by Rich Stern | Jul 13, 2017 | Hosting, Technology
Had a client email me a few days ago, panicked that their web site was down. It wasn’t. Instead, their registrar’s domain name servers (a.k.a., DNS) were down. Despite the fact the registrar had four domain name servers, spread across diverse geography,...
by Rich Stern | Mar 13, 2017 | WordPress
I recently implemented a WordPress site that integrates tightly with Salesforce. Much of the site content is being retrieved from Salesforce on a daily basis. The Salesforce content is retrieved and imported into WordPress via custom PHP scripts and the Salesforce...
by Rich Stern | Oct 27, 2016 | Hosting, WordPress
I’m doing a lot of WordPress development these days. Most of my clients use my hosting services. Yes, it’s an obvious business benefit to me because of the recurring revenue, but I also deliver a high level of proactive security and performance...
by Rich Stern | Jul 20, 2015 | Technology
Well, maybe. On July 29th, Microsoft will launch their latest version of Windows, known as “Windows 10.” What happened to Windows 9? It’s a bit of a mystery. Reality is, actual software version numbers used to track technical changes by...
by Rich Stern | Apr 1, 2015 | MySQL, WordPress
I do a lot of integration work between e-commerce cart software packages and third party systems. Many e-commerce carts (Sunshop, VirtueMart, ZenCart, etc.) maintain their own database tables for storing orders, product, categories and everything the cart needs for...
by Rich Stern | Mar 29, 2015 | WordPress
In the Formidable forms visual designer, each form input field has an section titled “click here to add a description or additional instructions.” It’s handy for putting hints where a user might need a bit of extra help. The hints text can be...
by Rich Stern | Mar 12, 2015 | WordPress
We live in fast moving times. In the world of computing technology, something created a couple of years ago is rarely viewed as exciting. For whatever reason, we seem to have a fascination with “new.” This post is the antithesis of that idea. It’s...
by Rich Stern | Feb 26, 2015 | MS SQL, Technology
In their recent versions, the folks at Parallels have done a nice job of minimizing the differences between their Linux and Windows Plesk control panel. While I generally prefer Linux for a variety of reasons, one of the nice things about Plesk for Windows is the...
by Rich Stern | Oct 22, 2014 | Technology
It’s not easy to get comprehensive information on hard drive reliability. Most of us in the information technology world have anecdotal tales of hard drive reliability and failures, but one or even a few data points about brand and model hard drive reliability...
by Rich Stern | Sep 25, 2014 | Technology
The Shellshock vulnerability and evidence of its use has now been widely reported in tech media. Like the Heartbleed exploit I wrote about back in April, the sheer breadth of the vulnerability is staggering. All of the mainstream Linux distributions contain the...
