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2016 Clean Code Kickoff

December 24, 2015 2:11 pm Published by

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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5 Standout Comparisons of PHP 7.0 with WordPress & More

December 10, 2015 1:25 pm Published by

Last week PHP 7.0 was officially released. This much anticipated release includes dozens of bug fixes and some impressive new features. See more about the new features here. Most of all we’re excited about performance enhancements. How BIG are the performance enhancements? Zend showcases the comparison between older versions of PHP and PHP 7.0 for popular applications. Their results were amazing.  Magento can serve up 3x requests on the same hardware WordPress around 2x requests Drupal runs an astonishing 72% faster Frameworks like Zend and Larvel also receive substantial gains Performance comparison with PHP 7.0 is 2-10 x faster than Ruby,...
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How We Solved A Major SQL TLS 1.0 Problem

October 1, 2015 1:32 pm Published by

We had a customer who was working on PCI compliance – and failing scans due to weak ciphers and TLS 1.0 being enabled. We have some information about PCI Compliance in our support wiki describing what is disabled on our shared servers and why. Since we help customers obtain PCI compliance by providing guidance and a secure infrastructure we thought this would be a simple task that we are familiar doing. We have a PowerShell script for disabling weak ciphers and outdated protocols on Windows Servers (Windows VPS Hosting in this case). We ran the script and completed the process by rebooting the server....
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4 Questions To Bounce Back From Hosting Problems

September 24, 2015 2:37 pm Published by

Let’s talk about a developer who is taking over a new project for a new client. This new project is a beautifully wrapped disaster waiting to happen. A mixture of ad-hoc development and a few dedicated servers from who knows where. Sound familiar? This is one reason businesses abandon custom development in exchange for SaaS website building platforms. To avoid the risk of developers who create partial solutions that lack long term thought & little documentation. The cost is massive for hosting problems like this. The options available today for businesses are endlessly overwhelming. But there’s hope because smart companies are leveraging...
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