Category: Hosting

We Reviewed Perch CMS And Love It

When designing a new site most need a CMS. We write a lot about WordPress because it’s the most popular. There are some other AWESOME CMS options out there. We’ve tried & supported many. Perch CMS being one of them, we really like. If you search the phrase “best CMS” you’ll receive over 2.4 million results. Stuff And Nonsense a well known agency uses Perch, we found that interesting. Stuff And Nonsense doesn’t normally develop, but on occasion they’ll put their amazing designs on a CMS. Most of the times they choose Perch CMS the “really little CMS”. You can read why other people choose...
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Improving Website Speed [video]

We’ve blogged about CDN here, and optimizing web pages for improving website speed. Today we’re sharing a keynote from Maciej Ceglowski. He writes about web related topics and runs a site called Pinboard. In his video he talks about the ever increasing size of websites – “The Website Obesity Crisis” Click here or the image to watch.. Reducing Size & Improving Website Speed His video in part describes problems customers often ask us about. They have a website built, or in the process of reviewing their performance on a third party site like Y-Slow or Pingdom Speed Test or Google’s Pagespeed Insights. They get a failing grade...
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2015 – Success or Failure?

Hostek - CEO Insight Focusing On The Road Ahead

2015 Goals This is the perfect time at the end of 2015 to really define your goals. Likely this will be a combination of business and personal goals. Write down your goals. I know you have heard that before, but most still don’t. Revisit your goals each quarter or more frequently. Writing them down and forgetting about them will not get them accomplished. I’ll share a couple of my 2015 goals from early January, 2015. Determine if personal assistant needed and hire if so. Streamline our product offering and eliminate anything that wasted our resources or did not fit our core...
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2016 Clean Code Kickoff

On the day before Christmas we should be celebrating. Enjoying the company of our family and friends. There’s always just a few minutes do some minor cleanup before the new year. Can you believe it’s 2016 already? If the only cleanup around is your websites, consider these few tools that can help get your Google Page Insights score WAY up. 2016 The Year For Maximizing There’s a little known internal Facebook campaign to spur consideration for slower internet speeds. They call it 2G Tuesdays. Every Tuesday the team at Facebook uses slower internet speeds. Their reasoning is to get developers to...
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