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 »
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 »
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 »
A basic guide on how to debug WordPress themes and plugins
This blog post is going to be slightly more technical than usual. It’s targeted towards developers/coders of WordPress websites. If you’re just installing a theme, adding some plugins from the repo, and configuring them, this post is not for you. If you write custom plugins, build your own child themes, or themes, or if you’re the… Read more »
The lessons I learned as CEO of ZippyKid in 2012
By now, you’ve probably read more than your fair share of “year in review” articles and blog posts, here’s another one of them. It’s of a more personal nature than you may expect from a company. To say ZippyKid grew in 2012 would be an understatement, at the same time, it’s not un expected. We’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 »
Black Friday is too much work, so we’re giving away 3 months of WordPress hosting
It’s that time of year, where you eat way too much food on turkey day and wake up at the crack of dawn to run to a store where you essentially fight through thousands of people to get a great deal on something you probably don’t need. We think the entire concept of Black Friday… Read more »
Thanksgiving Hours
Thanksgiving is a time for reflecting on the year, for family bonding, and for sweatpants after that second (third?) helping of apple pie. ZippyKid will be closed on Thanksgiving (this Thursday November 22nd) to spend time with our loved ones and friends. But have no fear — we will still be around in case of… Read more »
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