DFW01 Downtime

On 03/24, we performed an upgrade on our security for DFW01 and apparent complications arose. We have experienced a few minutes of downtime on DFW01 every day since 03/24. The downtime usually lasted only about 5 minutes. We worked closely with our security vendor for...

CloudLinux – A better way to host

If you are like millions of other website owners, you probably started out on shared hosting. You’ve been through the ups and the downs that are associated with small budget hosting. Your website was thrown onto a server with a thousand other websites, all doing...

Does Speed Matter?

Does website speed really matter? According to some giant companies, it can significantly impact your bottom line. Giants like Amazon, Walmart, Google, eBay, Yahoo, AOL, Shopzilla, and Mozilla  decided to overhaul their websites to decrease their page load times to...

WordPress Security Tips

Remove the default admin account – Hackers need two pieces of information to get into a website. The default admin account already gives them the username, now all they have to do is brute force attack to get the password. Although brute force attacks will...

Truth About Forwarded Mail

We’ll admit, cPanel’s webmail interface lacks a lot of features and the user interface is very basic. Because of these and other reasons, users like to forward their mail to Gmail, AOL, Yahoo, or other email providers. There are a few things you should...

DFW Upgrade Complete

Thanks to everyone for your patience! Due to some large accounts, the transfer took longer than expected because the data had to be verified to make sure it all copied over and nothing was corrupted. After everything was transferred, we had to swap the IP addresses so...

DFW Upgrade

We will be upgrading the DFW server on Thursday 12/04 starting at 9PM CST and  hope to have this completed by 5AM CST. We expect very little downtime, but there’s a chance once the transfer is complete and we move over the DNS and the IP address, there might be...

WordPress 4.0 “Benny” Released

WordPress 4.0 named “Benny” has been released. Visit this link to find out about the new features and updates. It’s always good practice to make sure your plugins have been updated to work with the latest version before installing a major...