If you create great content, your WordPress site is going to get a lot of traffic. That’s a good thing! One of our clients has done just that, but we had a couple of problems – he’s become popular in general, bringing in, on busy days, over 10,000 visitors, many of whom look around the site. And worse, he’s also… continue reading ⇢
It’s quite apt that on the day that WordPress.com appears to have broken (it’s not serving any front-end pages on this blog at the time of writing if you’re logged in) I’m making a post about hosting. So to the gist of this post. We provide hosting to clients, and only clients. You can’t just ring us up and ask… continue reading ⇢
One thing worth thinking about in 2008, is fixing the DNS entry to your website. Most here are probably set up just fine, but here’s one of the most common problems we see: Go to a website – eg, http://www.marketsafeuk.com and it should all work fine. But take out the www and go to http://marketsafeuk.com and it doesn’t. You just… continue reading ⇢
Create an “.htaccess” file in the folder you want to be cached and add the following to it. # Cache files for a week. <IfModule mod_headers.c> <IfModule mod_expires.c> <FilesMatch “.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif|swf|css|js)$”> Header set Cache-Control “max-age=604800, public” </FilesMatch> </IfModule> </IfModule> This will have the effect of caching your site for a week. The number 604800 refers to the number of seconds in… continue reading ⇢
We’ve had some clients recently who’ve been burned by other web designers and their hosts. At first we wondered how… our own uptime so far this year, removing planned outages, has been 99.966% – ie, we had three hours downtime on a Sunday morning due to a routing problem at our hosts. It’s unusual to have even that much downtime,… continue reading ⇢
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