The Answer of X-Factor: What Your Web Hosting Don’t Want You to Know
Sometime ago I wrote about “X-Factor” of Web Hosting Provider / Server when it comes to hosting a website. In particular, a Wordpress platform. At that time, I don’t really know what causing some of the server on different provider giving me different characteristic of all kind of strange behavior on Wordpress. I think I found what the real problem behind all of those problems, so this is what the web hosting provider don’t want you to know. For sure. Read more
Wordpress and Server RAM: Your (many) Plugin Uses (much) Memory
Wordpress is one of the most popular piece of software, especially as (free) blogging software. And it’s getting more robust and better each release. The problem is, Wordpress is notorious for using a lot of memory that used up the server’s RAM (Random Access Memory). One thing that people tend to fail to distinguish is that some or a big chunk of memory are being used for plugins. Some are hunger for memory some are pretty savvy, so you need to know which category is the plugin that you use in! Read more
Feedburner’s My Brand: “Feed not found” Error
Feedburner is virtually de facto standard when it comes to RSS syndication. After being acquired by Google, they still maintain the famous brand. One of cool (and free) feature of Feedburner is what they called “MyBrand”. And for one my site, I have this “Feed not found” keep coming.. Annoying, but I finally found the solution. Read more
Problem With WordPress 2.9 Upgrade on 1and1 Hosting Provider
Upgrading our Wordpress platform to version 2.9 was almost a non-event. All automatic upgrade was done within minutes very smoothly. It is almost taken for granted until we upgrade the one hosted on 1and1 hosting provider. As you probably know 1and1 is now one of the largest hosting company in the world and expecting some of you will have to experience similar problem, I hope this post is useful for you.
A little bit research on Google give us some reliefs that 1and1 did have some problem with Wordpress 2.9 upgrade. But all of them are talking about some MySQL incompatibility (need higher version) and tips how to get around it.
The problem is: that’s not our problem. The MySQL databases of ours are already using MySQL 5.0. Furthermore, we did not get the error message at all. All upgrade process until “Upgrading Database” was done without problem. Only when it finished, we cannot go to the admin are/dashboard at all, Error 500 – Internal Server Error was always triggered. Read more
GZIP Compression Using Amazon S3 Cloudfront CDN
After integrating CDN with your current hosting, the next step you need to do probably to make use the benefit of compression as much as possible. Most of the modern browser is now supporting gzip-compression as standard feature and it is quite easy to produce on-the-fly gzip distribution on your hosting server. Amazon S3 Cloudfront CDN on the other hand, currently does not support on-the-fly gzip-ing, but implementing gzip distribution with Cloudfront could be easier than you think. Read more
How to Integrate Wordpress Blog with Amazon S3 Cloudfront CDN
Since we know why it’s useful to integrate your blog with a CDN, now it’s time to technically integrate your blog with Amazon Cloudfront. What you need is only internet browser, your favourite Amazon S3 browser and a text editor.
Here is the checklist. (Tips: Just reading trough it to get overall picture, then if you want, just printout this page and start ticking the box one by one from 1 until finish) Read more
Confuse about Amazon S3 Vs Amazon Cloudfront ? Don’t Be !
So you heard about Amazon S3 or Cloudfront or Content Delivery Network / CDN that can help you in your internet life, but cannot really get the gist as of what is the different mainly between Amazon S3 and Amazon Cloudfront? I will try to give the big picture explanation below. Forgive me if I leave some glory details, but I promise you, you will get the core understanding. Let start!
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Why Integrate Wordpress Blog with Amazon S3 Cloudfront CDN
Do it like the big boys! These days, CDN or (Content Delivery Network or some refer as Content Distribution Network) are no longer only for the rich and famous as the price become very very affordable. So, when money is no longer restricting, integrating Wordpress Blog and Amazon S3 Cloudfront Content Distribution Network (CDN) should be on top of your agenda for various reason that I will discuss below.
If you asked, the argument put in this article can be applied to whatever your website platform is. Even if it’s not a blog. Have a read yourself! Read more
Practical Tips Selecting Web Hosting Provider For Your Website: Blog & Internet Marketing Business
Once you decide you want to do internet marketing business- whether e-commerce, blogging, forum, affiliate marketing, social media, or even porn – you need to have a website. To have a website you need a computer that always “on” 24 hours that always accessible from internet to serve your website to cutsomer. Then like it or not you need to select your web hosting provider. This is how to select it. Read more
Ping Server List For Your WordPress Blog
One of the most useful technical aspect of blogging is the capability of doing the “ping”. This is basically tell the world that you have something new on your website. The only problem is you need to maintain a balance between do the ping too many (and they think that you are a spammer) and ping too little and your content is not spreading as fast.
Something to consider: Read more