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Over the years the humble 404 page has managed to gain status beyond that of a mere technical error page, finding its way onto t-shirts

You’ve gone the distance to find a new home for your WordPress website. Mission accomplished. Moving in, however, is a different story. In this post

How time flies, right? It wasn’t that long ago that virtually every URL ended with a name like shop.php, order.asp, or thankyou.html. But things have

Airstream Supply Company, Weber, and Singer are just a few big names that use WooCommerce to power their stores and manage sales. WooCommerce is a

Maps have become an indelible part of everyday life. Whether you’re looking for “dentists near me” or just a cozy little restaurant for a quick

The WordPress White Screen of Death (a.k.a. WSoD) is a blank white screen that replaces your site’s entire front end or sometimes just a single

I’ve previously written about a few methods that can be used to diagnose common WordPress issues. Tracking down the root cause of WordPress issues is

There comes a time in a man’s life, and I’ve had plenty of them Casey Stengel And so too will you encounter numerous times when

Whether you’re on Windows or Mac or Linux, there’s a command-line interface that can be used to manage the entire system. The same is true

Way back in the day Microsoft Office 95 came on roughly fourteen 3.5-inch floppy disks. Installation was always a long experience. Sometimes you’d hear the

WordPress multisite functionality was introduced in version 3.0 of the open source content management system (CMS). Multisite functionality makes it easy to run – as

WordPress powers 43% of all websites. The popular open-source CMS can be extended with plugins, which are files containing code executed when visitors browse your

I previously wrote about virtual private servers (VPS), and how they are created with a hypervisor which can either run on top of hardware (Type

A virtual server is a server created by software called a hypervisor. The virtual server runs on top of a physical ‘host’ server and shares

On March 10th of 2021, a fire destroyed OVHcloud’s SBG2 data centre in Strasbourg. Dystopian survival game Rust was among the victims of the fire,

Times are always interesting. If that not-so-ancient “ancient” Chinese curse – “May you live in interesting times” – is anything to go by, then it

We’re proud to announce 22 Trees –  a running initiative where we’ve partnered up with more:trees to plant two trees every year for every virtual

Microsoft SQL Server has evolved beyond a mere database management system. Today it’s a data platform that does intelligence, security, and AI in addition to

There’s a convergence of the once unique features that set Umbraco and WordPress apart. WordPress is no longer just a mere blogging platform, while Umbraco

On the 1st of April, the UK’s energy price cap jumped by 54% to £1,971. April also saw a rise in National Insurance contributions. And

Heard the one about the “Billion Dollar Delete Button”? If you’ve read our previous article, you’ll remember how Woody, Buzz Lightyear, Mr Potato Head, Hamm

In December of 2020 an article appeared on Forbes about 13-year old Agastya Sridharan who proved that Google’s search results can influence opinions. This is

The 2021 Mid-Year WordPress Security Report is now publicly available. The joint Wordfence-WPScan whitepaper analyses the current WordPress threat and vulnerability ecosystem.

In a recent Gartner report, 58% of technology leaders cited in-house skills shortages as one of the biggest challenges to cloud adoption and optimisation. As

The Wordfence-WPScan whitepaper is out, shedding light on the state of WordPress security. But these threats aren’t just limited to WordPress; virtually any website that

Data loss doesn’t always make the headlines, but that doesn’t mean it only happens once in a blue moon. Stats indicate that more than 1

You’ve put a lot of effort into your site. The visuals are great, it loads fast and the copy’s good. But somehow you’re struggling to