As most of us are aware, WordPress 3.3 was recently released. Should we be upgrading our WordPress platforms? The short answer is yes – But not just yet. Personally I’ve found there are some compatibility issues with plugins (particularly jQuery related). As well as some reported, slow performance issues, in the following benchmark tests, completed on DevPress. Some people have already upgraded – But I don’t recommend...

For all of you whom I’ve installed WordPress based sites, I’ve noticed a large increase of mobile traffic to network servers. This is a good trend, as it indicates most of us are  keeping current with consumer and visitor trends (analysts have indicated, in various technical posts, that mobile browsing will surpass desktop browsing within a couple of years; for our market).Some of us have already ensured mobile and desktop enable...

Many WordPress themes have used a popular image script named Timthumb. The script is used by a large volume of sites and is extremely popular within the WordPress community. The popularity raises out of the benefit that users do not have to manually resize images, instead, simply upload them, and the script will automatically resize and create thumbnails, etc. as needed by the WordPress them driving your site. A vulnerability in some versions of...

I have been fielding several questions about the data centre used to house the hosting facilities, for those interested, some of the more interesting details follow below. Currently  there are some upgrades in the works: The new routing system powered by Cisco gear, enables a migration to 10 gigabits per second of transport capacity! And then to 40 gigabits per second when it becomes available later this year. As our clients are aware, we just...

Great News! For every one of our existing web hosting clients, if you refer someone to us, we will give you $90 if they retain our web hosting services! That’s not just for one client referral, you get $90 for each and every web hosting client you refer to us! If ten of your referrals purchase our hosting services, we give you $900. It’s that easy. Feel free to refer anybody you want, members of your mailing lists, your clients,...