Brian GladuAugust 15, 2019August 15, 2019 AWS versus Google Cloud: Comparing Clouds [Mid-2019] For quite a few years AWS had little competition in the cloud provider space. Today, that’s no longer true. Oracle, Microsoft, Alibaba, Google, and other heavy-hitters have entered the market and each of their cloud solutions has unique strengths and weaknesses. The…Read The Story
Brian GladuAugust 2, 2019 The Comprehensive Guide to WordPress Security in 2019 The benefits of this WordPress security guide are two fold: Learn exactly what you need to know about WordPress security in 2019. Understanding WordPress security helps you adopt a security-oriented mindset that will help you prevent and mitigate risks as you make…Read The Story
Brian GladuAugust 27, 2018June 21, 2019 · Featured How Managed WordPress Hosting Can Level Up Your Business Running a successful online enterprise involves more than just product development, marketing, and customer service. It's also critical that your website provide a solid foundation for both running and scaling your business. You are not an expert in web hosting, and you…Read The Story
Raelene MoreyNovember 30, 2017April 23, 2019 · Featured 40 Must-Read Blogs for Leadership & Entrepreneurs Countless entrepreneurs have written about their personal experiences -- their wildly successful ventures and stunning failures. Some are so transparent that they publish their financials for others to dissect and comment upon. These 40 blogs for C-suite, executives and entrepreneurs are must-reads,…Read The Story
Lizzie KardonJuly 26, 2019July 26, 2019 A Survival Guide to Migrating Away from your Failing WordPress Host Not all hosts are created equal. When it comes to Managed WordPress Hosting, that fact is becoming ever more clear to us with near-daily sales calls from people with business-critical WordPress sites at a loss because their current host is failing them.…Read The Story
Sean TierneyJuly 17, 2019July 18, 2019 B2B Sales Process Automation: “Leviathan” Unveiled True to our open source business ethos we're conducting an experiment in radical transparency and unveiling some of our key systems and business processes. Our hope is that by sharing some of the innovative "secret sauce" other startups will implement, refine and…Read The Story
Brian GladuJuly 12, 2019July 15, 2019 Exploring Microservices Architecture: What You Need to Know Microservice Architecture (a.k.a. “Microservices”) is a method of developing software focused on building single-function modules. The term was coined in 2011 and the microservice approach quickly gained steam near the end of 2013: The advancement of microservices was driven, in part, by…Read The Story
Lizzie KardonJuly 2, 2019 WordPress Performance & Digging into PHP Traffic surges and overall growth are an indicator of business success. A big splash of attention resulting in lots of people coming to your site means you've done something right, but you've also got a lot on the line. You want to…Read The Story
Brian GladuJune 25, 2019 An Introduction to Amazon EC2 “The cloud” changed the game so much, and so quickly, it's difficult to remember what things were like before it arrived. But, not that long ago, getting server resources meant buying or leasing an actual box off the rack of a server…Read The Story
Robert RowleyJune 21, 2019June 21, 2019 Can WordPress Developers and Security Researchers get along? The relationship between WordPress developers and security researchers has been strained for some time now. Recently it is so bad that vulnerability reporters are going rogue which is affecting site owners. In the past months we’ve seen multiple researchers drop 0-day information…Read The Story
Rod AustinJune 13, 2019June 13, 2019 Exploring Data Reliability Within WordPress Site reliability is generally talked about less often than other performance indicators, like page speed. With many web hosts offering multiple 9’s of guaranteed uptime, it’s become less of a ‘hot’ topic and more of the norm that your site will be…Read The Story
Rod AustinJune 4, 2019June 4, 2019 Make Your WordPress Website Faster with the Smush Image Optimization Plugin A fast loading website has many benefits for both you as a website owner and your visitors. Slow site speeds have been shown to not only hamper the user experience, resulting in reduced conversion rates and higher bounce rates, but it can…Read The Story