Whether you’re writing a blog post or a webpage on your site, the content, including HTML headings, is your main means of communicating with your two critical audiences: Google and other search engines (web crawlers/bots) Your website visitors (existing AND prospective customers) The search engine bots are listed first due Read more…
Some keys to business success are timeless. The customer is always right. You should build solutions, not products. The best advertising doesn’t feel like advertising. Newer on the list of business tenets is the art of SEO. Since the early 2000s, a business’s online presence has worked its way toward Read more…
TL; DR: We assess two of the most popular web servers: NGINX and Apache, on six key points of comparison (performance for static vs. dynamic content, OS support, security, flexibility, documentation, and support). We’ll find that the two are worthy competitors, but Apache’s .htaccess file makes it particularly appealing to shared hosting customers. Meanwhile, NGINX reigns supreme for dynamic Read more…
We live in the age of multiple income streams. My neighbor works for a bank 9 to 5 and instructs Zumba classes on Tuesday and Thursday evenings. My brother is a former carpenter turned electrician’s apprentice who regularly picks up contract work as he moves toward his master electrician license. Read more…
When we think about web hosting security best practices, it’s often in the context of when things go wrong. Multimillion-dollar security leaks involving exposed credit card information, login credentials, and other valuable data are covered extensively by the media, perhaps leaving one to believe only large-scale businesses are susceptible to Read more…
A lot of startups began with a dream in somebody’s basement or dorm room. Steve Jobs started Apple from his garage. Ben Uretsky and his team sat around a table screwing drives into servers by hand in the early days of DigitalOcean. And the founders of Airbnb raised around $30,000 selling special edition election-themed cereal Read more…
Launching a technology startup is tough. Most people looking in from the outside see success and great office cultures and quickly overlook the years of ramen, late nights, stressful cash flow problems, and the constant state of plugging holes that startups live. Often times, I think it is tough for Read more…
What’s the difference between WordPress.org and WordPress.com? It’s a basic question that often goes overlooked when creating new sites, and it can cause plenty of headaches: WordPress.com is a fully hosted website that allows you to build and customize your own website for free. It’s all browser-based, so there are Read more…
TL; DR: In 2003, Linode entered the cloud hosting scene with an idea that would dramatically shift the scope of cloud hosting for developers. Led by Christopher S. Aker, the Linode team has created a virtualized world where server instances can be spun up and down easily and affordably. Three team Read more…
TL; DR: As a female, nothing in my genetic makeup denotes I would be any less worthy a candidate for a career in science, technology, engineering, or math (STEM). Yet, raw IQ, SAT scores, and experience being equal, a man is still more likely than a woman to wind up in an engineering Read more…