We had a system wide failure this morning around 0400CST. I wanted to explain what happened. What happened? In a nutshell, some line of communication between our account manager and the DC ops team at Rackspace got messed up. We had scheduled a major maintenance window on February 22nd, but someone how DC ops thought… Read more »
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Guidelines for high traffic WordPress hosting plans with ZippyKid
If you’re interested in becoming a high traffic customer of ZippyKid, you must pass a code audit. What do we mean by code audit? Your code must pass a basic set of heuristic checks and smells. Turn on debug mode, and look for notices and deprecated calls. If your site is throwing more than 5… Read more »
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 »
Beta 2 of our WordPress Hosting Control Panel (MyZippyKid) launched
In September, when we launched our new hosting architecture, ZippyKid the Next Generation, we took the famous 5 minute install down to 5 seconds. Now we’re making it even easier to manage the most advanced WordPress hosting environment EVER. This is the start of “WordPress as a Service” . What’s New? Site List We’ve changed the… Read more »
WordPress 3.5 update plan and schedule
WordPress 3.5 is almost upon on. As always, we’ve been testing it ourselves for quite some time. This site is running the latest release candidate as we speak. This post is just a reminder about the upgrade path for our customers. We will wait at least 2 weeks before we start upgrading your site to… Read more »
Introducing ZippyKid – The Next Generation.. in stores now!
It’s been rumored, and it’s been demoed in private at WordCamps, but now it’s live. On behalf of everyone here at ZippyKid, I’m very happy to announce the release of ZippyKid – The Next Generation. In private conversations I’ve been taking about our “new architecture”, and that’s basically what it is. We’ve taken everything we’ve… 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 »
HostingCon 2012 – CloudFlare Conversation with Vid Luther from ZippyKid
It’s not often we’re able to get Vid in front of a camera (he looks super natural, doesn’t he?), but he was captured at HostingCon 2012 in Boston. Good stuff covered in this quick hitting interview including 1) ZippyKid is growing like crazy, 2) some killer investors and advisors from Rackspace, Slicehost and 500 Startups… Read more »
We’re Hiring or How to win an unlocked iPhone 5/6 and $3000 right before Christmas 2012
We’re hiring. For more details on the job listing see the bottom of this post. To find out about the iPhone 5/6 and $3000 stay here. ZippyKid has grown over the past two years by word of mouth. Everyone we’ve hired, and every customer that has switched to has, has done it because a friend… 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 »
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