Think you know how to punish your server? Think again. Running a blog and related applications, is nowhere near the most taxing thing you can do to your server. If you are really interested in making a run at burning down your data center, check out this list: (To be clear, I wanted to think [...]
WordPress is far and away the most popular blogging platform for bloggers running their domains. It is free, powerful, stable and well-understood by most in the blogging community. However, those who do know it also know it can be rather difficult to host at times. A dynamic platform running on PHP, it can crush servers [...]
Money is tight and everyone is looking for ways to cut corners. Whether you’re hosting an established site or just wanting to test the waters with a new one, everyone is looking to save a few dollars on hosting. However, no one wants to sacrifice speed or power. Cheap hosting that doesn’t doesn’t provide good [...]
The goal for a Webmaster when it comes to hosting is to maximize speed and reliability while minimizing costs. This first involves finding the kind of right host for your site and then picking a good company to host with, but it then involves optimizing the site to get the most out of the resources [...]
I just read an interesting post on the Official DreamHost Blog entitled “One-Click Mystery“. (the post had a chart — so I was immediately intrigued): Dallas Kashuba explained DreamHost users are using One-Clicks less and less, with newer customers using this feature significantly less than users who signed up in ’05/’06. “The clear trend we [...]
Just ran across this post about the 7 must-have plugins available for WordPress. The first featured plugin is the All In One SEO Pack – which is a needed plugin if you want to have more flexiblity in optimizing your blog for search engines. Check out Tubetorials Video about the All In One SEO Pack: [...]
DreamHost recently announced a handy addition to their “one-click” software installs & upgrades. Now you can upgrade all of your software (like WordPress, Joomla, etc.) — all at the same time with just one click. Spiffy! If you are a WordPress power-user, with multiple blogs like me; I’m sure you can appreciate how this can [...]
I’ve been doing some webmaster maintenance – backups, software upgrades, etc. and ran into a WordPress install that had over 20,000 comments sitting in moderation. Ooops. Unfortunately, WordPress provides no simple way of cleaning up huge amounts of comments. Mass edit mode is limited to the number of entries that can be deleted at once. [...]
Just stumbled upon this nice video tutorial for setting up WordPress on a DreamHost server: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ABioDz0Gw8[/youtube] The tutorial by Tech Mindset is thorough and made with the novice user in mind. The author also has a blog post about setting up WordPress that should answer any questions not covered in the video. Related articles by [...]
DreamHost offers one click installs for a stack of open source software. Which makes it incredibly simple to get a fully functional database driven site up In 5 mins — without much hosting or programming knowledge. Sweet, eh? Dreamhost even has an “Easy Mode” for installing WordPress, Zenphoto, phpBB, and Drupal. In easy mode, Dreamhost [...]