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...