WordCamp San Francisco 2011 is under way, and I’d like to the the opportunity to make some announcements for our customers, with upcoming features, and releases. The first announcement is security related. We’re going to be turning on SSL for the WordPress backend for all customers starting September 15th 2011. What does this mean in… Read more »
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The ZippyKid difference or "How are you different than so and so"?
I’ve been traveling a lot for the past 2 months, when I meet people, the conversation usually ends up in a “who do you work for? what does ZippyKid do?”. I am after all doing this for business. Usually people haven’t heard of us, or the other players in the WordPress Hosting niche, some people… Read more »
How to host your WordPress blog alongside your Ruby on Rails app.
We’re starting to see a lot of startups from the different accelerators needing solid hosting for their WordPress blogs, the easiest solution is to just use a sub-domain (blog.mystartup.com) but most of our SEO friends recommend against it, as Google sees the content on the blog as a separate site and doesn’t necessarily relate the… Read more »
Announcing network wide SendGrid integration for Faster WordPress Hosting
We’ve grown quite a bit in the past 36 days, to be specific, we’ve doubled the number of websites we host, and quadrupled the bandwidth we use every month, in fact, according to Chartbeat stats, at any given moment, there are about 2000 people on our network*. What’s even more interesting, is that about 20%… Read more »
Memorial Day Sale
The long weekend is upon all of us here in the USA. Usually, this means sleeping in, crazy sales and movies. It’s also a perfect time to do some things you’ve been meaning to do all year. So, we’re going to help you with the most important thing for your business. Make your website load… Read more »
ZippyKid – One year later, history, reflections, and future
Today is a milestone for us, and I’d like to invite you all for a trip down memory lane. According to my records, yesterday was the one year anniversary of the ZippyKid website and company name. I purchased the logo and domain name from Brandstack, on May 22nd 2010. Technically, the company started at SXSW… Read more »
Announcing the Zferral WordPress plugin with Chargify
I’d like to announce the beta availability of our Zferral + Chargify WordPress plugin. Let’s describe why the plugin was necessary. We had a client, who wanted to credit any of their affiliates for a sale once a customer had purchased something from the hosted payment page at Chargify. Normally, this can handled pretty easily… Read more »
Security Update – WordPress 3.1.2
The WordPress foundation has released a security update for WordPress, we’ll be performing upgrades for our customers between 2AM CST and 5AM CST on April 27th 2011. We’re not expecting any downtime for any of our customers, this is just a heads up. If we forgot your site in the mass update, please e-mail help@zippykid.com… Read more »
What I learnt at PHP Community Conference (#phpcomcon)
Last week, I attended the PHP Community Conference , it was a chance to connect, and re-connect with a lot of people I interact with on a daily basis on IRC, Twitter, and mailing lists. The conference was organized by Lisa Denlinger, Ben Ramsey, and Nicholas Sloan, with a supporting cast that included the Cake… Read more »
Marketing your dong off.
Samsung today “promised” a 2Ghz dual core phone. I went on twitter and asked “Why?”. I can’t make my case in 140 characters, so let me try here. I’m glad that Samsung will still be around in a year, I’m glad that there will be alternatives to the iOS, Windows, Android, Motorola monopoly/conspiracy. But that’s… Read more »
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