ZippyKid https://www.zippykid.com The leader in WordPress Hosting Thu, 02 May 2013 20:46:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 ZippyKid Partners with Google to Deliver Blazing Fast WordPress Sites https://www.zippykid.com/2013/04/23/partnership-with-google-to-deliver-fast-wordpress-sites/ https://www.zippykid.com/2013/04/23/partnership-with-google-to-deliver-fast-wordpress-sites/#comments Tue, 23 Apr 2013 13:19:23 +0000 Vid Luther https://www.zippykid.com/?p=4825 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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]]> https://www.zippykid.com/2013/04/23/partnership-with-google-to-deliver-fast-wordpress-sites/feed/ 10 Production and Development mode for your sites https://www.zippykid.com/2013/04/17/production-and-development-modes/ https://www.zippykid.com/2013/04/17/production-and-development-modes/#comments Wed, 17 Apr 2013 18:27:30 +0000 Vid Luther https://www.zippykid.com/?p=4819 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 »

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]]> https://www.zippykid.com/2013/04/17/production-and-development-modes/feed/ 0 Official response to the brute force attacks of Spring 2013 https://www.zippykid.com/2013/04/13/response-to-brute-force-attacks-of-2013/ https://www.zippykid.com/2013/04/13/response-to-brute-force-attacks-of-2013/#comments Sat, 13 Apr 2013 18:38:35 +0000 Vid Luther http://www.zippykid.com/?p=4809 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 »

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]]> https://www.zippykid.com/2013/04/13/response-to-brute-force-attacks-of-2013/feed/ 0 Announcing SPDY support for SSL sites at ZippyKid https://www.zippykid.com/2013/03/07/announcing-spdy-support-at-zippykid/ https://www.zippykid.com/2013/03/07/announcing-spdy-support-at-zippykid/#comments Thu, 07 Mar 2013 16:56:58 +0000 Vid Luther https://www.zippykid.com/?p=4747 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 »

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]]> https://www.zippykid.com/2013/03/07/announcing-spdy-support-at-zippykid/feed/ 1 Switch from Posterous to WordPress https://www.zippykid.com/2013/03/05/switch-from-posterous-to-wordpress/ https://www.zippykid.com/2013/03/05/switch-from-posterous-to-wordpress/#comments Tue, 05 Mar 2013 14:13:19 +0000 Vid Luther https://www.zippykid.com/?p=4689 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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]]> https://www.zippykid.com/2013/03/05/switch-from-posterous-to-wordpress/feed/ 1 Do you really need a dedicated IP address for better SEO? https://www.zippykid.com/2013/02/21/do-you-need-a-dedicated-ip-address-for-seo/ https://www.zippykid.com/2013/02/21/do-you-need-a-dedicated-ip-address-for-seo/#comments Thu, 21 Feb 2013 17:20:49 +0000 Mike Zielonka https://www.zippykid.com/?p=4585 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 »

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]]> https://www.zippykid.com/2013/02/21/do-you-need-a-dedicated-ip-address-for-seo/feed/ 18 Speaking at php[tek] 2013 in Chicago May 14-17th 2013. https://www.zippykid.com/2013/02/19/speaking-at-phptek-2013/ https://www.zippykid.com/2013/02/19/speaking-at-phptek-2013/#comments Wed, 20 Feb 2013 00:41:14 +0000 Vid Luther https://www.zippykid.com/?p=4573 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 »

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]]> https://www.zippykid.com/2013/02/19/speaking-at-phptek-2013/feed/ 2 February 16, 2013 system wide outage RCA (root cause analysis) https://www.zippykid.com/2013/02/16/february-16-2013-system-wide-outage-rca-root-cause-analysis/ https://www.zippykid.com/2013/02/16/february-16-2013-system-wide-outage-rca-root-cause-analysis/#comments Sat, 16 Feb 2013 12:00:16 +0000 Vid Luther https://www.zippykid.com/?p=4561 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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]]> https://www.zippykid.com/2013/02/16/february-16-2013-system-wide-outage-rca-root-cause-analysis/feed/ 0 How to push code changes from Github to WordPress https://www.zippykid.com/2013/02/07/how-to-push-code-changes-from-github-to-wordpress/ https://www.zippykid.com/2013/02/07/how-to-push-code-changes-from-github-to-wordpress/#comments Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:13:01 +0000 Vid Luther https://www.zippykid.com/?p=4473 A lot of our customers take advantage of our free test sites, where they can show their clients changes they’ve been working on, once the client approves the changes, they need to push those changes from the test site to the live site. This post will show you and them, how they can automate the... Read more »

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]]> https://www.zippykid.com/2013/02/07/how-to-push-code-changes-from-github-to-wordpress/feed/ 3 Guidelines for high traffic WordPress hosting plans with ZippyKid https://www.zippykid.com/2013/01/30/high-traffic-wordpress-hosting-plans/ https://www.zippykid.com/2013/01/30/high-traffic-wordpress-hosting-plans/#comments Wed, 30 Jan 2013 14:08:02 +0000 Vid Luther https://www.zippykid.com/?p=4385 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 »

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