On 30th April 2013, Posterous will be shutting down. This is a sad day for many bloggers, though ever since Posterous was acquired by Twitter, it’s not entirely surprising. What this does highlight, is the importance of owning your own data, and you can do just that with WordPress. This tutorial will walk you through… Read more »
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A change in policy regarding WordPress backup plugins on ZippyKid
The short version WordPress backup plugins like backupwordpress, backup buddy, backwpup do not work on our TNG environment, and will be banned as of February 1st 2013. We are introducing functionality that will let you back up your website to an Amazon S3, Rackspace Cloud files, or Dropbox shortly. If you already use VaultPress, you’re… Read more »
Introducing Smushkid – optimize images to speed up your website.
A long time ago, I wrote an article talking about how to speed up your photography website by using the Smush.it plugin. This was literally a few months after the company had started and we were hosting less than a 100 websites. As we’ve grown, and as Yahoo! has declined, we started noticing a lot of… Read more »
WordCamp San Francisco 2012
This past weekend, we attended WordCamp San Francisco, it’s the annual pilgrimage to San Francisco that a lot of WordPressers make, to learn about the state of the press, paradigms in the world of WordPress, and to party. The night before WordCamp, we threw a party with our friends at Range. A notable part of… Read more »
A lot of sites are down – DNS issues as of July 23, 2012
As of 5:00 AM July 23, 2012, our DNS provider Zerigo is still down. Therefore a lot of our customer sites are not resolving. This is making it look like the servers are down. A better notification system? We thought about emailing you about this issue as it was happening, but we realized since the… Read more »
Announcing MyZippyKid – The best way to host and manage your WordPress sites.
Almost one year ago today, I signed the first ever term sheet in my life. Basically, I took money from investors, in return for equity in an idea I had, which seemed to have some legs, and the investors believed I was crazy, yet capable enough of making it grow. Thank you Gabriel Weinberg ,… Read more »
Managed WordPress Hosting Support – What you should expect from us and any other good WordPress host.
This post explains some of the support options and level of support you can get from us here at ZippyKid. Whether you’re hosting a high traffic WordPress site, or a low traffic, but high value (City government) site, you need a way to figure out where the bottlenecks in your code are. We can help… Read more »
Custom error messages for Rackspace Cloud Load Balancers
If you use Rackspace Cloud Load balancers like we do, sometimes seeing the “Service Unavailable” message is annoying, and somewhat ambiguous to the visitor. In November Rackspace allowed you to upload your own error pages via the API, we’ve started implementing it for some of our Enterprise clients. It’s a relatively simple process, once you… Read more »
ZippyKid 2012 – Changes coming to ZippyKid
In April of 2011, I decided to make ZippyKid a full time job and focus all my efforts into growing the company, my goal was to make a new kind of hosting company, that focused on WordPress and small businesses. I wanted to make the best WordPress hosting company, not just another company that manages… Read more »
The Ghost of TimThumb – Battling insecure plugins and hosts 4 months later
This weekend, I realized that I had stopped our auto-updating script for TimThumb about two months ago. What this script does is look for files named timthumb.php, thumb.php and replaces them with the latest secure version from subversion. What this means to you is that if you’ve modified your copy of timthumb and it’s new,… Read more »
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