The latest studies and reports are showing that web sites are getting bigger. The pictures and video we’re taking with our smart devices aren’t designed for the web and are contributing to an increase in page weight, year over year. For the past two years, companies like ZippyKid have been including and pushing for the… Read more »
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Production and Development mode for your sites
A few months ago, we released a feature in the ZippyKid control panel called “Modes”. I wanted to take the time today to explain what this feature does, and why it exists. We built this feature based on usage patterns and questions being asked in our ticketing system. Background A website usually switches between two states,… Read more »
Official response to the brute force attacks of Spring 2013
By now a lot of you have seen the news reports on TechCrunch, Sucuri and other news sources about the massive attack against WordPress sites. We’ve been working in the background to solve this problem on our systems dilligently. We were fortunate enough to not see the attacks come to us, until last night, and… Read more »
Announcing SPDY support for SSL sites at ZippyKid
Since November 2012, we’ve been testing SPDY protocol support in secret with our customers. Today, we’re making it public. All sites that pay for SSL come with SPDY version 2 support. What does that mean in english? Basically, if you enabled SSL on your site in the past 3 months, you are using technology that… Read more »
Switch from Posterous to WordPress
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 »
Do you really need a dedicated IP address for better SEO?
The following is a guest blog post by a friend an SEO expert, in response to a rant I made on facebook a few months ago. It was related to a pre-sales question we see. “I need a dedicated ip address for better SEO, can you provide me with a dedicated ip address”? Back in… Read more »
Speaking at php[tek] 2013 in Chicago May 14-17th 2013.
I’m really excited to share that I’ll be speaking at php[tek] 2013 in Chicago, this May. I’ll be doing a formal session discussing the ups and downs of building your business on public cloud networks like Amazon and Rackspace, versus building private clouds. This is the first time I’m giving this talk, as it’s based… Read more »
February 16, 2013 system wide outage RCA (root cause analysis)
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 »
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 »
WordPress 3.5.1 has been released. Automatic WordPress update has begun for active sites.
WordPress 3.5.1 was released a few hours ago, when the release came out, we started sending notifications to customers about pending upgrades. You can see what’s new in WordPress 3.5.1 here. This is a security update, and it is mandatory. We’re trying something new this time around, where you’ll be getting an individual email per automatic… Read more »
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