When you change domains, for instance using my moving WordPress to a new domain guide, you’ll usually redirect your visitors with something looking like this: Redirect 301 / http://new.example.com/ The only issue with this is that people might not notice that you’ve moved to a new domain, and thus might not update their links to [...]

So it might seem like this blog is low on updates, which it is in text posts, but Frederick and myself are doing the weekly WordPress Podcast (which I really have to update the pages for). If you subscribe to the Yoast RSS feed or to the WordPress Podcast feed, you’ll get those podcasts delivered [...]

You can find my WordPress hosting article here, because of an experiment the comments for that article are here, while the article itself is “on it’s own”.

This weekend I’ve begun testing the use of a CDN for yoast.com. The CDN I’m using is a product that will be available through VPS.net soon, but isn’t just yet. So far, the speed improvement has been mind boggling. Just a few weeks ago, I could only get the front page of this site to [...]

Update: my WordPress blog is now hosted on VPS.net, check out my article on WordPress Hosting, you’ll also read there that I actually use a different image than the one below, though the steps are almost the same. So the guys who run WestHost and provide me with my awesome WordPress hosting, are a sister [...]

The system requirements of Magento are quite extensive, it requires at least PHP 5.2.0 extended with mcrypt, PDO_MySql and simplexml. For the database Magento needs at least MySQL 4.1.20 with InnoDB storage engine. At MagentoCommerce.com you can find a complete list of requirements. But how do you know if your server meets these system requirements? [...]

So in the last couple of weeks I had a bit of an issue with my server. Automatic plugin updates didn’t work as I wanted them to, WP-Cron didn’t work, and although I was able to fix all those I felt unhappy. I want my hosting party to take care of that stuff, and not [...]

While it’s a hobby for a lot of people, for more and more people, blogging is serious business too. Are you serious about your blog(s) and blogging? Maybe you’re even making a good income out of it? If so, you’d better make sure you can answer yes to all of the following questions: 1. Do [...]

Update: I’ve had a run in with a couple of hosting providers, but I’m now hosted by two different UK2Group labels: VPS.net and WestHost, and so should you be, read more about WordPress hosting here! One of the most important things when you’re starting a new blog is to consider where’ll you host it. This [...]

If you’re hosting your WordPress blog on windows, you might consider holding off a bit on upgrading to 2.6. A bug has come up where permalinks aren’t working the way they should… The issue has already been addressed in the support forums, but a fix hasn’t been submitted yet. I found out the hard way [...]