Website development has changed a lot, even in the last 5 years, and there are two major ways you can save money on your website. The first is re-using existing tools to get some great results; the second is keeping your site safe. Let me expand on these in the following article. The first – […]
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Making your Magento eCommerce site perform fast
Speed is a particular problem with Magento sites, caused by the heavy “object-oriented” internals of Magento, and Magento site owners often struggle with performance particularly as a site grows and becomes more popular.
The points in this article, of course, apply equally to sites of any type; but more so to Magento where load times on shared servers can easily balloon out to 20-30 seconds for a home page.
Disk Space Usage – Email Warning
If you receive an email warning you that your hosting account is nearing its disk space limit, you will want to either delete content off of the server to free up some disk space or contact us for upgrade options.
The email will look similar to this […]
WordPress 3.5.2 security update available and: How to get automatically Updated!
WordPress released a core security update today; we recommend all WordPress site owners update as soon as possible.
No real details of the specific problem this fixes have been released, which is normal as WordPress are trying to avoid tipping off the bad guys prematurely.
Amazon AWS opens up new enterprise options in Australia
Amazon AWS, also known as Amazon’s Web hosting platform, opened in Australia late last year.
AWS offers a platform highly suited to hosting applications that may grow to need large, flexible hosting systems to support high bandwidth or peak needs.
Additionally, they have a variety of options to support highly available service, including CDN service […]
Widespread site attacks spread through webhosting industry
You probably wouldn’t have heard of this, but there is a well-known hack that can be used to read config files from other people’s accounts.
Not only is it being used actively by hackers at the moment, it’s been used to hack hundreds of thousands of web and email hosting accounts worldwide, and the amount is growing daily.
ClickFrenzy or ClickFail? How to keep a large traffic site online under killer loads
Many of you would have heard of the recent ClickFrenzy event, dubbed a 1-day Australia-wide internet marketing sale.
Many of you would also have heard of the widely reported fact that the website went down within minutes of the start of the sale.
It also remained down for nearly all of the Tuesday evening.
Addon Domains: How to have multiple sites under the same hosting!
I get a lot of calls in regards to setting up new hosting accounts for domains from clients who already have a hosting account with us; what most people don’t realise is that with most of our hosting accounts, you can host multiple sites under the one hosting account. This is done through a feature called Addon Domains.
Addon Domains allow you to quickly and easily setup new websites under one hosting account. Here’s a small guide on how to setup your own Addon Domain for those of you who haven’t done it before
White Dog Green Frog has moved office!
White Dog Green Frog has moved our offices a few kilometres to: 9 O’Grady Street Clifton Hill, Vic 3068 Our phone number stays the same – the only thing that changed was our postal address!
PHP Hash attack security issue through POST/GET variables
A number of security researchers have provided a way to craft HTTP requests which take down a PHP-based web server completely. The idea is that essentially a specially constructed set of POST variables can completely put any web server into a never-ending CPU spin. The newest version of PHP, PHP 5.3.9, has a patch for […]
Resizing Images for the web with right-click on Windows
It's important to remember that images uploaded for the web actually need to be resized – often an image from the camera will be something like 1.5 – 5mb – which can take up to a minute to download when viewing a web page. If you put these images on a webpage at full size, […]