So the guys who run WestHost and provide me with my awesome WordPress hosting, are a sister company of the guys that run VPS.net, and they recently gave me a VPS to play around with a bit. I kinda liked how easy it was to get a VPS up and running with a TurnKey Linux

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 you

Update: I've had a run in with a couple of hosting providers, but I'm now hosted on 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 decision also relies on smaller choices

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

So somebody copied virtually all the code from my robots meta plugin, put it in a "Platinum SEO" plugin, and conveniently forgot to attribute the code to me... The GPL isn't that hard to deal with, but somehow, people manage to fuck even that up. I've emailed them and posted a formal complaint to the