Understanding Your Site Needs – Shared, VPS, or Dedicated Hosting?

I’d bet that most sites on the web today are low-traffic sites that can easily be served on cheap shared hosting accounts. That’s not a criticism by the way, because that statement refers to most of my own sites too. I’m perfectly happy using shared hosting for most of my sites. There comes a time in many site owners lives, however, when they realize that their best site has outgrown... read more

If You Don’t Take Control Of Your Site Now, You’ll Hate Yourself Later

Imagine opening up a store in a mall somewhere, and just when the profits start rolling in, the mall decides to close down forever, but they don’t tell you. In fact, they not only fail to inform you, but they place tons of dynamite around the mall, and completely blow it to smithereens. Your store is gone in a flash, and no matter what you do, you cannot get your store and its inventory back, nor can... read more

New Tool To Help Fight Web Site Hackers

I released a new open source, free tool that will hopefully help everyone in the fight against having their sites hacked. We all hear about how often people’s sites get hacked. This tool won’t stop that from happening, but here’s what it *will* do. Let’s say a hacker places some malicious code in either some existing files on your site, or in new files on your site. Regardless of... read more

Online Backup Services I Highly Recommend

How often do you backup your computer? Have you automated the process? Do you have a backup off-site, in case some tragic event wipes out everything in your home? Do you backup nothing, cross your fingers, and hope you never need a backup? I used to be like most people who would answer those questions with the following answers: “Huh?”, “No”, “No”,... read more

Web Site and Business Disaster Planning

Ever noticed the fact that I display a post called Emergency Preparedness List in the Featured Posts section of the sidebar? That’s because I went through Hurricane Katrina and I know how important it is to be prepared for disasters. I want to make sure each of you is aware of it as well. But this post isn’t about real life disaster planning. This one is about planning for your web site or... read more