway for startups in India and the factors I have considered while choosing the payment gateway.

In this article, we will see step-by-step instructions to setup AWS EC2 Instance Monitoring Alarms using AWS Cloudwatch and CloudWatch Agent. The purpose of this post is to create a unified guide document to implement CloudWatch alarms as I couldn’t find any such documents when I tried to implement this for the first time.

Assumption:

This guide is written with the basic assumption that you want to implement Cloudwatch alarms in Linux based operating systems and the instructions are given for Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04 operating system, however, it will work for other Linux variants also but commands like “apt” or “apt-get” must be replaced with command like “yum” relevant to the operating system.

All of must be using some sort of App to take Notes on the go. But the best among them all is Google Keep.

Why is Google Keep the best?

Google Keep has a clean and simple UI with tons of useful features.

You can use Google Keep to take Notes, create Checklist, Set Reminders - both time based and location-based reminders, use it as a drawing pad, create image notes, scribble on images etc.

Lesson 9 - Integrating Payment Gateway with Opencart site

In this lesson, we will see how to integrate our payment gateway with our Opencart Installation.

1. Login to your Instamojo dashboard and click on API’s and Plugins.

2. Under available platform plugins, click on the relevant Opencart version of your installation and download the plugin.

3. Login to your Opencart admin dashboard and click on Extensions->Extension Installer.

4. Click the upload button and upload the plugin you have downloaded earlier.

Lesson 7 - Install OpenCart CMS on your website

In the previous lesson of the free e-commerce course, we have seen how to set up web hosting for your Website.

In this lesson, we will see how to Install Opencart CMS on your website.

What is a CMS?

CMS is the short form of Content Management System and it’s like a Software application developed for a specific use and we use the Web Content Management System (Web CMS) called Opencart for our purpose. There are a lot of Web CMS like Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, Opencart etc and each one specializes in some specific functions.

Lesson 7 - How to Register Web Hosting for your Website?

In this lesson, we will see how to Register Web Hosting for your account and use it to host your domain.

Watch the below video to start the lesson. In the video, we show you different Hosting companies and their pricing and how to get special offers using coupon codes etc. Select One hosting provider, who you feel affordable and register hosting with them.

Lesson 6 - Create free Professional Business email with custom domain using Zoho mail

Welcome to the Lesson 6 of the Free e-commerce course.

In this lesson, I’m going to show you how to get a free professional business email with your own website (eg, [email protected]) using Zoho mail.

In order to complete this tasks, you must have already purchased a domain name and added it with CloudFlare to manage the DNS settings.

If you haven’t done already, please complete those first and if you don’t know how to complete those steps, please refer the “Learn e-commerce” page for help articles.

Lesson 5 - Managing your website DNS with CloudFlare

Welcome to the 5th Lesson of the Free e-commerce course.

In this lesson learn how to sign up for CloudFlare and change the nameservers accordingly to accommodate the change and also how to create an “A” record to point your domain name to your server IP.

Click the below video to start the lesson.

Once you have signed up and updated the name servers, you can manage all the DNS settings of the website from CloudFlare.

Lesson 4 - How to Signup for a Payment Gateway in India?

Are you a small business worried about getting a Payment gateway?

Are you looking for a payment gateway for a home business without company registration?

Do you want to collect payments online without having a website?

Are you looking for a payment gateway for your e-commerce store?

Are you worried about the initial cost of setting up a payment gateway?

Lesson 3 (Bonus) - What is Domain Name, Hosting and DNS?

Welcome to the bonus lesson of Free e-commerce course, in the last lesson I explained how to register a domain name for your website but seems people are confused about certain things….

If you are trying to understand How a website works and What is the difference between a Website and domain name, what is hosting, then it might be overwhelming at first.

Lesson 3 - How to Register your website domain name?

Welcome to the third lesson of the Free Online e-commerce course and in this lesson, we show you how to register your own website domain name.

Start the below video to watch it.

You can use other domain registrars such as Namecheap, GoDaddy, Google domains etc as well. The core concepts remains the same.

E-Commerce course resources

All the links and articles mentioned in the free e-commerce course will be displayed here for the learner’s convenience.

Links

Domain Name & Hosting Registration: Crazydomains.in, Hosting24.com, Hostgator, Bluehost

DNS Management: CloudFlare

VPS Server: Digital Ocean

Payment gateway: Instamojo

GST Registration: GST Portal

Professional email: Zoho Mail

Article(s)

https://raghuspeaks.com/technology/5-steps-to-create-your-own-free-online-store-without-coding/

Lesson 2 - Business and Tax registrations required for an e-commerce business in India

Welcome to the Second lesson of the Free online e-commerce course and in this lesson, we discuss the Business and Tax Registrations required to run an e-commerce business in India and also how to do the said registrations.

Click on the below video to start the lesson, also you can subscribe to the youtube channel to get a notification whenever a new video is uploaded.

Lesson 1 - What is ecommerce and it’s types?

Welcome to the First lesson of the Free e-commerce course and in this lesson, I’ll be speaking about what is e-commerce and what are the types of e-commerce.

Click on the below video to watch it.

In the next lesson, we will learn about what are the legal registrations (such as business reg., GST, PAN etc) required to run an e-commerce business in India.

Free online course to Learn e-commerce

Welcome to the Free online course on e-commerce.

You can view the topics covered in this course below and you can start reading the lessons right away by clicking on the lessons directly.

Course Contents

Course Resources

Free online course on e-commerce - Launch

Lesson 1 - What is e-commerce and it’s types?

Lesson 2 - Business and Tax registrations required for an e-commerce business in India

I have been into Internet/e-commerce/online payments for the last 5-7 years and I have been working in the online e-commerce industry full-time for almost 3 years now after resigning from my corporate job.

I have worked on my own as well as client e-commerce projects and that constitute my experience and I have learned all these things from my own research in the past 7 years and I must admit, it took a lot of time learning all these things and a still a lot to learn.

In this article, we will see step-by-step instructions to setup AWS EC2 Instance Monitoring Alarms using AWS Cloudwatch and CloudWatch Agent. The purpose of this post is to create a unified guide document to implement CloudWatch alarms as I couldn’t find any such documents when I tried to implement this for the first time.

Assumption:

This guide is written with the basic assumption that you want to implement Cloudwatch alarms in Linux based operating systems and the instructions are given for Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04 operating system, however, it will work for other Linux variants also but commands like “apt” or “apt-get” must be replaced with command like “yum” relevant to the operating system.

In the previous part, I have discussed how my relationship with computers started.

Even though I have tried Linux based operating systems from time to time, the terminal commands scared me and I have always gone back to Windows.

But when I started learning about how the Internet and websites work, I have started building websites and I have always preferred Linux based Shared web hosting because they had CPanel to manage your web hosting, which is easy to use compared to Windows-based control panels and Linux hosting is cheaper than Windows hosting.

Are you thinking of Switching to Ubuntu (or any other Linux distribution)  from Windows but afraid to jump ship?

Maybe my story will help.

Before I tell you why I have dumped Windows for Linux, First I’ll tell you about my relationship with computers.

The First time I have touched a computer is when I was in my 5th Standard (2001-2002) in our school.

They bought a second hand Windows 95 computer with a Black and White CRT monitor. I have used it to draw a few rectangles using the LOGO language.

Lesson 7 - How to Register Web Hosting for your Website?

In this lesson, we will see how to Register Web Hosting for your account and use it to host your domain.

Watch the below video to start the lesson. In the video, we show you different Hosting companies and their pricing and how to get special offers using coupon codes etc. Select One hosting provider, who you feel affordable and register hosting with them.

In the previous part, I have discussed how my relationship with computers started.

Even though I have tried Linux based operating systems from time to time, the terminal commands scared me and I have always gone back to Windows.

But when I started learning about how the Internet and websites work, I have started building websites and I have always preferred Linux based Shared web hosting because they had CPanel to manage your web hosting, which is easy to use compared to Windows-based control panels and Linux hosting is cheaper than Windows hosting.

In the previous part, I have discussed how my relationship with computers started.

Even though I have tried Linux based operating systems from time to time, the terminal commands scared me and I have always gone back to Windows.

But when I started learning about how the Internet and websites work, I have started building websites and I have always preferred Linux based Shared web hosting because they had CPanel to manage your web hosting, which is easy to use compared to Windows-based control panels and Linux hosting is cheaper than Windows hosting.

Are you constantly distracted by various sounds while working and couldn’t concentrate? Listening to soothing white noise might help you focus.

These days I don’t like feeling to go to my office because of the sounds from the nearby construction site and it kind of irritates me. Then I researched on the Internet and found out that listening to some soothing White noise will calm your mind and help you focus on your work.

Modi’s Foreign Policy with regards to India-China relations and its impacts on Taiwan

India - China Relations overview

India & China has always remained competitive especially in the past few decades. However both being developing countries and major economies, they collaborate on a wide range of issues and show a united face in major forums but however, the relationship has its own share of issues.

China wants to topple the United States as the sole superpower and wants to take over the world and is using a mix of Economic, Military and historical strategies such as OBOR / BRI, CPEC, Gwadar Port, Hambantota Port, String of Pearls strategy, Nine-dash line, South China sea etc. These are major flash points between India & China, not to mention the border disputes simmering over many decades (Recent doklam dispute) and its continued support to India’s arch-rival and China’s all-weather friend Pakistan in providing Nuclear technology, missiles, and fighters etc.

Modi’s Foreign Policy with regards to India-China relations and its impacts on Taiwan

India - China Relations overview

India & China has always remained competitive especially in the past few decades. However both being developing countries and major economies, they collaborate on a wide range of issues and show a united face in major forums but however, the relationship has its own share of issues.

China wants to topple the United States as the sole superpower and wants to take over the world and is using a mix of Economic, Military and historical strategies such as OBOR / BRI, CPEC, Gwadar Port, Hambantota Port, String of Pearls strategy, Nine-dash line, South China sea etc. These are major flash points between India & China, not to mention the border disputes simmering over many decades (Recent doklam dispute) and its continued support to India’s arch-rival and China’s all-weather friend Pakistan in providing Nuclear technology, missiles, and fighters etc.

Most of you must have used Google play store to download Apps, music, movies, books, games etc. Some of them are free, most of them are either paid or ad-supported.

At times you must have wanted paid products or premium version of products to remove annoying ads or you just wanted to buy a book or something but you don’t want to pay for them, so you search for pirated apk’s and end up installing malware on your mobile.

Few people have asked me about the tools and technical setup I’m using to run my blog and website.

It is difficult for me to explain them orally everytime but it is important because it will help them learn and do their own thing. So, I’m going to mention about the most of the tools and technologies I use in my blog and my business.

Web Services I use or have used in the past

Modi’s Foreign Policy with regards to India-China relations and its impacts on Taiwan

India - China Relations overview

India & China has always remained competitive especially in the past few decades. However both being developing countries and major economies, they collaborate on a wide range of issues and show a united face in major forums but however, the relationship has its own share of issues.

China wants to topple the United States as the sole superpower and wants to take over the world and is using a mix of Economic, Military and historical strategies such as OBOR / BRI, CPEC, Gwadar Port, Hambantota Port, String of Pearls strategy, Nine-dash line, South China sea etc. These are major flash points between India & China, not to mention the border disputes simmering over many decades (Recent doklam dispute) and its continued support to India’s arch-rival and China’s all-weather friend Pakistan in providing Nuclear technology, missiles, and fighters etc.

I have added a list of books that must be read by everyone and I hope it helps you better your life.

Self help books

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

The Power of your Subconcious Mind

How to Win Friends and Influence People

How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

Happiness Unlimited - Awakening the Brhamakumaris

You Can Win

Believe in Yourself

Think and Grow Rich

Books for entrepreneurs

Zero to One: Note on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel.

Lesson 5 - Managing your website DNS with CloudFlare

Welcome to the 5th Lesson of the Free e-commerce course.

In this lesson learn how to sign up for CloudFlare and change the nameservers accordingly to accommodate the change and also how to create an “A” record to point your domain name to your server IP.

Click the below video to start the lesson.

Once you have signed up and updated the name servers, you can manage all the DNS settings of the website from CloudFlare.

Modi’s Foreign Policy with regards to India-China relations and its impacts on Taiwan

India - China Relations overview

India & China has always remained competitive especially in the past few decades. However both being developing countries and major economies, they collaborate on a wide range of issues and show a united face in major forums but however, the relationship has its own share of issues.

China wants to topple the United States as the sole superpower and wants to take over the world and is using a mix of Economic, Military and historical strategies such as OBOR / BRI, CPEC, Gwadar Port, Hambantota Port, String of Pearls strategy, Nine-dash line, South China sea etc. These are major flash points between India & China, not to mention the border disputes simmering over many decades (Recent doklam dispute) and its continued support to India’s arch-rival and China’s all-weather friend Pakistan in providing Nuclear technology, missiles, and fighters etc.

World bank has released the latest (2018) Ease of Doing business Index report for 2018 and India has moved up 30 ranks and currently ranks at 100 out of 190 countries and this is the best ever rank India has achieved.

Update: India has achieved the 77th rank in Ease of Doing business Index 2019. More power to India & Modi!

What is Ease of Doing Business Index?

Ease of Doing Business index is the annual report published by the World bank after analyzing over 10 factors which are conducive to doing business in the country.

All of must be using some sort of App to take Notes on the go. But the best among them all is Google Keep.

Why is Google Keep the best?

Google Keep has a clean and simple UI with tons of useful features.

You can use Google Keep to take Notes, create Checklist, Set Reminders - both time based and location-based reminders, use it as a drawing pad, create image notes, scribble on images etc.

Modi’s Foreign Policy with regards to India-China relations and its impacts on Taiwan

India - China Relations overview

India & China has always remained competitive especially in the past few decades. However both being developing countries and major economies, they collaborate on a wide range of issues and show a united face in major forums but however, the relationship has its own share of issues.

China wants to topple the United States as the sole superpower and wants to take over the world and is using a mix of Economic, Military and historical strategies such as OBOR / BRI, CPEC, Gwadar Port, Hambantota Port, String of Pearls strategy, Nine-dash line, South China sea etc. These are major flash points between India & China, not to mention the border disputes simmering over many decades (Recent doklam dispute) and its continued support to India’s arch-rival and China’s all-weather friend Pakistan in providing Nuclear technology, missiles, and fighters etc.

If you are a small business or a startup looking to collect online digital payments from Credit / Debit cards, net-banking and you couldn’t afford the fancy swiping machine or a costly payment account. Now you can simply share payments link via Whatsapp, Facebook, SMS, e-mail etc and your customers can pay online easily with the comfort of home and the amount gets settled in your bank account in 2 days.

Being a Startup entrepreneur and service provider involved in ecommerce and allied fields, I know the importance of collecting payments online and the role of Payment gateway in it. There are lot of factors involved while selecting a Payment gateway especially when you are starting new.

After years of searching and analysis, I believe, I have a winner,

I’ll try to explain why Instamojo is the best payment gateway for startups in India and the factors I have considered while choosing the payment gateway.

If you are a small business or a startup looking to collect online digital payments from Credit / Debit cards, net-banking and you couldn’t afford the fancy swiping machine or a costly payment account. Now you can simply share payments link via Whatsapp, Facebook, SMS, e-mail etc and your customers can pay online easily with the comfort of home and the amount gets settled in your bank account in 2 days.

Lesson 7 - Install OpenCart CMS on your website

In the previous lesson of the free e-commerce course, we have seen how to set up web hosting for your Website.

In this lesson, we will see how to Install Opencart CMS on your website.

What is a CMS?

CMS is the short form of Content Management System and it’s like a Software application developed for a specific use and we use the Web Content Management System (Web CMS) called Opencart for our purpose. There are a lot of Web CMS like Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, Opencart etc and each one specializes in some specific functions.

Lesson 7 - Install OpenCart CMS on your website

In the previous lesson of the free e-commerce course, we have seen how to set up web hosting for your Website.

In this lesson, we will see how to Install Opencart CMS on your website.

What is a CMS?

CMS is the short form of Content Management System and it’s like a Software application developed for a specific use and we use the Web Content Management System (Web CMS) called Opencart for our purpose. There are a lot of Web CMS like Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, Opencart etc and each one specializes in some specific functions.

World bank has released the latest (2018) Ease of Doing business Index report for 2018 and India has moved up 30 ranks and currently ranks at 100 out of 190 countries and this is the best ever rank India has achieved.

Update: India has achieved the 77th rank in Ease of Doing business Index 2019. More power to India & Modi!

What is Ease of Doing Business Index?

Ease of Doing Business index is the annual report published by the World bank after analyzing over 10 factors which are conducive to doing business in the country.

Do you know playing chess increases your creativity, awareness, and problem-solving skills?

The earlier a person starts playing chess in his/her life, higher the brain functions. So, It is recommended to teach children to play chess at the earliest.

We need not enroll them in a professional chess coaching class and make them a grandmaster, just teaching them how to play and encourage them to play regularly will make wonders. But If you want to, feel free to do it.

In the previous part, I have discussed how my relationship with computers started.

Even though I have tried Linux based operating systems from time to time, the terminal commands scared me and I have always gone back to Windows.

But when I started learning about how the Internet and websites work, I have started building websites and I have always preferred Linux based Shared web hosting because they had CPanel to manage your web hosting, which is easy to use compared to Windows-based control panels and Linux hosting is cheaper than Windows hosting.

Would you like to get a free payment gateway consultation for your business?

I have been in the e-commerce and Payments industry for 4+ years now and I have been running a free e-commerce course for those who wanted to get into the e-commerce business. I have been getting several inquiries from SME’s regarding getting a payment gateway for their business, hence I have decided to offer free payment gateway consulting for business as we have partnered with a startup-friendly major online payment gateway, we are in a better position to offer payment gateway consulting services.

I have added a list of books that must be read by everyone and I hope it helps you better your life.

Self help books

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

The Power of your Subconcious Mind

How to Win Friends and Influence People

How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

Happiness Unlimited - Awakening the Brhamakumaris

You Can Win

Believe in Yourself

Think and Grow Rich

Books for entrepreneurs

Zero to One: Note on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel.

In this article, I’ll be writing about how to solve your problems and challenges using the Power of projects and gamification based on my personal experience.

What is this power of Projects and Gamification?

It’s a simple concept of taking a problem or a challenge in your life (either personal or professional) and converting it into an interesting project or breaking into a game with multiple stages and trying to accomplish each stage and finally winning the game.

In this article, I would like to discuss the importance of the Art of Swimming.

According to me, it’s not just a sport it’s a divine Art, a therapy, and the obvious, a life saver (litterally).

The Divine Art

There are 5 fundamental elements of Nature Air, Water, Earth, Fire and Space (as in sky) and normal humans (who doesn’t swim) can manage to live only in the Air medium. The human body is designed in such a way. But it has been told that Yogis can navigate in all the mediums.

I have built an attic for chickens to lay eggs in our Paravali farms during my last trip home. Now I can see, hens are using it to lay eggs on the designated containers.

Generally, chickens (Hens) prefer places which are higher and safer from predators to lay eggs but often times they lay eggs on top of improper structures resulting the egg falling on the ground and you know what happens to the egg thereafter (guess someone needs to teach the chickens about gravity, lol!). So in our farm, inside a hut, they have placed coconut leaves (or branches) in some sort of structure but it didn’t help as it was poorly constructed.

Lesson 9 - Integrating Payment Gateway with Opencart site

In this lesson, we will see how to integrate our payment gateway with our Opencart Installation.

1. Login to your Instamojo dashboard and click on API’s and Plugins.

2. Under available platform plugins, click on the relevant Opencart version of your installation and download the plugin.

3. Login to your Opencart admin dashboard and click on Extensions->Extension Installer.

4. Click the upload button and upload the plugin you have downloaded earlier.

Lesson 4 - How to Signup for a Payment Gateway in India?

Are you a small business worried about getting a Payment gateway?

Are you looking for a payment gateway for a home business without company registration?

Do you want to collect payments online without having a website?

Are you looking for a payment gateway for your e-commerce store?

Are you worried about the initial cost of setting up a payment gateway?

Learn how to create your own free online store without any coding in under thirty minutes in 5 easy steps and also get Rs.500 in your bank account after completing your first sale.

We will show you an example with a hobby business called Prighu - Art crafts & Jewellery

Create a Facebook page for your business

First create a Facebook page for your business (if you haven’t done already) and post about your business and related images.

Being a Startup entrepreneur and service provider involved in ecommerce and allied fields, I know the importance of collecting payments online and the role of Payment gateway in it. There are lot of factors involved while selecting a Payment gateway especially when you are starting new.

After years of searching and analysis, I believe, I have a winner,

I’ll try to explain why Instamojo is the best payment gateway for startups in India and the factors I have considered while choosing the payment gateway.

Would you like to get a free payment gateway consultation for your business?

I have been in the e-commerce and Payments industry for 4+ years now and I have been running a free e-commerce course for those who wanted to get into the e-commerce business. I have been getting several inquiries from SME’s regarding getting a payment gateway for their business, hence I have decided to offer free payment gateway consulting for business as we have partnered with a startup-friendly major online payment gateway, we are in a better position to offer payment gateway consulting services.

Lesson 9 - Integrating Payment Gateway with Opencart site

In this lesson, we will see how to integrate our payment gateway with our Opencart Installation.

1. Login to your Instamojo dashboard and click on API’s and Plugins.

2. Under available platform plugins, click on the relevant Opencart version of your installation and download the plugin.

3. Login to your Opencart admin dashboard and click on Extensions->Extension Installer.

4. Click the upload button and upload the plugin you have downloaded earlier.

Being a Startup entrepreneur and service provider involved in ecommerce and allied fields, I know the importance of collecting payments online and the role of Payment gateway in it. There are lot of factors involved while selecting a Payment gateway especially when you are starting new.

After years of searching and analysis, I believe, I have a winner,

I’ll try to explain why Instamojo is the best payment gateway for startups in India and the factors I have considered while choosing the payment gateway.

Being a Startup entrepreneur and service provider involved in ecommerce and allied fields, I know the importance of collecting payments online and the role of Payment gateway in it. There are lot of factors involved while selecting a Payment gateway especially when you are starting new.

After years of searching and analysis, I believe, I have a winner,

I’ll try to explain why Instamojo is the best payment gateway for startups in India and the factors I have considered while choosing the payment gateway.

Are you constantly distracted by various sounds while working and couldn’t concentrate? Listening to soothing white noise might help you focus.

These days I don’t like feeling to go to my office because of the sounds from the nearby construction site and it kind of irritates me. Then I researched on the Internet and found out that listening to some soothing White noise will calm your mind and help you focus on your work.

Lesson 9 - Integrating Payment Gateway with Opencart site

In this lesson, we will see how to integrate our payment gateway with our Opencart Installation.

1. Login to your Instamojo dashboard and click on API’s and Plugins.

2. Under available platform plugins, click on the relevant Opencart version of your installation and download the plugin.

3. Login to your Opencart admin dashboard and click on Extensions->Extension Installer.

4. Click the upload button and upload the plugin you have downloaded earlier.

Do you know playing chess increases your creativity, awareness, and problem-solving skills?

The earlier a person starts playing chess in his/her life, higher the brain functions. So, It is recommended to teach children to play chess at the earliest.

We need not enroll them in a professional chess coaching class and make them a grandmaster, just teaching them how to play and encourage them to play regularly will make wonders. But If you want to, feel free to do it.

Modi’s Foreign Policy with regards to India-China relations and its impacts on Taiwan

India - China Relations overview

India & China has always remained competitive especially in the past few decades. However both being developing countries and major economies, they collaborate on a wide range of issues and show a united face in major forums but however, the relationship has its own share of issues.

China wants to topple the United States as the sole superpower and wants to take over the world and is using a mix of Economic, Military and historical strategies such as OBOR / BRI, CPEC, Gwadar Port, Hambantota Port, String of Pearls strategy, Nine-dash line, South China sea etc. These are major flash points between India & China, not to mention the border disputes simmering over many decades (Recent doklam dispute) and its continued support to India’s arch-rival and China’s all-weather friend Pakistan in providing Nuclear technology, missiles, and fighters etc.

World bank has released the latest (2018) Ease of Doing business Index report for 2018 and India has moved up 30 ranks and currently ranks at 100 out of 190 countries and this is the best ever rank India has achieved.

Update: India has achieved the 77th rank in Ease of Doing business Index 2019. More power to India & Modi!

What is Ease of Doing Business Index?

Ease of Doing Business index is the annual report published by the World bank after analyzing over 10 factors which are conducive to doing business in the country.

In this article, I’ll be writing about how to solve your problems and challenges using the Power of projects and gamification based on my personal experience.

What is this power of Projects and Gamification?

It’s a simple concept of taking a problem or a challenge in your life (either personal or professional) and converting it into an interesting project or breaking into a game with multiple stages and trying to accomplish each stage and finally winning the game.

In this article, I’ll be writing about how to solve your problems and challenges using the Power of projects and gamification based on my personal experience.

What is this power of Projects and Gamification?

It’s a simple concept of taking a problem or a challenge in your life (either personal or professional) and converting it into an interesting project or breaking into a game with multiple stages and trying to accomplish each stage and finally winning the game.

In this article, I’ll be writing about how to solve your problems and challenges using the Power of projects and gamification based on my personal experience.

What is this power of Projects and Gamification?

It’s a simple concept of taking a problem or a challenge in your life (either personal or professional) and converting it into an interesting project or breaking into a game with multiple stages and trying to accomplish each stage and finally winning the game.

Amazon launched their Prime membership last year in India and I’ve been using it for the past 1 year and based on my 1-year experience if you ask me if it is worth paying ₹499 / ₹999 (You can get ₹500 Cashback in your Amazon Pay wallet), I would say, Absolutely yes. First, let’s see what are the benefits of Prime Membership.

Benefits of Prime Membership

• Free delivery on all products Fulfilled by Amazon and most of the high moving products are fulfilled by Amazon.
• Free One Day and Two day delivery on eligible products and pin codes, for which you have to pay extra if you are not a prime member.
• Early access to deals and special offers for Prime members.
• And my favorite, unlimited access to Amazon Prime Video which includes a lot of Hollywood movies and popular TV series

Should you go for it?

You should. If you are a heavy shopper and you are based in any of the metros, then you can get free fast delivery and it’s more than worth.

Amazon launched their Prime membership last year in India and I’ve been using it for the past 1 year and based on my 1-year experience if you ask me if it is worth paying ₹499 / ₹999 (You can get ₹500 Cashback in your Amazon Pay wallet), I would say, Absolutely yes. First, let’s see what are the benefits of Prime Membership.

Benefits of Prime Membership

• Free delivery on all products Fulfilled by Amazon and most of the high moving products are fulfilled by Amazon.
• Free One Day and Two day delivery on eligible products and pin codes, for which you have to pay extra if you are not a prime member.
• Early access to deals and special offers for Prime members.
• And my favorite, unlimited access to Amazon Prime Video which includes a lot of Hollywood movies and popular TV series

Should you go for it?

You should. If you are a heavy shopper and you are based in any of the metros, then you can get free fast delivery and it’s more than worth.

Few people have asked me about the tools and technical setup I’m using to run my blog and website.

It is difficult for me to explain them orally everytime but it is important because it will help them learn and do their own thing. So, I’m going to mention about the most of the tools and technologies I use in my blog and my business.

Web Services I use or have used in the past

Are you constantly distracted by various sounds while working and couldn’t concentrate? Listening to soothing white noise might help you focus.

These days I don’t like feeling to go to my office because of the sounds from the nearby construction site and it kind of irritates me. Then I researched on the Internet and found out that listening to some soothing White noise will calm your mind and help you focus on your work.

Do you know playing chess increases your creativity, awareness, and problem-solving skills?

The earlier a person starts playing chess in his/her life, higher the brain functions. So, It is recommended to teach children to play chess at the earliest.

We need not enroll them in a professional chess coaching class and make them a grandmaster, just teaching them how to play and encourage them to play regularly will make wonders. But If you want to, feel free to do it.

All of must be using some sort of App to take Notes on the go. But the best among them all is Google Keep.

Why is Google Keep the best?

Google Keep has a clean and simple UI with tons of useful features.

You can use Google Keep to take Notes, create Checklist, Set Reminders - both time based and location-based reminders, use it as a drawing pad, create image notes, scribble on images etc.

Free online course to Learn e-commerce

Welcome to the Free online course on e-commerce.

You can view the topics covered in this course below and you can start reading the lessons right away by clicking on the lessons directly.

Course Contents

Course Resources

Free online course on e-commerce - Launch

Lesson 1 - What is e-commerce and it’s types?

Lesson 2 - Business and Tax registrations required for an e-commerce business in India

Day 1: 27-Sep-2017  100 Day Blogging Challenge - Launch

Day 2  Tez - The India Specific Payments app from Google

Day 3  Is Amazon Prime Membership Worth it?

Day 4  Store Unlimited Photos and Videos online with Google Photos for free

Day 5  How to get free google play store credits using Google Rewards App?

Day 6  Get a free credit line approved and use it as a Credit card/loan without extra charges

Day 7  Get a High-performance full SSD Free VPS Server from Digital Ocean

I have always wanted to become a successful blogger and there are lot of things going on in my mind which I have wanted to express through my blog every single day but I have been procrastinating for almost the better part of the last 3-4 years, call it laziness, lack of motivation or whatever you want but I’m done with it.

So I’m launching this 100 Day blogging challenge to motivate and challengemyself to write at least 1 blog post for every single day continuously for 100 days.

List of projects

Blog - RaghuSpeaks.com

This blog is something that I plan to write regularly. In order to motivate myself to start blogging, I launched a sub-project called “100 Day blogging challenge”, to get me started.

Learn e-commerce - Free online course

I’ve created a small free course about learning e-commerce for beginners.

YouTube Channel - The Digital Farmer

Similar to this blog, I share my wide range of interest in this youtube channel.

Raghu Chinnannan hails from a Farming family and holds an Engineering Degree in Electrical & Electronics has worked in technology companies in both technical and management roles.

He has his own family farm of about 10.5 acres named Paravali Farms and is doing organic and figuring out ways tomake it sustainable. He’s also a Product builder, Engineering & Product leader, Indiehacker building various products.

He also shares videos in his youtube channel The Digital Farmer.

Most of you must have used Google play store to download Apps, music, movies, books, games etc. Some of them are free, most of them are either paid or ad-supported.

At times you must have wanted paid products or premium version of products to remove annoying ads or you just wanted to buy a book or something but you don’t want to pay for them, so you search for pirated apk’s and end up installing malware on your mobile.

Few people have asked me about the tools and technical setup I’m using to run my blog and website.

It is difficult for me to explain them orally everytime but it is important because it will help them learn and do their own thing. So, I’m going to mention about the most of the tools and technologies I use in my blog and my business.

Web Services I use or have used in the past

Raghu Chinnannan hails from a Farming family and holds an Engineering Degree in Electrical & Electronics has worked in technology companies in both technical and management roles.

He has his own family farm of about 10.5 acres named Paravali Farms and is doing organic and figuring out ways tomake it sustainable. He’s also a Product builder, Engineering & Product leader, Indiehacker building various products.

He also shares videos in his youtube channel The Digital Farmer.

Lesson 6 - Create free Professional Business email with custom domain using Zoho mail

Welcome to the Lesson 6 of the Free e-commerce course.

In this lesson, I’m going to show you how to get a free professional business email with your own website (eg, [email protected]) using Zoho mail.

In order to complete this tasks, you must have already purchased a domain name and added it with CloudFlare to manage the DNS settings.

If you haven’t done already, please complete those first and if you don’t know how to complete those steps, please refer the “Learn e-commerce” page for help articles.

Most of you must have used Google play store to download Apps, music, movies, books, games etc. Some of them are free, most of them are either paid or ad-supported.

At times you must have wanted paid products or premium version of products to remove annoying ads or you just wanted to buy a book or something but you don’t want to pay for them, so you search for pirated apk’s and end up installing malware on your mobile.

Few people have asked me about the tools and technical setup I’m using to run my blog and website.

It is difficult for me to explain them orally everytime but it is important because it will help them learn and do their own thing. So, I’m going to mention about the most of the tools and technologies I use in my blog and my business.

Web Services I use or have used in the past

Lesson 6 - Create free Professional Business email with custom domain using Zoho mail

Welcome to the Lesson 6 of the Free e-commerce course.

In this lesson, I’m going to show you how to get a free professional business email with your own website (eg, [email protected]) using Zoho mail.

In order to complete this tasks, you must have already purchased a domain name and added it with CloudFlare to manage the DNS settings.

If you haven’t done already, please complete those first and if you don’t know how to complete those steps, please refer the “Learn e-commerce” page for help articles.

Most of you must have used Google play store to download Apps, music, movies, books, games etc. Some of them are free, most of them are either paid or ad-supported.

At times you must have wanted paid products or premium version of products to remove annoying ads or you just wanted to buy a book or something but you don’t want to pay for them, so you search for pirated apk’s and end up installing malware on your mobile.

Being a Startup entrepreneur and service provider involved in ecommerce and allied fields, I know the importance of collecting payments online and the role of Payment gateway in it. There are lot of factors involved while selecting a Payment gateway especially when you are starting new.

After years of searching and analysis, I believe, I have a winner,

I’ll try to explain why Instamojo is the best payment gateway for startups in India and the factors I have considered while choosing the payment gateway.

Lesson 7 - How to Register Web Hosting for your Website?

In this lesson, we will see how to Register Web Hosting for your account and use it to host your domain.

Watch the below video to start the lesson. In the video, we show you different Hosting companies and their pricing and how to get special offers using coupon codes etc. Select One hosting provider, who you feel affordable and register hosting with them.

Lesson 2 - Business and Tax registrations required for an e-commerce business in India

Welcome to the Second lesson of the Free online e-commerce course and in this lesson, we discuss the Business and Tax Registrations required to run an e-commerce business in India and also how to do the said registrations.

Click on the below video to start the lesson, also you can subscribe to the youtube channel to get a notification whenever a new video is uploaded.

Are you constantly distracted by various sounds while working and couldn’t concentrate? Listening to soothing white noise might help you focus.

These days I don’t like feeling to go to my office because of the sounds from the nearby construction site and it kind of irritates me. Then I researched on the Internet and found out that listening to some soothing White noise will calm your mind and help you focus on your work.

Looking for the Best Remove.bg Alternatives?

For years, Remove.bg has been the default savior for anyone needing a quick transparent PNG. Whether you are setting up clean e-commerce product shots, designing a logo, or cutting out headshots, it simply works.

However, Remove.bg has a major catch: the free tier limits you to low-resolution preview files. If you want full-resolution HD downloads, you have to buy credits or subscribe. Also, it’s being shutdown from Dec 2026 after their Canva acquisition.

Modi’s Foreign Policy with regards to India-China relations and its impacts on Taiwan

India - China Relations overview

India & China has always remained competitive especially in the past few decades. However both being developing countries and major economies, they collaborate on a wide range of issues and show a united face in major forums but however, the relationship has its own share of issues.

China wants to topple the United States as the sole superpower and wants to take over the world and is using a mix of Economic, Military and historical strategies such as OBOR / BRI, CPEC, Gwadar Port, Hambantota Port, String of Pearls strategy, Nine-dash line, South China sea etc. These are major flash points between India & China, not to mention the border disputes simmering over many decades (Recent doklam dispute) and its continued support to India’s arch-rival and China’s all-weather friend Pakistan in providing Nuclear technology, missiles, and fighters etc.

In this article, I’ll be writing about how to solve your problems and challenges using the Power of projects and gamification based on my personal experience.

What is this power of Projects and Gamification?

It’s a simple concept of taking a problem or a challenge in your life (either personal or professional) and converting it into an interesting project or breaking into a game with multiple stages and trying to accomplish each stage and finally winning the game.

I have added a list of books that must be read by everyone and I hope it helps you better your life.

Self help books

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

The Power of your Subconcious Mind

How to Win Friends and Influence People

How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

Happiness Unlimited - Awakening the Brhamakumaris

You Can Win

Believe in Yourself

Think and Grow Rich

Books for entrepreneurs

Zero to One: Note on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel.

In this article, we will see step-by-step instructions to setup AWS EC2 Instance Monitoring Alarms using AWS Cloudwatch and CloudWatch Agent. The purpose of this post is to create a unified guide document to implement CloudWatch alarms as I couldn’t find any such documents when I tried to implement this for the first time.

Assumption:

This guide is written with the basic assumption that you want to implement Cloudwatch alarms in Linux based operating systems and the instructions are given for Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04 operating system, however, it will work for other Linux variants also but commands like “apt” or “apt-get” must be replaced with command like “yum” relevant to the operating system.

In this article, we will see step-by-step instructions to setup AWS EC2 Instance Monitoring Alarms using AWS Cloudwatch and CloudWatch Agent. The purpose of this post is to create a unified guide document to implement CloudWatch alarms as I couldn’t find any such documents when I tried to implement this for the first time.

Assumption:

This guide is written with the basic assumption that you want to implement Cloudwatch alarms in Linux based operating systems and the instructions are given for Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04 operating system, however, it will work for other Linux variants also but commands like “apt” or “apt-get” must be replaced with command like “yum” relevant to the operating system.

Few people have asked me about the tools and technical setup I’m using to run my blog and website.

It is difficult for me to explain them orally everytime but it is important because it will help them learn and do their own thing. So, I’m going to mention about the most of the tools and technologies I use in my blog and my business.

Web Services I use or have used in the past

Being a Startup entrepreneur and service provider involved in ecommerce and allied fields, I know the importance of collecting payments online and the role of Payment gateway in it. There are lot of factors involved while selecting a Payment gateway especially when you are starting new.

After years of searching and analysis, I believe, I have a winner,

I’ll try to explain why Instamojo is the best payment gateway for startups in India and the factors I have considered while choosing the payment gateway.

Being a Startup entrepreneur and service provider involved in ecommerce and allied fields, I know the importance of collecting payments online and the role of Payment gateway in it. There are lot of factors involved while selecting a Payment gateway especially when you are starting new.

After years of searching and analysis, I believe, I have a winner,

I’ll try to explain why Instamojo is the best payment gateway for startups in India and the factors I have considered while choosing the payment gateway.

In this article, I would like to discuss the importance of the Art of Swimming.

According to me, it’s not just a sport it’s a divine Art, a therapy, and the obvious, a life saver (litterally).

The Divine Art

There are 5 fundamental elements of Nature Air, Water, Earth, Fire and Space (as in sky) and normal humans (who doesn’t swim) can manage to live only in the Air medium. The human body is designed in such a way. But it has been told that Yogis can navigate in all the mediums.

In this article, I would like to discuss the importance of the Art of Swimming.

According to me, it’s not just a sport it’s a divine Art, a therapy, and the obvious, a life saver (litterally).

The Divine Art

There are 5 fundamental elements of Nature Air, Water, Earth, Fire and Space (as in sky) and normal humans (who doesn’t swim) can manage to live only in the Air medium. The human body is designed in such a way. But it has been told that Yogis can navigate in all the mediums.

Modi’s Foreign Policy with regards to India-China relations and its impacts on Taiwan

India - China Relations overview

India & China has always remained competitive especially in the past few decades. However both being developing countries and major economies, they collaborate on a wide range of issues and show a united face in major forums but however, the relationship has its own share of issues.

China wants to topple the United States as the sole superpower and wants to take over the world and is using a mix of Economic, Military and historical strategies such as OBOR / BRI, CPEC, Gwadar Port, Hambantota Port, String of Pearls strategy, Nine-dash line, South China sea etc. These are major flash points between India & China, not to mention the border disputes simmering over many decades (Recent doklam dispute) and its continued support to India’s arch-rival and China’s all-weather friend Pakistan in providing Nuclear technology, missiles, and fighters etc.

All of must be using some sort of App to take Notes on the go. But the best among them all is Google Keep.

Why is Google Keep the best?

Google Keep has a clean and simple UI with tons of useful features.

You can use Google Keep to take Notes, create Checklist, Set Reminders - both time based and location-based reminders, use it as a drawing pad, create image notes, scribble on images etc.

Lesson 2 - Business and Tax registrations required for an e-commerce business in India

Welcome to the Second lesson of the Free online e-commerce course and in this lesson, we discuss the Business and Tax Registrations required to run an e-commerce business in India and also how to do the said registrations.

Click on the below video to start the lesson, also you can subscribe to the youtube channel to get a notification whenever a new video is uploaded.

Few people have asked me about the tools and technical setup I’m using to run my blog and website.

It is difficult for me to explain them orally everytime but it is important because it will help them learn and do their own thing. So, I’m going to mention about the most of the tools and technologies I use in my blog and my business.

Web Services I use or have used in the past

Little background

If you had visited my blog a few weeks back, it must have looked different, loaded slowly and there was a ton of crappy ads and it was having only basic security features.

Old setup

Before this transition, the blog was using a Self-hosted version of Wordpress on a 10 USD/month Digital Ocean droplet (2GB RAM, 1 CPU, 50GB SSD disk) served via an Apache server serving over https using free TLS (or as people generally say, SSL) certificates provided by LetsEncrypt.

In this article, we will see step-by-step instructions to setup AWS EC2 Instance Monitoring Alarms using AWS Cloudwatch and CloudWatch Agent. The purpose of this post is to create a unified guide document to implement CloudWatch alarms as I couldn’t find any such documents when I tried to implement this for the first time.

Assumption:

This guide is written with the basic assumption that you want to implement Cloudwatch alarms in Linux based operating systems and the instructions are given for Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04 operating system, however, it will work for other Linux variants also but commands like “apt” or “apt-get” must be replaced with command like “yum” relevant to the operating system.

Changing the hosting servers of WordPress sites is always tricky because of the WordPress files and folder permissions differ from that of a normal shared web hosting and a dedicated / VPS server.

The site may work properly but the updates won’t install or you can’t upload your image files and I have faced this issue when I moved from shared web hosting to my private VPS from DigitalOcean. I have built the hosting server from scratch on top of Ubuntu and I’ll tell you about the proper Wordpress files and folder permissions required for the smooth running of your website.

Lesson 9 - Integrating Payment Gateway with Opencart site

In this lesson, we will see how to integrate our payment gateway with our Opencart Installation.

1. Login to your Instamojo dashboard and click on API’s and Plugins.

2. Under available platform plugins, click on the relevant Opencart version of your installation and download the plugin.

3. Login to your Opencart admin dashboard and click on Extensions->Extension Installer.

4. Click the upload button and upload the plugin you have downloaded earlier.

Google has been launching a lot of Android apps lately and I’ll list 5 lesser known apps that they have launched.

Google Keep

Google Keep lets you take notes, create a checklist and has a lot of other features which are clearly explained in this article.

Google Fit

Google Fit lets you track your daily activity and your fitness and is explained in detail in this article.

Google Opinion Rewards

Google Opinion rewards let you earn free google play store credits for answering a few questions and you can know more here.

In the previous part, I have discussed how my relationship with computers started.

Even though I have tried Linux based operating systems from time to time, the terminal commands scared me and I have always gone back to Windows.

But when I started learning about how the Internet and websites work, I have started building websites and I have always preferred Linux based Shared web hosting because they had CPanel to manage your web hosting, which is easy to use compared to Windows-based control panels and Linux hosting is cheaper than Windows hosting.

Would you like to get a free payment gateway consultation for your business?

I have been in the e-commerce and Payments industry for 4+ years now and I have been running a free e-commerce course for those who wanted to get into the e-commerce business. I have been getting several inquiries from SME’s regarding getting a payment gateway for their business, hence I have decided to offer free payment gateway consulting for business as we have partnered with a startup-friendly major online payment gateway, we are in a better position to offer payment gateway consulting services.

Lesson 7 - How to Register Web Hosting for your Website?

In this lesson, we will see how to Register Web Hosting for your account and use it to host your domain.

Watch the below video to start the lesson. In the video, we show you different Hosting companies and their pricing and how to get special offers using coupon codes etc. Select One hosting provider, who you feel affordable and register hosting with them.

All of must be using some sort of App to take Notes on the go. But the best among them all is Google Keep.

Why is Google Keep the best?

Google Keep has a clean and simple UI with tons of useful features.

You can use Google Keep to take Notes, create Checklist, Set Reminders - both time based and location-based reminders, use it as a drawing pad, create image notes, scribble on images etc.

Lesson 6 - Create free Professional Business email with custom domain using Zoho mail

Welcome to the Lesson 6 of the Free e-commerce course.

In this lesson, I’m going to show you how to get a free professional business email with your own website (eg, [email protected]) using Zoho mail.

In order to complete this tasks, you must have already purchased a domain name and added it with CloudFlare to manage the DNS settings.

If you haven’t done already, please complete those first and if you don’t know how to complete those steps, please refer the “Learn e-commerce” page for help articles.

Lesson 5 - Managing your website DNS with CloudFlare

Welcome to the 5th Lesson of the Free e-commerce course.

In this lesson learn how to sign up for CloudFlare and change the nameservers accordingly to accommodate the change and also how to create an “A” record to point your domain name to your server IP.

Click the below video to start the lesson.

Once you have signed up and updated the name servers, you can manage all the DNS settings of the website from CloudFlare.

Are you thinking of Switching to Ubuntu (or any other Linux distribution)  from Windows but afraid to jump ship?

Maybe my story will help.

Before I tell you why I have dumped Windows for Linux, First I’ll tell you about my relationship with computers.

The First time I have touched a computer is when I was in my 5th Standard (2001-2002) in our school.

They bought a second hand Windows 95 computer with a Black and White CRT monitor. I have used it to draw a few rectangles using the LOGO language.

Lesson 4 - How to Signup for a Payment Gateway in India?

Are you a small business worried about getting a Payment gateway?

Are you looking for a payment gateway for a home business without company registration?

Do you want to collect payments online without having a website?

Are you looking for a payment gateway for your e-commerce store?

Are you worried about the initial cost of setting up a payment gateway?

Lesson 3 (Bonus) - What is Domain Name, Hosting and DNS?

Welcome to the bonus lesson of Free e-commerce course, in the last lesson I explained how to register a domain name for your website but seems people are confused about certain things….

If you are trying to understand How a website works and What is the difference between a Website and domain name, what is hosting, then it might be overwhelming at first.

Lesson 3 - How to Register your website domain name?

Welcome to the third lesson of the Free Online e-commerce course and in this lesson, we show you how to register your own website domain name.

Start the below video to watch it.

You can use other domain registrars such as Namecheap, GoDaddy, Google domains etc as well. The core concepts remains the same.

Lesson 2 - Business and Tax registrations required for an e-commerce business in India

Welcome to the Second lesson of the Free online e-commerce course and in this lesson, we discuss the Business and Tax Registrations required to run an e-commerce business in India and also how to do the said registrations.

Click on the below video to start the lesson, also you can subscribe to the youtube channel to get a notification whenever a new video is uploaded.

Lesson 1 - What is ecommerce and it’s types?

Welcome to the First lesson of the Free e-commerce course and in this lesson, I’ll be speaking about what is e-commerce and what are the types of e-commerce.

Click on the below video to watch it.

In the next lesson, we will learn about what are the legal registrations (such as business reg., GST, PAN etc) required to run an e-commerce business in India.

I have been into Internet/e-commerce/online payments for the last 5-7 years and I have been working in the online e-commerce industry full-time for almost 3 years now after resigning from my corporate job.

I have worked on my own as well as client e-commerce projects and that constitute my experience and I have learned all these things from my own research in the past 7 years and I must admit, it took a lot of time learning all these things and a still a lot to learn.

If you are a small business or a startup looking to collect online digital payments from Credit / Debit cards, net-banking and you couldn’t afford the fancy swiping machine or a costly payment account. Now you can simply share payments link via Whatsapp, Facebook, SMS, e-mail etc and your customers can pay online easily with the comfort of home and the amount gets settled in your bank account in 2 days.

If you are looking for a high-performance free VPS Server without any ads to test your application, host a website or evaluate VPS servers for your production environment, then you have come to the right place. For the uninitiated, let’s introduce VPS.

What is Virtual Private Server (VPS)?

Virtual Private Server (VPS) are virtual computers that are hosted on a physical server in the cloud, which can be accessed via the Internet. These servers have their own operating system, own server resources and functions like a normal server except that multiple VPS can reside in a Single Physical server but they will have their dedicated Storage and RAM.

Most of you must have used Google play store to download Apps, music, movies, books, games etc. Some of them are free, most of them are either paid or ad-supported.

At times you must have wanted paid products or premium version of products to remove annoying ads or you just wanted to buy a book or something but you don’t want to pay for them, so you search for pirated apk’s and end up installing malware on your mobile.

Amazon launched their Prime membership last year in India and I’ve been using it for the past 1 year and based on my 1-year experience if you ask me if it is worth paying ₹499 / ₹999 (You can get ₹500 Cashback in your Amazon Pay wallet), I would say, Absolutely yes. First, let’s see what are the benefits of Prime Membership.

Benefits of Prime Membership

• Free delivery on all products Fulfilled by Amazon and most of the high moving products are fulfilled by Amazon.
• Free One Day and Two day delivery on eligible products and pin codes, for which you have to pay extra if you are not a prime member.
• Early access to deals and special offers for Prime members.
• And my favorite, unlimited access to Amazon Prime Video which includes a lot of Hollywood movies and popular TV series

Should you go for it?

You should. If you are a heavy shopper and you are based in any of the metros, then you can get free fast delivery and it’s more than worth.

Few people have asked me about the tools and technical setup I’m using to run my blog and website.

It is difficult for me to explain them orally everytime but it is important because it will help them learn and do their own thing. So, I’m going to mention about the most of the tools and technologies I use in my blog and my business.

Web Services I use or have used in the past

Learn how to create your own free online store without any coding in under thirty minutes in 5 easy steps and also get Rs.500 in your bank account after completing your first sale.

We will show you an example with a hobby business called Prighu - Art crafts & Jewellery

Create a Facebook page for your business

First create a Facebook page for your business (if you haven’t done already) and post about your business and related images.

Being a Startup entrepreneur and service provider involved in ecommerce and allied fields, I know the importance of collecting payments online and the role of Payment gateway in it. There are lot of factors involved while selecting a Payment gateway especially when you are starting new.

After years of searching and analysis, I believe, I have a winner,

I’ll try to explain why Instamojo is the best payment gateway for startups in India and the factors I have considered while choosing the payment gateway.

Lesson 1 - What is ecommerce and it’s types?

Welcome to the First lesson of the Free e-commerce course and in this lesson, I’ll be speaking about what is e-commerce and what are the types of e-commerce.

Click on the below video to watch it.

In the next lesson, we will learn about what are the legal registrations (such as business reg., GST, PAN etc) required to run an e-commerce business in India.

In this article, we will see step-by-step instructions to setup AWS EC2 Instance Monitoring Alarms using AWS Cloudwatch and CloudWatch Agent. The purpose of this post is to create a unified guide document to implement CloudWatch alarms as I couldn’t find any such documents when I tried to implement this for the first time.

Assumption:

This guide is written with the basic assumption that you want to implement Cloudwatch alarms in Linux based operating systems and the instructions are given for Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04 operating system, however, it will work for other Linux variants also but commands like “apt” or “apt-get” must be replaced with command like “yum” relevant to the operating system.

Are you thinking of Switching to Ubuntu (or any other Linux distribution)  from Windows but afraid to jump ship?

Maybe my story will help.

Before I tell you why I have dumped Windows for Linux, First I’ll tell you about my relationship with computers.

The First time I have touched a computer is when I was in my 5th Standard (2001-2002) in our school.

They bought a second hand Windows 95 computer with a Black and White CRT monitor. I have used it to draw a few rectangles using the LOGO language.

In this article, we will see step-by-step instructions to setup AWS EC2 Instance Monitoring Alarms using AWS Cloudwatch and CloudWatch Agent. The purpose of this post is to create a unified guide document to implement CloudWatch alarms as I couldn’t find any such documents when I tried to implement this for the first time.

Assumption:

This guide is written with the basic assumption that you want to implement Cloudwatch alarms in Linux based operating systems and the instructions are given for Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04 operating system, however, it will work for other Linux variants also but commands like “apt” or “apt-get” must be replaced with command like “yum” relevant to the operating system.

In this article, we will see step-by-step instructions to setup AWS EC2 Instance Monitoring Alarms using AWS Cloudwatch and CloudWatch Agent. The purpose of this post is to create a unified guide document to implement CloudWatch alarms as I couldn’t find any such documents when I tried to implement this for the first time.

Assumption:

This guide is written with the basic assumption that you want to implement Cloudwatch alarms in Linux based operating systems and the instructions are given for Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04 operating system, however, it will work for other Linux variants also but commands like “apt” or “apt-get” must be replaced with command like “yum” relevant to the operating system.

Changing the hosting servers of WordPress sites is always tricky because of the WordPress files and folder permissions differ from that of a normal shared web hosting and a dedicated / VPS server.

The site may work properly but the updates won’t install or you can’t upload your image files and I have faced this issue when I moved from shared web hosting to my private VPS from DigitalOcean. I have built the hosting server from scratch on top of Ubuntu and I’ll tell you about the proper Wordpress files and folder permissions required for the smooth running of your website.

Lesson 3 (Bonus) - What is Domain Name, Hosting and DNS?

Welcome to the bonus lesson of Free e-commerce course, in the last lesson I explained how to register a domain name for your website but seems people are confused about certain things….

If you are trying to understand How a website works and What is the difference between a Website and domain name, what is hosting, then it might be overwhelming at first.

If you are looking for a high-performance free VPS Server without any ads to test your application, host a website or evaluate VPS servers for your production environment, then you have come to the right place. For the uninitiated, let’s introduce VPS.

What is Virtual Private Server (VPS)?

Virtual Private Server (VPS) are virtual computers that are hosted on a physical server in the cloud, which can be accessed via the Internet. These servers have their own operating system, own server resources and functions like a normal server except that multiple VPS can reside in a Single Physical server but they will have their dedicated Storage and RAM.

If you are looking for a high-performance free VPS Server without any ads to test your application, host a website or evaluate VPS servers for your production environment, then you have come to the right place. For the uninitiated, let’s introduce VPS.

What is Virtual Private Server (VPS)?

Virtual Private Server (VPS) are virtual computers that are hosted on a physical server in the cloud, which can be accessed via the Internet. These servers have their own operating system, own server resources and functions like a normal server except that multiple VPS can reside in a Single Physical server but they will have their dedicated Storage and RAM.

Lesson 3 (Bonus) - What is Domain Name, Hosting and DNS?

Welcome to the bonus lesson of Free e-commerce course, in the last lesson I explained how to register a domain name for your website but seems people are confused about certain things….

If you are trying to understand How a website works and What is the difference between a Website and domain name, what is hosting, then it might be overwhelming at first.

Lesson 3 - How to Register your website domain name?

Welcome to the third lesson of the Free Online e-commerce course and in this lesson, we show you how to register your own website domain name.

Start the below video to watch it.

You can use other domain registrars such as Namecheap, GoDaddy, Google domains etc as well. The core concepts remains the same.

Lesson 1 - What is ecommerce and it’s types?

Welcome to the First lesson of the Free e-commerce course and in this lesson, I’ll be speaking about what is e-commerce and what are the types of e-commerce.

Click on the below video to watch it.

In the next lesson, we will learn about what are the legal registrations (such as business reg., GST, PAN etc) required to run an e-commerce business in India.

Are you constantly distracted by various sounds while working and couldn’t concentrate? Listening to soothing white noise might help you focus.

These days I don’t like feeling to go to my office because of the sounds from the nearby construction site and it kind of irritates me. Then I researched on the Internet and found out that listening to some soothing White noise will calm your mind and help you focus on your work.

In the previous part, I have discussed how my relationship with computers started.

Even though I have tried Linux based operating systems from time to time, the terminal commands scared me and I have always gone back to Windows.

But when I started learning about how the Internet and websites work, I have started building websites and I have always preferred Linux based Shared web hosting because they had CPanel to manage your web hosting, which is easy to use compared to Windows-based control panels and Linux hosting is cheaper than Windows hosting.

Are you thinking of Switching to Ubuntu (or any other Linux distribution)  from Windows but afraid to jump ship?

Maybe my story will help.

Before I tell you why I have dumped Windows for Linux, First I’ll tell you about my relationship with computers.

The First time I have touched a computer is when I was in my 5th Standard (2001-2002) in our school.

They bought a second hand Windows 95 computer with a Black and White CRT monitor. I have used it to draw a few rectangles using the LOGO language.

In the previous part, I have discussed how my relationship with computers started.

Even though I have tried Linux based operating systems from time to time, the terminal commands scared me and I have always gone back to Windows.

But when I started learning about how the Internet and websites work, I have started building websites and I have always preferred Linux based Shared web hosting because they had CPanel to manage your web hosting, which is easy to use compared to Windows-based control panels and Linux hosting is cheaper than Windows hosting.

In the previous part, I have discussed how my relationship with computers started.

Even though I have tried Linux based operating systems from time to time, the terminal commands scared me and I have always gone back to Windows.

But when I started learning about how the Internet and websites work, I have started building websites and I have always preferred Linux based Shared web hosting because they had CPanel to manage your web hosting, which is easy to use compared to Windows-based control panels and Linux hosting is cheaper than Windows hosting.

In the previous part, I have discussed how my relationship with computers started.

Even though I have tried Linux based operating systems from time to time, the terminal commands scared me and I have always gone back to Windows.

But when I started learning about how the Internet and websites work, I have started building websites and I have always preferred Linux based Shared web hosting because they had CPanel to manage your web hosting, which is easy to use compared to Windows-based control panels and Linux hosting is cheaper than Windows hosting.

In the previous part, I have discussed how my relationship with computers started.

Even though I have tried Linux based operating systems from time to time, the terminal commands scared me and I have always gone back to Windows.

But when I started learning about how the Internet and websites work, I have started building websites and I have always preferred Linux based Shared web hosting because they had CPanel to manage your web hosting, which is easy to use compared to Windows-based control panels and Linux hosting is cheaper than Windows hosting.

Are you thinking of Switching to Ubuntu (or any other Linux distribution)  from Windows but afraid to jump ship?

Maybe my story will help.

Before I tell you why I have dumped Windows for Linux, First I’ll tell you about my relationship with computers.

The First time I have touched a computer is when I was in my 5th Standard (2001-2002) in our school.

They bought a second hand Windows 95 computer with a Black and White CRT monitor. I have used it to draw a few rectangles using the LOGO language.

In the previous part, I have discussed how my relationship with computers started.

Even though I have tried Linux based operating systems from time to time, the terminal commands scared me and I have always gone back to Windows.

But when I started learning about how the Internet and websites work, I have started building websites and I have always preferred Linux based Shared web hosting because they had CPanel to manage your web hosting, which is easy to use compared to Windows-based control panels and Linux hosting is cheaper than Windows hosting.

In the previous part, I have discussed how my relationship with computers started.

Even though I have tried Linux based operating systems from time to time, the terminal commands scared me and I have always gone back to Windows.

But when I started learning about how the Internet and websites work, I have started building websites and I have always preferred Linux based Shared web hosting because they had CPanel to manage your web hosting, which is easy to use compared to Windows-based control panels and Linux hosting is cheaper than Windows hosting.

Are you thinking of Switching to Ubuntu (or any other Linux distribution)  from Windows but afraid to jump ship?

Maybe my story will help.

Before I tell you why I have dumped Windows for Linux, First I’ll tell you about my relationship with computers.

The First time I have touched a computer is when I was in my 5th Standard (2001-2002) in our school.

They bought a second hand Windows 95 computer with a Black and White CRT monitor. I have used it to draw a few rectangles using the LOGO language.

Changing the hosting servers of WordPress sites is always tricky because of the WordPress files and folder permissions differ from that of a normal shared web hosting and a dedicated / VPS server.

The site may work properly but the updates won’t install or you can’t upload your image files and I have faced this issue when I moved from shared web hosting to my private VPS from DigitalOcean. I have built the hosting server from scratch on top of Ubuntu and I’ll tell you about the proper Wordpress files and folder permissions required for the smooth running of your website.

Changing the hosting servers of WordPress sites is always tricky because of the WordPress files and folder permissions differ from that of a normal shared web hosting and a dedicated / VPS server.

The site may work properly but the updates won’t install or you can’t upload your image files and I have faced this issue when I moved from shared web hosting to my private VPS from DigitalOcean. I have built the hosting server from scratch on top of Ubuntu and I’ll tell you about the proper Wordpress files and folder permissions required for the smooth running of your website.

Changing the hosting servers of WordPress sites is always tricky because of the WordPress files and folder permissions differ from that of a normal shared web hosting and a dedicated / VPS server.

The site may work properly but the updates won’t install or you can’t upload your image files and I have faced this issue when I moved from shared web hosting to my private VPS from DigitalOcean. I have built the hosting server from scratch on top of Ubuntu and I’ll tell you about the proper Wordpress files and folder permissions required for the smooth running of your website.

Changing the hosting servers of WordPress sites is always tricky because of the WordPress files and folder permissions differ from that of a normal shared web hosting and a dedicated / VPS server.

The site may work properly but the updates won’t install or you can’t upload your image files and I have faced this issue when I moved from shared web hosting to my private VPS from DigitalOcean. I have built the hosting server from scratch on top of Ubuntu and I’ll tell you about the proper Wordpress files and folder permissions required for the smooth running of your website.

World bank has released the latest (2018) Ease of Doing business Index report for 2018 and India has moved up 30 ranks and currently ranks at 100 out of 190 countries and this is the best ever rank India has achieved.

Update: India has achieved the 77th rank in Ease of Doing business Index 2019. More power to India & Modi!

What is Ease of Doing Business Index?

Ease of Doing Business index is the annual report published by the World bank after analyzing over 10 factors which are conducive to doing business in the country.

Modi’s Foreign Policy with regards to India-China relations and its impacts on Taiwan

India - China Relations overview

India & China has always remained competitive especially in the past few decades. However both being developing countries and major economies, they collaborate on a wide range of issues and show a united face in major forums but however, the relationship has its own share of issues.

China wants to topple the United States as the sole superpower and wants to take over the world and is using a mix of Economic, Military and historical strategies such as OBOR / BRI, CPEC, Gwadar Port, Hambantota Port, String of Pearls strategy, Nine-dash line, South China sea etc. These are major flash points between India & China, not to mention the border disputes simmering over many decades (Recent doklam dispute) and its continued support to India’s arch-rival and China’s all-weather friend Pakistan in providing Nuclear technology, missiles, and fighters etc.

Lesson 6 - Create free Professional Business email with custom domain using Zoho mail

Welcome to the Lesson 6 of the Free e-commerce course.

In this lesson, I’m going to show you how to get a free professional business email with your own website (eg, [email protected]) using Zoho mail.

In order to complete this tasks, you must have already purchased a domain name and added it with CloudFlare to manage the DNS settings.

If you haven’t done already, please complete those first and if you don’t know how to complete those steps, please refer the “Learn e-commerce” page for help articles.