Matt Mullenweg, the founder of Automattic and one of the creators of the blogging platform WordPress, announced recently that his company had become a fully accredited registrar (#1531). This means that it can now register domains on its own without a middle man, such as GoDaddy-owned Wild West Domains, their previous partner in such matters. [...]
If you run a Web service, or even just a network of popular sites, you know how difficult but important it can be to communicate with your visitors any technical issues that you might have. If a site goes down, you likely get barraged with emails from well-intended (or angry) visitors letting you know about [...]
WordPress is hands-down the most common application installed on most hosting accounts, especially shared hosting. Many major hosts have partnered with Automattic to highlight their WordPress-friendliness and many others have nice logos and graphics on their sites to indicate that they are WordPress-ready. But what do you really need out of a host to run [...]
W3 Total Cache, previously covered here, has released version .9 (technically, as of this writing, .9.1.1) which adds new features and fixes several of the bugs and gripes users had with the previous release. According to the changelog, over 35 new features and fixes were added into version .9, not counting some additional 10 changes [...]
WordPress is one of, if not the single, most popular applications hosting customers install on their servers. Not only is it an incredibly popular blogging platform, but it is also a well-respected CMS and is used to manage a large number of sites, even those that aren’t blogs. Nearly every major host, especially those who [...]
Unless you are a customer on No Support Linux Hosting or use a similarly unmanaged solution, you probably sleep better at night knowing that you are backed up by a full support team, 24/7 and that you can ask questions whenever something goes wrong. However, even the fastest, most responsive support team can not fix [...]
If you are a user of self-installed WordPress on Godaddy, Bluehost, Media Temple and other services, there is a decent chance that your site has been hacked and, worse yet, you may not know about it. Though what exactly caused the hack remains unclear, it does not appear, at this time, to be a vulnerability [...]
WordPress is far and away the most popular blogging platform for self-hosted blogs and, as such, frequently comes under attack from a variety of source. This includes malware authors looking for an easy way to distribute viruses, spammers wanting to insert garbage links and identity thieves wanting to place tracking tools on your visitor’s computers. [...]
One-click installs are a feature you can find on almost any shared Web host. They’re designed to make it easy to install some of the most common scripts used in hosting accounts including WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, phpBB and Cube Cart. The process takes only one click and a few minutes of patience while the script [...]
Page.ly is not a traditional Web hosting company. Though their Web site is professional and fast-loading, it touts only one service, WordPress hosting. Where most hosts will give you a slice of a server and let you install anything you want on it (within the bounds of the TOS and your space/bandwidth restrictions) Page.ly only [...]